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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1915)
7 The Omaha Sunday Bee Magazine Page 1 r,yLiM . -f . ; : x f i ? I i . ! 1 ' ? - ;( i J f -1 " ? . j" 1 I i , r ' 'I i ' - f, I ' i ' " " ! ' ' 11 Dinner- Dreta of Taffeta with tha New Light-Wai.ted Bodice ; . and Full Skirt. "Lucile" ModeL By LADY DUFF-GORDON. SOME ' whlla ago X promised X should hare mor to say about ' tba Birdcage dresses and pan talettes. X have here a collection of . pictures that will show 700 mora fully what I meant. In the designing of dreees, as in everything else, effect Is gained by contrast Therefore the new small long waists nave brought in the full short skirts (or perhaps it's the other way round), while the dancing erase demands that the lines of the figure must still be shown. Therefore, I make tha full skirts transparent to ' please Dame Fashion and the inside lining tight to delight the dancers, and really charming It- Is, too. A. little Spanish lady Illustrates this to the last letter; look at her email waist. This, of course, means new corsets, so please don't set these 1 new gowns on the old straight corset, ' for the results would be disastrous. Her bodice Is of brocade in ivory satin with a design of cam ell as in scarlet and green. Her sash is of black and green, and her "birdcage" la of black silk net strapped with bands of gray satin. It Is over a tight dress of silver tissue, which Is again over black and white panta lettes. Her headdress is of black lace and a red and green flower tucked in at the back. . Another birdcage is the little lady in the silver wig. Her gown la of blue tulle and blue and silver bro caded taffeta and a flowered bodice. The skirt is made over hoops to tup port the weight of the taffeta. These hoops are of silver, as also are ber stockings and shoes. Speaking of stockings, bars you seen the silver stocklngsT They are exquisite. My history book tells of. the extravagance of Queen Eliza beth; mentions a pair of silver thread hose brought from Venice. I should imagine them very thick and uncomfortable, but the new ones of to-day are half silk (fray) and half diver, andr worn with allver shoes and wig, have the most fairy like effect. . I always dislike patterns In stock Inge, and to find a new thing like this is really a Joy. Stockings to my mind should be plain and of light colors or else black. In which case they should be the finest possible and transparent without any design. I have seen white stockings with black lace butterflies. Shun them! And the latest horror waa a pair of gray stockings with a design in scarlet up the front like the lacing of a boot, finishing with a bow at the top. Not to be thought of. but one wonders who buys this aort of things. Way down history full skirts have always been accompanied by trou pers. Th Tudors wore them in bro cade and the Victorians In embroid ery. In both cases the skirts stood, out so far it was unbecoming to aee so much leg while a tight petticoat did not give enough freedom. The return to the full skirt meana the return of the "pantalettes a pretty same snd far removed from the ugly "harem" skirt or trousers of three years go. I The pantalettes are long and tube ilike from the knee down, snd are of iehlffon Uce and ribboned and possi 0 . TbeNewfropi1 'if Over. 'Em. V, VI I'm V bly a tiny bouquet of flowers. ' But they must be transparent and sim ple. Tney must be modest and not fast looking for really modesty Is the only reason for them at all. My other example la a little taffeta dinner dress with tight walsted bodice and full skirt. She is dis- aMji lTioi" gold lace ff ml1,9 bouauets of flowers. Note we little basque wired out quite atralght and faced up with orange. Also note the hair, which is sUU i . N ( - - ' 1 . 1 I JJ 'V I , ,. -,t t I i I i " ;--5 s ... , f . .v, m .