Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1916 — RICH COLORS POPULAR [ARTICLE]

RICH COLORS POPULAR

SUBDUED TONES HAVE NO PLACE IN PRESENT FASHIONS. Modes Show • Return to the Styles and Tints of the Eighteenth Cen-tury-—French Modistes Have Fostered Idea. Despite the fact of black Spanish gowns, there is no cessation to the demand for bright colors. In the first season, when has been an alleged lack of dyes, women in mass look like kaleidoscopes. Their gowns fairly blaze in color, as they did during the Renaissance. This is more particularly true of gowns for the evening than those for the street, thanks to the good taste of our women. In outdoor ’clothes, even when we choose red and green, we choose dark shades. Burgundy red and Robin Hood green are the fashionable tones. There is also a soft leather tone in duvetyn that looks like Isuede, which has crept In among the other street ones and which is very much liked; it is especially effective in top coats that are worn over black and dark blue gowns, and it lends itself easily to skunk for collar and cuffs. In the evening, however, the picture changes. Not only are gorgeous colors indulged in, but they are loaded down with gold and silver lace in the Venetian manner. Certain women have already taken up the idea of getting their house gowns from Venice, and the wearing of these is not out of keeping with the whole picture of evening clothes. Not only color, but a great deal of metal tissue is incorporated in clothes. Doucet has sent over a vastly expensive but very lovely evening frock made of silver tissue, which is embroidered in crystal flowers, in the intricate workmanship of the eighteenth century. Cheruit has Introduced the idea of making loose bodices of silver tissue over short skirts of rich velvets, and another quite lovely evening gown is of blue and gold net over a skirt of gold tissues. One of the best gowns worn at the opera was of bright green velvet and lace over a petticoat of silver lace, which was mounted on silver tissue. The gown was trimmed with wide bands of emeralds and rhinestones worked on silver net. An effective frock worn at one of the smart dances was of thin silver tissue, with a short skirt bordered with Kolinsky, the bodice of silver tissue mounted over fresh pink tulle, the long, flowing Italian sleeves of tulle edged with Kolinsky, the white belt of black and white crystals. Beneath the short skirts were square pantalettes of silver lace and the slippers of silver tissue had oblong buckles of jet and crystal. Yet, in contrast to these gorgeous colors the new frocks are in blue and pink, the Watteau shades. Worth sends over a pale rose brocaded satin gown trimmed with rhinestones, which is lightened by tulle; the price paid for it was nearly $l,lOO, and the only reason that one is not rebellious over such a price is that the money goes to French orphans.