Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-02

new material might be suggested. This is
chinchilla velvet, radiant texture which
is imported in black and white, and in chin
chlla standings with beautifully silvered
reflection. A grand toilet suggested by a
French journal for an old lady of elegant
tastes was of chinchilla velvet (chinchilla
shadings) with a quaint cape of the FUR
This covered a soft little bodice of silk and
black and white lace, the front of the cape
ending with long scarfs of the black lace
With this superb toilet should be worn a
black bonnet in Jet and tule with a white
osprey.
Returning TO furs, some of the dyed SIX MS
are made up into very handsome models,
and as furs are essential to a smart ap-
pearance In winter it is far better to have
these than none at all; and If the skins are
selected to harmonic with the rest of the
toilet one cannot go far wrong. With violet
and gray, the furs which initiate mink are
very effective, and with the richer puppies
dyed squirrel, marten and Alaska sable are
all good when in becoming models.
Ermine, in small quantities, is used upon
a number of the pelerines, with Persian
lamb, mink, etc, and these combinations
are very smart for dress occasions.
Styles Vary Little.
In point of millinery fur is almost never
employed for old ladies, whose bonnets fol-
low the lines of the capotes worn this long
while. The bonnets are of velvet, lace, jet
and felt the last being composed generally
of plateaux folded into the desired shape.
The strings of narrow velvet, tying under
the chin, are in almost every case worn by
ladies above fifty, and with hats for
younger women the romantic scarfs now
employed at the back are sometimes util-
lied with most softening result, as race
strings.
Old lady bonnets are seen in all the
rich colors allowed. and the more splen-
did ones for evening and reception wear
Shn 10 haalItipG n
crumpled violet jessamine, tinsel roses
and camelias and bullion edges with just
tho right furnished look. For, though
highly FURNISHED gifts are everywhere en-
ployed among the tinsel trimmings, dim
med gold is the last cry for the exclusive.
Everywhere delicate or extravagant
touches of tinsel are used, and most beau
tifully may the silver sorts be employed
for the wearer past thirty. For 1t Is at
this early age that many women need TO
begin to be careful, though II the woman
of thirty is gifted in matters of dress she
may outshire her younger sister any time
A Perfect Age.
A ravishing toilette for a woman of
thirty years "a most seductive age, by
the way) began with a cream lace skirt
superbly embroidered in gilt to give a scat
tered freely effect all over the skirt, above
the heavy Greclan band. The bodice for
this was in Watteau-green velvet-like a
bright shade dlmmed-and the hlgn giru4e
of tinsel ribbon was held up at the front
with a bouquet of dull gold camelias. One
could see the woman who would wear
this belt-blonde, little faded, slim;
adorable and last but not least, as tall
as the Duchess of Towers
The evening wraps, which include misty
neck fxing-a marabout scarf or tulle ruche
are softening to faces no longer fresh,
and in selecting a model for the COAX look
7rst for those with sleeves in the cut-a
sort of loose gathered-up dolman effect.
The generous flowing of these is very be-
coming. MANI DEAN