The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-21

INTO the CONSTRUCTION OF evening toll
cites, but the extravaganza displayed
in the latest models from the Paris
shops are almost incredible.
Many of the new evening frocks
are exceedinly simple in line. A
straight falling or slightly draped tun-
ic surmounts clinging narrow un-
derrobe, and some sort of fichu soft
ems the bodice. Beyond that, color
scheme and material furnish original
ity and charm and the completed
whole is extremely likable if not daz-
cling or striking. There are lovely
things in white as we'll as in color,
more attractive white evening frocks
than people have been accustomed to
see in recent seasons. There ade
quantities of white and black or black
and white too, though black and silver
seems to have been substituted large
ly for the more hackneyed black and
white
Only skillful artist can handle dra-
perry successfully and many of the ev-
ening models that have a simple air
owe their cachet to unerring certain
ty in the management of drapery.
One tunic is perhaps superimposed up
on another and another upon that, yet
the lines and tones are blended into
a harmonious whole, with no effect
of patchwork The disastrous results
of an attempt at such effects by a
bungling hand may be seen wherever
the cheap, pretentious models are
gathered together, but the great
French masters are revelling in an OPP
portunity of handling such wonderful
fabrics as this generation has not be-
fore known.
Silver lace of all kinds, silver en-
broideries of all kinds are used in the
black and silver combinations. For
instance the breath of silver lacing
swathing tunic fashion black satin
frock from a great Partisan house is
a courteous open design of silver fringe.
1t forms or covers the entire left side
of the decollette bodice and the right
side of the bodice is entierly of pale
pink chiffon draped fichuwise over
the shoulder and bordered by very
narrow fringe corresponding with the
wide fringe of the tunic.
All the famous makers have a lik-
ing for touch. of pale pink chiffon
or tulle about the bodice of the black
evening frock and indeed with bodic-
es other than black. Frequently this
flesh pink is used that it gives from a
distance rather startling effect of
extreme decolletage to frock which
is in reality discreetly high. But this
is not always the case and there is no
denying that the soft delicate pink
softens the pronounced color tone of
the frock where it nears the face
more subtly and quite as becomingly
as the white or cream to which wo-
men have been more accustomed.
The black velvet evening gown will
be a noticeable feature of the winter
season, and some of the handsomest
models in this material have their re-
lief only in the flesh pink tulle or chit
fon refeddel to and in embroidery of
brilliants. Worth loves this scheme
and has turned out some exceedingly
beautiful models of this type. The
velvets, both plain and brocaded,
when used in evening models are con-
fined chiefly to the skirt section of
the model, rising on the bodice to a
high waist line or in bib fashion,
while the draped bodice is of tulle or
lace or chiffon. In this way one
avoids any cumbersome effect and
tha offnof IF tho
velvet.
The brocade velvets are beautifully
made and charming beyond descrip-
ton, but however light and supple,
they almost invariably give an inn
preston of heaviness and excessive
warmth when used in bodice, and
this combination of the sheer bodice
drapery with the velvet skirt is hap
py and becoming. The plain one tone
velvets can more successfully be used
Tor at least part of the bodice than
can the brocades, and some of the
velvet models show one
side of the bodice in the velvet drap-
skirt, while the other and underside
of the bodice is in lace or tulle. A
V-shaped decolletage or a V-shape
partially filled in usually results from
this arrangement and from most of
the popular fichu draperies and so is
much seen, but sometimes the cross
drapery by which a bodice and skirt
are brought into one covers only a
small section of the bodice, leaving
the decolletage round or square.
Almost all colors are admissible
for afternoon gowns, but there is still
a decided preference for the darker
shades A great deal of dark blue is
used-dark blue chiffon with dark
blue taffeta, drake's-neck-blue silk
wolfe over satin and soft dark blue
silks with white satin collars and re-
vers, and so forth. Black and white
is almost as popuar for afternoon
wear as it is for evening. One sees
some afternoon dresses
in old gold, old rose and one or two of
the leaf and grape greens. The light
er blues-tile, powder, lizard, nakeen
and water shades-are also used to
some extent, but blue and black are
decidedly the smartest colors.
For evening the range of colors is
wider A great deal of all white is
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