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Show PAHH1ER TO STAY Every Indication That ft Will Continue in Vogue. Small Eustle, Even, May Be Added to the Coming Season's Gowns Silk Fringes Seem to Be Losing p Their Popularity. The indications are that the pan-tiler pan-tiler comes to slay, ami that some of the very best houses have even added the "vert iigadin," or small bustle once u feature of our grandmother's toilette. One can imagine the charm of this revival a gracious apparition 111 a softly lighted drawing room, a pretty young woman thus dressed very short sleeves, flat bodice, adorable adora-ble puffs at hips, a saucy little bustle and a vision of the romantic past breathes and lives. In our present day era of practical good sense I doubt if we will witness the renaissance of the crinoline, but it cannot, be denied that a number of the latest evening dresses show a decided de-cided tendency to encourage the use of the very wide stiffened skirt, ornamented orna-mented by ruffles and large loops. The return of lace is undoubtedly at the liottom of this new craze for ruffles. Silk fringes are gradually disappearing. disappear-ing. They have been overdone. Contrariwise, Con-trariwise, cock plumes, put In the discard dis-card for bat trimming, have fo,tnd their future as ornaments for dresses. Clieruit shows us a model for evening wear made of silver cloth (In me), covered in white chiffon and trimmed only by a girdle of short cock plumes of a lovely Chinese blue, the girdle formed by inserting the feathers, one by one, in the delicate folds of the chiffon. Fringes of monkey fur are still fashionable. fash-ionable. They are placed lengthwise, following vertical seams and lines. The newest and prettiest waist cords are made of great wooden beads, hand-pair hand-pair ted in the coloring of the gown they are to accompany. This does not mean the exclusion of other girdles; and just here it may be said that last year's lovely style of using ropes of jet and like variations of the jet ornament orna-ment will be still very much in favor. Some well-dressed women who do not like the arm entirely bared use cleverly clever-ly draped strands and loops of jet pendant pen-dant from the shoulder or gracefully arranged with any of the hundred devices de-vices of the adroit dressmaker. The wooden beads, however, will be more exclusive and original, because be-cause they are expensive., baing carefully care-fully and artistically handpainted. Chicago American. |