Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1931, Page 49

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHIN3ITON, D. €, DECEMBER 20, 1931—PART THREE. 15! Evening Dresses't‘o Be Chosen for Christmas Holiday Parties Attractive Styles Provided for School and College Girls o/ The short puffed sleeve featured by many of the best Paris designers in their midseason collections is shown in this dress of Persian red canton crepe. The sleeves are trimmied 1with bands of kolinsky. This dress is one of the smartest and newest of young girls' dresses for after- moon und informal evening partics. One of the best evening dresses of this Winter is of scarlet flat crepe, with the bodice almost entirely covered with bright red bugle beads. The decolletage front and low in the back to conform to the newest dictates of fashion. The bodice This is a charming dress, not only extends over the skirt in an overblouse effect. for young girls, but for women who wear small sizes. Every young girl likes the sophistication of a black evening dress. This black crepe de chine has a draped flounce at the back in bustle effect. The luttice shoulder straps are new and interesting. The sketch at the left shows the dress worn with its silver lame jacket, but it may be had with a velvet Jacket if preferred. This is an ideal dress for th ) Wiy ,,.-,-fv*" Ay D% Y is high in the e college girl. velvet dress has discarded the dramatic appearance that a black velvet ye‘:sbl:::l;ll;-'a::umu, for a simple and youthful demeanor. The yoke is white lace, the belt and the puff at the bottom of the skirt are corded velvet. appeared among the smart clothes for Black and White Make Popular Evening Gowns BY MARY MARSHALL. 1 Smart women on our Pacific Ccast | N some parts of the country special | have gome in strongly for black and fashion shows are conducted for|white. Some of the loveliest evening rural women. Which is certainly dresses worn there are of this combina- as it should be. For rural women tion. the country over are becoming| Velvet ribbon—it has a quaint sound, There is a special | somehow, but it is manipulated into the l clothes conscious. technique needed in adapting the new, | least quaint and most up-to-date fash- smart things to their needs and taste, | ion details imaginable. One is the sort and the clever merchants in big of turban roll holding a lace wedding metropolitan cities realize this. voil in place, another is a gort of girdle, Southern resort wear, for bicycling. v th made of loosely rolled velvet, so that | 1heY flare, reach a mue_“t:elow o o the gisdle around the slender waist of | knee, and are made of silk or wcol a new evening gown looks like a huge | fabrics, giant’s ring. And sashes, too, are made hite plush gives the of velvet ribbon—sometimes two-toned, ,flg’gCE; },J,"!fid“p“mr ng mauve on one side and turquoise on tne e et g | please the girl of college age is made y 'of pastel pink or biue moire silk in RENASTS I ehsia Dandbes fnelt :{rika;'tetaifgrpd fashion lined through- : and beret of felt, finely stitched. | cut with soft snowy white plush. The beret is deftly folded and cut to| HiP-length bed sacques of quilted satin are wisely chosen for the girl who assume & most Interesting and becom- | Jjies to take breakfast in bed. There ing line. The buckle of the belt, the|are many other sorts of ‘I‘»’ed di"klinu mounting of the handbag and the clip | Which may also be used for dressing on the hat are of the same metal, ckets of this sort are ke e trimmed with matching Divided skirtsl Actually. They have - ostrich at neck aftl wrists. FVJR~COV!Rm) buttons are unusual byt very definitely smart. Short- | haired fur, of course, and usually the | same fur is used in trimming bands on | the dress on which the buttons appear. Some fascinating new dresses are made with blouses of brightly colored | striped crepe with wide, triangular | revers. These revers fold back over a jacket of dark, plain fabric to match the skirt, in a most jaunty way. Pancake berets—that's call those tiny little berets that are worn plastered to one side. The high Empire waistline is evi- dent in many of the new evening | dresses. One black crépe dress is built and fitted about a snug waist to a very high line, above which the material Wear Print Skirt And Plain Coat wTHlRE were predictions last Autumn | that ostrich feathers would be used extensively for hat trimming this Win- | ter, and so long as the vogue for the 'Empress Eugenie hat lasted ostrich cut short by overpopularity. Still some of the milliners are using ostrich trim- ming in other ways, and the fact that it hasn’t continued in a large way is no reason to feel that eventually ostrich trimming will not win out. Possibly 12 months hence this type of feather trimming wl'he firmly established. A delightful party dress for the boarding school girl's holidey parties is of white tafleta, with a sash of scarlet ribbon. The white dress with colored ribbon sash shows a nice revival of a charming old fashion. The puffed sleeves, round neck and ribbon sash form a pleasing con- trast to the sophisticated skirt. In the meantime ostrich is used in other ‘ways by the\French dressmakers. Some of the new negligees and break- fast jackets are lavishly collared and cuffed with borders of willowy plumage and clipped ostrich is used in bands to trim evening dresses, giving the effect of fur. Prints are predicted now as they usually are at this time of the year, what they | feathers were in demand. The ostrich &nd many of the stores are already boom might have been longer if the 1‘rnshton for Eugenie hats had not been | showing interesting printed silk dresses of the sort that many women like to wear under their fur or fur-trimmed cloth coats during January and Feb- ruary. These new prints attract spe- cial attention for the reason that within the past few months solid tones have been so much more generally favored.- There is much to be said for, as well as against, the revival of Dress of canton crepe has finely shirred sections inserted in the sleeves and at the hips. A bit of drapery at the back suggests the bustle. 1print.s for late Winter. In the mean- |time word comes from Paris that ne |less an arbiter of fashion than Patou is making printed silk crepe dressés with short wool jackets for resort | wear. Possibly this type of costume will be popularized for the coming Spring. | _Word also comes from Paris that ir the very newest dresses sleeves are less pretentious than they were in the earlier offerings. This may mean thai the largely puffed aleeves that ap- peared as novelties only & few months ago were after all only a flash in the |pan. If that proves to-be the case, | well and good. It is so much easier to have a large sleeve remodeled to make a small sleeve than to have a small sleeve turned into one of ampler PrOPOTPm oprrisbe. 19003 .