The Beautiful Frills of Fashion in Great Vogue

1903

Many of the long evening gloves are inset with lace insertion.

Colored laces are having great vogue, not only the laces dyed to match gowns, but coarse filet darned in patterns in blues, reds or browns.

Some of the new dotted silk mousseline veils have gaily embroidered borders, two or three inches deep, in the popular strawberry design.

The hats will bear fruits in and out of season. One supports a spray of small oranges, another is a strawberry bed, a third is luscious with cherries.

Handkerchiefs exactly matching the frock in color are a present fad and some women go to the length of having kerchiefs dyed to match each of their gowns.

Smart turnovers of the collar and cuff protector variety are of white pique, with deep but narrow and very sharp points finished with a heavy edge of embroidery.

An attractive round gold bracelet is set at intervals with round pieces of turquoise matrix, six of these on one bracelet, each piece being set in a fancy rim of gold extending beyond the lines of the bracelet.

Jeweled belts in turquoise and steel emerald and jet and other combinations are among the accessories that give a special touch of elegance to the costume, but their price places them beyond the purse limits of the average well-dressed woman.

There is a pronounced vogue for evening robes of white, black or deep cream guipure lace with under slip of place silk or satin. The lace comes in circular form, all ready to be worn as a skirt and requires no trimming, the handsome border answering all purposes of garniture. For the bodice an allover design in guipure to match the skirt may be used. The usual trimming is a garland of flowers and foliage outlining the décolletage.

One bride of the winter wore an original wedding dress, the skirt being heavily trimmed with insertion of Tambour lace put over a strong silver tissue that gleamed through very effectively. The train was of lace with a wide hem and insertion of silver embroidery, and the bodice, which was trimmed around the best and in a point to the waist with similar silver embroidery, was finished with a yoke of silver tissue and lace.