The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-03-09

WRITTEN FOR II SuNDAY
The visiting gown CONNIE il faut for the
spring season has been decided by lie
monde elegant to be the costume made OF
lightweight wool, the lacy etamine. the
nuns yelling and other delicate types that.
silk lined. are cool enough for summer
wear. except in the extremely hot weather.
But 1t is the etamine gown that by all odds
IL to be the leading favorite for afternoon
calling. driving, etc, for 1t readily lends
itself TO the lacy expression so much to bs
desired by the fashionable contingent at the
present moment. AS to the material it
self. it is just wiry enough to most salts
factorily shed the dust. yet SO pliable is it
that 1t clinGs to the figure in the most fas-
cinating and fashionable way, which has
dictated that the curving outline which IL
half concealed Is far more beautiful and
dangerously alluring than the same form
too distinctly revealed.
Yoke Effects, Sleeves and
Collars Are Made of Lace.
The same truth is exemplifed in The many
yoke effects. sleeves and collars composed
entirely of lace or tucked chiffon, through
whose filmy meshes can only be family dis
cerned the rosy-tinted skinb beneath, for as
suredly a beautiful neck and arms are never
half so lovely as when partly hidden or
yelled. Then, too, is not this fashionable
style just the thing for the majority OF
women, who, alas. do not possess the
plump. fair neck of a Juno. nor yet the
delicately tinted rose-leaf complexion of a
Venus. though so many women are learning
how to put on or take of flesh in a truly
marvellous manner. and thus preserve their
youthful figures TO a wonderful degree.
It is for this reason that their are no more
old lady STYLES: for why create modes for a
species OF womankind that is really becom-
ing extinct? The secrets Of the toilet are
being so earnestly studied and so thorough
" mastered by the American girl that soon
she will he capable of transforming herself
at Will into the figure any passing fancy
may make her endeavor to initiate. To en-
ulste the figure depicted by some fashion
able artist or Illustrator Is now almost as
easy for the majority of women as to
change the mode Of dressing the hair.
High Straight Front Corset
Still Rcigns Supreme.
However. fashion demands very little in
the way of change In figure and outline
this season. the straight-front corset with
a higher busted effect still reigns supreme,
and long may 1t continue on account not
only Of its health-giving qualities. but also
because OF its contributing so largely to
the reposeful and graceful carriage its
wearers SO readily assume. The waistline
ie much more perceptible in the newest
Partisan models than was the case during
the winter. There Is still a clinging to
the pouch front, but in n very much mcGi-
fed form, and one which is far more ar
tistic than its predecessors. 1t is just this
touch of artistic modernness. combined
with the historically correct. which make
the reigning models so acceptable to the
refined woman who aims to stamp her par
ttcular individuality upon everything she
wears.
This is the woman who selects the eta
mine or yelling gown as quite the most
correct thing for visiting and carriage cos
mines. and to her all eyes turn as she
stems lightly from her victoria or trayerses
the corridor of some particularly SVEN
hotel. Not that her apparel Is so pro-
nounced I'm its expensiveness as to demand
such attention: but chiefly because Of .he
elegant simplicity which characterizes 1t
for the graceful. ~clinging draperies. as well
as for the beautiful combinations OF ma
teriais and happy blending of coiors.
GRAY Considered Intensely
Becoming Among Smart Set.
Gray is one of the particularly swell col
ors at the present moment among 80
tain set of smart women: SO many OF lnelh
seemingly thinking 1t intensely peconi
Mrs. Alfred Vanderbilt has for the nohce
.handoned her erstwhiIe favorite fawns ana
taken I'D with the eilvery grays that COM
hine so fetching with touches OF black
whether of velvet, chiffon, lace OF MORE,
Mrs. George Vanderbilt is likewise paruai
20 the same coloring as her kfnswonaan,
hut TO II she has added individual touches
Of orange velvet, heliotrope snanes Va
green's of soft, yet vivid hue. rms noIo
of green to a blue etamine Costume : nnJel
d.Hebtful!y accented in an imported moGei
nv fhe black braid. with its mingling OF gi,,
~. ,ipv eilt buttons. the wide collar OF