Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1911 — IN VOGUE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN VOGUE

FASHIONS OF ORIENT FABRICS AND COLORS OF EAST PREVAIL IN LONDON. Turbaned Women Swathed in Their /- Evening Gowns Seen at the Opera—Craze Reaches Motor Garments. x J A London correspondent writes: The opening event of the autumn season of opera at Covent Garden brought out the ‘latest fashions in evening gowns and hair adornments. Everywhere one saw the influence of “Su.murun” and “Kismet," those eastern successes which have obsessed playgoing London for the last few months. Oriental fabrics and colors prevailed and most of the frocks showed draped folds of silk or Velvet with Persian embroideries and barbaric jewels. Apparently every English woman this winter Is going to be Oriental and swathe herself in her evening gown. Corsets are abandoned, for it is the stayless, lithe figure which is best suited to eastern draperies. As for jialr ornaments, they range in style from huge turbans to. small fillets of dull gold. Mrs. Brown Potter wore the most conspicuous headgear in the opera house. It was a turban of shot blue and silver gauze, in the folds of which nestled a large stone which shone with blue and green light. ’ - Some women wore Oriental scarfs In green and gold or black and silver wound round their heads and fastened at the back with jeweled ornaments. Others had threaded pearls through the curls and puffs of their coiffures, and still others had twisted chains around their heads, bringing the ends down under their chins, making a necket of a new. .description rather like a chin strap.

Another novelty was the necklace of the same material as the gown. A, narrow strip of Satin or chiffon formed' the chain and attached to that was a pendant of ornament made of the same stuff. . A particularly pretty necklace of this sort, which was worn with a pale-blue and mauve gown, had two narrow strips, one of .pink, one mauve, twisted together to form the necklace, while a little flat band of pink and mauve roses made an ornament which fastened on the front of the corsage. The eastern craze has even reached motor garments, and its latest evidence is in the All Baba motor cap. This is made of velvet or Persian silk, folded round and round with the characteristic back, tilt much exaggerated. A little real lace frill is fastened at the back and falls over the hair and the nape of the neck. /

have exquisite buckles or buttons in fine silver, paste or enamed, with one’s monogram, as one likes. A violet velvet frock trimmed with fur and lace wpuld have violet velvet shoes and real lace stockings like the lace on the frock, and. so on through all one’s wardrobe. Naturally, wdmen with small incomes cannot* do this sort of thing to any extent, but they can follow modestly, and it is quite well worth while to give some attention to the detaU of paving the right shoes and stockings for each gown.