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Show WHAT SOME LEADERS OF ! FASHION ARE WEARING New York. Greater variety in trimmings trim-mings and mudep of applying them, and of cut and color, are promised for the present autumn and coming winter win-ter than have appeared in several sea-eons. sea-eons. There are but a few general rules that can be applied to frock? to determine deter-mine whether or no hey are strictly fashionable.- These few rules observed, plmost endless latitude is allowed for the remainder. One essential is that all bodice sleeves must have their fullness above the elbows. el-bows. AnolherMfi that th waist lino must show in gowns, there must be a clearly defined waist for several inchd-i and no pouching or drooping at the front must in any way be allowed to con--cral it. Skirts, except for certain walking costumes, must be full about the bottom. bot-tom. Diverse fashions always add much to the picturesque appearance of a ftroup of women, and those who are averse to monotony in growing will find all the variety they hunger for in things sartorial. ' In broadcloths exquisite leather and copper tones are leading the onion skin hues, but yet all are of the lighter tones of brown, and all, therefore, merely variations of the same color. A rich, deep green just put forth in Paris is termed bronze green, although close on the time honored hunter's green. The Burgundy, plum, and blue rhauves are also being made up for fashionable, women. . . . r . A handsome dark blue broadcloth worn recently at a fashionable Fifth avenue restaurant was trimmed with small steel nail heads. These were used sparingly and at intervale along the edges of inch wide bands of the cloth. The costume had a skirt of round length and a tight fitting Eton coat with a postilion back. The skirt was not at all full, although wide at the bottom. Perhaps fourteen inches from the hem and aboTe the releasing1 of the side plaits a band of doth outlined out-lined a graduated flounce effect of the cloth; this was perhaps eighteen inches1 deep at the back by fourteen in the front. The steel nail heads were small and circular in shape and were applied ap-plied an inch apart" for about seven Inches. Then came a plain section of say, five inches. Running up from ! this band, at intervals of a few inches1 were tab? of the cloth outlined with steel to match the bands. The coat and postilion back had bands of the cloth, with the tiny steel bits set on similarly simi-larly tp these. On the skirt. An. under-, blouse of fine white chiffon taffeta was worn, also a small dark blue velvet toque trimmed with shaded blue ostrich os-trich tips. 4 ; Misa Evelyn Parsons is Wearing with, a brown chiffon voile frock an immensely im-mensely becoming ... brown straw chapeau flaring at the left, as do most of her hats, and trimmed about the crown with masses of Shaded but deep red j roses. Miss Parsons looks bettei-In bettei-In brown than in almost any other coK or, and particularly so in this frock. The material--rlch, brown- chiffon roiie has large ovals an inch and a half long by an inch across, scattered at intervals of, say, nine inches apait over the surface. Itis""made up 'over a white silk foundation that shimmers through and has a fine white lace yoke collar and undersleeves. The bodice starts in a high stock of white., chiffon covered with , lace, and there" Is a square yoke to match. From the outer edges of the yoke a wide strip of white lace extends out over the edges of the shoulders in an eqau- j let collar, and down the front and the : back a trifle below the inserted j'oke. The "bodice is gathered quite full,' but is drawn in at the waist line by a wide brown girdle. . .The sleeves are gathered at 'their tops, are full, airi fall loosely to the elbows, where hey are. again gathered into bands and are finished by a cascade of line white lingerie lin-gerie ruffles edged with cream tinted lace. Below these ruffles are small white undesleves terminating in narrow nar-row but elaborately trimmed wrist-'bands. wrist-'bands. The skirt fall? in full folds from the wafst, ' where it Is gathered "several times. ' full, to the - floor,. . .where ' it sweeps for several inches all the way around. It is finished by a wide hem and horizontal tucks of an inch and a quarter wide, at intervals of twelve or four.teen inches apart, break the surface of the skirt from Its hem to within eighteen inches of the girdle. . f . v Miss Daisy McClure, whose auburn hair and eyes of the same color distinguish dis-tinguish her. was a picture the other afternoon in a soft brown liberty satin sat-in frock of the color of her hair, topped top-ped by a large felt hat to match, the latter having no trimming save foHb of emerald green panne velvet about the crown. The hat was draped with a brown veil, and all the shades of eyes, hair and frock blended beautifully. beauti-fully. The gown was shirred around the neck and shoulders, and again at the waist line, from where it flowed in straight lines, but as cloe as though recured to a tight lining, until a little lit-tle above the knees the lower part of j the jupe was gathered oil. The gath- ered heading . to ' this section was at .' least six inches deep, and the resulting ' flounce trailed all the way around. The ; sleeves were shirred at the tops and i hung below the elbows in puffs. The i cuffs, stock and the little guimpe were ' of cream colored laee. ! Several charmingly simple street costumes, cos-tumes, all of course with round or instep-length skirts, have been noted of late. One such was a light dull, nv-dium nv-dium vhadc of blue mohair. The skirt was of the sunray pattern, and the bodice and slaves Mere plaited to. match. The girdle was a narrow scarf of. rich Bulgarian embroidery Jn dark reds and blues, with -hiats of orange, .and .the stock aud laid over cuffs were of" sheer hemstitched linen. A large roiind blue hat with slightly lifted edge was trimmed with folds of. liberty' sat-In sat-In ribbon In bine and' mauve, and a bow 'of mauve tinted blue ribbon ; appeared ap-peared underneath the left of the broad brim. Marie Weldon in Chicago Tribune. 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