Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-02

- or tho modes-one OF those
IMN64WI Partisan journalists who, like
- all Parisians, n d c ri II &
women's fashions of import
ance, dare to write of them in super,atives
and EXPLANATIONS, sing OF them lyrically,
and ere unashamed Of their extravagant
admiration and emotional praise. They
are so lovely. those evening coats, built up
in such wonderful materials. fashioned in
such delicious co.or harmonies, flowing in
such graceful lines. a
IL the frock draperies are not always an
unadulterated success, the evening cloaks
at least are draped in ways beyond re-
proach. There are coats and capes on
simple Ines, of course, some OF them ex-
tremely chic and pretty because OF ma
terials and color schemes; but the most
wonderful evening coats Of satin, ve,vet,
crepe, brocade, chiffon, ETC., show at least
a little movement and some of them are
intricately draped.
The brocades are so old that they are
altogether new as coat materials and the
designers have handled them very cleverly.
Ons<tone stuffs with crepe or satin ground
ana broche velvet design, stuffs as light
Vhd supp.e az the soft satin itself are
4nong the favorites for the elegant coat
ahd when trimmed with fur are exceed
inAy handsome garments,
Often gorgeous metallic embrolderies also
enter into the design and the fronts when
they fan open show glimpses OF metallic
lace frills facing these fronts, Brocsdes
into which q CLINT Of metal is woven fig
ure too among the handsome imported
coats. Silver and gray, silver and rose,
gold and the greenish blues, gold and
green, all these and other combinations
are seen and so cleverly do the metallic
and silked lines melt into one another that
the coats though superb are by no means
so barbaric as they sound.
one costly imported model was made of
a brocade which recalled the old Italian
brocades that one finds in the exquisite
old priest robes cherished in Italian So
cleties' The ground was a deep ivory that
looked as though it had yellowed with
passing years, over this surface ran a
floral design in many soft faded tones
looking as though embroidered on the sur
face Instead OF woven in. Here and there
through the design ran a mere CLEAN Of
gold,
This rich brocade, as mellow as old ivory.
was supple enough to drape softly at the
sides and fell in graceful ripping folds.
No trimming vas used save a bordering
band OF dark fur which gave to the faded
tones Of the brocade increased harmony
and warmth
Less complicated In color scheme but
one of the loveliest coats We have seen
was the blue and brown model OF the
' sketch, Blue and brown. we say; but that
does not give the faintest idea Of the de-
llcious coloring.
The supple satin crepe ground OF the
coat material was blue. an indescribably
soft, silveTy, gTayish blue for which We
do not find a definite name, over this
surface ran a design in brown velvet. a
brown as subtle as the blue. a brown
that Is hardly brown yet Is more brown
than gray, a smoky brown too light for
taupe and with a touch OF yellow In IL,
4 yet too gray to be classed among the
: various yellow browns.
Any combination more exactly right than
that brown and that blue e would be hard
TO find, and an artist who saw il stopped
and did humble reverence, raving as artists
will al INES, though the ravihg does not
lNays correspond with what Fashion ex-