Evening star., 1925-06-14

Y ITH many well dressed
n women the evening frock
NV always goes several de-
grees ahead of the street
frock.
The woman of excellent taste very
often refrains from taking up this
or that innovation in the line Of her
day apparel. She 'clings to the dark
er, established colors, she avoids the
very short skirt or the very scant
outline. But for evening 1t Is differ
ent. Then she induAges her taste for
new colors, and her natural woman's
desire to be in the vanguard of fash.
ion. - -at...-i
Thus you will find that very often
the new tricks of fashion are first
tried out in evening frocks. At pres
ent women are mot especially eager
TO adopt the hustle effect or rippling
back in the daytime apparel. For one
thing ii is very difficult to wear
coat over the hustle. Besides, there
is as yet something a trif1e extreme
about the new silhouette. But to
adopt any of these new models for
evening is another matter. Many
well dressed women would never con-
sent to wear more than a suspicion
of red in a street frock, who gladly
wear scarlet in the evening, and
there are women who wouldn't dream
of wearing any OF the prevalent
fuchSia or thistlebloom hues in day
time apparel who would not hesitate
at an entire evening frock Of the
color
Violet. indigo, blue. green yellow.
orange and red-so runs the rainbow
range of colors. Violet mauve, dres-
den and pervenche blue, apple green
and daffodil yellow would be better
way to list the colors according to
their popularity for evening frocks
this Spring.
Never did slippers and stockings
play a more important part in eve.
ming attire than they do at present.
None but the unsophsticated and
the Stay-at-homeS even take the
trouble to comment on the shocking
shortness of skirts nowadays. There
is no longer the slightest novelty
about the lines of a. woman's legs
from ankle to knees. But though
they have ceased to attract the
shocked attention they once did,
they are still conspicuous enough to
make stockings still one of the most
important considerations in evening
apparel. What the modern girl
saves on her gloves she certainly
spends on her stockings.
The ma tier is not so clearly set
tied for you as it was a season ago.
Now YOU have considerable choice.
Your stockings may be flesh color
of a light. pinky flesh color prefer
ably-or they may be colored to
match the froCk with which they
are to be worn. This fashion for
matching stockings has followed the
French fad for wearing slippers to
match the frock, usually in a shade
trifle darker. Silver or gold kid
slippers call for matching stockings
or for those of a light flesh tint.
THERE has been a persistent whis-
pering that the closely bobbed or
shingled head is really not appro
pirate for evening. Maybe not, but
women have had their hair cut short
and they are of course going to go
on wearing evening dress. What are
you going to do about it?
One answer to this question is to
wear some sort of covering on the
head, and the other is the wearing
of artificial hair to hide the ugly
line of short hairs at the nape of
the neck. The first of these meth
DDS makes strong appeal to the mil
liners. and the other appeals to the
maker of fancy hair goods. But with
certain exceptions women go bare
headed with short hair all exposed.
and the sight of the shingled head
over an evening dress. that once was
SO grotesque to us, has come to look
quite conventional.
There are occasional evening tur-
bans. Paul Poiret sponsors a variety
of these turbans of thin silk crepe
shot with silver-draped closely for
ward on the head and fastened at the
front with a jeweled brooch. The ears,
hair and most of the eyebrows are
hidden by these turbans, which should
be worn with matching loop earrings
hanging from the hidden ears to give
tust the right effect.
There has been quite a bit of talk