Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-24
ciai Correspondence of The Star.
BY ANNE RITTENHOUSE.
PARIS. August IA.

n ARTS is never deserted by the
Americans from April until No
vember, and although this month
is socially dead to the French. 1t is.
quite alive to those from the states who
are buying clothes. sightseeing. dining
we'll and otherwise spending their money.
The American buyers are all here. as
many of the openings have taken place
in the minor houses and the large ones
will open tomorrow. The air is full of
the talk of clothes and one can get
clear idea of what may be worn i'll the
near future by what is worn in the pres
ent.
At the Ritz it is warm enough TO have
ones dinner and coffee on the terrace,
while the orchestra has been transplant
ed from the long red hall to the open
air under the trees that seem To thrive
Well in that small inclosure. The French
have such a way of Stimulating open-air
effects, and they do not waste three
inches of ground where there is a pos
sibility of Transforming it into a garden
Would that the Americans had their gift!
::
One always sees a handful of celebrities
on this terrace any night, and whether
the women are German or American.
Italian or Russian, they put OH the very
best decoliete gown they own and take
out at least few of the jewels from
their boxes 1t is in the air-this wishing
to dress well in Paris. You may slip
through the other cities with a coat suit
and fanciful blouse, but not Paris.
The other night there the German
Princess of .Schleswig- Holstein wore a
wonderful gown of white lace touched
up here and there with cobweb silver
lace. Whatever there was of her bodice
in front was covered my huge black
octopus made of twisted black satin
stretched to its uttermost ends and
caught with brilliants. On each wrist
she wore a black bracelet one of velvet
and one of enamel. Both We're caught
with a crest outlined in diamonds. In
her very black sair she wore four dia-
mond pins. and the effect of the con-
slant intermingling of black and white
was fascinating. Remember the black
bracelets. They are quite smart and fit
the arms closely just where the. hand be-
gins.
Mrs. Josephine Widener also wore a
white gown draped with silver lace. Her
tunic was not wired in that new method
to give the effect of {; ballet dancer. but
hung rather closely to her slim young
figure 1 heard an American behind me
say, after looking these two celebrities
well over: Il am very glad ! had silver
lace put on that gown of mine"
K 4
Nine. Claire. who is famous design
CT. and who always wears clothes that
are popularized in America two weeks
after she appears in them, wore at the
Ritz for dinner a gown Of white brocad-
ed satin mixed with plain white satin
and tight bodice, cut like low jumper,
of black chiffon, stretched over the flesh.
The girdle was black and there was a
huge black velvet flower in front. As she
walked the skirt opened in front above
one ankle. but the full drapery placed it
quite apart from the ordinary Slashed
skirt
The designers are showing most at
tractive frocks in taffeta regardless of
the Americans criticisms against them.
and one sees them at al the smart
places in the form of half low dinner
gowns.
Paviowa. the Russian dancer, wore an
excessively simple one the other after
noon for tea. 1t was dark blue, with
short narrow skirt, showing patent
leather slippers that were laced across
the insteps. The panniers were not ex-
ira large, but enough to give the new
effect of exploiting that line Of the figure
between the knees and the hip, and
making it quite the largest IN the Sill
houette.
The bodice had round chemlsette OF
white batiste and a row OF small red vel
vet buttons down the front The long
wrinkled sleeves were touched with scar
let in the same way. Her hat was black
brought well down over the face. quite
small with n most demure DOW across
the front. She wore the Russian colors. You
see, which she has mothered IN Paris. II
was from her dancing that the designers
got their ideas for combined red and blue
In every possible way. Last summer at
the casino at Deauville the designers We're
making color notes all the time the Rus
sian ballet was performing.
IT is not difficult to trace the link be-
tween the fashionable gown OF woman
of the hour and the natiTlal costume OF
| the Russians when one happens to be in
| Paris at this season. / was struck with
this a day or two ago. when a woman
came into the shaded courtyard of thu
loose blouse of dark blue taffeta beltet
high, with a sash of Cossack red folde,
over once in the back and had two shor
ends pendant.
That same night, at the FOlles Bergeres
where the cars stringed orchestra /
playing the man who does the Slavi
dances, and is n huge, dark, half-wil,
looking person, wore exactly the sam
blouse with a red sash. 1t is very inter
es,ing to get the original and the cop.
that close together. and put your finge
exactly on the spot where the designer go
her inspiration.