Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-31

The two most remarkable features
of the present season in connection
with the dress question may be said
to be the very long, very plain, and
very tight skirts-for afternoon and
evening wear-and the tunics which
are veritable overdresses.
With regard to the long, plain skirts
it is certain that they will be amaz-
ingly fashionable for many months to
come; their charm is only just now |
making itself felt because at first |
sight they we're SO remarkable that
many women hesitated about adopting
them. 1t Is not that we have not had
long. untrimmed skirts with us before
now, but it is that these particular
skirts are designed to display the
lines of the figure with such absolute
accuracy that the effect is, as ] have
said, startling-at first. Almost In
variably these dresses are cut IN
semi-princess style, with a seam right
down the front. In some cases sew
eral small pleats are made in this
seam, giving the dress the effect OF
having been too long when sent home
| from the dressmakers establishment
and of having been tucked up by,
more or less, amateur hands, This
seems a funny description of very
new Partisan fashion, but twill serve.
Anyone who has seen the particular
skirt mean will understand. Happily
many of the new evening and after
noon dresses of this order are made
without these peculiar little pleats on
the front breadth, for, though novel,
they are not pretty!
Supple satin and mirror velvet are
the two favorite materials for such
gowns as those to which | have just
alluded, and though the skirts are for
the most part untrimmed, vast guam
tity of stuff is used In their construc
ton. The trains are invariably long
and at the hem there is wide
flare" Very soft silk is used for the
Innings of these dresses, and many
wide-pleated frills of chiffon or crep'
Chine are introduced underneath, II
, make the hem flou.
With a satin or velvet gown OF Till
, order as a foundation the most beauti
full and delicate over-dresses-half Goa
and half tunic-are introduced. Thes'
| oyer-dresses are made of embroidered
' and pailletted chiffon, lace, crepe
= tulle. or coarse Russian net, and IRE
uuently they are hemmed with nal
row band of sable. chinchilla or mink
r and always they are delightfully."- pic
q turesque and becoming.
t The ultrs-fashionable evening gown
l. of the moment are made in three dill
tinct parts, the long plain skirt c
satin OF velvet cut en- corselet at tn
J; back and showing almost norma
waistline in front. Then there is tn
tiny cross-over bodice of richest en-
q broideries and most costly lace-co
o ors and materials, most probabl
II forming a contrast to the skirt. Fina
ly, there is the transparent over-dre.
n or tunic-rich In paillettes and
1t crusted with lace and motifs of flu
e. The combination is maryelousiy
re fective when carried out by maste
10 hand. and in such gowns as these
Vi pretty woman looks more than b
prettiest!
or It must not be supposed that t
I'D dresses | am now describing at all !
as semble tea-gowns, for they do nc
ut they are picturesque without vergi
cd on the artistic and they are not
ke the least of the order neglige.
. 1 marked popularity of the tun
lsf which are rapidly becoming SO IA
o ionable is the manner in which tt
OF are shaped down almost into a pc
nd directly in front. Sometimes t
an, point makes its appearance at
The hack also. but as often as not
tot front is very long, while the sides {
aa back are comparatively short. | h
ray seen this outline making its appe
Ance in several OF the new models
y afternoon gowns in chiffon-cloth,