South Bend News-Times, Volume 30, Number 242, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 23 August 1913 — Page 2

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Gorgeous Evening Coats the Crowning Sensation of the Coming Season's Startling Modes

LADY DUFF-GORDON, the famous "LucAe" of London, and foremost creator of fashions in the world, writes each week the fashion article for this newspaper, presenting all that is newest and best in afyles for well-dressed women. Lady Duff-Gordon's Pans establishment brings her inlo close touch rith that centre of fashion. Lady Duff-Gordon's American establishment is at Nos. 37 and 39 West Fifty-seventh street. New York.

By Lady Duff-Gordon ("Lucile").

Is a3 important as tho costume under neath. Therefore to be the crowning glory of the ultra modern costume; the evening wrap In these extravagant days can no longer be demure. Wo no longer resemble the gentle wren, nor yet the sparrow with their dull, sombre coats. No. To-day It is as the gorgeous peacock, or perhaps the decorative scarlet tanager. that we display ourselves at nightfall. "Gay as peacocks," "Vain, as peacocks," these are

ER evening wrap can bo to a voman her crowning Joy or her greatest disappointment. It can give to her tho supreme

consciousness that every detail of her costume Is perfect or It can make her ieel that she Is all at sixes and sevens. Gone aro the days when a woman's evening coat was merely a covering for her fragile gown, a shell in which nestled some delightful creation of the modiste's art To-day tho evening wrap

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Front View of "Peacock" Wrap of Rose-Brocade. Oriental Embroidery and Real Lace.

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when given to censuring our sumptuous garments. But, speaking of peacocks, does man and the world at large ever stop to think that the peacock with his superb clothes, his colossal vanity. Is masculine. Verily Is woman maligned. The example of bedecking ourselves Is set U3 by the male birds of the air. Why, therefore, should the male of our species be forever carping at us? Recently I read a bit of verse anent this peacock myth, that I quote before going on to tell you more about some lovely peacock wraps recently exhibited in Paris: "Feminine vanity? v Oh, ye god3. Hark to these men! Vanity's wide as the world 13 wide. Look at the peacock in his pride; Is it a hen?" There Is nothing too fragile, nothing too sumptuous for woman to have made into her evening wrap. Fabrics as fragile as chiffon or as elaborate as silver bocade. laces of a rare and unusual design, all these are delightfully transformed into the most seductive of evening coats. There are times when I feel that some sublimated name should be created for such wraps as I have Just been designing. Of a verity the English language Is too restricted. There Js too little color In it to properly describe them. Can you Imagine anything more lovely than a coat of real chantilly lined with rose chiffon. I recently created such a one for a bride, and she whispered to me Just after her return from the honeymoon that her coat had meant as much to her as her husband's embraces. I am sending you this week some coats for evening that should Inspire you with the same happiness with which the chiffon wrap Inspired the happy little bride. I have selected three that I call Peacock wraps. Is this not a charming and a truthful name for them. But. even here I make distinctions. I Ilka

to think that a wonderful golden pheasant Inspired the one bearing its name. There Is a rare simplicity of design In this coat. It wraps the wearer lovingly In Its folds, but does not hide or detract from the grace of her figure. It Is very long and narrow In the back, and is draped toward the front The very short kimono sleeves edged with golden rnallne and the neck ruche of the mallne are new and odd touches that mark this as of the very latest mode. Then I have selected for you also two views of one of these Peacock coats, a back and front view, that will convey to you clearly the sumptuousness of this model. Tho coat is a wonderful rose brocade, draped over hips so as to give a novel pannier effect. The cape, which forms the sleeves, Is made of a rare and old point venise flounce that the wearer had received from her grandmother. Tho shaped piece around the neck Is an elaborate bit of Oriental embroidery, fruit of a long visit In the Orient. The design of this, while very different from that of the Golden Pheasant, is Just as graceful and also enhances rather than detracts from the grace of the wearer. Very different, although perhaps not so sumptuous in outline, is the short wrap that I have named the Coat-of-the-Rose.M This is one of the hip wraps or coats that are so very chic this season In Paris. It has the quaint atmosphere that seems so necessary at thl3 time. It is created in a flowered moire changeable taffeta In rose and trray, but rose predominates, and the wearer usually has at her waist a glorious rose set in foliage, and from this rose and the color came the name, "Coat

of-the-Rose." There is much old gold lace used as decoration. The sleeves are short, and while this is an evening wrap, it might also te used as an adjunct to a dinner costume

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