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Show B Dinner Dress of Taffeta with the New Light Wanted Bodice and Full Skirt ' Lucile" Model By LADY DUFF GORDON SOME while ago I promised I should tiave more to say about the Birdcage dresses and pan lalettes I have here a collection of pictures that will show you more fully what I meant. In the designing ot dreses. as in everything else effect Is gained by contrast. Therefore the new small long waists have brought In the fun short skirts (or perhaps It s the other way round) while the dancing craze demands that the lines of the figure muit still be shown Therefore I make the full skirts transparent to please Dame Fashion and the Inside lining tight to delight the dancers and really charming It Is too A little Spanish lady 11 ustrstes this to the last letter look at Rer email waist This of oo irse mrani new corsets so please don t get hen new gowns on the old straight coriet for the results wou d bp UlBastr u jier bodice Is of brocade In 1 or satin with a design of camp Ini In scarlet end green Her sh Is of black and green and her blrl-agp is of black si k "net strapped wit bands of gray satin It Is o or a tight dress of silver tlss p whl h is again over black and white panta lettes Her head Iress Is of bla k lace and a red an 1 green flower tuckPl in at the bnck Another birdcage In he little ladv In the si er wilt iter gown Is ot bl e tu le and blue a d si ver bro raded taffeta and a flowered bodice The skirt is ma le over I oops to tup port the weight of the taffeta, Tbeso hoops are of si ver at a so are I er stockings and shoes Speaking of Rto V ngs have ou seen tl e si i st k ng T ey eXq llsitp Mv history ook te nf the extra vngi nee f Q pen I beth men Ions a i air f hI thread h se brought fron n c ithou 1 n eglne tl Pm t t Ick nn unrornf rtnbe b t tl p new nrs of to day are hnlf si k gr v in I I n f rllver and worn wl h silver sho n and wig have the raoRt lalryl ke effoct I alwevi die Ike patterns In eto k lngs and to find a new thing like this Is ren ly n J v Stockings to mv mln 1 slioul 1 be pi In and or llgl t colors o pise I lpk In whirl c in they shn 1 1 be the flnst pnsi b tin I transp rent wltl o t any design I haie seen whl p sto kings wit black lace butterflies Sh in thpm And the latest horror was n p I of groy stockings wlrh a leslgn I ecarlet up the front like tho nclrnt of a boot finishing wltl h w n the top Vot to he th lg t I 1 one wonders who b ys his sor of things Way down history f II s iv always 1 pen aco uj nl I xnrs The T dors won them n b cade and tho Victorians in embro 1 ery In both rases he Hklrts 1 out so far It was unlccomlng t h n no much leg while a tlgl r I l" " did not give enouglf frpp I it 1 1 p return to the I ill skirt means tho return of the pantalettes a pretty namn nnd far rem I fr m tho ik harem skirt or trouimr f tl o years ngo The pantalettes a n long and t ibe like from the knee wn nn I are f c&lffon lace and rlbb i o 1 and possl TbieNewrtopi1 T ADY DUFF GORDON the famous Lude of S V MX 1 J London and foremost creator of fash ons in the p I world writes each week the fashion artcle for th SiS fklll 1 newspaper presenting all that is newest and best in styles fol fW- 1 Lady Duff Gordons Pans establishment brings her into i ferA c'ose tou l lat centre J fashior , bly a tiny bouquet of dowers Bnt they must be transparent and aim Pie Joey mot be modest and not fast looking for Teally modesty Is the only reason for them at all My other example is a little taffeta dinner dress with tight walated bodice and full skirt She la dis Vm.iPtrJod wlth br fi? ,. V,e Wuiuets or flowers Note e little basque wired out quia straight and faced up with orange Also note the hair which ts still worn off the face In keeping with the frock she has two little rolls on either side and just over the ears Entirely different In Btyle and effect but also most attrac tlve Is a gown whose flesh-colored founda tlon Is on the skirt doubly veiled with gold net one side of the oorsage from shoulder to hip con elstlng of a deft drapery of brilliant green and gold bro cade and the other being of the same taint pink and shim mertng gold as the skirt and being so modeled to the ifigure as to have a somewhat startling effect at a little distance A great barbnrlcally beautiful orna ment of dull gold and brilliant mala chlte green Is fastened on the left hip fringes ot the beads and bugles and jewels hanging tar down on the skirt and a similar ornament In miniature providing a decorative apology for a sleeve on the right shoulder though at the other side the bodice has no visible means ot support sup-port s. narrow fold of fleah pink tulle (possibly and cleverly concealing conceal-ing an elastic threading) being only noticeable or even discoverable at close quarters ou may always Indeed take It for granted that each dress is provided with a flesh colored foundation whose chief aim and object It Is to make Its presence as unobtrusie aa possible And remembering this you can trv to reallie the effect of a sleeveless corsage of silver gauie crossed by wide scarves of sapphire blue panne which are eventually caught together on one tilp by a cl ter of damask roses The full skirt beneath ts of delicate pink chlf fon and net In the deeper blue of a tropical sky at night at first Just broldered with a light tracery of dull gold which soon however grows bright and bold and beautiful too tinsel ribbon ot gold and stiver being be-ing Interwoven with the metaJllo threads And finally shimmering out through the blue with a moon like radiance a fold of stl er tlss is Is deftly Introduce 1 between a doi Me fold of the bl e tul e n e klrt Tiem Hoop Skirt Dross of Blue Tulle and Blue and Silver Hrocndod Taffel with Silver StocViOR 3lm and Wig The New Very Full Sk That Cover the New "Pipe Stem" Pantalettes, the Interesting New Silver Stockings and Why Dresses Are Becoming More and More $ Transparent i r ppr The New VeriJ Ful1 sfi tewl Joopffi That Cover the n II SP "Pipe Stem" 77(M l" ?tl MIRI Pantalettes, the (fL UiUUL a Ob Interesting New JZi00tJ&7Zt W0 'II Silver Stockings and writes each week the fashion artcle for th lim, tfJI TT Tl Y nUng all that newest and best in style, fo, HL "M, Why DSSCS Gordon s Pans establishment brings her into iMK JSfflW&ti. A Ti 1 ,hat centre fasW iSlrv Iff MR e ecomin9 5" Ilhndof' Somewhat AJi"" Transparent Drew wt Pantalettes of BUek Whtle The ' Birde of Black Sdk Net Sl-f wth Bands of GrtrS' Tight Underdrew of $ Reveals the FnWt "Luale" MoW |
