Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-01-02

evening dress.
Fashion has been as lavish in her
choice Of materials N periods, for the
whole range of textures seems to have
gone over and borrowed from. Stiff
%tatfeta gowns-perhaps printed with
exquisite effect in soft flower designs.
perhaps left plain to trim with beau.
tiful laces-graceful crepes, thick,
heavy silks; and in vivid contrast,
"diaphanous, filmy stuffs that let the
light of the silk slips beneath trans.
form them to something ethereal, are
equally good, but with a distinction.
Very young girls are wearing the
transparent s%tuffs, leaving the heav.
Ter, more stately materials to u little
older type.
Iris crochet laces-with French in
0ucnco strongly in evidence in their
treatment and pattcrns-sharc honors
with the shcerest Of silk laces, in deli.
cate tones of pink or blue or yellow.
AS to color-white is passing, yet
gradually, and pink or blue Especially
blue) in pale, exquisite shades, and
lowered stuffs, touched off with color,
are winning the post of honor. Indi-
cations early in the fall pointed to
pink as the coming first color, but blue
is even more successful.
Fluffs and frills are everywhere,
piled on in a confusion that is exqui-
site, and a central idea dominates. ev.
cry gown-repeated in every widening
ripple of trimming.
the fullness is so cleverly manipu-
lated that there is nothing but a soft
mass that is as picturesque as it is
complicated. At the waist a pointed
bodice or n perfectly fitted girdle ac-
c~entuates a line hat would be sharp
were it not 50 graceful.
All in all, styles and materials alike
are beautiful, and the daring combi-
nations of periods and stuffs make
them all the more successful.
A word about furs before concluding.
Fur-lined coats are taking the world
of fashion by stOrm-great big, loose
affairs of brown, gray or red, with soft
gray and white squirrel Innings. They
are used for everything from automo-
billing to evening wear. Three-quarter
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long and even a rather short length are
worn.
Sable and mink and all the brown
furs are even more popular than they
babe fair to be in early autumn And
ermine. For several years ermine has
grown steadily in fashion, until this
year there is a perfect mania for it.
Black lynx, in shapes evolved from old
time pelerines, with all of the peler-
good points, and a dozen new
is stunning and wonderfully eff
Muffs are many and varied as to
though everything is a variation
)I Ine udJ nun. pQuulC NUNS, N"i
.iage muffs and "tea.cosy'' muffs are
equally good, with, as the quaintest of
hem all, peggy from Paris muffs,
hat pull up heavy silk cords, or rib
,ons, like "A bag.
Neck furs come in a hundred new
hapes, with the new little fare evil
lent in most of them; and, too, most of
hem are made to have one end hang I
arelessly over the left shoulder. {
Collaboration there are regular lit I
lie sets that come for youngsters of t
IL ages, from the tiny ones up-are
gray or brown squirrel, white i
r brown fox, Angora, lambs wool and |
a favored few ermine. "a
The newest fad in mink is for the +
atural color, rather lighter than the c
lend. An Eastern mink is the "right" a
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