Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-01-30
Fashions in Paris.

Fashion blooms like a conservatory
with the artificial flowers which skill
full fingers have created to give grace
and beauty to feminine apparel.
Flowers are used on hats intended
for winter wear.
They are daintily embroidered on
stockings and on the long evening
gloves.
They ornament the evening couture.
They lend their lovely colors and
graceful form to the Identification of
dress fabrics, from splendid brocades
to ETHEREAL mousselines and chiffons.
On gowns, they are embroidered,
hand-painted, made of chiffon, silk or
chenille; sometimes the flowers are
cut out of handsome brOcaded silks or
velvets and appliqued to the gown.
| Flowers made of ribbon are a nov
! city, and they fall from stems like 9th
er artificial flowers, quite unlike the
chiffon and silk blossoms attached fiat
To the surface, which were so much
seen last season, Flowers are being
made, too, out of panne with leaves
in harmonious many-toned veIvets and
softly crushed upon the dress or cloak.
Certainly, there can never have been
g time before when the dressmaker's
assistant was of-such vital Importance
in the creation of elaborate gowns or
when needlewOmen were expected to
have such deft and cunning fingers.
In evening frOcks, delicate intricaCy
and combination of materials and lace
and flowers are the most noticeable
features, such interminglng of won
deTful laces and ribbons that the COM
pleted costume is a work Of mysterious
beauty. Among all the many little
subtIeties Of dress, at the present mo-
ment, one can scarcely imagine any
thing more difficult than the making
and arranging Of the wonderful chit
fon flowers and foliage which appear
on evening gowns.
Flowers are used X 5arious ways
as a decoration for evening cOtumes,
especially roses. The gown of white
brOcade which Nine. LOubet, the wife
Of the president of France, wore on
the gala night at Compiegne, during
the recent visit of the car and ear
ina of Russia to France, had applica-
tons Of white lace fastened by small
gold roses.
One of the we'll known couturieres
here has just put the finishing touches
to a collection of gowns showing the
latest ways in which floral ornamental
ton is introduced on evening tOuettes
One of the Ioyehest of all has for
the foundation white satin mousseline,
over which runs painted pattern i'll
green leaves with roses made of pink
chiffon. The roses are small, and
there are showers OF them all over the
gown, some of them attached to loops
and ends of pink velvet ribbon. There
is shaped fOunce in which are in
serted medallions of lace, embroidered
with gold and the ruche that heads
little chiffon flowers. There are ell
bow sleeves made of Iattict work of
pink velvet and a dainty and becOm-
ing mOusseIine ruffle at the elbows
with pink chiffon roses hanging from
it.
Probably the gown a painter would
have picked out as showing the most
art was lovely creation of aquama-
rine colored satin yelled in stripes Of
fine lace and white net embroidered in
pale green mother-o-pearl; this was
edged around the foot with a thick
ruching Of bIush-pink chrysanthe-
NUNS, which appeared on the lively
diaphanous sleeves and finished the
laCes in front.
An original ball dress was composed
Of a delicate combination of cream
and nasturtium colors, the corsage be-
ing decorated with trails Of the flow
ers.
Two other evening gowns showed
entirely novel ways of introducing
floral ornamentation. They were
both in the fashionable combination
of bla ck-and-white, which will be
much seen during the winter. One
was in black dotted net over white
satin. Lengthwise killed rows of the
net aIternated with broad bands Of
black lace. These formed both skirt
and COTsage, the latter sagging slight
ly all round, broad wTinkled bands of
Of black satin defining the waist. The
touch of novelty was that each lace
stripe at the skirt hem had it's bunch
Of black roses with green Ieaves-a
Partisan fancy for finishing off the
hem of an evening frock just now.
The decolletage was draped with a
fchu in black lace. Knots of black
roses adorned the bodice front.
The other black-and-white frock was
enlivened with pink. White mousse
line was the material made over a pink
silk foundation. Both skirt and bod.
ice were festoOned with black velvet
ribbon run through small paste
buckles, and inside the loops of vel
vet was an inset garland of black
Chantilly lace over which trailing
POmpadOur bouquets in pink and
green and white were embroidered.
The white mCusseIine was cut away
beneath the lace and the pink silk lin
ing showed through.
One of the new ideas in a dinner
frock was exploited in a Powered silk
muslin in the gayest colors upon white.
made over white satin, which brought
the brilIiancy of the flower pattern
into still greater relief. The gown
was made with a princesse back and
sides, with a draped front, the whole
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