Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-30
THREE STYLES.
HOW THREE KINDS OF WOMEN DRESS IN
SAN FRANCISCO.
What Fashion Now DEGREES Women Must
Wear or Else Appear Ridiculous
The Winter Costumes.
SAN FRANCISCO. October 81. 1880.

SAN Francisco, October 81, 1880.
l have been trying to look at fashion
through the wrong end of a spy glass, that
l might have its general effect without be-
ing carried away by its striking detail. l
have been impressed with three styles
they may be new, they may be old. The
first is young woman, trim, slim and full
of chances. She is as clean-cut as cameo /;
no hips, no bust quantities of forearm
appear in gloves and bracelets she has
thin lips and does her hair la Langtry
She wears a very plain but very taking
costume affects linen collars appears in
black hat shaped as near as possible to
masculine pattern, and often winds lace
scarf upon its crown she walks fast but
gracefully she is artistic, striking dainty
she is the silhouette of style. | admire
her, but she is
APT To BE SLANGY.
You have seen her any time the last year
and here she is yet, piquant, nice, pigeon
like. full of dash and flavor. Do you get
the idea of her? She is the danseuse OF
private life, and can dance you anything
that toes are up to and never lose her
breath. And now you surely have her.
The second moves as slowly and calmly as
great ship. She impresses you with
avoirdupois, her black eyes and her guam
titles of waist above the belt. She may
have crows feet about the eyes, but she
never has wrinkle In the fit of her
dress. She looks as if she might sing
contralto. She deals in eyelashes and
''makes up" her eyes. She is often as
beautiful a woman as you may find upon
the streets She always wears black, looks
lovely in velvet, shines with jet and pas
sementerie; her hat rolls off her face light
and airy with plumes, and diamonds flash
nowhere so bright as against the heave of
her bewitching orbs. You know her
WE'LL here she is still, in feathers, Jet
beauty and eyelashes. The third, oh! my
friends, is the woman upon whom the most
of us are patterned, woman of no distinc
tive style or appearance, who aims to keep
as near the fashion as she conveniently can
A woman who simply doesn't impress the
public in any of her points. Tomorrow
you could scarcely tell what she
has worn to-day, because there is no
kind of costume that especially be-
longs to her. The first two make
concessions to fashions and remain the
same in general appearance. We give up
all, and having no personality to preserve,
to-day are done up like volumes in red and
gold, tomorrow in gray and black, yester-
day in blue, green or yellow, with dresses
of all cuts and hats of all shapes and sizes.
We chatter and gossip ON fashion, but
alas my sisters, we might just as well
wear a two. breadth calico as silk spread
with hoop, for we never can stand out
against the horizon of fashion distinct and
clear. We are blurred, as it were, like
new colors in painting,
CHARACTERLEss DAUBs
Beside the others, but of such singular
bias is the feminine mind that we are the
very ones who run to fashion and go to
seed on style. We wear the Bernhardt
wrinkle on our gloves, the Jersey tunic
upon our shoulders, the military POM
pom in our hats, and after all no.
cody notices if we have anything about us
of the Bernhard, or the Jersey, or the mil
itary. Dear sisters, we may wear low
heeled, broad-soled easy shoes now, since
fashion permits us to be comfortable about
the feet But by the same sign must we
sigh and groan, and pull our corset strings
tighter, for the small waist came IN by the
last report, and we must be airy, fairy and
wasplike if we die for it. Our hair is worn
low upon the neck, and we bang it curl
ously all round our face like frilled cap.
Upon our wrists we wear silver bangles,
with a little pig dangling from the wire for
a charm, or a slender bracelet, with set
ting as of old. Likewise, and to match, We
have long slender gold bars, which pierce
sometimes fan, sometimes palette, some
times flower, butterfly, or bird, and
these are pins for the necktie. We carry
japanese fans of silk, beautifully and elab-
orately painted or embroidered, and the
fan part is small, while the handle is very
| long Around our necks we put wide
collarette or fichu of white whose elabor-
ated ends reach to and sometimes below
the waist. They are often of the richest
kind of lace sometimes are made of Swiss
muslin, prettily edged, and sometimes of
embroidered lawn.
WE ARE GONE DAFT ON LACE,
Spanish lace, Breton lace, Languedoc, real
lace, plenty of it, and the more the better.
We will use beaded laces and trimmings
in quantities this winter. The iridescent,
rainbow or cashmere beads enter largely
into our expectations, and of an evening
have an indescribably soft and dewy
look. The town is mad just now on two
bit white neckties; everybody buys them.
We will wear largely the close-htting.
long skirted pelerine for street promenade.
1t opens from the waist downward, and
false fronts of shirred and pulled and
pleated satin are pinned ON at will to make
a snowy dress-skirt. We buy now the
valayeuse, finished with quilting of car
dinal, gold or navy blue, then be-
stow about US hints OF the same
color in silk or ribbon, and then we are
illuminated" with cardinal, gold or blue.
We wear small hats, like the turban, all
made of overlapping iridescent cocks
feathers, or the brim beaded and the crown
decked with plumes. We also wear the
large, picturesque, Gainsborough style,
and our bonnets come close to the face,
but all laden with ostrich feathers. The
material for hats and bonnets is generally
shaggy beaver or plush. There is ten
dency in head wear to trim both sides
alike for instance, to wear long feather
on each side, which meet and hang in two
ends in heback. The milliners' windowsare
piled high with feathers; beautiful, long,
curling plumes, fit for royalty. We still
cling to the colors of cardinal, old gold and
heliotrope, and beautiful combinations APP
pear in dress goods. Our favorite trim
| mings this winter will be in plaid and
plush. Beautiful plaids, 46 inches wide.
come at 81 % per yard, and you can get
them to match any color. Brocades are
somewhat out of favor, though they are SO
rich and heavy in effect, that they still
linger in sight, 10th to be discarded.
Pretty goods, with striped bands along the
edge for trimming, known as the side. band
suiting, will be becoming to those among
us who are inclined to embonpoint. The
handkerchief suiting RACES just now, and l
have seen
| DREApFULLy HoMELY SUITS