The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-14
The MOdiste's Dream at Waikiki
BY Leola Harvey-EIder.

a fountain triekled and splashed it
siIvery spray in the rotunda, the sweet
odor of many blossoms floated in on the
balmy air and the surf played soft
musical accompaniment as I wandered
in to get a look at the gowns worn.
Never had I expected or hoped to see
such vast assemblage, arrayed in such
SO.cmon-like raiment. The color of the
rainbow could not by any stretch of the
imagination be made to cover all Of the
new shades.
One of the first gowns I saw fairly
took my breath away with it's bold
ness of design. It was of a bright
canary-colored soft silk and around the
skirt were three wide bands of black,
outlined with light blue. Two of these
bands, just trife smaller, were used
on the bodice. With the dress was
worn a long Paradise plume of light
blue. With all of it's boldness the
gown was most becoming.
In striking contrast to this was a
gown of silver cloth and liberty satin,
of that dull pastel shade known as
raspberry. The front panel of the dress
was cut from the solid silver and the
overdress was of the raspberry satin,
outlined with a conventional spray de-
sign cut from the silver cloth and ap-
pliqued the effect obtained being of a
rich heavy embroidery done in silver
thread.
Two plump little girls whose striking
resemblance branded them as twins were
the next to attract my attention. They
wore duplicate dresses of some fluffy
material made ankle length. It was
hard to decide whether the color was
gray or mauve, it was one Of those I'M
decided shades The bodices and skirts
were trimmed with a careless sprinkling
of duh gold flowers and at the bottom
of the skirts, one over the other, were
eight ruffies of chiffon in as many
co'ors Of mauve, grey and silver.
A symphony in old world coloring
had skirt of striped old gold and
black with a bodice and overdress of
dotted old rose. With this was carried
a thin gauze scarf of old blue. 1t is
hard to imagine anything more quietly
elaborate than the blending of these
colors, old rose, old blue, dull gold and
black
A gown of plain old rose silk was
made of petal shaped fiounces, one
overlapping the other and the finished
whole resembled nothing so much as
fancy dress costume representing
daisy, and a very attractive old rose
colored daisy it was.
Here the simmer of silver and green
caught my eye and | turned to see
snake-like creature in a gown of nile
green spangled in silver and green
sequins and trimmed with wide bands
of heavy silver. It was made princesse,
and fitted in the same manner as the
skin of the reptile it so nearly resem-
bled.
There were several of these snake
like garments made of both plain gold
and plain silver cloth, and another of a
new share, something between a purple
and a plum color. This was trimmed
with little f1uted ruffies of the same
shade. One of silver cloth had a front
panel of soft brown shade. set in,
and a band of Persian jewels outlining
the neck.
Among the startling combinations
was a robe of London smoke silk with
it's dull coloring relieved by a trim
ming of alternate bands of blue, orange,
chocolate and black; a red and white
stripe Ga regular peppermint stick pat
term made with stripes running up and
down and trimmed with bias folds of
the solid red; most daring combina-
tion of nile green and orange which
made the wearer look like a French
poster and an empire froek of the
brightest canary color with front and
back panel of orange. The wonderful
part of this deciduous fruit dress was
that it was most becoming to the
wearer.
Another startler was a gown of ivory
satin with wide black stripes-one of
those bold patterns which will not
stand for any trimming. 1t was made
a perfectly tight fitting princesse and
was worn without ornaments.
A robe that just shouted Paris was
of beautiful soft silk in light gray
with trimmings of turquoise blue.
orange and black. with which was worn
one of the new little kerchief caps of
orange. This fought for supremacy