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Show VIOLETS ABE NOW 1 STYLE Chrysanthemum Ruled Out by Fashion. No Longer Good Form to Wear Roses on Fifth Avenue. Orchitis and Gardenias Occupy Second and Third Places ns Heigning-Favorites. Heigning-Favorites. NEW YORK, Oct. SO. It's all settled and fixed. Fashion arranged It. Tho knell of tho chrysanthemum as. a button-holo button-holo ornament has sounded. To wear one of tho great shaggy blossoms on one's coat lapel now stamps ono as in bad form. Fashion has even made tho decreo moro pronounced. A male being who decks himself with ono or moro chrysanthemums chrysanthe-mums ln this, the autumn tlmo of 190-i, Is vulgar. Time was when tho ambition of tho callow college swell was a chrysanthemum. chrysanthe-mum. Ho aped tho man of fashion. Now that Is all changed. The man of fashion wears violets ln tho morning and ho wears violets ln tho afternoon. A post-luncheon post-luncheon addition Is a gardenia, nestling snugly among tho palo blue violets. An orchid, violet In hue. may llkowlso bo used to vary tho beautiful monotony. This Is ono of tho changes evident today to-day ln Fifth avenue and ln Broadway. The fall fashions In posies now aro ln force. Hoses Vanish. Prom Street. Here's what an ultra-fashionable nor-1st nor-1st who knows all about It said today: "No gentleman or gentlewoman over wears rosea on tho street. That'B a relic of barbarism ln which smart persons havo no part. "Chrysanthemums necr now adorn a gentleman's buttonhole, and rarely are they worn by gentlewomen. They havo reactted their proper placo as a decorative church or house llower. Solid colors ln whlto, yellow nnd pink are smart for church weddlncs and houso functions. Autumn Au-tumn follago, oak leavos and tho like, arc their natural accompaniments. "Violets and orchids divide the honoro for Ktrcct wear with modish femininity. The bunches of violets at tho corsago aro varied by tho addition ln the center of a sprav of lilies of the valley or violet orchids or-chids Virtually no other flowers aro worn by smart persons." Delicnto Shades Preferred. Tho particular sort of violet Is epilto as Important as the llower Itself. The Maria Loulso. a heavy-acented, doublo violet, and the L,adv Campbell, which Is moro delicate In Hhado than tho parmc, havo tho call. Pannes violets aro about out of tho market, theso varlotlea having succeeded suc-ceeded them. In prices, the flowers vary according to tho shops patronized. Fifth avenoo and Broadway llorista tack on a bit upon tho price. 00 that violets range from $2 to ?3 a hundred. Orchids rango from 75 cents to $LM each and chrysanthemums from S2 to 30 a dozen. The big. ragged variety of tho latter llower is preferred and white, pink and yellow arc the hades. Flowers never, the llorlsts say, wero in such demand a now. The supply has Incrcnscd, but the demand has kept paco with It and the Bhops are prospering. Tho windows are ablaze with masses of color. Green ferns and richly tinted autumn foliage form the background for gay blooms. . . . , Potentate or beggar man may feawt his eyes at will, for the show Is free to those who look, but costly for those who buy. |
