Because the problem of dressing women of this age (and over) draws the interest of those with the biggest spending power, what is known as "The Woman's Shop" of one.of the leading department stores asked the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, New York resident, to select what she considered the ideal "woman's war-drove, The feature of the fashions of today which she considered most helpful to those who tend to get broader proves to be the side-fastening of clothes, In the August dress collec-tiang in Paris, dress house after dress house used side-fastenings to dresses and coats. The Grand Duchess proves her point in particular with fur loaded cloth coats in which triangular panels running from waist to hem and other panels widening from waist to shoulders help to slim the figure. Dresses may be side-fastened, in her opinion, or made in tiers with a straight front panel and buttons running right from throat to hem, with a touch of white at the throat, again drawing the eye from danger spots such as the waist.
For the evening she thinks a suitable outfit for the older woman going to the theatre to be one with a covering jacket, made gay with glittering embroidery, again disposed in eye-distracting positions. Red with silver on it she considers a good alternative for the more general black with gold. Indeed, red for the woman of middle years is being tremendously advocated. Miss Gertrude Lawrence has a grown-up daughter, and has been according a great following among mothers: she has been using a combination of regimental reds with grey and other shades, and at her recent New York first night many white-haired' and grey-haired women were seen in scarlet to garnet shades, while her own contemporaries wore white with regimental red.
The hats which the Grand Duchess sponsored were quiet and forward tilting in a city where "the woman" has been generally seen in off-the-face brimmed hats lying, in inspir tion, between the bonnet and the picture hat, or in forehead revealing turbans with sky-high knots, flowers or ostrich tips,
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