Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
Special Correspon lence of The Sunday Star.
NEW YORK March 81 10

NEW YORK. March "a. 1905.
A group of pretty gowns for young girls
was seen the other evening at the dinner
hour AT a well-known restaurant.
A rrock of pink chiffon taffeta the color
of peach blossoms was topped by rather
large and rather fiat white hat the brim
of which was encirced by white ostrich
pumes, while smaller ones were placed IN
der the brim, forming an effective contrast
to her rich dark hair. The gown began in
a white lace stock and guimpe, over which
came the pink silk bodice, rounded at the
back and a bit square in the front, where
1t was cut down far enough to show about
six or seven inches of the lace. The bodice
was bordered with band of white lace en-
broIdery very delicately in silver. From
this lace square down the silk was gath
cred into folds by shirs around the waist
line. but the folds were scant and outlined
the figure. The girdle was a moderately
deep one. formed of regular folds, and had
slight points at both the top and the bot
tom in the center. back and front Narrow
strips of the silk. each shaped like an
elongated half of an s. crossed on each
shoulder and curved down the sides at
both the back and the front, with the )
ends crossed under the arms just above the
girdIe. each end of the running out to the
center back and front, respectively, and
having small pink button fastened in it.
These strips also crossed on the shoulders,
but with hardly a suggestion of the curve.
hence we call them half-S in shape. They
were a shade over an inch wide at their
ends by. say three-quarters of an inch in
the middle. and were gathered close to
their edges. being really tiny fiat puffs.
The skirt was gathered at the top. most
OF the gathers being at the back; 1t swept
the floor all around and had quaint fin
ish at the lower half Around the bottom
bias strip of the silk eight inches wide
was turned back on the skirt and topped
by little futed heading, about half an
inch wide of satin ribbon matching the
silk. Quite distance above this and per-
haps a trifie above the knees. there was
q wide. fiat puff some eight inches deep
of the silk edged with cord and then
finished on both edges with little satin
ribbon flute; from under the lower 1utlng
dropped a scant ruffle some nine inches
wide also headed with a cord and with
fluted finish to match the others so trim
med The sleeves were plain ana not
very full puffs to the elbows, where they
We're finished with irregularly shaped
fiounces of pink chiffon.
An effective dress of white taffeta had
Dutch neck rounded from square OF
unlined Irish crochet that formed the lit
tie yoke the yoke being very short on
the shoulders, but much deeper in the
center front and back; from the center
of this yoke at the back a strip of the
lace perhaps three inches wide. extended
down to the belt. and under 1T the bodice
invsiby closed. The bodice was gathered
in at the waist line, biousing the
merest triffle above, or rather, hang
ing bit full all over. The sleeves
were rather large puffs of the silk, end
ing just above the elbows, where they
were held in by plain, narrow and al
most tight band from which dropped five
tiny ruffies each perhaps an inch and a
quarter wide and each bound at its lower
edge with the silk. These ruffles were set
on heavy net and their edges just over
Tapped. The last three of these little bias
ruffies came below the elbow line. The
skirt-a full one-was shirred very close
together for perhaps three or four inches
below the waist line. So close were these
shirs that in reality they were the old
time gauging. This skirt was plain save
for sixteen-inch insertion of Irish GRO
Chef even white chiffon. This band was
fully sixteen inches broad and was about
seven inches from the bottom of the
skirt.
Miss Eleanor Roosevelt, now Mrs. Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt, the bride niece and
the bridegroom a cousin of the President,
wore quantities of old point lace and a
long court train with her bridal gown. The
gown itself was princess robe, the long,
perfectly plain court train starting from
the shoulders. The yoke of shrred tulle
had no stock, pearl collar, the gift of the
bridegroOm's mother, being worn. The
long sleeves that ended in points at the
knuckles of the hand were of Shirred tulle,
with small puffs at their tops, where wide
and full white satin bows were added at
the shoulders, giving greater breadth to
the brides very slight and very tall figure.
A shawl of old point q Alencon, with the
point coming to at the center of the cor
sage was draped gracefully over the front
of the robe, the two sides being carried
around the front and sides of the robe.
This was caught In several places with tiny
sprigs of orange blossoms. Flounces of
point lace also went around the bottom of
the gown. This lace had been borne by her
grandmother, Mrs. Valentine G. Hall, and
her point lace veil was that worn by Mrs.