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Show Ideas in Gowns From the Stage -- Actresses In Paris Provide Interesting In-teresting Fashions That Attract Attention. TAILOR-MADE SUIT POPULAR Outfit, Although the Most Expensive, Is Quito In the Limelight Blouse Comes Into Its Own Again. Thu wide skirt Is djlng hard In I'arls, owing to the popularity of thu liouso of Jeanne Laiivln, who dresses many chic Parlslennus. The fact that It was I.auvlu who launched the hip extended full skirt uud thut she has persisted In exploiting It Is doubtless tho renson why certain women con llnue to accept that style, writes a prominent Paris fashion correspondent. correspond-ent. This fashion Is noted especially among the actresses In I'arls, .some of the most Important of whom aro dressed by Lanvlu. This Is partly due to their fidelity to the dressmaker ns Orchid organdie dress embroidered In ' rose made over a black taffeta foundation. It Is quite tho custom In Paris for a woman to be dressed by one house exclusively. ex-clusively. This gives her a marked Individuality uud she Is looked upon us mi exponent of the fashion eren tlotis of that particular how. To bo seen In costumes from another dressmaker dress-maker would he almost tike u betrayal of confidence. One of thu most popular Freuch actresses playing light comet roles Is Jane Iteuounrd. This actress has been wearing l.nnvln's clothes for several sev-eral seasons, nnd In one of her late roles she wore only tho whlte-sklrted hip extended models fo characteristic of that house. It must be admitted that dresses of this type aro eminently eminent-ly sultablo to a coquettish nnd dashing dash-ing young woman of'slendcr, graceful build. Ilencuard looks so ndmlrablo In her I.anvln dresses that ono cannot can-not doubt that she greatly aids In tho continuance of this fashion. Ornandle Over Black Taffeta. A rose-colored organdie dress, madd up over a hip ('xti'iidc-i foundation of hind: taffeta. Is very beautiful. The organdie Is n sllHOver-thc-head. che-mlhe che-mlhe style, with considerable fullnesi en the hips. The diess opens In t wide panel down the front to show the black foundation. About the waist lb n black taffeta ribbon sash tied In ii htiuple square-looped bow at the back. This ribbon has n border of rose-colored sotln. matching exactly the tone of the organdie. Interesting ornamentation, In the form of n flat r.ppllque and embroidered roses of precisely the same tone, appears on the front of the skirt. On the black taffeta there Is likewise a rose-colored applique which enlivens the rather somber foundation. This dress hn the low, round neck nnd short sleees. I.nnvln Is making many of her dresses In this style. Itenounrd wore with this dress the thinnest of tete-de-negrc stockings nnd blnck satin slippers. She nlso wore long mousquetnlre gloves of glnce kid, finished with points of leather at the edge of the wrinkled top. Mnrle Louise, the well-known milliner, mil-liner, made the adorable hat of black horsehair braid, delicate to the point of transparency, bnnded and bowed with a .vide rose taffeta ribbon bordered bor-dered with block. Dignity of Line and Design. In the suinu rule Ituiiouurd wore a black tnffrtu frock, ery simple In design, wide skirted. Mid with a bod-Ice bod-Ice llttlng her slender flgurn quite snugly. The f en t tiro of this frock Is a big feather design In white, developed devel-oped In white ribbon and silk (loss embroidery, which stands out like an applique and udds materially to .the effect of the dress. There are no sleeves. The decolletuge Is quite low, Agulii sho wore a Mnrle Louise hut, this time of black satin trimmed with n skeleton plum of Nattier blue ostrich. os-trich. In direct contrast with dresses of this type are the models made by houses such as I ted fern nnd Worth, who krep to dignity of llnu and con ventlonnl designs. Mine. Dnlmorr. playing at tho Ucnttls-Riiut'o Ucnttls-Riiut'o theater, wore a gorgeous dress of seml-conventloual typo mndo by Itedfcra. It was developed In silver brocade nnd ninuve tulle, the latter forming a voluminous snsh drapery at one side of the back. Sho carried with this palo mauve nnd bllvcr dress n brilliant Jade green ostrich fan. In summer suits the plaited skirt continues popular. Many models nre being developed In taffeta and sntln. Skirts having plaited pnnels are often accompanied by Jackets with plaited pnnels nnd neck frills. The fashion of catching t i plnlted skirt In nt the bottom by means of restraining band Is one of the features fea-tures In summer tallnr-mndcs. Meer has an Interesting new model of tlilt-sort, tlilt-sort, with a loose box coat nnd h straight plaited skirt developed In white serge with black trimmings This house nlso shows a sir 4 . sport suit of khokl-colored serge, trimmer) wllh stitched plaits, which piis around the bottom of the Jacket, the hem or the skirt and the flaring edget of the sleeves. I'lntly stitched plain a I no form u yoke outline on the hod) of the Jacket. |