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Show Evening Gowns in Paris The bctween-scason avcnlng gowns that nro being created In Paris, mostly for tho Parlslnn trado, nro extremely simple In outline Many of them, report sujs. nro nmde of heavy crepes In solid colors. Tho skirts uro draped and tho bodices nro made qulto simply, sim-ply, with little or no sleeves about them. Slnco lace Is so extremely popular pop-ular one Hurts additions of lace on otherwise oth-erwise quite simple frocks ns tin edging edg-ing for an underskirt (this Is an extremely ex-tremely good fashion) or as a trifling addition to n bodlre. Tho whole lace gown Is certainly popular. It Is seen everywhere, und every dny the lending lend-ing designers are adding new laco frocks to their collections. At tho fashionable evening gatherings In Paris many laco frocks aro seen, many of them bolng of black chantllly draped over cream-colored satin. One Inco frock was mado In chemise fashion and had a train squaro In shape set on at the shoulders and allowed to sweep over the floor after tho gown, which was qulto short as to skirt. Tills was of blncjt laco oyer wbjjo, and the train wus also built from the lace laid over the satin. Ways of Using Lace. A now gown of Cnlot's Is a snmple of tho wuy In which Cnlnt Ih usJrig luce, putting her own particular stamp upon tho design. This pnrtleutnr gown Is made of a hliie-innuve tullo over black Mitln. nnd the little edgings edg-ings on tu over skirt as well ns thu trimming of the bodice nnd of the underskirt un-derskirt nro of black lace. The cleverness clev-erness with which the edgings of Inco lire hnndled Is only the sort of thing that n renlly nrtlstle designer enn achieve, for It might so well be com-monplnco com-monplnco nnd ordlnnry If tho heavy hnnd of ono not ndnpted to tho busl-ness busl-ness of creating smnrt costumes wero put upon It. This Is one of tho very latest models turned cut by this houso nno" re thnt hns not been, as yet, Imported Im-ported to tn - count.y. |