e in Costume

XV LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY (ABOUT 1890) 139
A Portrait by John S. Sargent

XVI A MODERN PORTRAIT 149
By John W. Alexander

XVII A PORTRAIT OF MRS. PHILIP M. LYDIG 159
By I. Zuloaga

XVIII MRS. LANGTRY (LADY DE BATHE) IN EVENING WRAP 169

XIX MRS. CONDE NAST IN STREET DRESS 179
Photograph by Baron de Meyer

XX MRS. CONDE NAST IN EVENING DRESS 189

XXI MRS. CONDE NAST IN GARDEN COSTUME 199

XXII MRS. CONDE NAST IN FORTUNY TEA GOWN 209

XXIII MRS. VERNON CASTLE IN BALL COSTUME 219

XXIV MRS. VERNON CASTLE IN AFTERNOON COSTUME--WINTER 229

XXV MRS. VERNON CASTLE IN AFTERNOON COSTUME--SUMMER 239

XXVI MRS. VERNON CASTLE COSTUMED A LA GUERRE FOR A WALK 249

XXVII MRS. VERNON CASTLE--A FANTASY 259

XXVIII MODERN SKATING COSTUME--1917 269
Winner of Amateur Championship of Fancy Skating

XXIX A MODERN SILHOUETTE--1917 279
TAILOR-MADE
Drawn from Life by Elisabeth Searcy

XXX TAPPE'S CREATIONS 289
Sketched for _Woman as Decoration_ by Thelma Cudlipp

XXXI MISS ELSIE DE WOLFE IN COSTUME OF RED CROSS NURSE 299

XXXII MME. GERALDINE FARRAR IN SPANISH COSTUME AS CARMEN 309
From Photograph by Courtesy of _Vanity Fair_

XXXIII MME. GERALDINE FARRAR IN JAPANESE COSTUME AS
MADAME BUTTERFLY 319
Sketched by Thelma Cudlipp

"The Communion of men upon earth abhors identity more than
nature does a vacuum. Nothing so shocks and repels the
living soul as a row of exactly similar things, whether it
consists of modern houses or of modern people, and nothing
so delights and edifies as distinction."

COVENTRY PATMORE.

"Whatever piece of dress conceals a woman's figure, is
bound, in justice, to do so in a picturesque way."

_From an Early Victorian Fashion Paper._

"When was that 'simple time of our fathers' when people were
too sensible to care for fashions? It certainly was be