The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-16
OF Interest to Women

Two colors are combined in a way
that seems nothing in the world but
a copy Of the wonderful new tricks
In weave that have Tevolutioniznd
cloth and suitings. AS that change
of weaves Is impossible with velvet,
the effect is got in some more subtle
way, but got 1t is, no matter how.
Stripes and checks and plaids are
all echoed in the novelty velvets-only
echoed, though, for they are kept soft
and indistinct and sombre in tone.
Plenty of black and white effects are
seen in them, rendered subtle instead
of startling by the soft, deep pile of
tho stuff.
But, of course, being novelties, they
appeal only to limited class, the
plain colors used for nine ont of ten
of the handsomest suits.
',"Velvet" means not only velvet, but
velveteen as we'll, for If you're not too
we'll blessed with this worlds goods,
velvet suits are an expensive luxury
that entail no end of minor expenses,
while velveteen has world of wear
in 1t.
And cordurOys are coming to the
front, having been crowded behind SD
manv other materials for so long
while. Some stunning French suits
are made of 1.-THE kind with the wide
wale-and are trined with a lot nf
little straps of it fastened down with
buttons. One brown suit was partic-
ularly pretty, made without a particle
If trimming except these little straps
and the buttons.
Comparatively few of the velvet suits
are trimmed with anything but lace or
braid or buttons; nothing else seems
to set them off in a way at once effec-
tive and perfectly in keeping with the
character of the material. Plenty of
them have no trimming at all, the
rich beauty of the velvet given ample
opportunity to display itself in the
long. sweeping folds of the trailing
skirt.
But velvet, while its present pop
ularity is marked, doesn't hold the
field alone at all. Beautiful cloths and
suitings have come out that rival vel
vet for richness; broadcloths embroid-
cred in their own color, the design
growing larger and heavier toward the
hem, and beautiful, indescribable
stuffs, made different by weave or
some wonderful trick or color deep
ened into shadows or lifted into lights
in an elusive, fascinating way.
Party Frocks.
Just how materials for debutante
and evening frocks can grow lighter
and more diaphanOus is problem
that the great manufacturers must
dream out. For, with an over-increas-
ing tendency toward everything of the
sort, and an insistent demand all the
while for something new, the ones
now existing, many and varied as they
are, are sure to be eclipsed by some
wonderful new creation, so filmy that
it will seem as much more ethereal
than chiffon as chiffon is than silk.
notwithstanding tinted as del
icately as soap-bubble and printed
with shadOwy flowers that blur softly
into the background-and cliffons, and
the whole tribe of mulls, make the
prettiest of the receiving gowns worn
by debutantes. There's nothing rad
fcally new In them, but the way they
are made is as new and as interesting
as can be.
Whatever the gown is to be made
of-whichever. rather, for it's mod
erately certain to be of variant of
one of the three-it is lined and inter-
lined, the strip ruffled and flounccd
with chiffon-chiffon used so lavishly
that the. only question seems to be
how to pile more on.
Such conclusion of soft stuff as it
all makes! But it gives the cloudiest
effect imaginable, with never a par
ticle of stiffness about it, and is so
cleverly balanced that even where It
is fullest there is not the slightest
hint of bunchiness-that quality fatal
to the lovliest creation"