ures for certain rooms with regard to their decorative quality alone, their colour with relation to the colour scheme of the room (The Ar

een gown, would far better carry out the colour scheme with some

n a gown entirely with reference to them, noting not merely the shade of t

the various celebrities, the names of those selling at each booth would be posted in plain lettering over it. Programmes are sold, which also inform patrons as to the name and station of each lovely vendor of flowers and sweets. It is an extraordinary occasion, and well worth witnessing once. The jewels worn are as amazing and fascinating as is Hungarian music. There is a barbaric sumptuousness about them, an elemental quality conveyed by the O

cinating as well. It is the Magyar élan, that abandon which prompts a woman to toss her jewell

r the last work of Cartier. They must be a harmonious part of a carefully designed costume, or used with di

t dinner, wearing some very chic blue gown, often of velvet, the sole decoration of which would be her sapphires, stones rare in themselves, famous for their colour, their matching, the manner in which they were cut, and their setting,-the unique hand-work of some goldsmith of genius. It is impossible to forget her distinguished appearance as she entered the room in a princess gown, made to show the outline of her faultless figur

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change of costume and was as elegant as before, but now all in red, a gown of deep red velvet or some

detectives. How strange this seems to Americans! But this particular woman in no way illustrated the point we would make, for she had lost control o

and an added attraction to the wearer, it is valueless in a decorative way. For this reason it is well to discover, by experimenting, what jewelry is your affair, what kind of rings for example, are best suited to

eans a frivolous, fruitless waste of time; it is a wise preparedness, which in the end saves time, vitality and money. And if it does not make one independent of expert ad

of genius which come in the night, nor the wilful perversion of an existing fashion, to force the world of women into discarding, and buying everything

as to how the last fashions (line and colour), succeeded in scoring in the r?le designated. Those points found to be desirable, becoming, beautiful, comfortable, appropriate, séduisant-what you will-are taken as the foundation of the next wardrobe order, and with this inside information from

er use imitation pearl trimming if you are wearing a necklace and other ornaments of real pearls. T

ed is not to be attempted. Your French dressmaker combines real and imitation laces in a fascinating manner. That same artist's instinct could trim a gown with emerald pastes and hang real gems of the same in the ears, using brooch and chain, but you would find the green glass garniture swept from the

brown chiffon, a close toque (to show her hair) of brown; long topaz drops hung from her ears, set in hand-wrought Etruscan gold, and her shell lorgnettes hung from a topaz chain. Now note that on her toque and her g

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