Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-16
COUTURE AND WRAPS
Latest Styles in Hair Orna-
mentS.
COMBS ARE SIMPLE
FLORAL WREATHs FOLLOW POM
PADoUR LINES.
For Evening Wear Luxurious Crea-
tons Are Made With Rich Lace
and Fabrics.
COMBS ARE SIMPLE

IlouS are maze With Rich Lace
and Fabrics.
Written for The Evening Star by Katherine Ander.
The dressing of the hair in summer is al
ways a vexed question, and now that the
average woman clings to her pompadour
end yet yearns for the low couture, a COM
promise is essential. AS the result a modi-
fled pompadour is worn. waving softly about
the forehead. and the rest of the hair is
knctted at the nape of the neck instead of
directly behind the pompadour. This causes
great demand for combs and ornaments
to fill in the space between the pompadour
and the coil. Graduated combs of tortoise
| shell are much used, being pushed sidewise
into the hair, running straight up and down
or vertically instead of horizontally, and
cutting the back Of the hair into two parts
Two small side combs in the same design
are then used to dress the pompadour, and
they run not horizontally, but on the bias.
A complete set of these combs in real tor
toise shell can be bought for the triffing
amount of S..
The smartest dressers do not use the
fancy combs. but summer girls are allow
ed certain license in this matter, and they
wear with white frocks comb that is a
clever imitation Of ivory. carved superficial
ly and mounted in rhinestones. Colored
stones for combs are not in good taste. 4
striking comb, shown for wear with that
very rare shade of hair known as spun
gold, looks for all the world like gold dust
covered with glass. finish much seen in
old-fashioned jewelry.
Various materials and designs enter into
the building of the complex hair ornaments
which fill in the space between pompadour
and knot. and more ornaments than combs
are being used. Where the pompadour is
drawn low over the forehead. with per-
hdps little elevation over either temple.
there is worn half circlet of gold. per-
hapS an inch or more in height, showing a
Wall of Troy or some other conventional
design either in plain gold or filigree On
either side of this gold circlet there is a
bow. with many little trimmed ends sug
costing rosettes. In the back the ends are
little longer and reach to the coil of hair.
They may be in white, black or the color OF
the gown worn.
Modish Ornaments.
Another popular ornament is known as
the Mercury wings. The foundation is a
band Of twisted, spangled tulle, mounted On
white silk millinery wire, which sets snug
IL around the curve of the pompadour. Two
little roSettes appear at either end, and the
Mercury wings in white spangled in gold,
ere attached at a most becoming angle a
little to the left of the middle of the band
and is backed with fiaring ends of the tulle.
ment of puffs behind the pompadour one or
two very striking ornaments may be worn.
One is Mephisto wings covered with
sequins. The wings are higher and more
pronounced than those used in the Mercury
ornaments. and they come in various col
ors and are particularly handsome in scar
let, when worn by brunette with scar
lie. gown. The other ornament is also heav-
lily sequined. and shows a stiff bowknot OF
gauze or ribbon matching in color the
sequins. and being completely hidden by
the pallettes.
For the girl who has a beautiful profle
and wears her hair in pompadour and puffs
there is offered striking ornament which
is worn on the left side of the couture run
ming from the middle of the pompadour to
a gauZe fern leaf studded. with silvery green
sequins and tied with ribbon OF the same
hue. 1t is also produced in white gauze
spangled with silver or gold and finished
with a white bow. Ostrich tips and agrettes
are not a summer couture even for stately
DANES. smart bows of ribbon or gauze being
in much better taste.
Flowers made from ribbons are still being
used. but only in the smallest and most
delicate patterns. For summer, the single
artificial roses OF fine quality, perhaps
spangled to initiate dewdrops, are preferred.
Takes a Girlish Face.
The pompadour floral wreath is the most
coquettish accessory of the hour but it
must be worn with discretion. as it requires
a girlish face beneath it, and gives a GER
tain air of dressiness quite out of place
save for evening wear. The pampadour
wreath is not more than five inches in d.
ameter, and is made of very small bios
SONS. 1t is worn on the left side just, above
the ear Summer girls at the beach and
mountain resorts are quite in love with the
Alsatian bow in either black or white. and
it is one of the most effective and girlish
finishes for the couture.
This may be said to be a ''droopy' season
in dress. from shoulder seams to couture.
Violets with long dropping stems are tucked
into the couture when the hair is dressed
couture la Japonaise. The front hair is
pompadoured around the face, and the rest
gathered at the back Of the neck. A long
trail of wistaria bloom. with the most ex-
quisite of blossoms, falls straight from the
top of the low coil and almost covers 1t on
one side.
Evening Wraps.
In the matter of evening wraps there is
great diversity of fabrics and patterns but
a general tendency to fiuff1ness and rather
ornate trimmings. For wear at the beach
or mountains there exquisite evening
coats, mostly cut on Casino lines very
loose so that the elaborate f1ounces and
shirrings Of the evening summer gowns will
not be mussed. The sleeves are voluminous
and fiaring at the bottom. Pongee. elab-
orately embroidered or clouded in self toned
lace, forms durable evening wraps which
will combine with any of the colors worn
this summer. Lace wraps are immensely
popular, and these are worn without lining,
or with lining of the most delicate NOUS
seline chiffon. Black chantilly over
white is one of the most popular and eff
fective combinations. White and cream
lierre dotted net with hounces, and re-
pousse lace-trimmed with ruchings of rib
bon in the same tone. are used In combi-
nation with taffeta gowns.
La Pompadour left many legacies to wo-
mankind beside her name. and not the least