The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-26

with several new gowns to remedy the
dereets in a depleted wardrobe. Put a
frock down and turn to say good NORM
ing to someone and 1t may be bought by
your next door neighbor, so everyone is
excitedly buying. The tailor, who looks
rather like the robust tenor in a comic
opera is the center of big whirlpool of
shoppers. all of whom are trying to inn
press upon him the importance and me-
eessity of immediate service. As he
sauntered in from luncheon the other day
the view of behind the scenes had
reached almost the shrieking uproar Of
an afternoon tea. A little brunette,
pinned up in a velvet coat. was waiting
in one OF the small dressing rooms, and
ever and anon wall was heard. the
substance of which was. "will somebody
fit my coat?"
And as her moans were finally hushed
by the attentions of the placid and eff
cient tailor. a gray coated matron with
a Schumann-IIeink figure sailed in and
demanded a new width in her modish
gray skirt. 1T may be stylish. but /
just can't step, that's all. When I'm
too old to get about TIL be willing to sit
at home in skirt that fits me like tho
peeling on peach, but Tn not ready to
risk life and limb in a thing like this
while can help it, The well tailored
back of prominent lawyers wife was
bending over a fluffy green thing that
she expects to wear to a wedding next
month in Tennessee. and another lawyer S
wife, wearing a bottle green broadcloth
With Persian lamb trimmings was look
Ing at a separate skirt to accompany a
stunning last year coat, and finding sat-
fsfaction in gray checked garment of
graceful lines. Verify the law must be
a profitable profession in Birmingham. ,
And a bride-elect was choosing her
travelling gown from an array of lovely
taupe suits all quite pretty enough to
produce the little pucker Of uncertainty
between her brows.
Formal FrOcks
Another little bride-elect who is going
away to live was choosing the afternoon
and evening gowns for her trousseau. She
had slipped on the striking looking bro
cade and fur costume that adorns this
page 1t Is one of the shades of brown
so light as to suggest the champagne
tint, and the skirt, slit just trifle in
front, has a tunic of velvet brocaded chif-
fon bordered in a narrow bit of black
fur In the decollette bodice is intro
duced layer upon layer of filmy silk lace
and another trife of black fur next her
white skin was tremendously becoming
The evening dress which she liked best
is heavy blue charmeuse, caught up
close about the feet and having q funny
little pointed train. The overdress is nov
Ell to the point of eccentricity-at least so
in the back, where the Persian chiffon
tunic is caught just below the girdle in a
point which terminates in a tassel The
soft laces introduced about the shoulders
and the gold embroideries on the blue
chiffon overskirt make this one of the
most becoming of the more costly even-
ing gowns.
very formal reception gown which is
quite as ultra as anything to be found
in the Birmingham shops is an imported
costume exhibited at this store. It's bo-
dice carries a hint of the autumn woods,
for its simple construction is of chiffon
hand painted in chrysanthemum and fol-
iage Of tsn autumn reds. browns and
colds The skirt is built Of black velvet
f.