The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-27

This is the season OF seasons 10
study fashions OF the stage--if what
YOU want TO see is fashion accord
ing to present-day standards. Al
most all the new plays exploit mod
ern and modish clothes--not only
for the fair sex, either. Don't be-
lleve all the men in the audience
use their opera glasses to look at
pretty girls in the cast; as a matter
of fact they are. storing up infur-
nation about waistcoats and neck
ties. and the cut of trousers.
For stage clothes nowadays are
authoritative. Straws show which
way the wind is going to blow
sartor!ally before styles are
established as familiars on the other
side >of the footlights. Stage cos
tunes are designed by experts and
by artists. They have to bring out
the characters who wear them:
they have to harmonize with tho
stage backgrounds---but above all
they have to be right They have
to be the very best expression Of
the very latest mode. They have
TO be absolutely correct according
to authoritative standards. And they
have to look ahcad-not back. No
costume, unless that for some spe-
cial character part ever dares to
be the slightest bit passe.
If you are not "up" on fashions
yourself; and you want to supply
yourself with an adequate winter
wardrobe, the very best way is to
go to- ten or a dozen Of the new
| plays, study the costumes worn by
actresses who play the parts of WELL
bred, refined and conservative wom-
on moving in high society, then
make a tour of the best class Of
! shops and pick out your new clothes
| DO not. however, venture on styles
launched I'm the revues. musical
comedies and light farces-unIess
you are very sure of your own dis
elimination in costume, for some Of
| these alluring froCks, hats and
wraps are exaggerated in their mod
| ishness to enhance the general
blitheness of the show. Stick to the
dramas ana the comedies for the
most CORRECTLY conservative and
wearable clothes.
Merry Widows Merry Costume.
For Instance the breath taking
gown worn by Mime. Lydia Lip
| kowska, the Russian opera star, for
her entrance in the Merry Widow" Z"
revived this season, would not he
precisely what the average woman
would select for n formal evening
affair in her own home town. But
[ the gown IL extremely fashionable
! just the same and perfectly gOrg--
ous--perhaps tho most gorgeous sar-
| torial creation behind the footlights
this season. The train, you see. is
/ very, very long-rather longer than
any train worn at a merely social
| gathering would dare to be, unless
IL wished. to get torn to tatters-or
trip up the other guests. This train
| is OF oyster white velvet cmbroid-
cred with rhinestones in design
representing the sacred phoenix or
old China. The bodice Is covered
| with rhincstoncs too--and the BAN
deau worn about the head. Can you
| imagine the brilliance Of this cos
| tune as Il sweeps out into the glare
Of the spotlightsP A relieving touch
of softness is given by the enor-
nous fan of lovely snow white fcath-
ers. Altogether "A gown worth see
| ing--and rememberingI
The famous Merry Widow" hat
| has been revived too. In its new
| incarnation at the Knickerbockor
theater IL lis of pink silver cloth
with an outstanding and upstand-
| ing hedge of pink esprit--a feathery
| trimming which looks like thou-
sands and thousands OF airy aigrettes
| massed together in halo formation.
But Nine. Lipkowska does not wear
all the stunning clothes I'm the new
4"Merry Widow" For Miss Dora
tBeck wears n ravishing frock Of
corise taffeta and silver lace the
| lace gathered on at the hHp beneath
girdle OF cerise roses and falling
In scallops at the ankle to give the
| fashionable irregular hemline, There
| Is also IN this production black
velvet gown with a silver girdle
-and jeweled shoulder straps-but
you Will probably see 1t all for your
| self
Leslie Cartcr's Wonderful Clothes.
a triumph for America are the
costumes worn by Mrs. Leslie Carter
in her ney play "The Circle" Mrs
! Carter discarded an entire wardrobe
prepared for her in Paris--it did
| not harmonize with the stage set
| tings OF the new play-and had all
: her clothes for THE circle" designed
right in New York. She maintains