The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-18
SOCIETY NOTES

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Miss Betty Byrne and Miss Bessie
McKeldin took part, with other
charming Iasses.
Daeschners in Group on Dais;
Daughters Are Also Present
The French Ambassador and
Nine. Daeschner were Iookers-on.
their daughters, clad alike in rose
pink frocks and becoming white
WIGS, being among the dancers.
Mrs. Marshall Field was a queenly
figure in court costume of blue
tafEetas its pointed bodice dscked
with rose co1ored bows its puffed
skirt banded with yards aud yards
of silver tinseI lace. She wore some
splendid jewels and flowers and
Jewels were used in her high.
dressed snowy hair.
Grouped near Mrs. Fields on the
dais were Princess Margaret Bon
compagnf-her costume being fash
Toned Of green taffeta, much pdffed
and furbeIowed, with shoulder
knots of crimson velvet and velvet
streamers tying the flowers in her
becoming white wig-Mrs. Hare
Lippincott, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Wilcox. Mrs Henry Clark Corbin
and her sisters, the Misses Patten--
effectively gowned and much be-
wigged Mrs. Kefina Ellxins, Mss
Janet Richards, Mr.. and Mrs. Allyn
Williams-the latter costumed TO
represent an actress from the
Coincide Francaise-Mr. and Mr..
Montgomery Blair and Mrs. Delos
Blodgett, wearing the Colonial cos
tune in which she will appear at
the jefferson ball or Saturday.
Although not Of the Marie An
toinette period, one Of the most
Interesting costumes noted was
rose satin gown trimmed in lovely
lace in which her grandmother had
appeared at the court balls OF the
Empress Eugene. It was com.
plete even to the lace fan with its
monogrammed sticks of mother of
pearl and Mrs. Burnett wore her
red hair dressed like Eugene, with
long curl over one shoulder.
The costume of blue taffeta.
sweeping the floor in voIurninous
folds and built over a petticoat of
rare lace, worn by Mrs. Armstead
Peter. 3rd. was one of the most
beautiful noted and she had three
towering feathers in rose and Blue
bound to her bewigged head. Mrs.
Newbold Noyes and Mrs. Chester
Snow, Jr., both in blue taffeta., were
other young matrons to whom
powder and patches and the fur.
bellows of another day proved vast
iy becoming. And Miss Barbara
Stanfield, in mauve taffeta, with
black velvet tied about her slim
wrists and a bright yellow feather
ran. presented an enchanting pic.
ture.
Variety Marks Costumes
OF Feminine Guests.
Others among, the guests. MANY
OF them in fancy dress, were the
Minister of Sweden and Nine. Wal
lenberg, Admiral and Mrs. Edward
W. Eberle, Nine. Grouitch, Admiral
and Mrs. Leigh c. Palmer. Miss
Elizabeth Hubbard-her lettuce
green taffeta must have made a
problem OF the simple act of enter.
Ing a motor-Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Parsons Erwin, Miss Madeleine Ans.
tin-lovely in pale rose pink with a
white wtg-Captain and Mrs. Rob.
ert Henderson, Mrs. Meade Moore,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick de Courcy
! Faust, Miss Virginia Hunt, Miss
Carolyn Chamberlain. Miss Marie
Louise Johnson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Franklin Ellis, Major and Mrs.
Conger Pratt--a white wig and long
streamers of blue taffeta,s transform.
Ing Mrs. Pratt into q creditable
semblanee Of French maruuise
despite her .modish modern froclr-
the Misses Laura and Inger Bryn
Miss Ramona Lefevre, the Misses
de Graeff, daughters Of the Meth
erIands Minister, and Miles, Clair,
and Helene Heilmann. One Of
them-I'm never quite sure which
Is which-was wearing an engaging
riding habit Of the Marie Antoinett,
period, all blue velvet with volumi
nous skirts and a becoming feath