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Show ft iaaazme bection Magazine Section AM IHIEIMLP-KEP1UIMI- C 21, 1916 Sunday, May 2 lit11 . - . . V .i n ' I ' - v. ft' i ' . f f ' - ; , Furore for Elaborate, Extravagant and Fantastic Gowns That Reflect Many Nations, and That i ' - Ir r vv . v . European war has moved every place in the world up just a little closer to its neighbor. What used to be an impossible mental Journey through geographical defiles and jungles of maps has become a daily commuting incident for the AmeriFIE can mind. An American'cltlzen'who used to hear of the Euphrates river as. a stream somewhere .near the siteinti-of the original cottage of our first parents now knows mately the bends of the stream, along with its neighbor, the Tigris, and 'is able to picture In his mind's eye the . r: Parody the New Fashions Miss Carolyn Gerkea in the Bich Turkish Costume She Wore a Becent EalL- - at KJ -- i in 7 7n k nnnnou 'One"bf the Lavish Oriental Gowns , a Private Fete in Chicago. Seen-a- t Is '1 i r 6 jm WALF VrK 'A wm lr ; :-- h us 4 J, r Hi IIiss Eugenie Hand Dressed as Princess Katherino of the Henry V. Period. x1 m i-- :m ' MV: MW-- T 6VJ ft -. 'v. ' WJf JfUJTB'MM . 3 locatlon of a battery where Paul stood and taiKea to tne Epheslans. The shrinking of the globe to our own mental range is nowhere shown more strikingly than in the prevalent mania for tableaux vivants, and every sort of social device that gives the excuse for fantasies of clothes. On every side, with the summer season as the chief end of man and woman, the passion for representing the costumes and the dances and poses of foreign lands has grown. The native costume of Turkey, of Servia, the 6ort of clothing- that the Russian woman affects, the styles that obtain in Sweden, and even the curious trappings of my lady of Senegambian fame, are becoming as well known to the American woman, through the influence of the war, as the Fifth avenue styles used to be. The summer program of entertainments will follow the lead of the winter an 3 at country and seaside homes there will be outdoor and indoor entertainments in which foreign lands have been robbed, or will be robbed, of their picture and their color. One of the most brilliant of recent costume fetes was - v given by Miss Carolyn Gerken of King's Highway, New York. The Gerkcns have a mansion, one of the oldest and most historic homes on Long Island, and annually give a big affair to which eastern society looks for- Miss uerken. Miss Mi- lward. ' . "ttak a ?iri!!?v W V-- j T- 1 i i n Miss Florence "Everett as Seed at Miss Gerken's Ball. ! ' VJ rr- - The New Hooped Gown3 Are Made the Excuse for . Costly Exaggerations at JFancy Dress Parties. w KM Everett appeared in Turkish" costumes." The orient was, indeed, curiously represented in many picturesque drapings and decorations. Like entertainments have become the fashion throughout the country. Brilliant costume parties have been held in Chicago, in St. Louis, in Denver, in San Francisco and in Seattle, while Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia and other cities of the East have been striving to' give a new turn to the costume idea. One of the vagaries of the season has been to take the fashionable hooped gown and exaggerate its effects until the result has been ' to produce a picture quite as startling as any that have been borrowed from far countries or distant times. The fashionable use of gold and silver trimmings has lent an element of the barbaric to the modern mode. This is so far true that the step to orientalism seems less startling than at any recent period in the strange history of - H ''.jr ' " y ' 1 . ft 4 . fashion. But it is true, undoubtedly, that the war, and the resulting spread of information as to hitherto mysterious regions, have had most to do with the present revival of fascinated interest in the devious whimsicalities of costume, so fruitful of pictorial surprise. What results of these excursions Into the remote may have on future American devices for the decoration of the feminine form may well engage the speculation of specialists who consider ths whole philosophy of clothes. ;. " ji 4 "'"V- - fr jnt,v, v. ,. |