| Show THE ORIENTAL IN DRESS London Oct 3 The rapid rise of ot the Oriental shop is an interesting fact which can hardly hard I escape the attention of any an one familiar with the shopping centers of ot the west end Almost every day da adds to the num number number number ber of shops fragrant with the aroma of sandal wood and spicy odors and hung round with the wonderful em embroideries embroideries embroideries of the east Both Regent street and Oxford street have seen many such establishments within the last few months With its twilight atmosphere and picturesque contents the Oriental shop proves strangely fascinating to feminine shop shoppers shoppers shoppers pers Here may be bought quaint neck chains and specimens of eastern jewel jewelry ry gold and silver filigree work as aswell asell aswell well ell as lengths of richly embroidered silks The present tendency of ot of fashion Is all in the direction of o what are for want of a better name called Byzantine Byzantine Byzantine tine modes and the Oriental shop and the Oriental department for many of the great grea shopping stores have their eastern bazaars become places of even more than titan usual importance Strips of exquisite embroidery are to tobe tobe tobe be bought for trimming evening dresses and for the evening coat a length of Japanese embroidered sills silk suggests itself The silk which Is something like In texture va varies varies varies ries considerably In shade and though the embroidery is often done In silk which h exactly exact matches it is sometimes worked in fn a shade just a degree lighter or darker than the fabric with a beau beautiful beautiful beautiful effect Eastern designs however are best suited to the negligee and the kimono Is to be found in great variety In the Oriental shop Some of these garments are very ver lovely Imagine a kimono of pale vale gray crepe crepe over which straggles a white wistaria vine growing in Its Us na natural natural natural tural fashion a little heavily across the shoulders and sending out delicate creepers to the furthest edge of the sleeves and hem of the skirt The only touch of color in this picture Is the soft green of pf the leaves and gray gra brown of the stems Others are in the richest and heaviest silks A colored silk embroidered embroidered embroidered dered with branches of or cherry blossoms blos blossoms blossoms the bare brown branches dotted with pink and white flowers spreading In natural manner over the whole gar garment garment garment ment was a veritable triumph of art Chinese Jackets share popular favor with the kimono These are very quaint And rind pleasing A white satin salin jacket was Wal embroidered with sprays of ot I chrysanthemums and bordered with I blue and gold embroidery Magnificent mandarin robes with I only such alterations as are needed to tomake tomake tomake make them fit are used for evening coats One of a wonderful old gold I brocade was Incrusted with Chinese I embroideries In dull shades I These garments are also cut to pieces and the embroidered portions I used in trimmings for and I Shantung gowns II I I |
