The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-12
THE FASHIONS.
4 GLIMPSE OF DINNER GOWNS.
 VOGUE OF LACE

And EmbrOIderies-FashiOn in Hair
 Dressing-HOw to Put On the Veil
 MOdish Stocking and Dress AccessO-
 ries.
 A charming imported dinner gown of
 absinthe green chiffon was so simply
 made that it could be duplicated at
 home by a clever seamstress. The
 gown had a guimpe or yoke of narrow
 Valenciennes ruff1ed on thin white net.
 The bodice beneath was laid in tiny
 tucks for fulness below the band of
 green taffeta which outlined the waist.
 An embroidery of silver tinsel trimmed
 this band, which extended to the waist on the left side, and was repeated in the skirt from waist to hem. The skirt was tucked for fulness and was rather ! long. Two rows of the silk banding
 trimmed the foot of the skirt, with one
 broad tuck between them. The crush girdle was wide and pointed in front. The sleeves were large elbow puffs fin- ished with band of taffeta and a ruff file of the chiffon. Both above and be- low the taffeta band motives of Val enciennes were let into the chiffon, and under the finishing ruffie were several frills of narrow Valenciennes sewed to ruffie of net.
 , Another simple dinner gown, appro- priate also for the theater, since it was not decollete, was of white Empire silk, with pale blue stripes overlaid with tiny Dresden flower clusters. The gown was cut princess, and had a short train.
 Ruff1es of white dotted net trimmed the
 skirt to the knees, each ruffle edged
 with a rolled and corded strip of pale
 blue satin A cord of the satin finished , the highest raffle at the top. The waist was slightly draped under the arms, l and was made with a guimpe of the
 dotted net darned in q formal pattern , with pale blue silk floss and a little 7 silver thread. A ruffle of the net edged Z with satin made the bertha. and the
 sleeves were simply three ruft1es. A
 looped and wired bow of silver gauge
 trimmed the front of the corsage on the
 left side.
 : Chenille embroidery is much used , both in millinery and in the decoration ' of evening gowns. It is extremely Y dainty and looks well on light or trans- F parent materials. One may buy not
 only bands of this embroidery, but ap-
 plications which may be taken apart
 and used in all sorts of ways. Entire
 waist decorations are also to be had. 2 In fact, the trimming departments of
 the shops were never more attractive.
 It should be easy to remodel old
 
 It does not seem very wise to put much
 money into perishable trimmings or 5 decorations which are likely to go out ], of fashion before they are worn out. l Much more sensible is it to accumu- :, late, little by little, good pieces of lace
 Real Valenciennes is not prohibitive
 and last life time. Point and duch, f ess are expensive at first, but a little . goes a long way, and makes the plain est gown elegant. How any one can
 visit Bruges or Brussels without buy ing lace is a mystery. There was once e a rich girl from a small town where choice things like lace were not to be n had. The girl was sent to Europe after e leaving school. She had plenty oi money, and bought hats and gowns ga-
 lore She did not wish to be burdened with souvenirs, so she just bought a
 silver spoon in each city she visited That shopping was typical of how not = = to buy. The girl could have purchased T, small articles characteristic of each u country she visited, and would have had something for her money. A lace collar takes up no more room rela-
 lively than a spoon. Neither does il - cost more, relatively, even in this coun t try, than an expensive piece of fancy y trimming which can never adorn n1ort # than one gown.
 e Nothing is more acceptable for Christ. q mas gifts than lace or embroidery ThC d collar and cuff sets in the little French [. shops and in special departments of tht l, stores, are very tempting. A lovely g piece was an Irish crochet collar witt $ a long waistcoat attachment. A simi
 lar piece was of embroidered handker e chief linen, the waistcoat formed O is three graduated tabs, the largest a n the bottom. The embroidery was { c combination of eyelet and Hedebt s wheels. Exactly like it in design wal d l another embroidered linen, the tabs anC e stock being edged with narrow Vel II enciennes, making a more dressy af ,s fair. The vogue of the guimpe is sr if universal that one cannot go wrong
 with a gift of this kind. The dainties
 of guimpes are those of handkerchie
 linen with Hedebo embroidery, This i 5. the latest Scandinavian openwork em e broidery. Wheels, fan-shaped, anC j. scroll-shaped open spaces are fillet # with fancy stitches, and the pattern i y, held together with lines of embroidery n French convent embroidery is alway if good, and just now is very fashionable a Combined with English eyelet this em j. broidery is very effective in handker ln' ; chief linen and batiste collars an 2. guimpes.
 Il The great vogue of the elbow sleev X promises to continue through the sea
 son, and possibly longer. Long glove ., are therefore, among the necessities o a life Many women find difficulty il ' keeping these gloves from slipping dow ;e the arm, and tAere is on the marke ID sort of an arm garter of half-incl
 elastic covered with shirred ribbon an I, trimmed with frills of lace. These d. l- not show, of course. A simple devic . is narrow hat elastic sewn invisibl. ~ ~ in the arm end of the glove. It neet | t~o