Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19

have an evening frock chosen to go
with an evening wrap. Let us suppose
you have but one evening wrap. This
may do service with several different
evening gowns, but there must be one
especially chosen to go with it. A wrap
of gold lame trimmed with fur may
have as its companion piece a very
simple, scant and short evening frock
Of gold lame. The gold lame, evening
wrap may do woman service with other
frocks, but with the frock OF gold it is
most appropriate for occasions when
YOU wish to keep on your evening wrap
much OF the time.
Even the fur coat may have its
companion piece. a clever idea being
to use the same silk for frock and
lining. A fur coat on hand in need
of refining and revamping offers ex-
cellent opportunity for this sort OF
ensemble. Select your silk, carry
half to your furrier and the other
half to the dressmaker-or, II you
want. make the froc4i at home, for
these straight, simple frocks of the
day set no unsurmountable obstacles
before the woman with patience and
knack for dresSmaking.
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COMETIMES the fur that trims the
coat may be used to trim the
frock. and sometimes band OF the
fur may appear on the skirt below
the coat, which has fur only at col
lar and cuffs.
The length OF the coat is one that
always comes in for some discussion.
Since skirts have become shorter
coats have become shorter, too; but
many of them cover the skirt en-
tirely. while others have the gen.
-rosity to let one guess at the ma
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most part coats are straight, even as
frocks are straight. but there are
others that show tendency to flare
at the bottom. a French coat OF
black velvet shows numerous cord
ings at regular intervals running up
and down from shoulder to the knees.
There the cords end, permitting the
material to form a sort of rufffe ex-
tending to the ankles, where 1t IS
edged with band of tailless ermtne.
Another coat for afternoon wear
shows a scalloped edge about the
knees and from that curvins line
hangs a double row of heavy black
fringe-thus offering room for a pos
sible fiounce on the frock beneath.
Other coats show inverted pleatlngs
on either side and some OF them are
slit at the side to offer room for a
possible fullness of frock without
line of the coat.
To wrap or not to Wrap-if not
| the coat question of the season Is
at least a very important one. by
| way of answering 1t many OF the
| dressmakers have been making coats
| that wrap over from right TO left IN
| the usual manner, save that at the
| left side there is button and but
| tonhole to relieve the left hand that
ha hae
| the past few years holding wrap
around coats together. Now the
coat still wraps around, but a but
| ton does the work. One such coat
from Martial ct Armand is trimmed
about the hem and waist with stripes
| of embroidered fruit. Black monkey
| is generously used for collar and
| cuffs. There still remain coats that
are held together, but they are
| usually of the more formal sort
1t has been said of the coats of this
season that the collars are always of
fur and you would have to search
| far and wide to find one that was
otherwise trimmed at the neck.
| Sometimes these are straight high
bands of fur. somehow suggestive
| of the Napoleonic mode, and then
there are usually fur currs to match.
Shawl collars of fur sometimes ex
| tending to the waist and sometimes
| to the hem of the coat are we'll liked.
| However, the fur collar still remains
high enough in back to make the hat
that Is brimless in back well nigh
a necessity. and women of the Oc-
cident still go around looking, when
viewed from the back, as if their
| heads were set right on their
shoulders 1t is only when you see
them from the front that you are
quite sure that necks are being
| worn any more.
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THERE is little limit to the sort Of
fur used for coat collars. All sorts
of spotted peitry is considered smart,
and it is difficult for the lay woman
| to tell the difference between leopard,
tiger, gaselle. jaguar, tiger cat and