Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1917 — BROWN AND BLACK POPULAR [ARTICLE]

BROWN AND BLACK POPULAR

Some of the Prettiest Evening Dresses Seen Recently Haye Been in __ Some of the very prettiest evening frocks have appeared during the last Week, remarks the New York Telegram. There is a pronounced feeling, for bronze and faintly brown shades, and these it is which were responsible for a pretty gown seen recently, through which a lovely knotted scarf of mauvish-pink, the real chrysanthemum pink, was threaded. The veiling was of bronze lace run with metal thread, falling over an underdress of palest brown charmeuse, which had a plain swathed bodice and the tuckedup skirt that is so decided a mark of many new models. Black gowns are more worn than mourning apart, and for them fish net is first favorite. This net was used in a second evening frock, the bodice of which was carried out in a new panne r matenal~of delightful substance, or the lack of it. This fabric has some of the characteristics of rare Persian rugs, those rugs which connoisseurs hang on walls or at the most allow to dtope sofas. For with all its rich velvety appearance it is as soft and pliable and light as the finest satin; Indeed, just as with the rugs, it is not until one handles it, finding into what tiny space it can be compressed—almost passing through the proverbial ring—and into what graceful folds it falls, that the illusion of stability given by. depth of pile is removed. And the surface has much of the Persian beauty and silken softness too. Tit the gown in question it was trimmed somewhat elaborately with fern leaves in ribbon work, after one of the most successful of the new models.