Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-24
In the Land of Fashion.
By Anne Rittenhouse.

taxi And. by the way, while writing
of motor coats, it might be interesting to
insert just here that long army capes
that hang full from the shoulders are ar
irving on the scene. In Europe they
call them students capes. Women used
TO wear them long ago when golf arrived
In America as novel form of taking eX-
ercise, and it is probable that they will
soon have comfortable place in the
realm of clothes.
or course whenever tan becomes the
fashion it brings its brown sister along
with It, and Paris is already laying much
stress upon the recrudescence of the
darkest seal tone. Many of the best
afternoon gowns, and some for evening
as we'll. are made in seal brown instead
or black. The color is an exceedingly
d1ffcult one to catch and the Divers are
rather pluming themselves for having
done 1t, and their middlemen. the dress
makers, are busy Offering 1t to the public
One dlrectoire afternoon costume of
seal brown has a skirt OF corded silk
draped across the figure and caught up
into five folds above the knees: the coat
is OF seal brown plush and is sharply cut
away from the waist line Just where the
two reyers end. and hangs in two tails
down the back to the knees. This edge
is all finished with Hudson seal. which
also forms the revers we'll as the high
Beau Brummel collar.
There is a wrapped stock of yellow
is caught with a diamond circle in front
and hangs in two full tabs outside the
revers. The sleeves are long and bell
shaped and finished with deep cuffs that
nearly reach the elbows. No wonder the
tiny round barrel muff of war times is
coming into favor again when one must
wear the immense cuffs that are now
added to the sleeves,
Copper gold satin is to be an exceed
ingly faShiona BILE fabric and there is no
Ifa infn
derful afternoon gowns Let us hope
they will not be worn by the wrong
women.
Early spring clothes will not be con-
fined to brown. The manufacturers have
already put out a few brilliant colors and
have tried to pOpularize them by baptiz-
ing them with well known names There
Is Nell rose, named after the daughter
or the fresident-elect. and Eleonora Sears
blue, Kitty Gordon green, Vanderbilt blue
and Balkan pink. 1t is now the Ameri-
can belief in business that giving a thing
a name helps to impress it upon the pub
lie. which is trick that the French orig
mated long ago with their new gowns
1T is a wonder that no one has ever
written up the elaborate process of no.
menclature in the Partisan designing
houses. for 1t is an art in itself. Every
gown has its name and is known by it
throughout the season. The more daring
the dressmaker the more daring the
names, which Is natural. Possibly Lucille
and Premet have gone farther into this
art than any other designers. for they
have ceased to call a frock by proper
name, but baptize it with a phrase.
49,, "A Night in Egypt, Sunset on the
Afternoon in Italy" Ecstasy" are some
of the names given by these houses that
come most readily to mind
The Americans do not bother about
christening their gowns. They really have
no right to do it. because they buy their
frOcks as they do their dogs. with a name
attached. But the manufacturers are
naming their fabrics. and. although they
do not go in for absurdities, they are
strong for social personages, which the
French dislike.
The one disturbing rumor concerning
new colOrs is that all the blues will be
worn except navy blue, and this is the
one tone most generally becoming and
useful. The new blues are deep and
brilliant, and it is probable that they will
have to be toned down by black.
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