- . . - 'r , i . , J l ' tiocp-Slrirt Dress of Blue Tulle and Blue and Silver Brocaded Taffeta, with Silver Stockings, Shoes and Wig. ADY DUFF-GORDON, London, and foremost . u l i wono, wruc etn wrra newspaper, presenting all that it well-dressed women. Lady Duff-Gordon Pans clow touch with that centre of. worn off the face. In keeping with the frock she baa two little rolls on elthsr side and Just over the ears. Entirely different In style and effect. but also most attrac tive. Is a gown whose flesh-colored founda tion is, on the skirt, doubly veiled with gold net, one aide of the corsage, from shoulder to hip, eon elstlng of a deft drapery of brilliant green and gold bro cade and the other being of the same faint pink and shim mering gold as the skirt and being so modeled to the' figure as to have a somewhat startling effect at a little distance, A great barharleally beautiful orna ment of dull gold and brilliant mala chite green is faatened on the left hip. fringes of the beads and bugles and jewels hanging far down on the skirt, and a similar ornament in miniature providing a decorative apology for a sleeve on the rtfht shoulder, though at the other side the bodice baa no "visible meana of sup port," a narrow fold of flesh pink tulle (possibly, and cleverly conceal lng an elastlo threading), being only no tic sable or even discoverable at close quarters. You may always, Indeed, take It for granted that each dreBS la provided with a flesh-colored foundation whose chief aim and object it la to make its presence aa unobtrusive aa possible! And, remembering this, you can try to realise the effect of a sleeveless corsage of silver gauze crossed by wide scarves of sapphire bine panne, which are eventually caught together on one hip by a clus ter of damask roses. The full skirt beneath is of delicate pink chif fon and net In the deeper blue of a tropical sky at night, at first just broldered with a light tracery of dull gold, which seon, however, grows blight and bold and beautiful, too, tinsel ribbon of gold and silver be ing Interwoven with the metallic threads. And finally, shimmering out through the blue with a moon like radiance, a fold of silver tissue Is deftly Introduced between a dou ble fold of the blue tulle at the aklrt them. - r '1 1 If ' ' J I . , It ' i f ' i : Hi V," '.Am i'C".: ! ' '1.' '' ' ' 7 vj.tv - v-i I -it if '-i the famous 'LucsY' of creator of fashions in the t i ... .i me raanion article tor this newest and best in stylo foj esUbushrnent bring her fashion. Just How Ami .v. 7 p - ' W ' .;! , - : ' ; THE "speed of a gazelle," "fast as a horse, "fleet as a deer," "slow as an ox." are all familiar terms. But few know Just how fast or fleet or slow these things are. An In teresting computation Just made by scientists Is designed to throw light on the matter. riding horse covers forty Inches while walking, while at a jog trot It covers eleven feet In a second. The two-minute horse covers forty-four feet In a second. The leisurely ox moves over only two feet a second nhen hitched to a wagon, and about twenty inches when attached to a plough. Fast Birds The elephant, which can pull more than six horses, moves over about four and a half feet la a second, and running as rapidly as It can Is able to travel but eighteen feet in a aecond. The lion la claimed to run taster than the swiftest hunting horse, which Is from eighty to one hundred feet a second, according to the country through which it is compelled to travel. Testa differ greatly aa to the speed of a bare. Some claim It can travel at the rate of sixty feet a second, while others claim It cannot travel more than half that distance. The great variety of deer are all quite apeedy, but in certain localities they can travel much more rapldlr than in others. A roebuck The New Very Full Skirts Tliat Cover the New "Pipe Stem " Pantalettes; the Interesting New Silver Stockings and Wliy Dresses Are Becoming More and More V .. and Animals Transparent Somewhat Adranead Transparent Dress with the Pantalettes of Clack and White. The "Birdcaga" Is of Black Silk Net Snapped with Bands of Gray Satin. A Tight Underdreia of Silver Reveals tha Pantalettes. "Lucile" ModeL ' Can Travel haa been known td cover aeventy-foor feet a second when pursued by dogs. The giraffe la aaid to pass over the ground at the rate of about fifty feet a aecond, while the kangaroo covers ten to fourteen feet a second. The tortoise Is much slower. One five laches in length covers tut about a half Inch la a second. It cannot be expected that any anfanal can equal the speed attained by the birds. Some of the winged creatures are very rapid. The speed of the eagle ta estimated to bs seventy-fire feet a second, which Is but a UtU taster than the wild 4un -.-k. h tha Mar ronunv, Orsat Brltals RlrfcU lUssrved. I
