The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-18
IMP b IT EXQUISITE EVENING GOWNS WORN IN FRANCE
Color aronies of Costumes Designed for Nine Edmond
Rostand--Long Transparent Sleeves Feature of
New Tea Gowns and Dinner Dresses

| the crown with a number of fiat dahlias
| in various shades of red and purple.
A charming little novelty is the bowl
| toque covered with plush or velvet and
| trimmed with clusters of fat roses, the
flowers being arranged neatly all around
the edge OF the toque. These little hats
have no hrims and they are worn
pressed down on the forehead
A leading Paris miiliner is making n
curious hat trimming which consists Of
conventional flowers made Of beaded
and pailletted tulle. The tulle Is shaped
into petals and supported on very fine.
invisible wires. ! cannot say that l ad-
mire this style OF trimming. but 1t GER
tainly is uncommon
The very latest beauty veil is cob
web mesh in Fragonard blue dotted
over irregularly with black velvet
patches. The milliner who invented this
veil says the face powder which ac-
companies it must be OF a strong
Rachel" tint and that the eyelids must
be touched with dark pink rouge; like
wise the lips. OF course It follows that
such a make up looks quite unnatural
but II is undoubtedly attractive. The
golden yellow face powder gives the
skin particularly creamy appearance
under the dull blue veil and the touch
Of vivid color on eyelids and lips puts
/ the finishing touch to an effective pic
! ture.
/ Another successful beauty veil is
made OF heliotrope spiders web net
/ powdered with white pin dots and fin
ished with two large black velvet
patches; the latter being so arranged
that they fall at the corner of the right
/ eye and on one cheek. Heliotrope net
/ or tulle powdered with black and white
+ pin dots is extremely fattering to the
! skin. There Is a certain shade of pale
rose pink tulte which gives good results
i in the same circumstances, but to fair
compilations the transparent. heliotrope
+ cloud almost always proves becoming,
/ For ordinary use there Is no prettier
i face veil than the length Of fine white
/ tulle thickly dotted with black chenille
! pin spots. II the tnlle Is of a really
good quality the Veil can he washed
again and again. White Russian net
wells in silk are more fashionable than
ever. but nowadays the design on the
border is not allowed to dlsfigure the
| face; It is rather narrow and not al all
E.obtrusive These whit net wells. look
white felt or velvet shapes
Some of the new buttons for tailored
suits are made of embroidered leather.
Very small beads and fine silks are used
for the embroideries. and the colors
chosen are so wen harmonized that
even on close inspection IL is difficult
to say how the button has been made.
have seen some admirable buttons OF
thls kind used on nut brown cloth coats
and skirts.
The leather. which was In reality
soft glove kid. was almost entirely COW
cred with embroidery. Here and there
little corners of plain leather gave
strength to the design and the silks
were in several shades OF dark brown
and purple The tiny beads were iri.
descent, and were so small that the,
made a fiat surface with the silk EN-
brolderies. These buttons were larg
and they decorated coat of the Loui.
! Nv. order, which was finished off with
square sailor made of dark mink TIL,
whole suit was supremacy elegant ant
} yet simple in detail
For white serge and cloth suits ,vor,
buttons are In great demand Some o
these are carved and inset with silver
others are quite plain. I have seel
ivory buttons trimmed In rose diamonds
, but these are not suitable for tailore,
suits, They would look we'll IL intro
| duced on an elaborate visiting costtru
which consisted Of black chiffon velve
skirt and a white charmeuse Louis XIV
. coat.