Show I rr Where ATe H- H 1 s 1 J 7 t Dr D re S s Sf fr wn 1 Li N y Le r 1 r. r 7 y X Modern Society and d the Stage o W g H- H x Vie for fog Honors H 01 01 S in Extreme me r ter 1 i i 4 k t r Costumes e More Bizarre Than Than Anything the Q t World Ever r 1 g r FG u 4 Has Known t f t Q l J JAr C i Ar ArS S r jy 7 n kY ts t's i y r t tiL r As Gold Asu Gold Gold in the pageant pageant page page- d r f t i r 1 a rl 1 ant Summers Court t tc Y F y Ayl d dS given on n recently in Wash Wash- r. r a l vy ar i a i it h strangely ely suggestive of S 13 S I 1 h hS Mrs Sylvanus r 1 Za r tr ya I Jt S 'S St S Stokes Jr appeared Int in I t s gorgeous costume e A x t ta yf at rte P x e. e hIM r a cobweb web in its filmy iri iri r 5 u rj f z a 11 cence 0 VJ Ke Yr b bb b. b r k n I c 1 I r 4 5 y q 4 5 S Lt t y t I 4 k r fi 5 c AA A A t ft t l i K y y tn 3 P A peacock or maybe a bird of paradise was ithe the for fOJ this dress well dress well not i inspiration fy f d G exactly dress but certainly it is s a costume costume- costume costume- z tt fc x which was worn b by y a Russian actress 4 1 DOUBT the flapper of 1963 will go gothe 1 the he Charity Ball of her year and ands s med as a violet ray or or-a or a. kiss hue rhile her mounts up a a eI outside the window she will willS S P to the long mirror mirror-in in the sitting orl a last peek l Rhe he flappers flapper's grandmother gently plating dating a time weathered radio will r head sadly and sigh for the good when feathers and pearls and a ae ai i e c of silk were were- good enough to too toy y o the heart of any girl e had no such highfalutin ideas to es in my day the grandmother will say to her granddaughter rr mg once more she will wash her of the whole affair and in In for a little nightly visit with c Hattie in Indiana the ic gentle rocking chairs of 1963 tune tume which called itself the ostrich oyster in the early twenties may the Rational Dress Reform itself Tutankhamen period the second t. t cloth of gold and purple its and eyes of a Pharaoh may appear lung ug so much as a modest little V n it was possible to dress well ance and still put something bank ank ands of the early twenties howl how how- l aping the Eastern dress drive today Ui They are arc addicted to low lowill ill They say Whew only r have they to reach down into o ts so that wives and daughters like models reminiscent of a B. 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C fashion parade but all allow ow looks as though it might be beo o become simply a snare and a aA n. n A bird for instance in the uj used to be just n a bird You Ep to him felt spring in your heart hat The bookkeeper had er had n a blown shoe but the world pretty good lie he designers have got hold of the birds Little birds buds Ones that sun SUll kissed hissed b beaches of California rs that hop cheerily and brightly mv gugh ugh to bough h in Pennsylvania f if you rou will the long tailed bird A certain young debutante I v 5 I RV I I I I yr This is is' is n another costume for which a bird furnished the motif i The magnificent plumes of the I ostrich give it luxurious softness and pearls lend their pale splendor splendor splendor dor to the gorgeous picture of Chicago caused a sensation in a ballroom not so many nights ago by darting arting in ill among the dancers a as what 7 As a lJ long tailed humming hummingbird I bird I The upper parts of this beautiful little creature were I glossed in gol gold the wings purple I and its tail black with a st steel eJ blue reflection A tiny black cap sprinkled with diamond dewdrops completed the illusion Hear then of the ostrich ostric and aud the oyster No oyster peacefully r re fleeting away his years on his acres at the bottom of the Chesapeake Chesapeake I peake and no ostrich given to thoughtfully burring burying his hoad head In the tho sand at odd moments probably ever I dreamed he would be the tho Inspiration of ofa ofa a 1 gown worn by a l Him film star and worn so soo ely effectively and daringly In a n. recent cont contest t that she won a L prize The skirt was ma matte made completely of or ostrich feathers The Tho bodice after thinking carefully the writer can cnn think of ot no name save bodice well well anyway the bodice was made of or pearls Hence In the a affinity to the 0 oyster A appeared In the gown window of or a II aNew aNew New cw York shop the other day markedly reminiscent of or a peaceful afternoon on Long Island Sound Gray Oray silk it was with sleeves that showed gentle streaks of or white In their folds The The gull frock it was simply and correctly named But that Isn't all Time was what a man m n could go out for tor a walk walle of a Sunday and simply and kind heartedly step out of the way of an ant or three or four hundred undred ants and that was all there was to It A mosquito might be killed or one might attempt the killing and let It go at that Now the designers have got bot hold of or orthe the Insects All of or New Yorks York's Bohemia went to the Greenwich Village ball dressed up as bugs At the tho annual silk show In the metropolitan metropolitan metro metro- politan city the girls appeared as butterflies butterflies butter butter- flies water bugs and various Inmates of the