The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 10, 1901, Page 4

BLUE /ATIN TRIMMED WITH LACE AND . RHINE/TONE/ PO/ES BY BEL/IE CLA WRAP/ F HE opera seagon is upon us again. Do you realize what that means? Clothes, swell clothes, and lots of them. That's what it me#ns. The first thing to think about ia an opera wrap. This yeap they look good enough to eat. Positively, they are quite the lovellest things ever, the most ex- quisite of the exquisite. One of the daintiest and most fetching that the White House boasts of is a black lace over pleated liberty silk. The lace falls from the shoulders in long, graceful folds and enils in a knife pleat- fng of an edging to match. The body of *sbe cloak to the walst s warmly padded, Under the lace the white silk tumbles and falls in and out, here and there, In the utmost confusion. A cascade of lace and pleated chiffon falls from the throat to the bottom of the cloak and inter- twined with the mass of flufiness are long knots of black velvet ribbons, Com- mencing at the collar, they gradually shorten until only one hides itself in the last and lowest ruffle, There are sleeves in this garment, for it is a typical cloak. They are made on the regular bishop plan; soft and loose all the way to the wrist. Then a band gathers the fullness Into place and at the same time holds a full pleating of chiffon covered with the lace. All this fullness is shorter on the inside of the arm, but falls to a considerable length on the out- side—In fact, almost reaching to the el- bow when the arm is raised. The collar is very large, very fluffy and very white, The chiffon is put on in three tlers and each tler is ended with a full,baby ruch- ing that seems to be struggling to lose its bounds. When worn with a black lace skirt it is perfectly charming. Not even the most fastidious could desire anything sweeter, for that word describes It exactly. Another gorgeous black cloak s made of satin, The fullness falls In large pleats from the center of a yoke. A collar deep~ er and broader, but on the same principle as the sallor eollar, entirely covers it The collar, cuffs, fronts and sides are em= broldered with a fancy scroll and large white roses In solld white; and, by the way, that In turn I8 plped with black chiffon., The bottom of the cloak, which does not reach the edge of the skirt, Is finished off with a wide pleating of chif- fon, and that again has a good sized puft of the black. Where the collar fastens snugly about the throat there seems (o be the natural starting place for any quantity of chiffon, It looks like a boa, and like one that falls to the edge of the skirt at that, ‘When one looks at black or at black and white, they involuntarily think that nothing could possibly be more effective