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FASHIONS
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The Evening Mode Varied.
MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1927.
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Variety expresses the mode which is seen by the evening during the winter months of important aoelalt occasions. From the very simplest type of gown which relies upon its lovely fabric and distinctive lines! to the gown which is elaborately Trimmed and designed with exotic appeal there are gowns to express every mood and lend variety to the
acene.
holstered furniture covered with, stones and pearls. This heavy sort of embroidery is done most success-- fully upon chiffon velves or plain natin. Silver embroidery, covering almost the entire surface of black satin in unusual figures, is used in very distinctive gowns and is fre- quently found in the bolero or in any type of gown that is simple in itý outline, with a dedning line at the hips" or waist. The Atted robe also possesses a flare and it usual- ly has a broken silhouette with a belt trimming, girdle or motif of some sort. The decolletage varies.
To begin with the simple evening Brock, there
Bowery are Almy. frocks suited to the debutante. These express many of the impor tant points in the mode and possess features of originality and charm There are chiffon frocks with tiers and flounces. draped skirts, cape backs, petal effects, uneven hem- lines, bloused waists and a general futtering, and graceful movement. The pastel shades are generally Inund expressing the youthful feel- ing in these frocks. When decora-Some very formal gowns use a high tions are used at all they are of a simple and youthful type such as ostrich feather, floral sprays, rib- bons, silver and gold ribbon or a diamond-studded ornament.
The dazzling jewelled, pailletted; and beaded gown is another type- of dress that is extremely youthful in its appeal as well as extremely wel suited to the matron. The mode that is most generally ne cepted this season in the jewelled gown is in satin or velvet patterned in gilt or silver and with much work
neckline while others are extremely low and are round, square or V shaped.
While black is found in all types of evening dresses, from the mode which exploits the tiered skirt or uneven, hemline with the bloused bodice and higher waistline: the gowns which suggests the Empire silhouette; the elaborately beaded and "jewelled gown to the very for- mal rohe de style in velvets or tuffetas or chiffons and laces, there ten- are other gowns with exotic
in paillettes, glass jewels, rhine-dencies which introduce colours of
CUSHION PLACING.
The, Grect Importance of Colour.
great variety as well as all white.
White velvet elaborately embroid- ered in pearls, rhinestones, atross and gold beads is very important in the jewelled frocks.
Lames, brocaded fabrics and jewelled velvets are seen in all the
new lines of an interesting season. All fabrics, no matter how pretën- For nor how brilliant, are supple and lend themselves easily to drap- ed lines. The Egyptian Influence le strongly marked in certain gowns. that are gorgeously embroidered in jewels. Other evening gowns that express a foreign influence are those that use embroidery in the Chinese manner.
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SPANISH COURT LADIES.
London, Jan. 16,
A Madrid correspondent says all
The robe de style still occupies an important place in the mode. Almost every wardrobe should fen- ture one of these picture frocks which achieve decorative lines in: intricate "arrangement of rich fub- ladies of the Spanish Court attend- rics. The period frock is seen in ing high mass at the Palace must all materiala which mark this a colourful and stately season.
wear a special costume prescribed Col- ours are seen but the vogue for all by the Queen Yollowing the Vati white cr all binck, for gold and can's request. These costumes silver is seen at its best. In these
must have cpilars, sleeves to the gowns of bouffant appeal 80 op- posite the sheathe-like lines favour wrist and long skirts-alt in com- ed in the handsomely embroidered trast with modern fashions.
silks: chiffons and velvets.
Colleen Moore, who wears her
First National picture. Twinkle- toes," possesses a wide and varied wardrobe of evening gowns which"! include the lewelled gown, the
grown. the fringed-
fluttering chiffons and the stately period
gowns.
Cushions have too recently been regarded as something to be added gay chintz. The chintz will be to rather than planned with our demore or less patterned, and the use Corations. How often do we sub- f any figured material would resèlothes with as much dash in her missively live with something we
in a restless-locking whole. In have picked up at a bazaar, or such a case it is a pleasant idea to some excellent example of the work
take one or two of the colours from. of our dearest friends, because we
the design of the chintz and carry have not the courage to hide it
on your scheme with them. A There are so many varieties chintz with a black background and - away.
of cushions to tempt one, the big a design introducing orange and Squashy pillows our comfort-loving blue could be attractively carried souls delight in the little, snugly
on by ing curtains of some plain pillows that make such a feminine orange material-say, glazed chintz background for us, and the exqui-with cushions of blue linen, and site silk and lace confections that perhaps one or two of orange.
LIKES OLD STYLES. conquer our pockets when we see Nowadays we are likely to have sik them temptingly displayed for our curtains in our chintz rooms, and undoing.
if this is the case, it is a good idea
Madrid. Short hair and shorter to use the same fabric, for the skirts have so perturbed the Mayor cushions, thereby pleasantly linking of Almendralejo that he proposed up the scheme. Silk cushions, ore, in counell 'to inflict Apes on the de of course, the inevitable accompani-votees of those fashiona ment of velvet-covered furniture.
The question of colour is, pur- haps, the first consideration. We accent our scheme of decoration by them as a musician accents his theme by the use of the soft and loud pedal, and art has been very kind. It is not only in the choosing of in the exquisite shades, with which colours that we are likely to come ahe has provided us. There are the to grief, but in the shape and the yellows that blend fnto greens and type of the cushions themselves. the greens that blend well into You should not pour new wines into blues. The happy touch that old bottles, and you should not put cushion of clear yellow gives to a modern cushions on old furniture. blue chair, the unsuspected relation] The size' and shape are serious between green and purple, the exact mattern, and can only be determined shade of mauve that harmonises by the size and shape the chair with the blue we have chosen, and or sofa for which the cushion is the one black cushion that steadies destined. We all know the discom- the too gay insouciance of our scheme. can easily be found by a little experimenting.
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The council scouted the idea, and the Mayor then offered prizes on his own account for the best head of long hair and the "prettiest long skirted girl.
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