insect world I To be sure husbands need not fear rear wives who go down Fifth Firth avenue or Michigan boulevard in the bifurcated versions that whirled around in Webster Hall HaU but look out for tor the glitter of a ablack ablack ablack black beaded June bug that will appear on some brunette ladys lady's yellow georgette frock Beware of the batik batlle thousand logger legger Keep Keep your eyes open for the tho hand embroidered blue darning needle i that used of or yore to sit so harmlessly I Ion on the end of your our fishing rod 0 O husband For these and other glittering Incidentals Inc Inci dentals are what make their way with King Tutankhamen into that statement which reads This years year's gowns are to be shorter wider more colorful and about three times Umes more expensive Never In many a a. decade has there been such elaborateness such Babylonian Babylonian Baby Baby- lonian riot of or color such extravagant magnificence in clothes And sadder hews newEl still never has the tho Interest of or orI women In clothes been more keen I In Paris portly dowagers are grouped portentously around little tables at nt the dress soirees where sweet sweet- faced young oung I models parade about In dance frocks to be worn at most twice From England comes the news that there Is In progress a Il race between the women of or the stage and those of or fashIonable fashionable fash fash- society to see who can dress with the most reckless regard both of or expense and alas alas modesty Truly It seems that the epigram coined recently by a Il New Now York artist sits alts well on the season A woman said he sagely would rather take a a. chance on the hereafter Ulan than be bo out of ot fashion on the heels of or this news comes some more perhaps more fraught with disaster for tor a mans man's pocketbook than any that hl has hap appeared for tor many a day From lom the Cannes s Fetes Fete on the tho Riviera that classic event in the fashion world goes forth the mandate that hereafter a Il womans woman's frock shall be Judged fudged not wholly on design not wholly on color but on the quality of ot material u used ed I The alarm lest ladles ladies caught wearing less than the regulation number of ot threads to the acre should be refused I admission to the festivities Iles by hard faced scientists stationed at the tho door I with microscopes microscopE'S and steam calculators I bad bod hardly died down when a rumor I S W S S S ya i S Rv t jo t f r 2 k S. S n c 4 5 3 t 3 tan ran like wildfire along the road from Monte Carlo to Marseilles that the Riviera censors had issued a fresh tresh ukase It was whispered among excited feminine groups In the gilded glided salons of the Promenade des Anglais that the Carnival Committee also Intended to concern concern Itself with what their fair guests wear under the tho statutory silks and satins satins s a. a suspicion of or what may appropriately be bo called ene s shaving having existed on some previous occasions After Arter that discussion the committee decided to be satisfied with the knowledge that as puts It The colon colonels colonel's lady and Judy OGrady arc are sisters under their silks But Dut it is not the ladles ladies alone who wile have han been affected by the silk order issued in NIce To the tho men also went out the mandate man man- date that they must wear WOOl a L Spanish cloak over their evening clothes and this must be I lined with a Il silk of exactly tho the right silkiness 8 It would be bo rather hard lines if It Nice set ret et etan an example in her quality requirements for tor I all the other carnivals of or the tho world What effect for Instance would such a a. mandate have on the Mummers' Mummers Parade In Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia or the Mardi Gras In New Orleans In 1887 1827 there appeared in Paris for tor the first time a a. giraffe Everybody went to see him and straightway there appeared dresses a la Ia giraffe bonnets and sashes a la giraffe Jocko's last breath the name of or ofa n f chimpanzee who had died became a Il I popular color And a nerd need for tor shelter Is all e very well But surely It was wile not a 11 desire for protection from tho the elements alone alono that caused the tha ar r r w a II ti I ladles ladies of or Franco France In 1778 to wear car on their heads a Il scaffolding of ot gauze flowers and I feathers raised to such a a. height that no carriage could be found lofty lotty enough for tor I their accommodation The ladies ladles had to put their heir heads out the windows or of kneel on the floor Hoor en route to the theatre to save ave their I coiffure And wh when n they got there thero all sorts of ot complaints went back to the management Because no one could see ceo over o anybody else Styles which gladdened the eyo eya of King Tutankhamen dead these years bloom again in this costume the designs on which were hand painted And what were wre the names names of ot the tho cot colors or In vogue OUO in nt that moment Stifled sigh unfulfilled wish wish dim Im vapors On the heels of ot these in 1830 came tho the amorous toad frightened mouse j meditating crime O 0 husbands as we e havo have remarked D pay the bill and say nothing 1 |