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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1916)
The Omaha Sunday Bee Magazine Pae n tmw ij rip' tvu - i .!'. Tern) In - JLo, LADY DUFF-GORDON, ihe famous "Lucile" of London, and fore most creator of fashions in the world, writes each week the fashion article for this newspaper, presenting all that n newest and best in styles for well-dressed women. .Lady Duff-Gordon's Paris establUhrneorings her into close touch with that centre of fashion. i . . - ! ; By Lady Duff-Gordon ("Lucile") THE old adage that "Clothe mak the woman" was never mora true than It is to-day. In the period of tall women their femininity was entirely lost by Tory hlgh-waisted, sweeping clothes and their towering hats and headdresses. Never were women so "quaint" as when some eighty years later .the little heads and feet of the Victorian women appeared. Two or three seasons ago the brilliant color and flamboyant designs which were being worn before the war made all the debutantes nothing more nor less than sophisticated women, while to-day the hoop skirts and again the small heads and tiny waists are making them, to my mind, the most charming, dignified and refined little ladles within the memory of any expe rienced chaperon. They are "quaint" and they fascinate. These pictures will show Juat how they do fascinate., To begin with, the colors are much more soft than before, with the exception of the spiciest touches in some concealed place of either shrill young green or -lemon yellow. "Quaint" 'skirts concealing the actual outline of the limbs are much more modest and tantalising than the close sheath skirts of the last few years, while ' Mm tight bodice and bare shoulders are the most be' witching setting for the tiny head with the close clusters of curls and braided bands . whiob every woman and girl has adopted at the moment. These dresses also are less vulgar In the way of tinsel and Jewelry than before, as fashion tells us they most stick out and at all costs. The weight of diamond and pail lette trimmings would only tend to pull them closer .to the figure, and therefore . for them has been substituted the lightest of silver lares and the stlffest of shot taffeta in the daintiest of colorings, with clusters of Spring flowers or moire stripes Yet even with these "stlcky-out" mate rials, the hoop Is necessary underneath, and very attractive they are. for besides being made in plain material, they are all of ell ver, gold and In some exaggerated cases made of bands of diamonds This week i present for your Inspection three Utile dresses of this type. The first is of flowered striped taffeta draped up at the sides. Although It has no actual pan niers. It Is In a pannier effect, showing my neatest little yoke almost suggesting an apron coming from the tight bodice of pink satin, which Is tied acroes with two shades of china blue, the little net fichu being edged with skunk and caught together with ''rifU...'.., V .,v. . . . f . . V Ay v. , , Mr " '- " 1 ' u,aV.V ill t. ' 4 !i ' ' ( 4I V.'i -i. -J'. - 1 i i .:,. x - '?; t e .fV . . - 4i v'v'.'JI "'-riZ. 7-' ' " 7''r ' ' uv.i:-., , . Pv'vv-' ;i d .v. . . f 'V'-v.'.' ,' "' ''' . ,' i I i (r r I 1 ?''J,pJ i'-v, I V I J Vt '''"' :v I . . I if ..-.' . A V .1 . I ' m.. . I 3 m, l,,: r J Quaint ' . . , .4ress ' of : . u '' Fiew'efrd ' i." i: Strlpta'" 1 i v '.-V.T''-'".. Very ' Quaint .t"'Lucil;': 3 ' 1 ; Moan ' 1 T Thrse-Decker" BrlJmid Drtu' fcfPrtmfeteTulI. , AatK "Qualat? Pr i iUip.d T(fU, wltl Tig kt ttke and , fjUflliV4 1l&dcO PsanUr a vluKivr of flower ' The hat in of sifve'r lare and loops of blue ribbon representing th tme flowers in tlie brocade ' '' ' . . ; On the lower left hand, slue is a dress not unlike some of the "Oreute" pictures, - It shows a petticoat ol lace and embroidery made over hoops with the tight bodice and pannier of atrlped taffeta, the pannier belnR caught carelessh up and draping almost around to the back again, ao large U it Another tiny bouquet of flowers completes the line at the waist - Look at her close little head 'Do you not aee how much more It brlnga out the tliararter of Iter face than lie frlxtea and curia and psyches that one sees around us In the restaurants and stalla of the theatrea ' My last little picture Is a bridesmaid's dress of prim rose colored tulle made three-decker fashion and bor dered with rows of satin of the same shade, headed with the single ruffles of small garlands. The laced bodice Is of the same satin, while the fichu represents the same trimming as on the skirt. The tiny cap Is of lace worn well on the back of the head, caught across the forehead with a little garland of blue flowers, which is tied with a narrow string at the back and rails si most to the waist. '' '- 1 ' Her shoes are fleeh to match her Blockings, while high blue heels match the blue In the flowers. 8he weara neither gloves nor mittens, and should a bouquet be found necessary the smallest1 cluster of blue and yellow flowers would answer the purpose better than any of the magnificent sheaves of orchids that are, thank goodness, quickly going out of date. 1 .- r ' .' "i ' ' f , . ., , v I.. i " '-', ' 1 . J ". .' ..- A- 1 OofHM. k k SiSf Cw- 0'S Mtali ftlgkit Sr
