Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-09
FAN MATCHES DRESS
COLOR EFFECTS MUST BE ALL IN
HARMONY. -
Apple Blossoms and Poppies as
Decorations-A Peacock
Design.

Last summer the fans were bright in hue
In order to give note of color to the white
frocks then so popular. This summer the
fan must be white of some inconspcu-
Gus color. decorated In a manner to har-
| monte with the gay dresses worn.
New fans are generally small, although
by no means confined to the little six-inch
affair which had such a vogue last winter.
White lace is combined with carved ivory
| and pearl sticks, or gauze upon the same
| sticks, is trimmed with lace and hand
| painted In flowers or butterflies. The
| painting Is pure white. One Of the most
| fashionable decorative designs is an ar
| rangement OF peacock feathers, all in white,
| continuing down upon the sticks as If the
| fan were the spread tail of the peacock
Another dainty design upon a white fan
| is in pale pink apple blossoms, the flowers
| forming border and, being sprinkled over
| the center of the fan, trailing down upon
! the white sticks. This apple blossom fan
| is also made of the real silk blossoms
! mounted to form a small bouquet when the
| fan is closed.
In bouquet fans the poppy Is the summer
| favorite. 1t comes in all the colorS of sum
| mer frocks, in pale shades of tan shading
| TO orange or gold In several tnts of deli
| cate green, with bronze and gold centers,
and in natural poppy tints The fan when
open looks like panel OF real peoples, and
| when closed like bouquet of flowers.
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| The beads may be sprinkled over the fan
! or carried out in some motif.
Japanese fans are popular, and paintings
upon special sort of paper, cut out and
applied to gauZe or net, are eXquisitely
dainty and effective. The sticks are of a
color to harmonic with the darker tint of
the fan. They are enameled In decorations
to suit the figure upon the fan and are
picked out in gold or silver and sometimes
both.
Sandalwood Again.
Sandalwood fans have come into favor
again. The delicately scented wood is cary
ed in intricate patterns and made up in two
sizes of fans whose flutterings suggest both
the art and the fragrance of the orient.
OF the fancy shapes, the shell fan is the
most popular. Another design shows a
daintily woven fan of straw, whose sticks
are wrought i'll leaf shapes at the top and
woven in red. pink, green and mauve, COM
bined with natural tinted and white straw.
The sticks match the deepest color shown
in the design.
The correct fan with black costume is
a black spangled design, with tortoise shell
or smoked pearl sticks, an all-white fan
will be used.
Fans decorated in green, with green and
gold or silver STICKS are carried with green
costumes, and costume fans come for other
colors of dress. such as pale blue and
mauve effects. 1t is modish to have a fan
whose decorations and sticks will match the
6owH WoiH put Wnere tne gown is Trim
med with white a white fan Is carried. The
white fan saves much trouble in matching
tints and Is an economy, for 1t can be car
ried with gowns of almost any color.
1t Is pretty fad to buy gauze or lace net
fans of white or a very pale tint and hand
paint them in the decorative scheme to
match the dainty summer gown. A gown
Powered in pink roses will have a fan
painted with the same charming blossoms,
and the decorations must be carried down
upon the sticks. The girl who can handle
a paint brush will queen 1t over her sisters
In the matter Of coquetting with a thor
oughly up-to-date fan, decorated to match
her costume.