The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-03-02


NLS,;>- everyday life, diff
w. 10. cult enough at all
- times-become more
terrible than ever.
The dressmaker refuses to trouble
about our dresses because she Is
worked off her feet
We shall go to midnight mass to
hear heavenly music at the Madeleine
in our evening dresses decorously hid
den under sealsk1n coats or opera
mantels. Parties meet on the steps
of the church copied from an old
pagan temple, and off and away in
motors to the house of friends for the
gay reveillon, where the traditional
black pudding will be served in state
wreathed in holly and mistletoe, for
this Is our pudding. The "Plomb
Pounding Anglaise" will come in for
dessert as q pledge of the entente
cordial, but before 1t will have made
its appearance much foie gras, truf-
fies and fat capons will have inter
vened-then comes the children's
Christmas tree, filed with presents
for young and old, and music, bridge
and dancing will go on until six in the
morning, when our hosts will give
us an early breakfast of chocolate and
brooches, If we don't elect to go off in
a body to the Pre- Catalan! And this
goes on all the month!
Women Have Their Day.
Women are always to the fore in
Paris, but this closing year has been
their apotheosis! We have two plays
written by women which are said to
be wonderful. A novel written by a
poor seamstress, which is a chef
d'oeuvre, and two flying women of
undoubted daringl At the Folies Ber-
ceres the revue shows us a marvellous
presentation of Paris in 1870 The
women are remarkably tall and hand
some, and the wonderful figure OF
Nine. Recamier is revived with won
derful accuracy by beautiful woman.
Regina Badet, well-known dancer at
the Opera Comique, is the heroine of
the hour. She Is now playing in La
Femme ct lie Panttn" at the Theater
Antoine, where her dancing, singing,
acting and playing is causing a per-
feet furore. Regina Badet is a beau
tiful woman, as we'll as a charming
actress. We shall all be copying the
delightful dresses In the play, but we
must send to Seville or Madrid for the
wonderful embroidered crepe de Chine
shawls and fringed filet skirts of the
"Cigarrieres."
Fashions in Skirts.
Will they be wider? Some say yes.
Women with pretty figures say no!
Several of the Paris houses are ma
king them two yards wide, which is
new departure. Perhaps it is only 4
caprice of the dancing season, but we
hear that the very smartest evening
frocks are short. In fact, they only
reach to the ankles. To compensate
for this apparent simplicity we must
have luxurious appointments. l have
just seen a whole dress made of gold
and silver lace. It was inlet with me-
dallions of lace picked out with green
and pink ribbon flowers, which seemed
to be growing out of the medallions!
Worn over cream, this dress would
prove dream. Very smart gowns
have tunics or SUPPLIES of lace, whilst
others are trimmed with deep flounces
of lace. have seen dresses stiff with
jewels which looked as though they
had been made by a jeweler instead
Of dressmaker There is not much
variety in skirts just now-it is more
in the draping and movement of the
tunic that we see a difference. Some
tunics are draped away from the
front, whilst others take another di-
rection. There are the Peplun TUNES
and shawl tunics, but the easiest to
make are the Over-dress tunics which
are gathered at the high waistline and
are trimmed below the knee, some
times lower still, with a wide band
of lace or, passementerie. This falls
over two deep folds of satin. For the
benefit of my readers, l will describe
useful little up-to-date frock which
will serve to use up an old silk or
satin ball gown. The skirt of white
satin will have an over-skirt or tunic
of jet-spotted net, in its turn gathered
into deep band of cream guipure
lace insertion edged with black silk
fringe. The short empire bodice is gath
cred top and bottom, and caught in at
the waist with dull gold cord, which
forms knot ending in tassels at the
back. The same gold cord, which is
quite supple, trims the bodice com
posed of lace yelled in jetted chif-
fOn The fringe of the tunic rests on
a double fold of black satin, and the
kimono sleeves are trimmed with
double fold of satin.
For velvet or cloth costumes we
have skirt with just little fullness
round the waist. which can be curved