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Show I The Directoire I Bids for Favor aanv H Borne et the Mot Important drew- H makers have elected t9 emphasise tin H Directoire drapery- Thus la the re- ; cent ceUeeUeaa tkwt la a distinctly ' aw type af. Dkeetelre costume; be- ' muh while tatredactag tba Directoire M motif la th skirt tbe centarier baa H kept the low waistline bodice. There . la a Terr vtrom: feelrog, notes a faea- H Ion write la the New Tork Tribune, B that there will be a decided develop- ' neat Into asoce pronounced Directoire H style. Hbwcver, tba cleverness ef H thl new Directoire note la 1U faint , ettsgeetlot and the actual creation of H distinctly modern things around tbls H baslcly classic. Idea. B Aa everybody knows, the Directoire H was a development from the Greek H an effort, as It were, to adapt the aim ' pllclty and art of rarly Greek dreaa H to the uses of the adventurous, In H trlgulng aplrlt and manners of the H turbuleat Directoire. 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It Is claimed, too, H tba( during this period a man's auc- H eeaa waa only limited by his ambition m and a woman's by Iter beauty. Thus H there waa so limit la audacious dreaa. m Happily, today the Directoire motif la H aoinewliat tempered by a sense or pro- H prlety.' m he direct Greek I strong also In H tba aew collections, and many of the H meat attractive afternoon and evening M dreaeea ore Greek In aplrlt. All m through tho past winter there hna been M a tendency toward tho drnped eve H nleg dress. In their effort to find M something distinctly new nnd Interest- H Ing the I'Arls drcssmnkcrs have ow Hi verged toward tho Directoire; that la. j the Directoire evidenced In thq skirt B drapery, but not yet defined, In tho Si bodice. It bus been nn easy step from the AM Grecian styles of the winter' to merge Inte the Directoire, because It war tho Greek that laeplred the Directoire during the ear'y triumphs of N.-poleos before lie became so ambitious as to create, an empire. The Directoire has not been I vogue since 1006, and It Is curious to relate that It waa displaced by the Moycn Age or low walstllno In 1000. Since that time nil tho fashions have revolved re-volved around the low waistline and tho natural uncorsctcd figure. Worth, who excels In evening dresses. Is notably working on the Dtrectoro lines. lie has made numberless num-berless day and evening eVessca very suggestive' ef that period. It Is In-tereetinc In-tereetinc to note, however, that the draperltV are treated In an entirely original "way, owing to the fact that they are now nt the right side and not tho left, as In the original period. The low waistline Is practically always al-ways retained. Featurea llaek With Vivid Cetera. Among the Worth evening dresses there Is hardly a failure, but an em-bsrrarsment em-bsrrarsment of riches. One might with -closed eyea choose from the many fteautirul modelB offered. This house Is showing many beaded evening dresses, using square, oblong and round crystal bends In Jet and In color, also ninny large caliuchons In high colors. Ilhlncstone and Jet motifs and Jewel studded embroideries are shown on evening dresses. Worth's sensatlonnl novelty the Directoire gown combined with the low waistline Is developed In black satin and turquoise blue net elaborately elabor-ately embroidered In turquoise Ik?hiI and crystnls. No hlng more lovely can be Imagined than this combination of black ii ml blue. The dark-haired woman who wore this created a erl-table erl-table .sensation, particularly ns she wore priceless white and gray pearls as earrings and In the form of an upper up-per arm bracelet with pendant entla. each end holding n pear-rimped pearl in gray or while. Less extreme In Ita, effect la n model In crcpo do chine with beautiful embroideries em-broideries of ruby und whlto benda. Tho dress Itself Is a pnle pinuve crepe do chine. From tho hips down It Is pure Directoire, while abovo that It has the -straight chemise form. A pretty feature Is tho Bcarf, which fulls from ono slouldcr at tho back and Is attached to a bracelet. This scurf, together with the earrings, la an lm port h at part of the toilette. Both Jeweled ornaments are developed In rubles and pearls. Many of the dccoletto models hnve special designed shoulder atniM worked out like Jewelry, hut Jh rhlae-atones rhlae-atones and Imitation onyx. Thin house uses also very elaborate belts like real Jewels set In metal. Ono of the most striking novelties la an entire dress made of dull black paillettes, thfuttgh which Is wrought a design lu colored paillettes, also In ma I finish. This Is extraordinarily new looking, mora like a brocade than a spangled gown, as one always associates spangles with a brilliant or sparkling surface. Worth goes In for vivid colors and ptnya a full series of reds, yellows and varl-colorcd combinations. He has strlnklngly beautiful dresxes all In (lu mo red or flame yellow. Two new rose-yellows used by this house aro known ns LucUar and Aurora. Despite his apparent Interest In high color. Worth shows many lovely all-black all-black evening dresses. A beautiful, model, called sotr de fete. Is I" black satin studded In a design of rhino-' stones, hammered directly Into the fabric and with tho Directoire drapery held on ono hip under tho fullness by a Inrge motif In Jet nnd rhlnestonea with giant acorn pendants. |