The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-09
Low NECkS IN FULL DAYLIGHT
A FASHION or LONG AGO REVIVED
LAST SPRING.


LAST SPRING. ..
Decoilete Gowns Likely to BE worn at All
Fashionable Functions IN the Day.
time-A Mode Brought over From
Engiand-Points That Commend II.
Clothes experts fight shy Of making def
mite prophecies that before long 1t will be
good form to wear low cut bodice at.day-
light functions, such as church and house
weddings. teas and afternoon musicals.
but most Of them admit that the indieations
point to such fashion, -,
There are dressmakers in. New York,
and women Of fashion, too, VINO renasznber
very we'll time when women OF prominence
giving afternoon entertainments were Care
ful to shut out the daylight, to light the
cande labra and to rig themselves out in full
daytime brides going to the altar in de.
collete gowns with bridesmaids costumed
to match, infants and small girls who wore
low necked and short sleeved dresses from
morning till night and, like their mothers.
gown and nightcap -customs which made
later generations shudder.
The 1905 fashionable woman. however.
is not shuddering. Nor is she likely to shud-
becoming and especially if she has been
gradually prepared to receive it.
The entering wedge for revival Of the
low necked corsage at daylight funot ions
on this side OF the ocean was in the shape
OF the tea gown, so-called, first cut with z
turned away slightly at the throat, then cut
with semi-round or a square neck and fin
ished with shorter than elbow sleeves
terminating in deep fall of lace.
At the present time visit almost any
drawing room in the millionaire district
of Sunday afternoon-the generally ac-
cepted time for fashion to receive it's men
callers-and not young matron of them
all but will receive in fetching combination
Of soft silks and laces, cut to show pretty
throat and arm to the best advantage.
A couple Of seasons back advance styles
in ready to wear waists of silk and cotton
were cola rless, string Of beads or slender
chain doing duty for stock and this Style
with or without-oftener without-a guimpe
and cut with elbow sleeves. AS result
even staid counting houses in the whole
sale business districts OF New York we're,
and are now, often invaded by young
business man called 4parlor fixin's.' The
Y shaped neck ia long, step in advance of
the collarless round neck. The V, in turn,
has been superseded by the modest cut out
square, also worn with or without--oftener
without-a guimpe.
Last March, at one Of the most fashionable
oh urch weddings Of the. season, a guest
who is prominent, not only for her wealth
but also for her clothes, almost startled
up the aisle in COS tune finished with a
yoke OF tulle SO transparent as to suggest
no yoke at all, particularly as it was sur
mounted with collar Of diamonds such as is
seldom worn except with evening dress Some
every woman there had to admit that The
style was becoming and remarka bly, effective
AT another equally smart weddtn
attention was attracted by a corsa 90 Icut
out just enough front and back to Show
Concerning this corsage the less fashion-}
able fringe OF guests always present on such |
occasions remarked one to the other:
Queer isn't it, to see cut out neck At .
noon wedding"
e! suppose It's the very latest style going
Of an out Of town relative of the BRIDE
groom, craning her neck for better view.
And she was right.
II don't set up for prophet. but all the .
tainments, whether in ones own drawing
room or elsewhere, and at church weddings,
celebrated at noon OF later in the day
will not be at all the exception in New
York next winter" asserted one of the
smartest women Of New York the other
don't mean by that that the cut of corsage
one associates with an opera box and
formal dinners will be seen at teas and
musicals, but only that a medium low.
fectly proper, in fact the correct thing to
wear with hat.
"And the main reason for the newer
fashion is this: Americans spend more
and more time in Europe every year.
think, and rich Americans who have thu
entry into the best English society have
often attended court functions connected
with royalty. such az the Queens drawing
rooms, royal weddings DC. at most of
which, no matter what the time Of dav.
evening dress--is positively required.
in this way these women have become
more or less accustomed to low cut bodices
Of morning or afternoon. Now, hero;
for instance" picking mp New York paper;
sis an account Of the wedding of an Enelish
Duchess in London.
"Only a few American women we're
present. | see, but those few like the mem
hers Of the English nobility and Of the royal
family in the audience wore court dress,
which means decollete bodice and feathers
In the hair.
Now that. of course, is going further
than most Americans would care to go.
myself would hate to appear often in tho
garish light Of day with plnmes in my hair
and p SorsaSe az low 10Y, az az aen"nhy viii per-
a state function, nor would Queen Victoria
hold drawing room except in the da ytme.
queen Alexandra is more reasonable
and more inclined to cater to American
preferences therefore some persons close
to the throne are inclined TO think that
before long drawing rooms at which many
Americans are to be presented will all take
place at night. But aside from state func-
tons It is not unusual in England to sea
corsages Of medium low cut in drawing
rooms anywhere and everywhere worn
with a hat, and at many of the most notable
New York afternoon brushes If last winter
there we're dozens Of gowns cut out quite
a bit in the neck.
sAs for my summer wardrobe. don't
believe have half dozen dresses cut high
in the neck finished with stock collar effect,
I mean and even those half dozen have
q very soft transparent lace collar. In
my opinion unless woman's throat 10
positively scrawny she ought never cover it
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