Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-03
s P A N GLED ROBES
MAKE INEXPENSIVE EVENING
GOWNS.
Most Charming Made Up Over Color
ed Linings-Bronze Over
Pink Stunning.

| The best thing to do with a wornout
| spangled gown is to purchase at once a new
| robe and lay in right over the old chiffon
| and silk foundation. Spangled gowns are
| by no means obsolete and, according to all
present indications, bid fair to be more pop
ular this year than ever before, and the
only danger is by their becoming too nu-
merous to remain quite smart. Then, too
the most effective robes ridiculOusly in
expensive this year and the most of them
seem to be Of good net, which Is all-im-
portant consideration. Too fine or too stiff
net Is to be avoided, for, In all probability,
it will scarcely stand the making up.
Colored Innings With Jet Gowns.
AS yet there Is nothing especially new in
the colorings of the patterns that are Of
fered, but new effects are being obtained
constantly by the different colored Innings
over which the robe Is placed Most eff
fective, for example, is brilliant pink
spangled robe over the contrast Of a soft
brown chiffon or, in like manner, a bronze
robe laid on a foundation of raspberry or
pale pink over soft blue. By some such
color contrasts a seemingly new gown may
be obtained by placing a new robe over an
old chiffon dress or lining and this need
cost scarcely anything.
Black spanSled gowns are more attractive
and certainly more suited to a dinner, ball
or opera box than any other style of black
evening dress, etc. Black is often peculiarly
becoming. 1t may be INDUCED in even for
the evening, and year after year, by simply
changing the all black at one time to black
and steel robe. or again to black and gold.
Many women contend they are never really
comfortable unless possessing at least one
smart black evening dress, and certainly
black has the advantage of being less read
lily recognized than any other color. Bronze
may, for awhile. take the place of the black
gown, and at present the bronze robes are
quite as smart as the black.
White Net for the Debutante.
The debutante will still appear in a white
net gown embroidered or pailetted in steel
and silver. but this gown must be trimmed
deliberately with ribbon and flowers or be
of some unusual model, for the simple white
spanSled has been popular now for too
many seasons to receive much attention.
White over a foundation of deep yellow
chiffon is perhaps more effective than any
other color, but the net must be plentifully
spangled and the yellow must be a deep,
rich shade to obtain the desired effect
The iridescent spangles in odd shades of
blue and exquisite tones Of pink and pale
green are always attractive, but they should
be made up over the exact shade of chiffon
as the pailettes or of some good contrasting
color. for with white they lose much of
their character.
The style of robe dresses desired must
depend altogether upon the price to be paid
for 1t. For eight or nine dollars a COM
paratively good and a most effective robe
can be bought, while in the irdescent span
giles, with embroidery and ribbon work. as
much as eight or nine hundred has been
paid. One robe that was particularly strik-
ing was striped in alternate rows of black
and white pailettes, the bands. narrow at
the belt. becoming gradually wider toward
the hem, SO as to give a good line to the
figure. The pailettes were laid on perfectly
solid, so that for the evening this made q
not too conspicuous, but most effective Co.'S
tune.