The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-01-08
Refurbishing Wardrobes
Making New Things
Out of Old.
New Ruffles and Boas,
Girdles. Belts and
Collars.
A Word Also About New
Blouses and Novel
Trimmings.
the woman of fashion is trimming her
gowns

SILK stitcneS and you have as handsome
motif as could be used fer the trim
ming of gown,
There Is certain woman whose
gowns are remarkable for their ele-
gance and this season she is wearing a
deep purple cloth dress with pansy mo-
tits applied TO the front of the skirt
They are put on to form great cluster
or group and there are from ten to
twenty Of them right in the middle of
the front. The same trimming is used
for the middle of the waist upon the
front of the yoke. This makes a very
fine gown.
With a deep, purple cloth dress one
can wear wide colIarette of sable and
with sable muf the suit is complete.
A sable toque can be trimmed with
white roses at the side to complete the
picture. Ones gloves should be pearl
color and one should wear. on dress oc-
casions, wide belt of pearl colored
suede with a gold clasp in the front
There is a growing tendency among
women who dress smartly to expend
their money upon one handsome street
dress, trusting to one very nice costume
10 carry them through the winter. FIRE.
quently this is a black camel's hair and
no wiser choice could be made for it
can be trimmed in SO many ways
ALI Winter Styles.
If one will get a gun metal camel's
hair and make it up with a full skirt,
trimmed with wide bands OF taffeta put
on like ruffies, and will finish the waist
as tight fitting bodice, trimmed with
bands of taffeta, one has the beginning
of a suit that will hold its style all the
winter.
For the accessories one can choose
wide girdles of varying kinds with
| buckles that show green one day and
red the next and are, again, all silver
| A gown that IS pretty sure to hold It's
own until Easter Is the navy blue chew
lot which. If cleverly fashioned, will
look pretty and be becoming to all
They make these navy blue suits just
row in a new way. They make the skirt
round and not very long and they trim
it with box plaits stitched fat to the
hips. For a waist there is a silk bodice.
Then comes the redingote. which de-
serves paragraph all TO itself
Study New Designs.
A Russian green redingote which was
one of the prettiest things of the sea
son was in three-quarter length, cut
perfectly straight, and buttoned single
breasted all the way down the front
| with big silver buttons. There was a
! collar of French red cloth set in and
vest of the same red cloth, no more
tian two inches wide, just enough to
make a rim of color. This was 10 be
worn loosely over the navy blue street
suit, and the result was smart to say
| the least. 1t was more than smart. 1t
was positively chic.
| In deep brown and in leaf green, and
| in any other dark color this long, loose
| style. cut on the military order, strapped
across the back and hanging straight in
| front, Is good And the woman who
wants something distinguished cannot
DO better than secure a garment along
| these lines.
| Although the woman of the day does
not remain in the house a great deal,
| still she must have something pretty to
wear on her days at home, and particu-
larry on the mornings at home. and this
brings one to a study of the house dress
| II the street gown is picturesque the
morning gown is more. 1t is positively
romantic. A volume might be written
upon the romance of the peisnoir and
| yet leave great deal unsaid.
Lovely Morning Gowns.
| ColorS. fabrics. trimmings ard orna-
ments all combine TO make the morning
gown as lovely thing as fancy could
paint 1t is light in weight, beautiful
IN design. and it is carried out with a
| fidelity which is exquisite.
| Take. If you please, the japanese tea
i gown or the japanese tea coat or the
kimono. The last, with its long lines
and its lovely embroidery around the
/
/ comfortable ever to be forgotten by the
woman who has once owned kimono-
AS a tea coat the japanese garment
| is even more convenient. The coat,
which is made of Oriental silk, either
| figured or embroidered is cut in three
quarter length. is fastened with cords
and ornaments and is worn with a silk
| underskirt. The underskirt can be made
| of japanese goods or II can be simply
an old silk skirt, some remnant of by
gone grandeur, which does admirably,
cut ov.. and made into a blouse skirt
| If a woman Is making her own Jap
anese gown, be it tea gown or kimono,
| she can afford To ennbroider it thorough
| ly and showily. She must use silks of
many colors and she would be sensible
I were she to take for pattern some
really elegant japanese kimono, so that
she can copy Its colors and its designs.
These kimonos come at al prices. and
| while one is copying kmono, one
might as well copy nice one as a COM
mon one.
| Oriental Silks.
The Orienta, silks are so numerous
since the japanese Invasion OF the
world Of art. and they are so cheap and
so easily draped so adjustable. SO high
ly desirable in every way. that a woman
would do well to invest in them One
can often find remnants very cheap al
sales And these come in good 70,
the making of the peisnoir. Perhaps, il