The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-06

Inc color OF Nine. BakmeteiI SoWH is
deep fruit purple. the figure small
conventional pattern showing delicately
curved lines in high satin finish and the
costume all in one tone. The skirt Is
| semi-draped, with all fuliness between
| belt and knees, and not very much even
there The coat is very smart, and while
showing the line Mrs. Depew has been
waiting for for years, is not SO pro-
nounced as 70 be a reproach to all other
women whose coats are cut on the more
frequent straight lines.
The hat was tricone, neither large
nor small, of black straw. with soft
skeleton plumage as its trimming.
Mime, Bakhmeteff, like the great ladies
of her adopted country, wears handsome
Jewels on all formal occasions, large
clustered earrings of diamonds COM
pIeting her smart toilet of Wednesday.
The new mustard colored falIIe DC
laine already has two rasnIonapie spon'
sors IN smart circles IN washington.
Mrs. Livingston Hunt is wearing q
tailored gown of this kind showing new
lines as well as new colorIng, the for
mer in the hip length coat.
Mrs. Hunts skirt shows little departure
from the best skirts of the past winter.
All the innovations or lame rasnIor
in her spring offerings appear to be
above the waist line, or at least above
the hips.
The skirts. whether of the tailor va.
riety, or the more elaborate demi-
toilets or dinner gowns, continue much
the same as in the past winter. There
are no plain skirts for any nour or the
day. 1t will take a strong minded wom-
All to adhere to her determination of
wearing last years gowns unless these
were made In an advance style.
Mrs. Hunt wears with her spring suit
one of the new rwo-toned rucnes. a
darker shade OF tan or mustard combined
with blue.
Miss Leitia Montgomery is also the
possessor OF one OF the latest tailor
gowns of this peculiar mustard SHADE.
Here is a jaunty little suit with a round
single breasted jacket, showing an ex-
tremely smart chiffon podlce. Tne trim
ming of the jacket is selt-colored braid.
delicately applied. Miss Montgomery
wears with this. one of the new round
shapes in Milan straw matching her
gown In color, with It's trimming a tall
penache or flowers In single tone or
carnation pink, not a twilight carnation.
but one of the deep old-fashion spicy
kind that just escapes being red.
A noticeable feature of spring, which
each year grows more important in
Washington. is the appearance of a
greater elegance in evening dress than
has ever been known, except In the
height of the mid-winter season. The
time when a fashionable woman at the
Capital wore out her last winters din
ner gowns in the post-Lenten season
has gone by, not only for the ultra
fashionable. but for everybody identified
with the smart dinner-going, dancing
world
One fashionable dressmaker, whose
patronage is largely Of resident bellies,
is turning out Chevy Chase dinner gowns
almost every day in the week, while the
direct Importation from Paris. London Or
Vienna, seems to have fallen off very
little in the last six months.
These new creations show an EN-
phattc color note. The plain white satin,
the serviceable black tulle that formerly
dio duty in demi-season have been sue
ceeded by brand new pinks. and blues
and colds in half a dozen rich materials
Mrs. Joseph Holt Gaines. wife OF the
former Representative of West Virginia,
who is being much entertained by her
old friends in Washington, wore, at a
recent dinner party. a combination OF plain
lilacs on a white ground.
These springtime flowers were true to
nature in color and size and were woven
in a conventional, delicate line that lent
itself to forming the new separate
train, as well as part Of the close-fitting
round skirt. The plain satin formed the
bodice, with a wide soft girdle and enc
broad sash end, the latter falling down
the front of the skirt.
The short sleeves were of old lace,
which also formed long pointed effect
on the back Of the surplice bodice, as
well as a slight drapery in front.
Two extremely smart blue satin gowns
in totally different shades were worn ut
the National Theater on Monday evening,
when one of the most fashionable audi
enceS, as well as one of the best gowned
filled the house.
Mrs. Cary Langhorn and Mrs. William
F. NJ. Sewers were the young matrons.
adjoining boxes, without conflicting in
the least with the color effect of their
parties.
Mrs. Langhorns gown was OF the old
fashion baby blue along the already
mentioned line that shows its wearer to
have waist where a waist ought to be,
and only a slightly draped bodice with
short sleeves, the latter being Of lace
ending half way between the shoulder
and elbow.
Mrs. Langhorn's gown also showed q
slight change in the cut OF the decollete,
being somewhat higher than the average
in a curved line, which was neither
round nor pointed.
The skirt showed its Paris hall mark
by the extremely we'll hung train and
only slight drapery.
Young Mrs. Sewers gown was Of dark
,r blue. and in extremely graceful lines.
Her pointed bodice, much lower in the
back than in front, was largely OF white
ace.
Mrs Sewers bodice was also close
sitting, with is close, pointed lines show
ng it to be strictly 1913 model. A
further color note was struck in this
costume by the scarf of liberty satin, in
one of the art reds, which Mrs. Sewers
carried, but did not find necessary to use
1t the play.
Mrs. Edward Bonnaffon, who, with
oaymaster Bonnaffon, has just returned
% take up her residence at the Wash
ngton Navy Yard, was another young
natron in smart attire at the National
IN Monday night, where she was well
coined by a number of old friends
Mrs. Bonnaffon. looking quite as chic
Is in her girlhood days, when as Miss
Gertrude CIaggett she was one OF the
bellies of resident Wash
ngton, wore a gown Of white satin, with
unic of lace and chiffon. the latter a
vivid green, the former one Of the new
French laces especially adaptable to the
drapery.
The top of Mrs. Bonnaffon's gown fol-