Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-10-28
Mrs. Langtry's Dresses.

Mrs. Langtry is too much of woman and
an artist to permit her own individuality in
dress to be lost. The most significant thing
about her toilets is their simplicity. They
come from some three or four different hands,
but they all bear the same sign manual.
A carriage dress by Worth has q petticoat
Of gray satin merveilleux, with a panel d.
rectly in front of gray marabout feathers.
Over this is worn long tight fitting coat of
gray satin, brocaded in black velvet and
bordered with a wide band of gray marabout
feathers. Above this is worn q large cape Of
the same brocade. bordered, as in the coat,
with 4 feather band. This cape 10 lined with
salmon silk, striped with delicate pink and
green, and is caught in at the waist in the
back. With this costume is worn q hat of
the gray brocade-for Mrs. Langtry's toilets
are all en- suite.
A black velvet carriage dress. a Londou
garment, has a plain petticoat bordered at the
hem with narrow knife -plsitings of satiu, over
which falls chenille fringe. The coat Is a
long black velvet coat, lined with gray silk.
falling to the hem of the dress, and only
short enough to display the switchy little
frills beneath, whose existence seem intend
ed to soften the severity of the plain, tight
fitting coat.
A carriage wrap is . long brown velvet
circle, with heavy trimming of brown passe-
menterie about the shoulders and beneath the
luxurious sable collar; for with this fur the
wrap is lined. Mrs. Langtry may wear moth
ing more beautiful than this symphony in
brown, although many will admire greater
novelty. This is black velvet wrap of the
same shape, trimmed with jet-passeme nterie,
v shaped to the waist in the back. This 10
lined throughout with the long. white. curled
hair of many departed poodles, which makes
also deep collar outside. Mrs. Langtry has
evidently heard tales of our American win
tiers, and if these two garments do not keep
her warm. she will at least look warm, which
10 more than half the battle.
A walking. dress, by Mime. Dubois il of
peacock blue satin ~ . piece de resistance.
blue satin. The front above these is Of striped
orange plush and blue satin. forming . deep
pouf, with the same material mingled with
the trimming. The jrapery Of the black is
Of the plain blue satin and very simply dis
posed.
A reception-dress is an exquisite shade Of
deep olive-green velvet with yellow in the
lights. The tablier 10 of brocaded velvet of
the came tint, the brocaded being large
curved lines, and not set figures. At the
bottom of this tablier are narrow frills, over
which falls chenille fringe tipped with
iridescent drops. From each side of this
tablier fall the long, sweeping folds Of the
train, with no decoration to break its etately
sweep. The waist of this. as of all the
dresses, 10 plain and presum bly, q perfect
at, a. 10 required of every fashionable
corsage. MAKE your dress Of . horse
hlankaf if vou ~ I'll /. said tho astrfo T. ADJ
Dolly, ..but make it to fit"
perfectly simple that evidently he risked
nothing that might attract from its shapely
lines. It is of rich. warm-toned yellow satin.
The waist is heart-shaped, coming low down
on the shoulders, and beneath the narrow
frill of point lace which edges the neck Is
only piece OF lightly twisted satin following
its outlines. The corsage simply carries the
lines below the waist, and ends in small
points. The sleeves are to the elbow, with Q
piece of the satia carried about the edge, and
little puff of white silk edged With lace in
each, which ties it to the arm. The front Of
the skirt il laid in large plaits that give
fhlness that 10 lightly caught here and there,
making . careless drapery. The train, a.
that Of the reception dress, 10 long. and its
beauty left to depend on its own color and
lblds.
Economical women with turn for doing
over their dresses will observe how finely
4ra. 44angtry's clothes will make over, sitlce
- - noe shipped and cut and spoiled good
oe13 With shire and pufEs and bias banda. N
= the tashion Of American drsssmakers.
eiece Mr. LanRtry 10 destined to Get us some
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