Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23

tho brim two very wide and fun black
ostrich tips curved upward, their tips just
curling over the brims rim toward tho
crown.
A dark blue, satin-finished straw, q fancy
braid, with small crown and one Of the
turned-up, irregular, indented brims had
small clusters Of shaded red cherries set
In the indentations. There were folds OF
blue tulle about the crown. and the tulle-
covered bandeau had q nat bow Of many
folds Of tulle at the left back
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wreath OF small pink roses outlining an
oval below in che back below the unlined
white lace yoke. the bodice being of white
chiffon. The oval was open at the top. and
strips Of tiny roses extended from the
shoulder tops down over the puffed sleeves.
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A charming matinee jacket for one of the
Easter brides is Of white India silk and
Valencfennes lace. The neck is cut a bit
low, describing blunt V at the front but
Is rounded at the back. The edge of the
neck is cut in scallops outlined with Valen-
ciennes lace an inch wide. These scallops
form one edge of scaileped band three
inches wide, where the scaIIops dip in and
four and quarter inches wide where they
are the widest. The band is edged on both
sides with the inch-wide lace, which is
to match, while in the center of each
semt-medallion is a small oval medallion of
fine Irish crochet. Attached to the founda-
ton of the jacket, and apparently starting
from under the lower edge of the scalloped
band, is a ruffle of Valenciennes eight
inches deep, with straight edges, and on
the lower edge is set a three-inch ruffle of
Haienciennes edging. This deep bertha
nounce falls over full sleeves gathered in
at the armholes and shirred five times. the
Shirrings on cords a quarter of an inch
apart just above the elbows, from which
falls a. ten-inch lower sleeve of silk and
lace rounded at the sides and opened UP
to the shirts. where the inside seams would
otherwise be. This ten-inch sleeve hounce
Is seven inches silk, and the other three are
formed of full ruffies of lace that run up
to the closing point above the elbows. Five
ovals of the silk edged by half-inch inser-
tons and having Irish lace motifs on their
center form a border to the ruffies of these
sleeves. The body of the matinee has
seam down the center of the back, and
from this seam start two ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ter wide insertions of the lace, their start
Ing points forming two upturned sharp VS.
an inch apart From these VS. the inser-
tons slope gradually downward, till the
lower one almost touches the waist line in
the front. The bottom of this body Is
shirred on three small cords an inch apart;
these cords, when drawn form a girdle
the joining in front being concealed under
a knot of white taffeta ribbon, matching
the wider bow fastened just below the V
at the neck.
The skirt of the matinee is a bias piece
shaped in to fit the hips smoothly and
joined to the lowest cord CT the girdle by
an inch and a half wide insertion of lace
The silk skirt is ten inches deep and has
medallions of the silk, with motifs of Irish
crochet in the center and bordered with
FaIencfennes to match those of the sleeve
hounces This ten-inch fiounce Is rounded
up In the center front to match the bertha
fuf1le and like 1t, is bordered by a ruffie OF
Valenciennes lace joined to the skirt by an
inch-wide insertion; this skirt ruff1e, how
ever, IS only four inches deep. This is to
be worn with a full skirt of white India
that clears the floor and has two eight
inch flounces of lace set on to five-inch
rufiies of silk by insertions of the same lace
az the head of the founces, such being
shtrred on two small cords.