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ADY DUFF-GORDON.
the famous "Lucfle" of
London, and foremort creator of
farshions in the world, writes each
week the fashion article for this
newsiper, presenting all that is
newest and best in styles for well
dressed women.
Lady Duff-Cordon's new Paris
establishment brings her into close
touch with that centre of fashion.
Lady Duff-Gordon's American
establishment is art No. 1 7 West
Thirty-sixth street New York City.
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A Charming New Garden Party Frock
for the Southern Season
"Lucile" Model
By Lady Duff-Gordon
(Lucile).
AND now It's the bag mania!
Women seem to have
gone made over bags and
such bags they axe! Gigantic Id
size, yet bo flat and thin that they
will hold hardly more than a handkerchief.
In Paris every eostumer Is turn
ing out bags, each larger and flat
ter and thinner than the last, to be
worn with its particular gown.
These giant bags have yards of
cord or braid for handles and are
lung over tbe shoulder, reaching
nearly to the floor. In fact, one
sees them dragged along the
ground with their dangling ropes
or straps.
These really absurd bags or
act, as they are now properly
called must be flat and appear to
be empty, although one may be
allowed to tuck one's handkerchief
and a bit of a puree in at one side,
where there Is a little pocket for
the purpose. Tou may take your
mc shopping, but you must never
nse It for parcels; that would
never do. Perhaps a few tempting
samples may - be tucked In along
with the handkerchief and minia
ture purse, but that is all.
And these bags are as varied as
they are numerous no two are alike.
They are of every shape and ma
terial and decorated in every
imaginable manner.
One sees them of suede? of chif
fon, of velvet, of lace, of satin, of
linen, of chintz and cloth of gold,
of fur and knitted worsted, of
feathers and rawhide and snake
skin and tapestry. You can't name
a material that has not already
been utilized In their making, and
very country under the sun is
madly at work turning out bags
for fashionable women, and we are
getting them from Japan and India,
Mexico, Norway and Russia, to say
nothing of the girls working night
and day in the Paris shops to fill
the demand.
You may wear a hat a whole
gason and not tire pf it, but a bag
gets on one's nerves at the end of
a few weeks, and one needs a
change. So this Is why the bag
Industry flourishes, and French peo
ple forget the threat of war from
Germany In their eagerness to make
a future sewln gases to frantic women.
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And as the craze for bags in
creases ao does their elze, and they
are worn gigantic In some instances
out of all proportion, in iact
and In some cases are quite un
wieldy. Most of tbe bags are graceful
things, and may be bandied grace
fully, but when they are bo gigan
tic they lose all possibility of grace,
although the French woman ia skil
ful mough to play charmingly even
with her large sac. behind which r
she can hide herself completely It U
be so desires.
Fringe and tassels and balls and
embroidery decorate the new bags,
and one cannot get them too ornate,
no matter bow lavish the garniture
may be.
But this is quite enough for a
craze that has really nothing to
recommend It, except that It mo
mentarily satisfies a craving for
the bizarre.
To-day I am illustrating for your
consideration what seems to me a
very effective use of velvet and
chiffon in alternate stripes at hips
and down the bust, in a new "Lu
cille" Autumn gown. The gown Is
worn over a slip of white silk, is
trimmed with broad bands of vel
vet and has a high neck and elbow
sleeves.
A really charming garden party
gown is also shown in a photo
graph. It is of checked China silk,
blue ' and white, trimmed with
gathered ruchlng of silk and down
the front with small bows of the
same material. It Is loosely fitted
to tbe figure. Of course tbe para
sol should be of the same mate
rial as the gown, or of something
softly harmonious.
Would you believe that a Paris
milliner has actually created a
bat that women won't wear? But
when you glance at the accompany
ing illustration probably yon will
be convinced. Who wants to re
call her school days the days
when she stood in a corner in a
"dunce cap?"
The American milliners flatly re
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One of the New Odd and Extreme
New Fall Striped
Gowns.
- Bag of Gold and Purple Bro
, cade, Very Rich and Heavy.
Tassels and Cord of Dull
Old Gold, and a Big Flat
Bow of Deep, Dull Purple
Velvet Crosses the Top.
fused to accept this and other ex
treme bats that the Paris creators
tried to foist upon them. But
even the novelty-seeking dealers of
New York and Chicago separated
some of the goats from the cheep
and flatly refused to take the
models . across the sea to Ameri
can shores.
It was decided that these extreme
modes were very picturesque, but
not at all fitted to the exigencies
of rapid transit and Fifth avenue.
Bo they were calmly cut out, as was
also the perfectly square block of
a bat made of braided wool and
with a single upstanding quill.
"No one wants to have a square
box on her bead," said the sagac
ious buyers, and all agreed that a
block like this was not good for a
hat; it was going a little too far.
And so these scattering shapes
are left on the bands of the Paris
artists, and they will either have
to foist them off on the Russians,
who are the next easy marks to
Americans, or utilize them among
the vaudeville artists who are seek
ing everything as extreme as possible.
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