Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-04
or at most, slightly rounded of, as in
the suit Of checked fabric pictured to-

or, at most. slightly rounded OF, as in
the suit Of checked fabric pictured to-
day
This admirable little suit is a ready
made model from manufacturer OF high
class tailored wear for women, and its
conservative type. graceful lines and
dainty style make it most attractive,
while it is also thoroughly in accordance
with the spring mandates Of Madame
Mode.
The suit is built Of brown and white
mixture-brown and tan being particu-
larry fashionable now, and at least half
the tailored wear on the Riviera being
in pale brown tones. The checked suit
has semi-fitting short coat with fronts
slashed away below the waist line to give
slight cutaway effect. The skirt is
straight and not very wide, and has a
tunfc, slashed away at the bottom to
match the line Of the coat. and trimmed
like the coat with two buttons and long,
slanting buttonholes made of satin. The
coat is prettily trimmed with two shades
of tan cloth-one light champagne and
the other q brown matching the brown
in the checked fabric. Loops of satin
tons on coat front and skirt complete
the collar and cuff trimming. With this
brown suit are worn silk gloves in cham
payne tint, these creamy tan gloves be-
ing more fashionable now than pure
white ones.
On the Riviera women are wearing
champagne-colored silk stockings, en-
broidered in pale tan, and embroidered
silk gloves exactly matching the stock
ings. Black hosiery is considered bour-
geois except when frock and slippers are
black. Even with patent leather street
boots the pale-tinted stockings are worn.
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the proper shade. Sometimes the boots
are In brown tones also, but this Is
usually when the costume also is in tan
or brown. French women affect very
frivolous footwear on the street, and
American women this season are follow
toned gaiter tops of cloth In delicate
shades being quite the usual thing with
staid tailored suits of even dark mate
rial-not that one can call even the quiet
however; and the pretty boots seem quite
in keeping With the neat and dainty cos
tunes.
Light tan mohair is something that
has not been seen in fashionable circles
for some years. Mohair, with it's lus-
trous weave and the new supple. pliable
texture in which it may be had these
days. is always much used by French
tailors in spring and summer; but of
late, white, cream and navy have been
the COIOrS most favored anu lHe eAlTdoT-
binary craze for tans and light browns
this spring comes with quite a surprise.
Khaki brown-or tan" for the word
brown" is not used In Paris in connec-
ton with any Of the new spring shades
is the color Of colors in Paris now. and
the woman who is selecting a suit for
southern wear cannot do better than
to select a khaki mohair of the new chif-
fon weight and in the wonderfully soft
and pleasing tone of tan which goes
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A suit of this nature, built by Laborde,
has been brought over for a late February
trousseau. The skirt, which measures
fifty inches around the bottom, is sashed
to the hips at either side, where the
seams come, and all the way up these
deep slashes are set small ball buttons
in old ivory finish with loop buttonholes
of cream silk. The slash is left open at
one side for about six inches from the
bottom and the boots-a very important
detail with a slashed skirt-are of fawn
colored leather with gaiter tops of cream
color having fiat buttons in old ivory
finish-like the buttons on the skirt. But
this is not all about the skirt. At front
and back hang long tabliers, Joined at the
hip and rounding away in apron fashion
to show the rows of buttons at either
side.
This double tablier-tunic falls almost
to the skirt hem at front and back and
relieves the plain straightness of the mar
row skirt. The coat is very dashing
little cutaway. sloping from two old ivory
finish buttons just below the bust TO
sharply pointed coat tail which falls well
over the hips at the back. Above the
two buttons. in front. are long, graceful
revers, faced with cream agaric on which
are embroidered oriental motifs. This
khaki coat has a lining of pale corn
colored satin, the warm yellow tint har-
monizing pleasantly with the tan shade
of the mohatr when the coat is thrown
over a chair The clever tailor pays
great deal of attention to the question of
coat Innings and sometimes very daring
shades are used with remarkably good
effect.
The collar facing of agaric just re-
ferred to in the I1aborde suit of khaki
mohair is an interesting detail of