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Veils the First
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New Fashions
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Black Beaver "Topper,'
With Bottle Green
Lace Veil Drawn
Diagonally Oyer the
Face and Fastened "at
Back With Green Braab
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ADY DUFF-GORDON, die funoui
"Lucile" 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 styles for well-dressed women.
Lady Duff-Gordon's Paris establishment
brings her into close touch with that centrt
of fashion.
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The 'Topper" With One of the New Heavy
Spanish Veils
By Lady Duff-Gordon
.C'UACILE")
NOW f SoTnetilBg, f8f tBB mo
ment at least, quite new "topper"
hats In all guises. How long this
particular fancy will last It Is difficult to
say, though I rather Imagine that one
soon may get tired of so distinct a change
from the little close-fitting toques of last
season, with the high standing aigrettes
and paradise. Particularly as for the
present at least all "toppers" mwt ba
more or less alike In proportion, though
I shall try to ring In as many changes
around this particular form as possible.
A "topper" hat Is distinctly a hat for
the tailor-made girl. It Is a utility hat,
and must In no way be orertrlmmed or of
any particular kind of material. The four
that I have are the Tery latest, or may I
say the Tery earliest of this delightful
form of headgear. The little lady with
the ermine muff has a "topper" reminis
cent of the Sans Gene. It is of green
panne, with a narrow piece of ermine ter
minating in a little black tail poised high
on the right hand side of the crown and
running down low on the left hand side
of the back, where it terminates with a
tiny ermine head. This should be worn
with a green tailored suit and ermine furs.
The coach and four is another form,
and absolutely made on the lines of the
drivers bats In the old coaching days,
with curled-up brim bound and banded
with a black moire ribbon. With this the
wearer has a high black and white choak
er etock to keep In the suggestion of
postilion.
Yet another hat Is of black bearer of
rather a Victorian type worn by ladies
when out riding. It has a bottle green
laoe veil drawn diagonally acrosa the face
and fastened high at the back with a
green brush.
Our last friend wears a white Tell with
heary Spanish design orer her face, Just
showing the eyes below.
These hats, In common with other hats
of the season, must not be worn crowded
down onto the head, but rather higher la
the back than the front, and In one or two
cases a quaint little lady might be brave
enough to wear a green chenille net over
her headdresslng up the back to be in
keeping with the whole of the picture.
And now to tell you something of the
dresses. I suppose if I were to say that
skirts will be fuller and bodices tighter
you would say, "We have heard all this
before." But If you were to see the
dresses you would say Immediately, "I
have never seen skirts so full or bodices
ao tight as these," for they are even
fuller and tighter than last season, and
In many cases shorter. The bodices are
very long walsted and necessitate an en
tire new silhouette, ao If you wish to be
in the latest fashion you must hie your
self to your corsetierre before you come
to me. Hoops are, of course, in nearly
everything, and it Is surprising how in-
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The "Sans Gene Topper" of Green
Fanne and Ermine
("Lucile" Model)
elegant the dresses look without them If
you see a really well-made one In a room
in contrast with the others. I have even
afternoon and morning serge tailored
dresses, and revel in them, so pay no heed
to the old frumps who call them ridicu
lous, for they themselves now are wear
ing the tight dresses they condemned
four seasons ago.
Furs are to be rather interesting the
coming season, and all coats will ba volu
minous and have enormous cuffs and
bands of contrasting and bigger fur for
decoration. The groundwork of these
coats will often take the form of new
pieced fur, such as squirrel, sable, chin
chilla, tope and other short furs, the
aklns being cut and pieced together so
that the fur works in contrasting direc
tions and so forms contrasting designs In
checkered work, stripes and even more
elaborate patterns than this. Speaking
of chinchilla I have seen the most as
tonishing Imitation of this fur made from
squirrel that no lady need be afraid of,
however much she may detest imitations
on principle, so excellent is It and so at
tractive and durable.
' Furs are to be expensive this season,
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Photos av-Wwre.
and we have paid
good-by to su:h
cheap rubbish as
monkey, gout and
those red foxes
that became so
common last year.
For evening
most of the
dresses are ap
proaching on Victorian or what you would
call Colonial, and to be in keeping the
hai r must be dressed to match close to
the head, the puffs or curls and very often
tight braids caught up with queer btiff
bows and little flowers. IHg cluster car
rings and brooches of the name period
should bo bearched for now in the curi
osity shops be-fore they are all bought up.
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The "Coach and Four" One of the Newest of the "Toppers Made
Absolutely on the Lines of the Drivers' Hats in the Old Coach
ing Days the Brim Curled Up and Bound and Banded
With a Black Moire Ribbon
Ciucfle" Model)
Copyright. 1815. by th Etar Comjanr. Orsat Britain Rights Reserved.
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