Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-04
Special Correspondence of The Star.

NEW YORK, November j, l3O0
@VHERE is little that is not prob
lematical about winter ward
robes. Nothing has been really
settled. and there are so many
differing models to select from.
and innumerable notifications of these,
that a woman may count it safe to adopt
any fashion that suits her figure and cir
cumstances in life, provided 1t be not BIZ
zarre.
Long coats, redngotes, short coats, pony
coats and Elton jackets will all be worn
and worn by the strictly fashionable wom-
an as well as her less modish sisters.
AS for the princess, empire, tight and
loose models-don't worry about them, but
select that most appropriate to your con-
ditions and be happy in 1t.
There was never a time when there was
greater room for individual choice, and the
woman who can herself, or whose mo-
diste can for her, add little touches, or
make small alterations In the model
gowns. or in copies of them shown her, is
fortunate indeed, provided. of course, these
touches be artistic or chic. To make a
garment or costume little different
from a model or design by no means i'm
plies either distinction or artistic value.
1t is we'll known that the French stage,
wlren plays of the day are enacted, por-
trays thereon the coming modes. Long be-
been presented on the Partisan stage; SIM
ilarly with the princess. or with any new
model. At the moment some o. the most
beautiful gowns now seen on the boards
of the Partisan theaterS Tow bodlceS .hat
fit with long, clinging skirts and without
a suggestion of the empire or coat effect,
for afternoon and dinner wear. Not so all
of them, of course, for many empire and
princess models, as we'll as all sorts of
coat effects are seen, but-and a BUT of
capital letters-some of the very atest Gre
atoms of the modisteS in the birthplace OF
fashions show a revcrsion to fitted bodices
that bring out the real waist line. Fey
may be princess gowns one to be described
is; but there is a. girdle outlining the
waist. For the beautiful figure. whether
of the slender but still curved type. or the
full womanly one. the gown fitting closely
about the waist and hips and with grace
full looseness about the bust that does not
emphasize the curves and so vulgarize the
figure. is the most charming of all, while
the long. trailing skirt, tight about the
hips and untrimmed unless at the lower
edge, is ideally graceful.
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At the Theater des Capucines a princess
robe in pastel-tinted cloth shows the prin-
cess model with a girdle outlining the
waist From a little below the bust llne
the robe fits tightly. and the girde out
lined in soutache and Dassementere dips
the sides, and goes straight across the
back. The skirt portion is on the circular
order, with the fullneSs beginning at the
fullest past of the hips and falling from
the hips to the floor in graceful folds,
without trimming except a series of join
Ing motifs done in soutache braid of light
er shades than the material.
The neck is cut round. lace filling it in
at the top. the bodice having over it a
short bolero of point d'esprit and net in
paest pink. the point d'esprit arranged in
leaf-like extensions edged with shaded
soutache and attached to pink net, the
latter also braided IN a sprawing but grace
full design in bebe pink satin ribbons and
edged with an inch-wide ruffie of white
lace having a heading of tiny pink shells
made of the ribbon shirred into shape.
This bolero swings loose, of course, and the
top outlines of the lace yoke of the
bodice and this opening at the top is
finished by curved loops of narrow pink
satin cord arranged in overlapping rings and
ending in the center front under a double