Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-02

of the sheerest weave. It is made with
a moderately full tunic over an under
skirt. which shows but couple OF
inches below it. The tunic is made
with shallow box pleats attached to
yoke by covered cord of the wolfe.
The raglan sleeves of the bodice are
also put on with covered cords of the
material. and the surplice folds of the
bodice open over vestee of embroi-
dered white organde, which has a
large sailor collar. also embroidered
around the edge, which turns over the
bodice in the back.
Deep cuffs of embroidered white or
candle finish the long sleeves.
Miss Julia Meyer. daughter of the for
mer Secretary of the Navy, who is Wis
itng here. wears
Miss Julia Meyer dark blue
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Roman striped taffeta.
The suit is made with a full tunic of
the striped taffeta over a narrower I'M
derskirt of serge, and there is a short
bolero jacket bordered with black SOU
tache braid, put on in a scroll-lilSe pat
tern. The jacket opens over a vest of
the striped taffeta, and a black satin
girdle and collars and cuffs finish the
suit. with which Miss Meyer wears a
close fitting black straw hat with far
ing windmill bows of black satin rib
bon.
Mrs. Charles J. Bell is wearing
smart suit of black twill. made with
short, flaring walking skirt, and a nor
folk Jacket with wide bow pleats, three
In number. down the back. The pleat is
are two inches and half in width and
the belt is the same width,
She with IT a large flat CROWN
ed black sailor hat of glazed rough
straw combined with black ribbed silk
the edge of the crown and the edge of
the brim being of the straw
Mrs. Fortescue, who accompanies her
mother almost everywhere she goes
wears a suit of hunters green rough
faced cloth, made with long coat reach
ing almost to the knees, and her hat
Is a Belgian toaue of brown straw, a
shade between tobacco brown and tan,
soft. quill-like straw resembling the
so-called "barnyard straw with
daisies or dahlias of the same straw
close UP against the sides of the hat for
trimming.
Miss Ruth Hitchcock wears a natty
little suit of putty cloth. made with
short peplum to the jacket, the pep
lum being longer on the sides than the
back. where it scoops up a bit. OF
course there is belt and it is of tan
leather reaching simply across the back
and being finished at either end with a
large button. Her hat is small black
straw with narrow brim and band en-
ribbon with clusters of tiny rosy apples
here and there.
Mrs. Victor Kaufman has dark
blue cloth suit made along unusual
lines and
Mrs. Victor Kauffmann's particularly
Dark Blue Cloth. smart IL is
long coat. with straight lines that are
very becoming to the wearer The skirt
has front panel of bottle-blue beaded
chiffon. and on either side of the coat
skirt are inch-wide bands of bead trim
ming in tiny beads of blue and white
and red.
A unique feature of the suit is the in
PRODUCTION of satin bands on the front
of the upper part of the coat. the cloth
being slashed diagonally a little below
each shoulder, where the bands are in
serted and crossed and are brought
down below the waist and there enter
other slashed Sits edged on either side
with buttons. There is a little vestee
of handkerchief linen trimmed down
the center with a double row of tiny
linen buttons.
Sometimes Mrs. Kaufman wears
with this suit a black mushrooms shaped
hat trimmed with wheat and two cIus-
tiers of pink roses. and her hat is a
blue sailor with wired bow of blue
ribbon and various gay posies, and
sometimes she dons a cerise straw, an
oblong shape trimmed with purple and
pink roses nesting in the foliage of a
wreath of leaves.
Mrs. Tracy. wife of Capt Tracy, who
has just returned to Washington to
live, to the pleasure of their large circle
of friends, wears a dark blue serge
suit with pleated skirt and hip-length
jacket trimmed with collar and cuffs
of ribbed tan silk. Her hat is a blue
sailor, the same shade as the suit, en-
circled with band of rose-pink rib
bon.
Miss Sheridan also wears a blue serge
suit, with which she wears small
round, dark blue
Miss Sheridan's hat trimmed with
Hat Is Becoming. w Dipe SILK SIX movers s, e,
ems, and a facing of deep rose silk,
making it very becoming.
Mrs. Morgan Hill wears a suit of