Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-06
Fashions at
Home and Abroad

W display a wrist guiltless of orna-
ment this season is to confess
| oneself oblvious of the fashion
Inc bracelet fad, long dor
mant, has come to life with more
than its old-time vigor. If you have a
bracelet of carved rose coral set I'm fill
| gree mounting you will be the envy of
every woman less fortunate Many of the
| newest bracelets are, paradoxically, very
| old. By this it Is meant that the designs
| most sought after are copies of the antique
armlets worn perhaps by some faraway
| Egyptian princess or prototypes of orna-
| ments that adorned the brown arm of an
| Indian maharani - heavy bangled- shaped
gewgaws that cannot be compared with the
| classic models discovered in the ruins of
Pompeii. Jade bracelets are supposed to
bring good luck to the wearer, and they
| are wonderfully beautiful as well as costly
when mounted in gold or silver filigree
| With certain costumes Jet bracelets are
| very chic. Jewelry of the antebelum days.
| such as old cameo brooches and earrings
can be mounted in dull gold and held to-
gether by slender golden links, making a
charming Dr-celet for the twentieth CEN
| fury belle. There is a clever woman worker
| IN gems who makes a speciality of using
| this discarded jewelry.
Velvet ribbons as a backing for handsome
necklaces and bracelets is another revival
| from granny's day that finds favor Never
| was there more becoming wrinkle. and it
seems especially happy in connection with
silyery hair and the fresh complexion which
| In these days of the beauty doctor" is
| such an ordinary accompaniment Ap-
! parently no one now cultivates wrinkles ex-
| cept as the word is used as a synonym for
lads Up-to-date women are all more
| or less faddish and ride their particular
| hobbies in a manner formerly reserved for
| the less decorative sex.
| If you would be numbered among the
elect, provide yourself with jeweled combs
to match every gown-street house and
calling. Mrs. >Longworth, who recently has
been affecting brown to the utter ami
hilation of her former favorite Alice blue,
has been displaying a high-backed comb
in her golden tresses, dotted with uncut
sardonyX set in dull gold. The sidecombs
are similar, only in smaller pattern. At
the opera the other night Mrs Longworth
looked her best in pale green tulle, with
garlands of leaves, and her hair piled high
and adorned with little clusters of curs,
was gay with pins having emerald tops. A
big comb studded with emeralds looked i'm
posing. Several fashionable women have
sets of coral-studded combs and harpins
| to wear with afternoon gowns while pearls
and diamonds are common now in fashion,
able throngS tiaras and necklaces.
~
From the opening day of the season
there has been much discussion on the
subject of sleeves. BY sleeve is meant not
only the actual sleeve itself but the
| shoulder line at which it is attached. The
early fall models from Paris showed built
| out shoulders. but it was not until the great
coutouriers gave their models a first airing
| that the shoulders became pronouncedly
| long. Every week has given wider vogue
| to this long-shoulder craze 1t is not new
| to us, to be sure, since We had it several
| seasons ago but it had been almost en-
tirely dropped out on this side when the
French late models arrived
* X
Fur hats of all sizes, shapes and sorts
are immensely fashionable this winter.
There are tiny fur toques for the street
suit and fur coat, there are larger shapes
fashionable, if too small hat is not be-
coming, and then there are as well large
fiat shapes in sealskin, lynx or chinchilla
trimmed with flowers or aigrettes, that are
many of them charmngly pretty. 1t Is now
the prevailing fad to have a fur touue for
| the fur jacket or fur set, and even for the
velvet gown to be worn with a fur jacket
there Is frequently seen fur instead of a
velvet hat.
A woman who recently visited Paris is
wearing a novel necklace quaint and in
conspicuous, but costing, she says. almost
princes ransom. 1t is a simple strand of
black tulle, long enough to pass around
the neck and knot in front with diamond
head of each of the tassels is a dome ped
gold plate, incrusted thickly with the gems
and from these hang fringes of the tiny
stones, each strand perfect in workman
ship that it is flexible as a string of beads
Necklaces in which black tuIle. velvet or
grosgrain ribbon are combined with the
costliest stones have superseded the long
jeweled chains in the favor of the Paris
ienne. The prettiest examples are in mar
row velvet ribbon ornamented with jeweled
slides, the slides the work Of artists and no
two necklaces duplicate in design. The
fancy for the combination of silken materi-
ais with gems is creeping In among other
ornaments. The newest bracelets and
brooches have velvet ribbon.
COlOred shoes for the evening have, OF
course, always been with u.s. but they are
now practically universal, black only being
worn with a black gown, though it must
not be imagined that a black gown must
necessarily be accompanied by black shoes.
gold or old rose or natter blue being far
prettier and more effective. But for country
wear the new shoes and stockings are quite
new and give most charming finish to the
rough tweeds, quite redeeming them from
their severity. very effective combination
was an Irish frieZe coat and skirt in beau
tiful soft shades of brown and green with
a small collar and belt OF almond green
suede, the shoes and stockings repeating the
green.
A lovely empire evening gown designed
the lace being woven to the shape of the
gown and much heavier at the hem, the
pattern becoming closer again on the tiny,
short close fitting bodice. The lace was all
mounted over soft underdress of palest
gray chiffon beneath which was another
layer of pale blue chiffon, the silk lining
being OF Q very delicate gray green.