Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-25

I plain cloth stitched at the edges. Long

plain cloth stitched at the edges. Ions
yellow gloves were worn.
The hat topping this gown was OF brown
velvet showing yellowish tones. The brfm
was pressed down close to the forehead and
curved to # below IT. Between the velvet
and the wearer's creamy forehead was a
line of fine waves of dark hair done very
fatty against the forehead.
The crown of the hat was perhaps two
inches high. The front of it showed plain
ly. but rising from the center of 1t and
nodding to the front as well as the back
was line or two efserect ostrich tips.
small inside, dark brown in the center, but
shading at their edges to ecru. =.
AS finishing touch to the yellows and
creams of this artistic ensemble was long
robe of perfectly matched golden topazes
wound twice around the throat. The upper
loop. close to the throat, showed in the
exact center a large emerald. and precisely
in the center of the longer loop, ending
little below the bust line, was a second en-
erald matching the first in size.
Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt dresses very
simply as a rule, and her gown the opening
day OF the horse show was simple and con-
ventional in cut. 1t had a plain skirt just
long enough to require holding up, topped
by an Eton jacket. This jacket came to the
top of the satin girdle in the back, opened
long sleeves, banded in at the wrists with
narrow cuffs, through the center of which
going around the wrists-were bands of
silver gauze braid. This braid was also
used around the edge Of the jacket. includ-
ing the neck. which had no collar
Her large round hat with it's wide brim
was in palest lavender fe:t, the crown encir-
cled by full tulle ruchings the lower layer
of ruching was in lavender, and that above
in dull yellow tones. In the front of the hat
was tiny knot of black feathers or head
from which bird of paradise plume, shad-
ing from lavender to dull yellow, swept out
across the front and over the left side down
toward the shoulder.
Mrs. Vanderbilt wore her fox boa and
carried her muff to match, the two being
choice speciments of the long-haired black
fox with silver tips. i-.--
Mrs. Elisha Dyer was in one OF the pref
test of the gray gowns. 1t had long close
skirt-of which, however, the writer saw
very little--topped by tight-fittlng French
coat of the velvet, severely plain save for
the vest of white cloth partially covered
with scroll design done in narrow silver
cloth of silver ribbon.
Her rather small hat was round and was
tilted we'll over the forehead. but in by no
means an exaggerated fashion. 1t was of
gray velvet matched the coat, and as the
crown was very fat, almost merely indi-
Gated a twist of cloth of silver ribbon out
lining it, Gray feathers fell over the back
The gown that Mrs. Oliver Hartman wore
with her SableS was on the FlOrentine or
der as to its sleeves, which were long, ex-
tending almost over the hands. rather full
about the wrists, where they were slashed,
showing long ovalS of rich creamy lace
underneath, and was plain princess robe.
That evening Mrs. Hartman wore the
sort of chapeau that best suits her east
'ern type of beauty, a large round trans
parent picture hat, laden with masses of
both towering and dropping bird of para
disc plumes all forming graceful curves.
Her gown was a black net over black
chiffon and silk. princess in it's lines. The
bodice and elbow sleeves were spangled
with fine jets. Ovals were cut out here and
there in the black foundation near the top
Of the corsage and the tops of the sleeves,
showing the creamy flesh beneath. At the
throat the neck was cut ever so slightly to
show a tiny V. Around her neck was a
land of black velvet ribbon an inch and a
half wide, set with wreaths of diamonds.
Her gloves were black. not a bit of white