Ladies' Column.

Lake County Press, Issue 2185, 5 September 1907, Page 2

Ladies' Column.

Latest London & Paris Fashions, BY MISS ADA MELLER. [All Rights Reserved.] Evening Dress for a Girl. THE season which brings with it the need "of evening frocks for dances and dinners that are invariably in force at this particular period of the year. Chiffon and ninion carry all before them for the simpler toilettes; lace of various kinds, coarse and fine, is also freely employed in the construction of evening gowns, and soft satin and taffetas silk are extremely popular in a similar cause. Pale blue, pastel and llesh pink, amber and a rather bright shade of light green, are the evening colours that claim to be the most fashionable just now, while white is, as usual, prime favourite. On many of the newest evening gowns little of the bodice is visible, the belt being very high and met by a fall of lace or little lapets of the dress material, frilled with Valenciennes and proceeding from the dccolletage. In the simple frock sketched, for instance, the bodice is for the most part veiled by a deep llounce of lace, falling trom a band of insertion that marks the square docolletage. The material of which the dress is made is

pale pink niiiion, bordered at the foot of the skirt with u band of chine silk. At the

waist is a bolt of similar silk, w.tli Imig eu '** (lowing at the back, arid tl c abort pun sleeves arc tied with llowered -’ilk to match. Nothing could 1)0 simpler than this dainty little frock, which, at the same time, illustrates the latest note in fashion, in the introduction of the broad hem ol contrasting material at the foot. Very often the Icm ■* of velvet—sometimes even of cloth, worked all over with beads and silks. A great mao} evening dresses, suitable, like the model illustrated, for young girls, are ol spotted not, made up with many little frills on the skirt, each one headed by a narrow hand of cream-coloured satin-ribbon. brocks of Mauresque and similar lace, falling O'er soft satin slips, are other becoming-aslnons lor debutantes, who are also wearing higliwaisted Empire gowns of Oriental satin, white, pale blue, or rose decked, unadorned by any trimming save a touch of lace at the neck and again, perhaps, on the short sleeves.

Fashionable Hair Ornaments. The low-dreaaed head is a thing of the past. Every fashionable soili'ure is high, and there is a great vogue in hair-ornaments. All sorts of pretty things are requi-itioned for the decoration of the hair, back-combs playing an important part in the scheme ot adornment, while such trifles as high hows of spangled and pailletted net and lace, buttcrlli’s of velvet and sequins, semi wreaths of llowers and foliage, knots of roses, wisps of tulle, and plumes of various kinds aie more or less worn. According to present s ishions, the hair is drawn up high from the nape of the neck, fixed midway with an orn oriental comb, and arranged in various fancy ways on the too of the head, the decree being that the dressing shall be forward for the winter season. The hair in front is either thrown well over the forehead or drawn straight up from the brow in a series of puff-curls, the coiffure shelving off sharply at the baek, in a way that, it must be admitted, is soim limes very trying and far trom pretty. The really artistic coiffure is so arranged'hat i: forms a soft frame to the face; but the ultrasmart are prone to lose sight of the artistic element in their mode of coiffure, thinking only of the importance of illustrating the

last word in hair-drcssii ;r "ashions. -Nothing could be uglier than seme of the modes of coiffure that ate reckoned ‘smart,’ where the hair is dragged up to the top of the head in a way that is at once haid, ungraci f id, and unbecoming. f)uite a new ornament is the tiara of lace, which may be seen sketched in the accompanying group. It is generally mounted on a rolled bandeau of g.ud tissue or net, and is suitable for the mi idle-aged woman. Sketched also is the new hair ornament consisting of a drapery of g dd tissue with a full-blown pink velvet ruse at the right side and bunches of gold grapes and vine leaves at the left. The combination of colour in the real article is truly lovely. The combination of colour in the real article is truly lovely. Auother ornament in the group is a little cap of embroidered velvet—pale blue worked with pearls and gold thread—with knots of black or blue satin ribbons at each side. This little headdress is copied in black moire and in fur for matinee wear at theatres. Beneath it will be seen a sweeping paradise plume, this in black or amber, forming a picturesque accompaniment to an Empire toilette. Tho remaining sketches show a couple of hairornaments of pailetted net and a Spanish back-comb of carved tortoise-shell.

A Blouse of Velvet and Lace. One of the needful possessions of a woman's wardrobe at this season of the year is a velvet or velveteen blouse, for winter demands something warmer than thin silk and crepe-d«-chiiie. Various pretty styles are introduced into the new velvet blouses, the smartest of which boast the short sleeve with lace frills. A rather new idea is introduced into the velvet blouse sketched, which is arranged with a round yoke of frill upon frill of narrow Valenciennes lace, the sequence broken broken in front by a plastron of coarse Irish lace proceeding from a collar-band of the same. The short sleeves are gathered, above the elbows, into a band

of net covered with Valenciennes luce, and below these are three deeper frills of lace, which might be dispensed with it preferred. Sometimes, however, it is more becoming to cover up the arm below the elbow, and in this case the longer frills are useful. Another design well suited to velvet is the cross-over blouse, showing a vest of lace, or the sailor blouse, arranged with a collar of fine lace frilled’all round or left with a natural edge. Some of the new velvet blouses are ' low and square in the neck and filled in above with plain or embroidered lace—a very pretty fashion.