Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 9, 1916, Page 15

SRR Y A Charming Walking Hat— “Halo” Variety. How to Harmonize With the Outdoer Party, the Indoor Party---And Why All Dresses Must Necessarily Be Party Dresses Anyway ADY DUFF-GORDON, the famous L “Lucile” of London, and foremost cre- ator 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. By Lady Duff-Gordon (“LUCILE”) ERE are some “party” dressea. I liave heard that H curlous expression so often in this country that 1 am tempted to write a little about it, Evidently there is a feeling that a dress for a party ought to be something entirely distinctive and different —much, in a way, like the old “Sunday-go-tomeeting" clothes. All life {s a party, more or less. Sometimes it is 2 pleasant party, and sometimes not so pleasant. But it always has all the elements. When you “dress for & party” you mean that you are going to 'put on a gown which will arouse the edmi- ration and interest of those whom you expect to meet. And that Is all right—one ought to. But the whole day long the same conditions ‘exist. When you are by your- self {n the morning it is really “up-to you” to be dressed as beautifully as possible. For, alter all, one's self is one’s best audience. The way you feel in the morning usually determines the whole day for you. If you can regard yourself, and say to yourself—“Don't I look nice and pretty?” you start in with a feeling of self-confidence and amiability that will give you impetus over all the bumps of the hours coming. If you are going to meet some one after your hours to yourself, it does not matter whether you are simply golng to take a walk or go to some “function,” it is still & party. And it {8 your duty to dress in & way that will make you satisfled and at the same time either gatisfy or raise the envy of everybody else you meet; and so it goes along until it is (ime to turn out the lights and go to bed. What I want to bring out {s that there is no time of An Evening “Party Dress"— Delicate, Dainty and Girlish (All “Lucile” Models.) the day or night when a woman can afford to bg any- thing but well dressed. By that T do not mean elab- orately or extravagantly dressed at all. It fs not ex- pensive, unless you want to make it so, to be in that desirable condition. A woman who thinks that “any old sort of thing™ is all right to have on until she “has to meet people” is the kind who gets slipshod mentally as well ag physf- cally. She has one standard of conduct for herself when alone, and another fer herself when she 1s with others. This makes for artificiality and insincerity. The real person is sincere, simple and harmonious all the time, whether alone or not. One oughtn’t to have “Sunday-go-to-meeting” clothes or “Sunday-go-to-meeting” manners, and one oughtn't to have “party” manners any more than one ought to have “party” dresses. 1 know that this may not seem to you much like fashion, but as I have often remarked, the impulses that underlie fashion do not deal so much with dresses as with humanfty. With these few thoughts for your consideration 1 submit to you these photographs of some ‘“party"” dresses which are bsrmonious and charming, whether one goes to the orthodox party or not. Just & few words about the Summer furs. | am afrald that they are going the extravagant limit, and there {8 no reason why this charming mode should be made unpopular {n this way. Fur, like everything else almost, can be used perfectly harmoniously as a decora- tion, whether it s Summer or Winter. The straw hat trimmed with fur has appeared as a natural conse quence of the fashion. There are some that are charm- ing. Ermine s the garniture most in evidence, but any fur can be used if it 18 done harmoniously I must, however, frown upon the fur mu® for Sum- mer. Little chiffon muffs, or the flower mufl. . both pretty. The fur muff, however, brings in a Win.cr note that is very disharmonious to the Summer costume. The new fur buttons are pretty, and can be used with telling effect on a number of gowns. Fitch furs are attractive. I deo not like for Bummer the mixed furs. Plain furs are better, and io every case the fur itself should be subordinated to the whole effect. It is, after all, only an {nteresting note. There 1s no utility at all to it, and f it is allowed to dominate the whole costume it turns a pretty Summer dress into a hybrid Winter concoction. Copyright. 1916, by the Star Company Great Britaln Rights Reserve A “Party Dress” That Is Not for the Ingenue Type. A Dainty Gown for Country Clud Lawn uie-