New Britain herald., 1928-03-23
SMART GOTHAM'S
 EVENING GOWNS
These Are Designed Specially for
 Spring Wear
BY BETSY SCHUYLEE) NEA Service Writer

New York, March o3.-It you haven't spring in your bones by this time. just step out some ot these first soft evenings and watch lovely ladies dine and dance in their new spring gowns,
 II they don't put the feel ot cro- cuses. soft breozes and the first ar butus into y.u-somethiug is the matter. For while daytime apparel is lovely and ,ew this spring, it Is the evening gowns that achieve that elusive, tantahzingly capricious beau.s that is the stun ot which spring is made
 In the first place evening fabrics have lacy sheorness for their warp 0. beauty and daItctauIa color and tracery O. gold and silver for their wool, They are uuhelioy8bly fairy like. Take for instance the breath 1alllng loyehness og gown Mar saret IartrilE. 1,ars. violet chiffon with silver lili,~ fraead m its fabric. It's bogftant skirt takes many lights, like d cloud. NH'h her burnlshcd gold hair this gown makes staring Imperative,
 Organ,lic hodird Chiffon
 All-oVor lace-, urts, a new chiffon that has the body of orEand.e, strips of ribbon and lac-, and hand em- hroidery all enhance evening gowns, I for one cannot remember any such elaborate beauty as one meets face 10 face O. an evening now.
 Black point d,,,prit brings its sophisticated charm 10 the scene once more. Mabel Wilson has one evening gown that uses II, with plain Het and black and gold lace. 10 a most effective end. The lace swerves round the center of the skirt. makes an off-the-shoulder yohe and then the net and point de'esprit, tagotted together, do the rest, including the tashionlng ot q jaun'y little rear cape that falls over the arms like sleeves. Very trickily, too, I can tell you,
 For springy qualities, several stun nIng evening gowns shown at the Junior League fashion show rated high with me.
 One that Elizabeth Schroeder modelled in was eNquistely dainty of chartreuse tulle and matching moire ribbon. T.. like all evening gowns nowadays, followed no straight and marrow course but was quite caprieious m the way the shrred ribbon dipped down on the left side of the bodice and up on the skirt and in the manner in which five little bows gathered on as many rows of ribbon 10 give a decorative emphasis.
 This gown, like them all, had an irregular hem-line. And i, had a modesty about its rounded neck that was most becoming to the fresh, sweet character of the frock and the mannikIn too.
 Her slippers. incidentally. were ot the exact shade as the dress, little one-strap models of gleaming satin. with kid for bindings and vamp dec oration.
 Mary Cogswell wore another stun ming gown-of black taffeta, with a most laborate scroll border worked in crystal and gold beads clear around its circular fullness. The bodice was distinctive for it's dig nifled mplicity-featurins a, most becoming deeply pointed decollctage, both front and back. A big bow on the left hip added capricious note.
 Embroidered TaTctas
 Speaking Of talfota though. re- minds me Of the sweet embroidered 'affetas that appear now and again. Much more exquisite than the prints. Maud Triton has ono in lemon vel low. with orange and lavender flow CTS worked with gold and silver leaves, ever and anon. T. has an enormous back bow with ends clear