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Show i . e Star Acquires Velvet Gowns Miss Merle Oberon has just chosen three evening dresses that are very different in style, and it is hard to say which is the most becoming to her. One dress Is made of sapphire blae velvet with an empire decolletage. the top of the bodice forming a wide band gathered onto a drawstring at top and bottom. The skirt begins to grow wider from the waist down, but it is only from a point a little above the knees where it really breaks Into flounces, flounces of blue mousseline de sole that immediately imme-diately make one think of waltses, and Blue Danubes. and whirling round and round on a ballroom floor. Brown velvet and filmy white lace as fine ss a cobweb forms a striking strik-ing combination for the second dress, where s corselet of the velvet makes a small waist even smaller and where the wide band of velvet edging the skirt is encrusted so as to follow the pattern of the lace. Here again the skirt is wide, she weight of the velvet at the hem making it fall in long supple folds. Velvet again for the third dress; the skirt here Is clinging with fullness full-ness In front only, in the Egyptian style that Madame Maggy Rouff finds so becoming. A wide belt of panther skin is the only trimming, and the color of the velvet is a deep ruby red. like a roselmf. |