Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-13

wore one evening at a fashionable restau-
rant simple but beautiful frock of rose
colored organdte figured with large pink
roses of deeper shade 1t was the acme
of simplicity in its fashioning and was
topped by Il large, fiat, white hat trimmed
with one long pink ostrich plume.
Mrs. Robert Collier Miss Sara Van Alen}
dined at the same restaurant on her ar
rival from England with her husband She
wore simple, girlish white null frock that
traiied little. 1t had at the bottom of the
skirt a deep tlounce of null and lace, and
some five inches above the fiounce a wide
insertion of white lace The skirt was gath
cred once at the top and the belt was a
fold of ribbon The bodice was a gathered
one with low stock and yoke of lace, and
the elbow sleeves ended In lace frills. All
OF the lace was exceedingly fine and deli
cate.
With this frock Mrs. Collier wore a large
white lace hat with the lace dropping in
scallops around the brim. and across it from
front to back was laid a wide white os-
trich feather.
On the same evening Mrs. Lawrence Wa
terbury, seen at the same restaurant at the
dinner hour. was wearing one of her fetch
ing white linen day costumes with a skirt
quite eight inches from the floor and a
short Elton coat with heavy lace in it. She
wore a quite small hat and looked as girl
ish as she did in the old days at Bar Har-
Dor
Mrs. Ernest IseIin Miss Polly Whittier
who is still wearing black and white, was
seen the other day in a remarkably effective
frock of some very thin black material fine
silk or crepe, having many lace insertions
and also a large section of openwork en-
brO.dcry in black silk over a white silk
slip.
1t a trailing gown and princess in
the oE'sines. The bodice had its stock and
yoke o. narrow lace Insertions running.
around the neck, and the body of the bod
ice from the bust down had oval embroid-
erie Anglagse medallons The skirt was
tucked around the hips and as far as the
knees was composed of tucked sections of
the material divided by lengthwise inch
wide insertions of black lace and occa-
sional open medallions here and there The
bottom of the skirt was entirely of the
cpenworlS leaf and wheel design of the Eng
lish embroidery on black silk; the upper
section of the skirt extending down into it
and graduating, its width, 1t being mar
rower-in irregular juts at the fronts and
sideS-than In the back. This frock was
topped by a modified tricorne hat in black
chip, with white wings laid against the up
turned back.
A tea gown brought from Paris by one of
tne DflueS-to-De IN the carry autumn, and
which is part of her trousseau, is in blue
and mauve, both very pale shades. The
material is pale blue crepe de chine over
slip of mauve silk. The slip follows the
outline of the figure. although 1t is loose
| and is cut out slightly at the throat in bat
! tlement shaped yoke effect In both the
| front and the back to depth of some six
! inches. and on the shoulders half way ia
| the shoulders edge. To this slip the crepe
| dc CLINE, which is "A very thin variety, is
gathered, falling in very full folds to the
floor
| Sections of pale mauve chiffon the shape
/ and size of half small shawl-that is, a
J shawl cut with one deep point--and the two
| others at the ends are draped over the
| shoulders. The sections are laid in plaits on
| the shoulders. and a long end hangs way
! down the back almost to the floor, being tied
! in q loose knot some SIX inches from the end
/ The other end of the shawl section is car
ried up under the arm, and is cut and
dra ped as TO form the unaersleeves. just
above the elbow. where the chiffon is
/ drawn up, the back and sides falling in sin
! gle puts. is bow of liberty satin ribbon
/ In mauye.
! The upper sleeves that come from the
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