East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-11-20

NEW YORK. Nov. 2O.-You'ye
simply got TO be bit crooked If you
are going to be fashionable. The very
newest skirt models are either short
to the shoe tops in front and back
with a fall TO the instep on either side
OK they are up 10 the calf on each
side and to the shoe tops at front and
oack. Some are cut in jagged points
around the bottom and others are fin
ished in scollops while one daring
model advocates that erstwhile slop-
py effect whereby the front barely
touches the boottops and the back
just grazes the heels. Along these
lines is a skirt whose long tunlc edg-
ed with fur hangs TO the heels In back
and just below the knees in front.
Under It. only visible in the front. Is
an underskirt 10 the shoe tops, An
other skirt shown at the recent New
York Fashion Fete was so hung that
the length OF the front was on a line
with the tops OF the band of fur edg-
ing in back. The effect OF a front
view was that OF two rows Of fur with
the whole width OF the fur band
for the back band Of fur was set on
a pair OF tootsies thrust between rows
longer behind.
The ripple skirts are also very good
and invariably fur finished. They are
usually cut circular but some are
shown shirred on hip yoke or even
al the waist line
Never has fur been used so exten.
sively as a dress trimming and the
lovely new shades of putty and sand
are exquisite in combination with the
rich brown Of sable, skunk and the
less expensive dyed squirrel Sand
and putty are the exact shades their
names signify and the former shade
should prove extremely
popular aside from its beauty for II
does take sand these days
10 wear some Of the styles
Black tulle overskirts and sleeves
N black velvet gowns continue to be
4 favorable combination for smart
afternoon costumes cleaning here
md there with ropes or buttons OF
et. Where a relief from such SOM
)erness is desired the sand and putty
shades are combined with the black
With charming results. This color
scheme has at last ousted from SUI
1reme favor the black and white
so long and so dearly
beloved. Black tulle over velvet or
ATTN and heavily bedecked with jet
continues the queen OF evening gowns |
Ilso. Black lace has made a wild |
'ffort to surplant the tulle but as a |
mart fashion authority boldly an
bounced that the lace is not to be |
yorn by any woman under twenty !
light its chances for favor can be |
cen with half an eye are very slight. |
As an inevitable outcome OF the |
leeveless fashion for evening has /
ome the wrlstless of fur with a fluff I.
Il tulle attached to fall over the hand
his dainty little conceit will un-
oubtedly play the good Samaritan to
many an ungainly hand and IN turn
"a wrist this winter.
There is an exciting new shoe or
DOT rather which comes in white grey
r biege buckskin anl laces up the
nner side OF the shoe instead Of the
ront, 1t is chastely plain and light
itting save for saucy little pointed
lip Of black patent kid stuck on the
oe with an effect Of piquancy for all
he world like that of beauty spot
yainst the damask of miladys cheek.
a dashing little debutante wore a
air Of these startling boots in white
uckskin at the Ritz the other day
nd you brought up with a start from
he tip of her pretty toes to the tip
( her pretty nose only to find that
was daintily busted with rouge on
g retroussee end in the very latest
iodel
Another pair Of comic opera boots
ported on the same occasion were of
II over black patent kid They laced
p the front to a height half way OF
lie calf where they ended in a sway
lg black silk tassel.
Some of the qalntest little black
atent kid dancing slippers have
right red heels. With this hectic
'uch to her pedal extremities and
er nasal apendage milady is certain
going to extremes for her bit of
olor these days. Eth what!
Outside of its use for fence posts.