The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-03
GOTHAM GOSSIP.

THE RAGE FOR "KILT acknowledgements
NATION AT THE APPROACH OF LENT AND
NOTHING TO Wharf.-The FLOWER MANIA.
NOVEL ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES, OR MAX
ING A VIRTUE OF NECESSITY-THE BREACH
OF PROMISE EPIDENIC-BRAZEN-FAC IN
PUDENCE-THE AwFULLY OBSTINATE MAN.
We live in an age of kilt plaitings! II you
ont believe it, just look at the fashion
plates, aud then at those walking fashion
plates, whose presence bright makes a per-
petual pageant on Broadway. Every news
paper writer calls the age names: it is the
custom, and it seems to be expected. There
fore chose to call it the age of plaits. And
there is solid ground for fear that, as the
Irishman said, we shall be kilt entirely
The height and breadth and depth of fashion
is to have ones dress, that is the lower skirt
of it, entirely composed of this Highland
trimming, than which there can be nothing
heavier, since the very method of putting
much material as plain skirt.
Sometimes a row half a yard in
depth is placed around the bottom OF a dress
while the front breadth is covered with
rows diminishing in width all the way to
the waist; then the polonaise, or overskirt is
| trimmed to match, and even the cOrsage.
also. When some strong minded woman
ventures upon protest against this mon
! opoly, she is met by the smiling modiste,
who asks her "what she is going TO do about
| it?" Whereupon the s. nj. w. is silenced,
or driven to design a garniture tor her own
dress, which shall be in accord with her own
TASTE and not just like the robes of mesdanes
A, b. and G.. As the matter stands at pres
ent, we all look in the street, as If we were
dressed by system of cooperative mantua-
making, and perhaps that is what we are
coming to, if we have not already reached it.
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may mention that white flannel skirts have
gone out Of fashion altogether among the
creme de la creme; they are superseded by
pale blue or lilac ones of the same material,
which are invariably scolloped and en-
broidered with white silk. This is decided
innovation and is emphatically of the
French, Frenchv; 1t can hardly commend
| itself to the feminine world at large, for
| among ladies of the purest taste white is the
color t?) par excellence, for all innercloth-
| ing. 1t will have brief run probably, and
will be able to say as Dolly Warden might
have said, "come what may j shall have
had my day." Much thought is given just
now, naturally enough, to the subject of
| evening toilettes. Lent will soon be here,
and meanwhile the girl OF the period asks
| herself the important question, "what shall
do to DC saved-from the disagreeable pos
sibility OF looking like dowdy at the next
Academy ball?'T We must crowd just
as many parties and balls as
possible into the few weeks preced-
ing the great time of fasting and hu-
initiation, and we must look well at all of
them. First, then, be it known that white
gaze do Chamberg is for young ladies the
most fashionable material for evening wear,
and it comes III stripes and figures, both
white aud colored. These dresses are made
over white silk, and are trimmed with
fiounces and sasheu. The corsage is usually
In the tight fitting "corset" style, high in
| hos ot,A nr lint QH of a no.
without sleeves, else with very narrow
bands Of lace and flowers. Even silk
dresses are made sleeveless for evening, and
| have
PUFFs OF THB THIESEsT TULLE
| And fringes of flowers instead. Flow
ers are used with exquisite effect on
these fine toilettes, and natural growths
are preferred where it Is practica-
BILE. Long sprays OF the leveliest OF