The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-16
DRESS AND SUGGESTION
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Jade green empire gowns are ad- vanced at the Paris theatres, where many of the gowns Americans will wear are now being shown.

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 New York, August 15.-The first empire has a seductive allure for the people who invent fashions. The mind in visualizing this style, thinks rather of Mime. Reca- mier, the lovely wife of the rich French banker than of Mime. Sael the daughter of the Swiss-Irish financier.
 The fair Racamer was not more con spicuously modest than many of the other "merveilleusex," but the gentleness of her type of beauty lifted her above the shocking remarks that were made about Mime. Tallien and others who inn mediately preceded her in the kind of clothes worn during the stress of the French change from monarchy to a established republic.
 It is said that when she appeared be- fore the British matron in Hyde park. wearing the clinging gauges of her period, hatless and sleeveless, the people followed her with breathless curiosity and comment.
 Today, even the respectable British ma tron would not consider it especially out of the ordinary to appear in the clinging clothes showing the figure, curve by curve, that created such an upheaval in the ideas of Great Britain concerning feminine attire when they were first ad- vanced by the distinguished and loyable Recamier.
 Whatever clings and reveals, what ever does not detract from the extreme comfort of tn ewearer and gives to the human figure the appearance of a natur- alness that is appalling when accentuated. is accepted now without cavil.
 This generation has not quite followed in the footsteps sartorially, of that Mime. Tallien, who, by reason of her scanty clothing was christened the Queen of Shreds and Patches, but I think that Tallien herself might say there was slight difference between her ideas of costumery and those of our stage and bathrooms, if she came back to look.
 AGAIN THE EMPIRE
 Those who are in Paris are writing over here about the really remarkable frocks that are being launched at the Paris theatres in order, possibly, to stimulate the interest in French clothes at time of the year when it is neces- | SdIy lOT kAlllcllCdiS tO OuS 6O"iio SO iiSAP French commerce. And on these stages, where the great designers have grouped together the advance styles that Amer jeans probably will adopt, there is definite suggestion of empire evening gowns.
 These costumes are not the empire, as We have known it, and as we have abused it. It is the actual empire of the Napoleonic days. The sketch shows one of these frocks. It is of green satin in the shade known as jade which chimes in well with the overwhelming desire for a touch of Chinese that is exhibited in the modern costumery.
 The skirt is gathered to the band that outlines the decolletage. In truth, there is no bodice. Shoulder straps suggest that the top part of the figure must give some evidence of a covering, but that slight sop to tradition evidently sat is fies the designer and the actress who wears the gown.
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 There are no sleeves. The embroidery : and strings of beads are also in jade green. The cape is the turning point of the costume, and it is intended to be an integral part of it, with it's splendid collar and elaborate cords and tassels as a background for the four widths of atin posing as a frock
 NO EMPIRE FOR STREET
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