Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1912 — NEWEST FANCY FOR EVENING [ARTICLE]

NEWEST FANCY FOR EVENING

Lizard Gown Has Become Exceedingly Popular in Paris and Really Has Much Merit. Just as savage woman seeks to decocate herself in semblance of the birds and the beasts in her use of feathers, skins and war paint, so the Parisian woman of fashion imitates the scales of the fish, the wings of the butterfly and the tail of the lizard in her ballroom fancies. The lizard tail evening gown is the newest fancy, and it bids fair to implant a graceful style in the American drawing-room. The first model to appear in Chicago is a vase colored messaline, with black satin “tail” tunic, and waistband encrusted with black pearls. Black pearl clusters are worn on the circular black silk hair ornament that goes with it. The effect is one of sinuous grace, and it will add height to the short and the overly plump. The style could be carried Out even more suggestively in two shades of greed, or of brown, or green and bronze. . ■ - - Where the gowns cling, as in the extreme of the season’s modes, the effect, the designers say, would be most undignified were the scantiness about the ankles not counterbalanced by a mass of trailing drapery, as there is a Semblance of both mass and color in the Best gowns.—Chicago Inter Ocean.