Evening star., 1906-02-04

robe. apparently. the top in surplice effect.
and finished at the top with falls of fiimy
lace and spangled in silver. with short
| sleeves. very fun. and spansled to match
| the BERTHA At the left side of the corsage
was a black velvet chou She also wore
pointed diamond tiara and her diamond
chain. Mrs. Jones guest was Mrs. Stuy-
vesant Fish, who was in an exquislt4
shade of pink velvet the color of the outer
petals of La France rose. The bodice was
nearly veiled with fiounces OF lace ap-
nliaue. A shaped section Of the point went
| over the shoulders. and from II drooped
short fiounce sleeves OF the filmy lace. Mrs
Fish also wore a black chou in the center
| front of her gown and some beautiful dsa-
monds and pearls.
So
| In the E. R. Thomas box was Mrs
Thomas In a princess robe of ciel blue vel
vet, the simplest possible with short, scant
sleeves and puffs and folds of white tulie
between the white flesh and the yeiVef-
/ Mrs Thomas wore diamond tiara and
long rope of pearls. going twice around her
neck and hanging nearly to the waist
line Her guest was Mrs. J. Borden Har-
rsman. whose gown showed originality ana
an artistic value. It was smart evening
coat effect cut low, of course, as an even
ing gown, and yet rather high in the neck,
and with sleeves to the eaoow-these CIV
ing the necessary coat eflect
The skirt was evidently a short trained
one of the heady white silk or satin, striped
several inches apart with black stripes per-
haps a quarter of an inch wide and some
eight inches apart, and with what ap-
neared to be a narrower stripe. half black,
half white, giving a shimmering grayish
line between the black ones. The effect
was of black velvet stripes on satin. The
coat was long one; at least, as the wear
oI,o re
and it was tight-tttt:ng. The top was cut
in two deep VS., one at the back, the
other at the front, the latter being the
deeper. These were outlined with re-
we're collar of black velvet some three or
four inches wide the shoulder ana
tapering down to points at the bottom OF
the open VS.. Over this velvet collar was
laid a similarly shaped but wider piece
collar of point lace. From the pointed
ends of these collars two strips of black
velvet ribbon some two and half or three
inches broad were careleSsly caught back
against the sides of the front, slanting
down to the waist line little in front of
the under-arm seams and then extending on
down the sides of the coat, Sloping as they
went toward the back. In the back the two
strips extended down the center back
The effect was of the velvet being held in
yisibly and firmly but not stlfhy against
the white material. The elboW-iength
sleeves were of moderate size, each form
ing large single pun, striped iengtnWiSe
with the black and finished at the bottom
with velvet bands covered with point lace
and finished by point lace frlls.
In another box was Mrs. Edwin Main
Post a fiction writer of no mean ability
as well as a society woman, of striking
beauty of face and figure. Her frock was
a pale pink satin, apparently draped with
the filmiest of pink gauZe. At infrequent
intervals graceful leaf designs = long and
narrow-done apparently in opaiescent and
gray pearl scales, appeared on the skirt
of the frock The very low-cut gown was
round at the top and tight-fitting, and
draped with pink gauZe. The sleeves were
entirely of the pink. A scant little rueh-
ing went over the shoulders above the
shoulder curves, and to these ruchings was
attached, for each sleeve, a single thick
ness of the pink gauze scantily gathered
These sections extended over the curves
of the shoulder down to the arm, and these
ruchings, matching those at the top, en-
circled the arm From these were suspend
ed short wing draperies of the gauze. Be
tween the ruchings al the back of the arm
the center of the sleeve puff was pulled out
SO that 1t still further suggested the wing
effect. The diaphanous effect of the PINK
gauze was particularly graceful. Mrs. Post
wore huge solitaire pearls in her ears
There were a number of black frocks in
evidence at the opera Mrs. Bayard Cut
ting wore a black velvet with a square
neck and short puffed sleeves. Black tulle
-
Resting on the top of her hair was a
U-shaped white aigrette, very fragile In
effect and apparently of marahout AM
other black gown was cut In a v at the
front and had elbow sleeves of black fulle.
Mrs. William Travers was in the w K
Vanderbilt box in black jetted net over
white. The bodice was rounded aat the top,
and black bands apparently black velvet
ribbon an inch and half wide, came down
from the armholes, forming an angle at
the side and crossing the front Of the
slightly blousing corsage. There were two
of these bands, perhaps two inches apart
The sleeves We're puffs of jetted net The
skirt was gathered at the top, and the let
spangles were merely dots on the net. but
extending up from the hem of the net sec
tion to above the knees were flowers and
leaves traced in the spangles
In the box of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
was woman in black crepe embroidered
IN ltlac-colored flowers. apparently iris. On
the front of the cersage was an outstanding
cluster of these flowers, while Scattered
irregularly over the rest of the corsage and
on the skirt We're single flowers The sleeve
puffss which were rather long and fun and
extended to the elbows, were also embroid-
cred IN single buds and flowers