ANOTHER AMERICAN COUNTESS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 50, 22 November 1907, Page 3

ANOTHER AMERICAN COUNTESS.

At one of Mr. Whitelaw Reid's receptions In: London last year (writes a London" correspondent) Miss Gladys Vanderbilt met young Gount Laszlo Szechenyi. Tbe two are to be married this 'aiitumn ; and as Miss Gladys is counted fehe richest "catch" in America, the wedding attracts much notice.. Ever since hqr debut'three years ago, this lady has been persecuted by admirers, for she has a fortune of more than two millions sterling. The Count is 28 years old: He is popular and rich, and belongs , to one of the best families in Hungary. Mrs. and Miss Vanderbilt lately visited his Hungarian estates. The American public have credited Miss Gladys on many occasions with,being engaged to this or that American, but she refused to deny, all rumours affecting herself. Her silence earned for sa y. s the "Daily Mail," 1 the title of the American Sphinx." The American editors are now consoling themselves with such headlines as "Gladys,.after all, is to wed a title." The bridegroom elect is one of the" secretaries in the Paris Embassy. Everybody who knows him speaks well of him.

A London correspondent romarks ,that the cretonne craze is singularly acute just at present. It dominates all sorts of trimmings, though it shows to the .best advantago in connection with evening gowns. One such ehows a trailing iris design worked on to a foundation of silk. The flowers and foliage, lightly embroidered in self-coloured silk's have, when veiled with very fine chiffon, all the. appearance of a most costly brocade. Another beautiful examplo showed a pale ping silk gown, the skirt appliqued from hem to waist with a tapering design of roses. Touches of silver were added, and the whole Teiled in the finest silver tissue

_ One can harly havo linen gowns too simple —a well-cut, plain skirt and a bodico that ends in a waistband, opening from tho shoulders over a white blouse, but united to the bust by bands of the material, a kimono sleeve,and tho blouso showing beneath. \vhito is the fashion, and is likely to remain so. ■ Some of the handsomest ones are trimmed with.lace and'raised embroidery, lulet lace figures on many of them, and in Paris there is a disposition to introduce coloured embroidery on thoso white gowns. Those who do not affect white havo'a kindly feeling for biscuit colour, which looks weil for girls and also for matrons with white nair I' ilet insertion in puro white is introduced; upon them, and some of tho more costly display the handsome new guipure with, raised flowers, from which tassels deBcend and move as the wearer.moves.

_ Looking round at any fashionable assembly just now (says the "Queen") one notes tho severe plainness of tho skirt and their clinging grace. Sometimes above tho''liem tho open hole-work embroidery is worked on the fabric and gives great charm. Voile is übiquitous, especially in green and white A very pretty dress with a plain skirt has the new semi-vest and over it a coat banded at the waist, but left unfastened, with a full basque beneath rovers in the front adorned with pretty embroidery. -Tho fuli sleeves have a turn-back cuff we'll above the elbow,, meeting a full puff with a laco frill, which clears it; he V-shaped vest comes very high in.the throat, and is of lace, and at the junction of the waistcoat there is a lace bow. At the. fashionable resorts of the moment there are many; linon gowns often trimmed with braid and incrustations of Irish guipure; crossing bretellos eive graco to the bodices, and a sort of kimono of three-quarter length distinguishes it. It b-i S the deep kimono sleeve, and all round is bordered with a wide' galdn of open-hole embroidery, and, with, a huge hat with drooping feathers, the effect is quite charming