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Autumn Costumes Are Only
Half Perfect Without These
Corsets
Slightly Nipped-in
at the Waist
from Madame Irene. Intended
for the wearers of crinoline and
pannier frocks. Just a wee bit
nipped in a little higher Paris
is advocating them.
Paris is also recommending
the new boneless corsets
models of suede cloth with satin
trimming and some of silk tri
cot in which we now have all
sizes.
New Frolaset front lace cor
sets include a model of good
elastic webbing with flowered
trimming.
Third Floor.
Silks
Miles of New Ones
number the new chinchilla me
teor, heavy tricolette, gold and
silver embroidered satins, plain
and printed georgette, printed
pussywillow taffeta, chiffon
velvet and plushes.
Second Floor.
Shoes
for Fall Are High
to reach the new shorter skirts.
They have military or cuban
heels for practical walking and
French heels for dress. Some
have cloth tops. ' Dark brown,
maple kid and black are the
colors most in demand.
Boot top spats are new they
fit .over the shoe so carefully
that they become a part of the
boot itself.
Third Floor.
Needlework
Bead bags and sautoirs made
by members of the Art Needle
work class are displayed now in
the Art Needlework Shop. In
struction is free if the mate
rials are purchased here. "Hair
pin crochet" is particularly good
looking and the "hairpin" is
shown only at Meier & Frank's.
Second Floor.
Ribbons
Have Their Day
Metal embroidered ribbons for
gilets. Wider brocaded ribbons
for sashes and high corsage gir
dles. Sashes with embroidered
ends. Hairbow ribbons. Two
tone picot ribbons. Fancy weaves
from which we will make men's
ties to order.
Main Floor.
Diamond and Platinum Jewelry
A FINE new collection of platinum and
diamond jewelry has been received ia
time for the autumn exposition.
Personally chosen from some of New
York's fine jewelry manufacturers for its
value, its fashion and its particularly
reasonable prices. Effective dinner rings
have lacy platinum tops and are paved
or set with several larger diamonds.
Small solitaire diamond rings are spe-
Umbrellas
With Hinged
Bracelet Handles
are new otbjer novelties are
crook handles of pimento wood
inlaid with silver. Plenty of
bright colors to cheer up rainy
landscapes.
Main Floor.
Negligees
are of characteristic Eastern
silks with elaborately hand-embroidered
flowers, birds and
oriental symbols. A new im
portation is being shown.
Third Floor.
Stockings
of Lace and Silk
Silver gray stockings have
silver embroidery and a thread
of gold tinsel.
Black silk have insets over
the ankle of sheer black lace.
Black or white silk have white
or black embroidery, drop stitch
designs or pretty open - worked
"boots."
Fine, sheer silk stockings in
white or black are also among
the latest arrivals.
Main Floor.
Handbags
Are Some of Life's
Pleasant Gifts
Straight from Paris, a silver
gray pull bag of velvet with
steel beads and balls this has
a powder puff attached to the
mirror. A Paisley bead bag; a
rose bead bag; a black velvet
and steel bag; a double box
pleated bead bag and many
others.
.Miser bags too pretty for the
name in nasturtium, black and
steel, and black and red bead
effects.
Chiffon velvet bags for aft
ernoon, are plain or marvelously
decorated with gold brocades
and golden roses.
Main Floor.
Gloves
with beige colored crepon lining
in the long slip-on gauntlet cuffs
are among many late arrivals
for the' opening.
Fine suede, mocha, capeskin
and exquisite kid gloves with
the newer stitchings are ' also
being shown.
Chamois slip-on sports gloves
are very distinctive.
Main Floor.
cialized. Enchanting little platinum top
watches are mounted on smart ribbon
bracelets.
Long platinum bar pins and platinum
lavallieres have lovely filigree work and
many diamonds.
People who wish effective diamond
jewelry in new approved styles are in
vited to see these beautiful pieces.
Meier & Frank's: Main Floor.
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, .PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 21, 1019.
Fans
of Decorative
Ostrich Plumes
add a marvelously picturesque
touch to the evening costume.
