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The “Golden Pheasant” Wrap of
Gold and Red Brocade.
Gorgeous Evening Coats the Crowning Sensa
tion of the Coming Seasons Startling Modes
L ADY DUFF-CORDON, the 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 is newest and best in
styles for well-dressed women.
Lady Duff-Gordon’s Pans establishment brings her into close touch
with that centre of fashion.
Lady Duff-Gordon’s American establishment is at Nos. 37 and 39
West Fifty-seventh street. New York.
By Lady I)uff-
ER evening wrap can be to a
woman her crowning joy or her
greatest disappointment. It
can give to her the supreme
Consciousness that every detail of her
costume Is perfect or it can make her
feel that she is all at sixes and sevens.
Gone are the days when a woman's
evening coat was merely a covering for
her fragile gown, a shell in which nes
tled some delightful creation of the
modiste's art To-day the evening wrap
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is as important as the costume under
neath. Therefore to be the crowning
glory of the ultra modern costume the
evening wrap in these extravagant days
can no longer be demure.
We no longer resemble the gentle
wren, nor yet the sparrow with their
dull, sombre coats. No. To-day it is as
the gorgeous peacock, or perhaps the
decorative scarlet tanager, that we dis
play ourselves at nightfall. "Gay as
peacocks,’’ "Vain as peacocks," these are
Front View of .“Peacock" Wrap of Rose Brocade, Oriental
Embroidery and Real Lace.
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The Coat-of-the-Rose, Quaint Wrap of
Rose and Silver Taffeta.
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the expressions that man often uses
when given to censuring our sump
tuous garments.
But, speaking of peacocks, does man and
the world at large ever stop to think that the
peacock with his superb clothes, his colossal
vanity, is masculine. Verily is woman ma
ligned. The example of bedecking ourselves
is set us by the male birds of the air. Why,
therefore, should the male of our species be
forever carping at us?
Recently I read a bit of verse anent this
peacock myth, that I quote before going on to
tell you more about some lovely peacock wraps
recently exhibited in Paris:
“Feminine vanity? Oh. ye gods,
Hark to these men!
Vanity's wide as the world is wide.
Look at the peacock in his pride;
Is it a hen?”
There is nothing too fragile, nothing too
sumptuous for woman to have made into her
evening wrap. Fabrics as fragile as chiffon
or as elaborate as silver bocade, laces of a
rare and unusual design, all these are delight
fully transformed into the most seductive of
evening coats. There are times when I feel
that some sublimated name should be created
for such wraps as I have just been designing
Of a verity the English language is too re
stricted. There is too little color in it to
properly describe them.
Can you imagine anything more lovely than
a coat of real chantilly lined with rose chiffon.
I recently created such a one for a bride, and
she whispered to me just after her return
from the honeymoon that her coat had meant
as much to her as her husband's embraces.
I am sending you this week some coats for
evening that should inspire you with the same
happiness with which the chiffon wrap in
spired the happy little bride. I have selected
three that I call Peacock wraps. Is this not a
charming and a truthful name for them.
But even here I make distinctions. I like
to think that a wonderful golden pheasant in
spired the one bearing its name. There is a
rare simplicity of design in this coat. It wraps
the wearer lovingly in its folds, but does not
hide or detract from the grace of her figure.
It is very long and narrow in the back, and is
draped toward the frost. The very short
kimono sleeves edged with golden maline and
the neck ruche of the maline are new and odd
touches that mark this as of the very latest
mode.
Then I have selected for you also two views
of one of these Peacock coats, a back and
front view, that will convey to you clearly the
sumptuousness of this model.
The coat is a wonderful rose brocade, draped
over hips so as to give a novel pannier effect.
The cape, which forms the sleeves, is made of
a rare and old point venise flounce that the
wearer had received from her grandmother.
The shaped piece around the neck is an
elaborate bit of Oriental embroidery, fruit of
a long visit in the Orient. The design of this,
while very different from that of the Golden
Pheasant, is just as graceful and also enhances
rather than detracts from the grace of the
wearer
Very different, although perhaps not so
sumptuous in outline, is the short wrap that 1
have named the "Coat-of-the-Rose.” This is
one of the hip wraps or coats that are so very
chic this season in Paris It has the quaint
atmosphere that seems so necessary at this
time. It is created in a flowered moire change
able taffeta in rose and gray, but rose pre
dominates, and the wearer usually has at her
waist a glorious rose set in foliage, and from
this rose and the color came the name, “Coat-
of-the-Rose." There is much old
gold lace used as decoration.
The sleeves are short, and while
this is an evening wrap, it might
also be used as an adjunct to a
dinner costume.
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