Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

weight black cloth coat and skirt, the
skirt of walking length and having very
few plaits. none at all around the hips,
save perhaps two or three in the back.
This skirt had the effect of inverted battle
ment insertions-that is, long narrow see
tons rather wedge-shaped and extending
up the skirt instead of down. These weret
finished at the top with modified picket
points trimmed with braid, A simple white
blouse was worn. and her rather fat white
hat with moderately wide brim had
wreath of black peoples around the crown.
Bishop Potter's daughter, Mrs. Mason T.
Davidge. a slight woman, was In pale gray
wolfe and chiffon trimmed with lace. ana
topped by rather large white straw hat
almost covered with palest Hlac-colored
mauve wistaria. She wore wide stole boa
of coque feathers, black on one side ana
white on the other. The bodice had rather
close upper sleeves with lace Insertions
and very long, moderately full, dropping
puffs of gray chiffon for lower sleeves.
Mrs. Charles B. Alexander was in trail
ing robe of black crepe de chine, the trail
ing skirt crossed by two wide bands of en-
broidery several inches apart. and the
lower of the two was probably fourteen
or sixteen inches from the hem. me Dodice
had guimpe and stock of beautiful white
lace, and the crepe part of the bodice
was exquisitely embroidered or decorated
in some way with set design In various
shades of mauve blues. The sleeves were
full and wide at the elbows and showed
the embroidery Her rather small hat was
trimmed with ostrich tips matching the
shades of blue used to decorate the gown.
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A handsome pongee costume seen at a
luncheon later had an accordion plated
skirt with the plaits stitched into a point
below the hip line. 1t was short skirt.
and there was also an Elton jacket to go
with 1t. This Elton coat was loose in front.
the side fronts separating, and each being
slanted from the sides toward the CEN
ter fronts. These fronts came below the
waist line and slanted up to the side or
under-arm seams. and from that point the
back part also slanted up a little till it
reached a point within four inches Of the
center line of the back. Here each side
stopped abruptly. and the center back, to
a width of eight inches. was cut up and
out to depth Of say, four inches. A five
inch band of heavy pongee-coiored lace out
lined this open half-square in the back and
extended along the bottom of the jacket
to the points In the front, and, being shaped
there to fit the points. turned and contin-
ued up the fronts and around to the Shout
ders. where they ended against other bands
coming from the back and extending down
from the neck. From this neckpiece anoth-
er wide band started on each side and ex-
tended from the neck down along where the
shoulder seams would otherwise have been
rather, till they met still another band that
finished the bottom of each wide elbow
sleeve. The jacket being chiefly open lace,
was very cool looking.
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beautiful gown recently seen at the
dinner hour was one of the new dull blue
chiffon taffetas, trimmed with several
shades of dull blue chiffon and white lace.
Tho hat ;,,I o+ol,
the gown. an exaggerated boat shape, with
one side rolling over the oval crown From
the right of the crown shaded blue os-
trich tips started and curled to the left
over the crown, and also over the rolled
side; one of them touched the hair at the
back, and the others came very near it at
the side. Near the rather sharp point in
the front was a white rose, with pale
green foliage. The top of the gown had a
coat effect There was very deep boned
stock of white lace and a pointed yoke of
chiffon, tucked that the quarterback
tucks followed the pointed outline, meet
ing in the center front and back under
lengthwise strips of white lace. This yoke,
short one, was edged with eight-inch
bertha fril of fine white lace that extend
ed out over the lace sleeves, forming sleeve
caps epaulets. The body of the bodice,
or coat, blue chiffon. shirred at the
top on the yoke and under the frill of
lace and was Shirred again four inches
above the waist line, where a shaped. folded
girdle of blue chiffon taffeta went around
the back and sides. In the front of the
bodice the shirred chiffon. which came to-
gether at the top under the lace frill was
drawn back at the sides, and at the waist
line the space between the chiffon bodice
sections was about eight inches. Three
inch frills of lace matching the bertha
formed a scant ruff1e at the edge of each
section, and these ruffies extended down
over the silk girdle and went around a
deep, rounded. half-oval section of lace
that formed the coat skirt at the sides and
back. The bodice between the ruffie sec
tons of shirred chiffon was filed in with
soft folds arranged in surplice effect of
silk, these formed deep point down the
front over a boned foundation, and the
sides of this waistcoat section We're invis-
IDLY Joined to the girdle just where the lace
ruffles crossed over at each side The
sleeves were very full, but rather small
puffs of chiffon to the elbows, where three
oYerla piping lace ruffies formed the bottom
of each. The skirt was sunray-plaited silk.
cut on a line above the knees in wide and
rather shallow scallops. and to this was
joined very deep fiounce of blue chiffon
embroidered in shaded blues and white AT
the top of this fiounce was an upturned
triple box plating of three shades of blue
chiffon, the upper one three inches deep,
the second two and a half, and the third
two inches. These plaits were invisiblr
tackled to hold them in place, and a twist
of pale blue velvet ribbon shading from
pale to dark blue concealed the joining OF
the chiffon fiounce. From under the bot
tom of this flounce and on the foundation
skirt were three narrow plated ruffles in
three shades of blue, the one at the bottom
being the darkest
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Mrs Lewis Butler Preston, formerly
Miss Mabel McAfee and a granddaughter
of James B. Hagg.n, with whom she
made her home previous to her marriage,
had a simple wedding gown. 1t was a
princess robe of heavy white satin.
the trained portion of the skirt falling in
folds Stimulating a -aouble box plat. The
robe perfectly plain and closed in
visibly, but, simple though it was, there
was a quantity of almost priceless point
lace on the bodice part, and veil of the
same rare lace. There was an unlined
stock and guimpe of lace, and from this
fell a bertha of point lace fully twelve
inches deep, and this was draped as
not only to reach to the top of the robe, but
also TO form full sleeve sections, where it
passed over the shoulders. Under tn S
bertha were folds of the same lace, and
under these were small pulled satin
sleeves that terminated above the elbows
under bias folds of satin. each showing a