Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-19

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| IA rather than as a luxury, and
anything that adds to the at
tractiveness of the function Is
welcomed by the tea hostess who loves
| novelty, For the tea service itself there
are all sorts of things in the china ana
| silver line constantly devised to tempt
| the buyer and deplete her pocketoooh'
| Tea caddies In Chinese design are lovely
and much sought after, but among per
sonel adornments the newest thing Is the
| tiny tea apron London and Paris nave
| pone wild over and which has just found
its way over to America. Many o. them
| are not much bigger than a sooo-sizeo
handkerchief, and all are trimmed at
tractively with lace and ribbons. The
bows that adorn the pockets are little
Notwithstanding affairs. The fat bow
is not even used on lingerie this season.
but is knotted up into small chou
The reception dress seen in the illus
tration, by Havet, is another lovely thing
sent over from Paris. simple in design.
trimmings The skirt is formed of al
ternate panels of silk lace and chiffon
velvet, the lace panels terminating at the
top in q graduated hem topped with che
mile embroidered in self color. ByZan-
tine embroideries. together with white
antique lace, trim the bodice, which Is
boned and tight fitting. The sleeves are
of white lace ruff1es, over white net, cap
ped with blue lace and velvet. The ma
terial of the frock is of copenhagen blue
chiffon velvet The hat is of black vel
vet, with white marabou in high front
trimming The other model Is wearing
jewels belonging to the 1nfanta Eulalle OF
Spain. The dog collar is one of the hand-
soonest in the world and is valued at
kings ransom The butterfly which fas-
tens the collar in front has wings COM
posed of pigeon blood rubies.
The New Coat.
The half-loose coat with Tapped seam
from shoulder to hem in front will be
worn, but it is replaced by one that has
three seams at back, none in front but is
cut to curve in at waist under the arms.
and is single breasted, with four bone
buttons set we'll apart.
The last button is about three inches
below the waist line, and from it the
edges slope away on the bias. The
sleeves are long as all coat sleeves are
to be- and finished with four-inch turn
over cuff sloped away at back. The re-
vers are much wider than those we have
been wearing. There is a breast pocket,
a small one for cash and two large ones.
1t is quite probable that the three
quarter coat that curves slightly into
the waist line will be revived, 1t has
always been the most becoming of the
cuts that every one could wear.
AS to the minor details of the new
coats. the sleeves are long and without
trimming and usually finished with a
turnover cuff. A number of small bishop
sleeves are put into the arm hole under
a small Japanese effect.
Picturesque Large Hat.
A large faring hat. its top covered with
rather dull green sottoman silk. faceds
with green panne velvet of a much dark
er shade, has its wide brim bent in soft
curves with a decided flare at the left
side toward the back, where the brim Is
the widest Just to the front of this wide
curve in a slight indentation or down.
ward curve there is a scarf bow of shad-
ed green silk ribbon, broken by quarter
inch stripes of dull wood brown velvet
The ribbon is very wide and is first laid
in lengthwise plaits, and one loop.is made
to stand up with a slant to the 'front.' and
from the ribbon flares oHt an accordion
plated, pointed end in each direction.
Rising from this bow, one turning to-
ward the back, the other to the front Is
a short mass OF shaded green marabou
feathers and from these there sweep out
around the brim toward the back curving
feathers that closely resemble bird of
paradise plumes These are black for
some distance from their bases and then