Evening journal., 1914-11-30
WOMEN IN
first fashion FETE
Old and New Costumes to
be Exhibited at the Cen
fury Club
DANCING TO
FOLLOW SHOW

At the New Century Club on Thurs
day night the city's first fashion fete
will be held. The latest fashion de-
signs from Paris and America, will be
shown. This fashion fete follows the
first one given in this country at the
Ritz Carlton, in New York, this month,
and is two weeks ahead Of the fashion
fete to be given in Philadelphia by so
ciety women there. Wilmington Is
thus ahead of Philadelphia in this
newest of fashionable ideas.
The fete will open with a short re-
view of fashions since 1S14-"A Cen
tury of Fashion"
Miss Mary Bringhurst, Mrs. Charles
Copeland Mrs. John Bancroft, Mrs. E.
Tatnall Warner, Mrs. Samuel Ban
/ croft, Mrs. w. X. DUPONT, Mrs. w. w.
Laird. Mrs Joseph NJ. Pusey, and Miss
! Sarah II. Crocker, of Boston. have
/ loaned for the occasion some beauti-
/ full old family costumes in bewildering
variety. and Wilmington will see the
/ fashions evolve from the tight skirt
and high waist of 1914 to the crinolines
of 1860, TO the tight skirt of 1913 This
short review will give the audience
]
ion, and prepare the way for the dis
play Of the very latest 1914 models.
For these newest models the fete
is indebted to Wanamaker, Bonwit
and Teller Kennard and Company.
Rienzi. TomlinsOn Dare. Hagedorn.
Harris, Rosen, Hudson, and Bassett,
and other fashionable importers and
designers. These models are the
very newest ones. a few from Paris
since the outbreak of the war, others
by American designers. Those who
desire to know the latest develop
ments of fashion will find valuable
models which have never before been
shown. Afternoon and evening
dresses and evening wraps will be
Z shown in the most exquisite and
/ novel designs The living models
/, will be society women, and they will
not only appear upon the stage of the
New Century Club on Thursday even
e ing, but they will walk down the
I aisle so that the texture and detail oi
p their gowns can be seen, and will
:, promenade on part of the floor re-
:, served for the show. Mrs. II. B
Thompson will wear a Callot gowr
I and Mrs. Henderson Weir will veal
d a Rienzi model.
T After the fashion fete is over dane
t ing will begin. Mrs. George A. Elliot
has charge of the music, and ther'
= will be old-fashioned music suitable
e to the old time costumes, and mOderl
e French music suitable to the moderi
S gowns, and stirring dance tunes later
!. Refreshments will be served b.
e Hanna.
- The fete and dance is for the benef
j. of the West End Reading Room, whic
r has always been the pioneer, not onl
g in forms of entertainment, but in neigl
IS borhood work The West End. whiC
now administers two neighbOrhoc
houses and two free Fairgrounds, ha
the following record to its credit;
Original neighborhood house, first {
its kind in Delaware, 1889.
, First free kindergarten in Delawar
1892.
First free playground in Delawar
1904.
l. First Chautauqua brought to Whining
Is ton, 1912.
is First BETTER Babies Show in Delt
p ware, 1913.
a Italian neiqhborhood house. first of il
f. kind among our foreign population, 1871
l. First baby clinic with visiting nurs
j. 1914.
1f $50 visits made by clinic nurse
It July and August, 1914.
le 03 children daily in kindergartens.
le Glasses in sewing, cooking, basketr
1t music, art, English, gymnasium.
y. Two troops Boy Scouts.