Some open and close. Cleopatra
fans are five great plumes in a
stationary arrangement remind
ing one of early Egyptian days.
Black, tangerine, turquoise,
sapphire, Pekin blue, orchid,
coral, cerise, jade.
Main Floor.
Metal Cloths
and Brocades
Bewilderingly lovely satin back
gold, silver and steel cloths;
metal brocades, metal laces, and
the new printed paulette crepe.
For wraps, girdles, bodices and
dresses.
Main Floor.
Bouquets
Boutonnieres of gay little
flowers, some with bandboxes to
contain them. Also velvety
roses, delicate orchids and oth
er flowers to be placed in the
new perpendicular way on even
ing gowns.
Main Floor.
Neckwear
Old ivory- tones in charming
gilets, berthas, collar and cuff
sets, made of novelty chantilly,
net top laces, repousse laces,
Calais Valenciennes and others.
Main Floor.
French Veils
Dotted veils and large square
meshes, the latter with embroi
dered designs are fashionable.
New scroll designs, Russian
meshes, veils with deep bor
ders which are worn so that the
plain mesh screens the eyes.
Main FJoor.
Perfumes
Captivating Ones
From Paris
Coty, Houbigant, Violet, Bour
jois and Rosine (Paul Poiret)
are widely represented in the
Toilet. Goods Shop. Perfumes,
toilet water, face powder, soap,
rouge and pomade the finest
and most original that Paris
produces. Fascinating gift
packages are on exhibition.
Main Floor.
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EVERY window, every floor, every section of the MEIER & FRANK Store will be en fete tomorrow.
Tfre center aisle will be a broad avenue of beautiful draperies and glowing lights. From there on
all the way to the Furniture Gallery will stretch a. marvelous exhibition of the NEW. -New
fashions for women, new fashions for men, new fashions for children, new fashions for the home
interestingly displayed everywhere.
FASHIONS are more changed this autumn than in the
last five years. Paris, the historic center of world
fashions, is seething with ideas. One event after
another has kept all Paris in constant excitement for the
past five years. That excitement reveals itself in the
clothes of 1919.
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pieces inspired by classic
century or Oriental in note. Then there are the so-
called "Eve p;owns" extremely short, entirely sleeveless,
entirely backless, low in front never within living mem
ory have evening gowns been so scant.
Crinoline or Straight
LineS? Asks Paris
Since the openings of French dressmakers in August,
the world of women has decided to adopt both of these'
sharply contrasting silhouettes. See how radically dif
ferent they appear in the pictures.
The ostrich feather dress is
of pink taffeta with floating
voluminous overdress of tulle
and four panels of ostrich
feathers.
The gay young crinoline dress
is of rose colored taffeta and
tulle with frayed out ruching of
the silk in lampshade style and
a garland of roses at the waist.
Pannier Gowns
Show 18th Century Inspiration
A fascinating pannier frock is of blue taffeta with deli
cate silver tracery of embroidery all over it and a long
spray of red roses and forget-me-nots placed perpendicu
larly in the new way at the corsage ; a frosty silver lace
underskirt peeps boldly from under the short hem.
Half Crinoline
Half Pannier
is the frock of aqua marine taf
feta with lace embroidered with
flowers and threads of gold; the
panniers are wired in crinoline
fashion, there are floating
sapphire blue tulle draperies and
a great corsage bouquet.
Star Sapphire Brocade
forms another marvelous gown
which is draped with tulle and
has gold lace and strass trim
mings. A Silver Brocade
Gown
for a bride or for a reception has
cobwebs of silver lace; the long
train which starts at the shoul
der is lined with silver cloth;
in front there is a ruching at
the end of the hipline to give
the new effect of fullness.
Sumptuous Evening Wraps
Black velvet combined with pompadour brocaded faille
has a hood collar and huge cuffs of black fox.
Black chiffon velvet with gold
and silver tinsel stole has Hud
son seal collar. Black chiffon
velvet with high choker collar
and large cuffs of mink is com
bined with gold brocade and
gives the barrel silhouette.
