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FASHION LETTER.
Lady Modish on Stage Costumes.
Sartorially, the stage is certainly
"coming on ! "
Fancy a Modish haviog to consider
eeriously the clothes of four leading
actresses in one week !
Such a statement would have bor
dered on an absurdity at one time, so
little did stage clothes then appeal to or
interest any of the Modish tribe.
It would seem, however, as though
the old order of things were chang'ng,
and chunging so rapidly that it is quite
safe to prophesy that at no very distant
day the American Etage will share with
the French stage the onerous role of
Mentor on the great question of " what
is to be worn ? "
Share, did I Bay? Who can tell if it
will stop at that?
"Sharing things" is not, 1 have no
ticed, a national characteristic.
When this enterprising country once
grasps the gratifying fact that she can
equal anything, equality promptly pallE
upon her, and she is consumed with the
daeire to be all or nothing. I have bIbo
noticed, incidentally, that as often as
sot it is all.
But to return to the " leading ladies."
It would be bard to fiad smarter frocks
or frocks that exploit more successfully
the latest modes of the women than
thoee now being worn by Elsie de Wolfe,
Mrs. Langtry, Hilda Spong and Mar
garet Anglin.
The frocks worn by Elsie de Wolfe
and Mrs. Langtry were made in Paris,
while the frocks of Hilda Spong and
Margaret Anglin were made here. This
gives everyone who is interested in the
vital subject an unusual opportunity to
judge of the gentle art of dress as it is
understood in Paris and as it is in New
York.
Hilda Spong'a .frocks. L eulogized long
ago. Last week I praised Mrs. Lang
trj's second act frock to the skies, which
are no bluer.
It is a pity it is so very much better
than the rest of her things !
Were her frockB and Miss Spong'a
(rocks to enter into a competition for
national honors, it is safe to eay that in
their entirety Miss Spong'a frocks would
be awarded the chiffon medal.
The competition between Elsie de
Wolfe's French frockB and Margaret
Anglin's American one would not be so
easily decided.
Both Elsio -de Wolfe and Margaret
Anglin help their f recks tremendously
by the tc-the-manner-born way with
which thoy wear them. Thip, curious
ly enough, Mrs. Langtry lacks, and
aleo their admirable faculty of appear
ing uncouecious of drees. Perhaps that
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was the effect Mrs. Langtry was trying
to accomplish when she had that next-to-nothing
boaice of-hers built. Un
luckily, the impression was not the
same.
One must not frivol on serious suk
ject?, though ; and is anything in life
a woman's life some woman's livep, I
mean more serious than dress ?
Miss De Wolf's first dress is pink and
chiffon and white panne velvet, flowered
with pink roses.
Thekirt is of .thejehiffon tucked biap.
Around the bottom, just beinw tie
knees, panels of panne velvet are let io,
and they are framed in Cluny Ihp, yel
low in hue. This same lace boideis the
bottom of the skirt. The bodice has a
ceinture of plain pink panne, ard there
is a bolero tlect done in the lace acd
panne velvet. The sleeves are all of tl e
panne velvet, with a deep transparent
bit o lace at the wrist, falling so far
over the hand as to leave only the fin
gers visible.
A chdux of black lace, made brilliant
with spa nglee, fastens the bolero.
A bit of while maline, Bof t and trans
parent, helped out with a string of
pearls, serves for a collar, and is vastly
more becoming than the stiff collars
most women .persist in wearing in the
face of the edict of the smart Parisienne
against them.
Miss De Wolfe's second dress is yel
low lace applique on yellow net.
It is very nict, but hardly very new.
ThiB fault cannot be found with Miss
De Wolfe's last dress, for it is a distinct
departure, and if one can scarcely see
one's self wearing it or the hood of black
velvet for a Btroll on a warm afternoon
through a brilliantly sunlit garden, the
ensemble is nevertheless particularly
becoming and exceedingly fetching.
TheM is a velvet paletot which I am
frld one must call a "house coat ;" any-
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way, it is in a sweet shade of blue. It
hangs straight in easy folds to the
knees in front "and is bordered with
sable; these front lines are especially
good. In the back there are the same
folds, but they are not so graceful, for
they are girded at the waist in a way
that creates bulk and destroys the grace
ful outline of the figure. This garment
of sleeveless, and the figure is revealed
through its being open on the sides,
where it is held apart, though together,
by frogs pt blue eilk.cord.
The gown Miss De Wolfe wears under
this this house coat' is by far the
prettiest of all.
It is white chiffon, with white chiffon
tucks running the length of the bodice
and skir, and bordered about the feet
with heavy yellow iace. The bodice has
a ceinture of white satin buckled with a
splash of brilliants, and the tucked
chiffon bloueea Bele-fashion above it.
It is quite decollete, but the sleeveb
are long and loose, half of tucked chif
fon, half of lace, held in at the wrists
by a band of fur.
Miss Anglin's firpt dress it: of white
liberty gauze, tucked everything seems
to be tucked these days but this tuck
ing is fine and laid in clusters, and it,
too, runs the length of the bodice and
skirt ; that is, almost the length of the
skirt, for a little below the knee the
tucking flares into a soft ruffle.
The bodice bf this frock is a coat-like
affair of white Bilk, brocaded in morn
ing glories of different shades of pink,
from the darkest to the palest.
This coat has a belt of the same ma
terial, which holds it closely to the fig
ure and promises to create a fashion for
disposing of that ugly " standing-away-from-the-figure
look' that coats with
tails have always had.
The ruffle on the skirt has a border of
morning glories applique.
Miss Anglin's second frock is a simple,
dainty little thing of yellow chiffon,
tucked again, but . in rather a new way.
A little bolero in fine black lace, fastened
with two old paste buttons, is the only
contrasting note.
In the last act Miss Anglin wears a
dinner gown of a most unusual color.
It is blue chiffon the darker blue of
peacock feather.
It has peacock feathers, finely span
gled, in the various shades of blue ap
plique over it at wide interva's, and it is
spangled all over with fine dark blue
spangles.
The bodice is very soft and simplp,
and the decollete is outlined with the
brilliantly spangled feathers.
There ! I positively cannot write an
other word about anybody's clothes ;
but it must be evident to the most casu
al observer that our Etage is growing
more Modish every minute. Town
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