The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-03-20
NOTES OF THE MODES.
Latest Models in COats-Evening
ToIIettes for Dress Occasions
Popular COlOra.

Popular ColOrs.
Stylish Louis XIV. coats have wide
fur collars and revers of white velvet
or cloth nearly covered with brown
and gold appliques. Sable, seal, otter,
ermine and squirrel are used for the
popular winter wraps, and at all fash
! ionable gatherings. The array of furs
in combination-capes, coats, redin-
gotes, muffs and scarfs-is increasing
A costly model in sea otter is lined
with white satin royal, and finished
with ermine cape-collar, revers, and
sleeve facings. Pearl-set gold clasps
fasten it in front below the points of
the revers.
A seal pelerine, trimmed with sable,
has collar of Lyons velvet, in very
beautiful shade of moss green, richly
embroidered in gold and Venetian silk
arabesques in rare color blendings.
Wine-colored velvet almost hidden by
appliques of ficelle-colored Russian
lace, forms the yoke of loose empire
coat of chinchilla. Squirrel and Per-
sian lamb are combined on many of the
small wraps, scarfs, collarettes and
muffs of the winter, says the. New York
Post.
Few of even the most fashionable
full-dress evening toilettes are quite
sleeveless this season. Often, how
ever, the sleeves are mere zephyr-like
puffs, of gauze or chiffon, and the airy
bit is usually banded with jeweled
! gimp, or laced across a slashing or
lace interstice, with tiny gold cord,
or a very narrow velvet ribbon On a
gown made for Washington debu-
tante, novel effect was produced by
a Greek scarf drapery, brought from
under an antique jeweled clasp on the
top of the left shoulder. This was, car
| ried across the figure to the right side
of the waist, and drawn under shaped
girdle formed of scintillating jeweled
gimp. The drapery was made of pale
pink lisse, bordered with Grecian de-
sign in silver. The lustrous silk of the
dress itself was of deeper sea-shell
tint. The demi-trained skirt was
trimmed up more than half its length,
with rows of pink silk ruchings. grad
| uated in width.
A gown of white satin brocade made
for young matron, has the bodice
draped diagonally, and closing invisibly
| under the front crossing; lacing cords
and small pearl buttons giving the eff
feet of fastening at the back. The
low, round neck has bertha of en-
| broidered velvet, slashed on each
shoulder, the points extending out
above the brocaded sleeve The gored
skirt, three-eighths of a yard longer at
the back than at the front, has the
straight, old-time finish at the flaring
foot, the entire being copied from
dress worn many years ago.
Pale tea-rose yellow is one of the
popular colors this winter in evening
dress, and when combined with certain
shades of green velvet and sable, with
lace vest and under-sleeves, is most ar
| t1stlc. A very uncommon and very be-
coming shade of sage gray is also seem
among new dinner and visiting gowns;
and an odd opalescent blue. and white.
from snow and lily to Alderney cream
tlnts, and green of every conceivable
shade. Heliotrope In velvet silk, crepe
de chine, and the beautiful silk-warp
woods, appears in rare tones that grade
from pansy to the most delicate shade
OF pinkish mauve. There is still
striving after odd color combinations,
not with the absolute lack of harmony
that has prevailed for two years past.
hit n fhor1rb -
been taken in all their greatly varying
tones, with perhaps a note or two of
a different kind, but in bold contrast.