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Why Fashion Effects That Are
Fine for the Footlights
Aren't Good Taste on
the Street
LADYDJJFF-CORDON, the famous
"Luc3e" 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 centre
of fashion.
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By Lady Duff-Gordon
SOMEBODY wu kind enough to sajr that I
hould hare been a dancer aa well aa a
dress creator, ao well do I "understand
what la necessary In line color and freedom to
show off that particular form of art." Of course,
the real secret la that with the really good body
of a. really good dancer a dress creator can let
fly to her heart's content and produce the most
astonishing effects without being vulgar. How
rer, the same when worn by a bad dancer In a
room would be nothing short of Indecent.
One of the best exponents of what I mean Is
Miss Florence Walton whom it has given ma
the greatest of pleasure to be able to dress
with her beautiful slim body and her refined
Uttl head. It would be difficult for almost
anybody not to produce a really beautiful effect.
In the very early Autumn I designed for her,
among others, a couple of what I consider to
be the best things I have turned out for some
time, and it was the greatest pleasure for me
to see her handling them in the exact way that
I bad In my mind when they were in the
making.
Perhaps the same kind of person whom I
spoke of earlier might have said that she, too,
should have been a dress creator as well as a
dancer, so well does she exploit my efforts.
Both of these gowns are pictured here. One is
a duplex affair that Is, It can be worn both
with and without an overdress, and is most
suitable for evening dancing on the roof gar
dens on those terribly hot nights that we had
last September.
The one with the parasol shows the kind with
the overdress, which Is of amber colored mes
aallne, held on to the underdress by a couple
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of shoulder straps, and a large Watteau pleat
In the middle of the back, the upper part being
garlanded with hand-made flowers of lavender,
blue, green and mother-ot pearl, and the lower
part embroidered In a dcslfrn of mother-of-pearl,
both Inatde and out, ao that when It floats In
the air both sides of the garment (the inside
of which was a shade darker) showed their
full value.
Her sunshade, which of course is solely aa
article for'lhe stage, Is of the, same color mes
sallne, with large Louis XVI. loops of ribbon at'
the top and every other point around it having
a tiny group of flowers of the same period, the
whole thing resembling one of the eighteenth'
century canopies that were carried over the
ladies at that period by little colored attend'
ante. Her(hat Is. of leghorn, with the smallest
possible amount of trimming, it depending en
tirely on Its line for the effect.
The underdress, a complete garment in itself
and which can be worn without coat. Is of
souffle, with frills and banda and garlands .of
One maline lace, the heading of each being
lightly plotted with mother-ot pearL It is fin'
ished at the hem with Van Dyck, stitched with
silver and going In at the waist with odd shades'
of pink and blue. It has the tiniest shoulder'
straps of silver, mounted on marquisette.
The remaining dress is of a typo that has"
supplanted the tango dress of. last season. , It'
Is slightly Mexican in design, but, of course,
adapted to modern lines and for the stage. It
la made entirely of a fleshy pink. The aklrt la
of black net, embroidered with gold and silver,
with a line of black fox, which hangs around
the skirt, then up and over the
shoulder, holding down a drapery
of purple, silver and black metal
lie brocade. The other gowa
has a shoulder strap of gradu
ated flowers in bright triplicate
colors. There is no hair dress
with this.
My last photograph 4s a little
Autumn hat of chestnut brown
velvet, with a small eagla quill '
at the lower right hand side. For
a girl who does not wish to wear
what some people are pleased to
call "crasy effects- I consider
this a charming and ladylike bat
to adopt.
Duplex.
Dancing
Ciown
Without
Overdress,
Designed
by Lady
Duff-Gordon
tor Mist
Florence) -Walton.
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A Little Simple Autumn Hat
That Doesn't Fit the Stage.
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The Duplex With the Over'
dress of Amber Messaline.
("LucUc" Model.)
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