Short Fur Coats
High Fur
Beautiful dress coats of mole
with lynx Hudson seal with
skunk Hudson seal with beav
er Japanese kolinsky blended
squirrel. Also the new, very
popular sports coats of durable
Russian pony, marmot, un
plucked otter and Japanese
mink. Most of them are about
styles of the eighteenth.
The slink serious gown of
metal brocade, fox fur and in
tense blue satin, with a train
half brocade, half tulle, to serve
as scarf in dancing, illustrates
the second mode. There is just
a note of drapery at the side
and the gown tapers toward the
ankle in an artistically uneven
hem.
An Exotic Home
Dinner Gown
is very much on the Poiret type.
Made of Moroccan red hatters
plush, very long and straight,
with Watteau back, round neck,
long sleeves and trimmed with
bands of kolinsky.
The Bertha Gown
is an afternoon frock in one of
the new capucine or flame
shades with many festoons of
coral colored beads.
A Handsome Jet Gown
is of tulle with the jet arranged
in circular stripes instead of all
over. It is a beautiful dinner
frock.
Tricolette Dresses
are being asked for in place of
satin and important new models
have arrived within the last
week.
Brown duvetyn has an Austral
ian opossum collar that is so
deep it reaches almost to the
waistline when the coat is worn
open at the throat. Blue duve
tyn with kimono sleeves has
deep taupe wolf collar and cuffs.
Chokers
thirty inches long and enchant
ingly young looking as well as
warm.
Smart little choker collars
worn with the tail at the left
side or in back are of Australian
opossum, mole, Hudson seal,
nutria, squirrel, fox and Jap
anese mink.
Meier & Frank's: Fourth Floor.
IN CHOOSING the fashions for this
Autumn Exposition, the MEIER &
FRANK experts have selected all
"Made-in-America" garments. Combined
in them is the inspiration of both Paris
and America. Their silhouette is largely
Paris. Materials and colors are Paris.
Many come from makers who have just
returned from Paris. Yet, being inter
pretations, they are designed especially
for Americans and are much less expen
sive and less extreme than if they were
entirely Parisian.
Suit Coats Are Long
and Straight
or Long and Flarhv;
or Short and Flaring
All three styles are represented in the wonderful col
lection of autumn tailored suits here. Suits with fur are
featured but there are also suits without fur.
One of the newest arrivals
has an extra godet at the foot
to give more width to the skirt.
Another new arrival fastens
at the side.
Blouses of Originality
Flower-pot pendants belong to a blouse tunique of dark
blue georgette and it has also gold and self-colored
embroidery. ,
Wooden beads, yarn fringe
and yarn embroidery are the
distinguishing notes of a square
necked tunique.
Huge blue and black plaids
on a novelty crepon are seen in
an ecclesiastical casaque.
Tokio or tomato red georgette
is used under an overblouse of
dark blue in a waistline bodice.
Autumn Millinery
To Wear With Crinoline and Pannier
Frocks as Well as Straight
Line Street Costumes
Feathers are triumphantly the fashion. Ostrich plumes,
ostrich tips, the exquisite blondine from the South Amer
ican ostrich called rhea, cassowary from the Australian
ostrich, iridescent coque, wing and breast feathers from
Oriental birds.
Hats flare this season they
more often turn up than turn
down. Many of them show two
eyes and even an eyebrow in
their elevation from the face.
Many hats are large to go with
pannier and crinoline frocks.
Small hats are charming with
furs and tailored suits and have
a place in the mode all their own.
This MEIER & FRANK
Millinery Exposition il
lustrates the new inspira
tions of Paris, translated
by clever Americans.
Meier & Frank's
A chiffon velvet suit has a
tinsel embroidered gilet.
Still another has its coat bor
dered with gray squirrel an in
terrupted border.
Gray angora wool stitching
forms a deep border on a dark
blue tricolette tunique; the
girdle is of braided gold with
balls of twisted gold thread.
Real Italian filet lace trimmed
blouses have just come from a
little foreign shop in Xew York.
Hand - made and hand - drawn,
fashioned of fine white georg
ette. Kxquisite.
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