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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 12, 1915)
The i Omaha Sunday Bee Magazine Pag V A , A- A y inttf 1 10 L f 'V 1 ' . .AO-' - : . 7 . . 3 a A Quaint "Lucile" Model, with Square Cut Bodice and Train. By Lady Duff-Gordon ("Lucile") T rilERB has been muca curloa- ity expressed and quite legitimate curiosity, too about why women should wear, as they have been doing, furs in the Summertime. And when the new Winter fashions appear and it Is seen how singularly Summer-like and without furs these are oh, what a chorus will go up from irreverent males! For the Winter fashions are Indeed rather "Sum mery!" Now, the Summer furs were real ly a charming idea. It was the abuse and exaggeration of the thought that made them sometimes ridiculous. The light furs that were originally used for trimming are not unduly warm, nor did they look so. All animals wear their furs in Summer, and they do not have the appearance of uncomfort able temperature. Besides that, fashion, as I have often said, is in dependent of the ideas of the moment. If it were not, how could there be new fashions T One of its strong . factors Is contrast. The contrast idea in Summer furs was particularly strong. And as long as it was really beautiful and not un comfortable or unhygienic it was a good thing. What I mean to say is that there isn't the faintest reason why women shouldn't wear furs in Summertime if it makes them more beautiful, more attractive and is neither un comfortable or unhealthful. It was abuse that made the fashion ridiculous. In Just the same way there lsnt any reason why women shouldn't wear revealing dresses in Winter if the same rules are observed. Of course, the out-of-doors gowns should be strong and warm. A ivoman going around with snow falling on bare arms and neck Go V 3v u . vyr -furl t would be ridiculous But Winter is largely an m-aoor season, and that being; so, there is nothing in congruous In some of the fashions you -re going to see. And besides that it has been proven! that in the matter of, her ' resistance to weather, and so on, woman is much superior to man. A woman can bear extremes of-temperature that would send a man to a hospital. She can undergo exposure and ap parently thrive on it that poor, weak man can not. This la an at tested physiological fact. Here is one charming model that shows the "lessening" of Winter clothes. The wrap of tulle falls from the slender shoulder straps of the delicate corsage. Arms and shoulders are quite bare. The dress itself has the new train. Another of my models shown here retains the full skirts the "birdcage" effect and has a square cut bodice. With it is also the new train. There is a touch of old-time styles in this, and old-time styles provide inspiration for still another gown of black and white striped silk, the crinoline-like fulness of the short skirt being wired and piped with black velvet and then edged with a fringe of crystal beads which shimmer and shine as the rich silk sways some what stiffly outward with, every step. Two bands of black velvet are, respectively, fastened at the waist and beneath the bust with square buckles of diamonds, a film of lace being laid lightly over the shoulders. There is special smartness, too, as well as novelty in a gown whose skirt of purple tulle has its fulness accentuated by a fine wire hidden between a piping of black satin, the underdrew of flesh pink chiffon and 1 i v A j,j LADY DUFF-GORDON, the famous "Lucile" of London, and foremost creator of fash ions m trie world, writes each week the fashion article for this newspaper, presenting all that is newest and best in styles for well-dressed women. Lady Duff-Gordon's Paris estab lishment brings her into close touch with that centre of fashion. 1 li r-'- SKI: f -v. Mhfi if-- J V A French Evening Dress with the New Veiled Effect of Arms and Shoulder. One of the Advance "Unclad" Fashions for the Cold Season. Model by Martial et Armand. Copyright, 1915. it v X by fh Htar Company, dreat Britain f -a 7 1' 1 X 1 v 7 v.: I ,,vl TA XK J ( A Winter Dress by Chrruit of Black Surah Silk, Which Gives Also the "Pcek-a-Boo" Effect. Rlhti Rta?rred. T" k-V . Vi i V "V ,..fl k .?....v A CharnUng "Lucile" Evening Gown of Rose Tulle, Chiffon and Silk, Showing the New Winter "Undraped" Effect and the New l ull Train. and cobwebby lace being Just allowed to assert itself for an inch or two beneath. The valst is swathed about with black and white striped 'silk, and then a final fold of oawhlre blue and malachite green, the cor age, of purple tulle, soon giving place to a chemisette of the faint flesh pink. Very charming, too, is fashion's imitation of a rose In a three tier and scalloped skirt of pink tulle, whose fulness la all piped with silk, the deepettt shade coming at the hem and the palest at the knees. And the delicate tint or the bodice where points of silk enfold a film of tulle like the calyx of a flower is emphSKizsd by the definite contrast of a waistband of black velvet. The underskirt in this case U of the cobwebby mellow-toned lace which always seems to look particularly well with pink tulle. Another striking dress combines jlaln taffetas of pale lime green ftliadlng and a white silk atrijied with the same delicate color, a touch or two on the corsage, and, then, the whole of the turban-like head dress, introducing the somewhat daring contrast of peacock blue. Another very full skirt of sapphire blue vel vet, doubly scalloped at the hem, ani Furs of Summer Give Way to the Laces and "Peek-a-Boo " Bareness of the Cold Season I i v there all edged with a line of dls xnonds, is draped Into outward puff (almost reminiscent of the dear de parted pannier) at one side and the caught under and upward. This Is somewhat surprlmingly allied to a corsage of "Invisible" pink tulle, to which a touch of substance is given by shoulder straps of the blue velvet, studded with diamonds. Another notable gown has an azalea pink chiffon skirt and a coatee corsage or black and white striped silk, the swathed pink waist band eblng fastened with a black rosette. Then a full skirted dress of white chiffon is made most dis tinctive and decorative by two rather broadly encircling bands of black satin and a final bordering or ermine, the bodice. In its turn, hav ing its fragility of chiffon contrasted with long sleeves of black satin, fin ished off tar over the hand, with aa edging of ermine. The accompany ing hat is of white ilk, underlined with black and wreathed round with pink roses, which are caught to gether at the back by long atreaxaera of black satin rib bo-