The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-05
TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING,

narrow gold braid. This coat when
open displays a vest of yellow cloth /
bordered with tiny brown velvet but
TONS A plain tucked chemisette of |
white muslin is smart finish.
Tweed of a gray mixture is the ap-
proved cloth for the modish tailor made |
for all around service. Many of these |
tweed gowns show just touch of Lin |
coin green in the piping for you must |
know that we are all welded to the
wearing of the green this year. |
Black will always hold it's own in all
the variations of costumes, with navy |
blue as second choice. This winter our |
navy blue suits will be frightened up
with a touch of red, which win assert |
itself at the waist. at the cuffs and at
the opening of the neck. Often a red
velvet waistcoat embroidered in a mod
est pattern with dull gold metal thread
IS feature of the blue gown.
Redfern has designed three-quarter
white cloth coat which is quite the
most stunning garment in wrapland.
1t is trimmed with stitching and bands
of musquash brought in some delightful
fashion known to the furrier to the
hue of sable. The triple cape on the
coat is trimmed with stitching and fur,
the original sleeves, the two sides of
which are entirely different, being
treated in the same manner. The I'M
der part of this sleeve is quite plain,
and the outer half is cut into a success
sion of graduated. stitched and fur
edged capes.
This season will certainly go down in
the annals of fashion as the time when
furs and velvets reached their zenith.
The furs are nothing short of gorgeous
and every woman will have a set of the
new beauties if she can afford them.
There are exquisite pelerines of mole
skin, with revers and muff of ermine
and the very latest new thing is
set of any fashionable fur consisting of
neck piece, nuff and toque to match.
A model which a smart Partisan fur
rier is bringing in is the ''visite,' some
thing of a pleasant change from the
ever present though alluring pelerine.
One of these visites is of chinchilla and
is little cape with sling sleeves made
much in the shape of the short opera
cloaks of the early eighties. 1t is trim
med with a fiat yoke applique of ivory
panne velvet and lace. This vfsite is an
ideal wrap for the theater or for cere-
monious visits and may be thrown off
in a hot room when it's wearer is paying
a call. A charming sack coat is of
moleskin, the ordinary plain effect of
the square shape being taken away by
full box plait in the center of the
back and simulated box plaits edging
the front. This coat has a cape collar
of the same fur set on a yoke of white
satin latticed with ivory silk cord and
festoons and tassels of mole colored
cord to match the fur.
I hardly think these cords and pas
sementeries an improvement on a real
ly handsome fur garment, as they de-
tract FROM the beauty of the skin.
It is rumored that after theater par
ties will soon be a thing of the past,
but just now smart Paris goes to the
restaurants as she has been in the habit
of doing, although now one merely
chats with ones friends or takes a cup
, of chocolate or a bottle of eau dEvian.
At Columbine's the other night after
the play were seen the most stunning
velvet gowns. The fashion of the mo-
ment is for an embroidered velvet frock
of a wondrously beautiful shade of flesh
pink, which forms a perfect back
ground for a renaissance design car
ried out in silver and small seed pearls.
Leading couturieres who are patroniz-
ing this material cut the skirt, bodice
and train in one. The corsage is plain,
cut in deep point over the stomacher
of embroidery, and a blue mousseline
scarf worn low over the shoulders and
drawn through great eyelet holes work.