Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-02
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
and FlOwers---Plush and velvet---MOus-
quetaires and Jerseys--GlOves.
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quetaires and Jerseys--Gloves.
Especial Correspondence of the Globe.
NEW YORK, Dec. boys are the
last fashion for bridesmaids
A statement which, now that il
looks up to me from paper, scarce seems
logical. Nevertheless, you know what
mean, that sufices. do not mean, how.
ever, that boys are the only fashion, but
one of the fashions. For in the fall cpl
demic of weddings, peculiar to 1882, nc
fact shows forth more plainlythan that there
are many facts all equally true. Curious to
read in the different fashion magazines, tn
directions as to outfits whether of the young
lady, who, according to Beecher, is about
to ''marry divinity and sadly thereafter
consent to live with man" of her equally
poetical bridesmaids, whether girls or
boys. One says dresses are made simply
and of one or two materials; another says
they are rich and varied and display COM
binations of three or four fabrics, etc.
Which is right? All, answer, and great,
therefore, is your liberty of conscience.
But boys should be fancifully
dressed as pages; copied after old
pictures, and unquestionably it is the reviv-
al of bygone ideas that brings up really
pleasant Thought. Then, too, the present
notable seeking after color, has caused an
attiring of bridesmaids in different dresses
of pronounced hue, such as crimson, blue,
yellow, green, etc.; the grouping to imi-
tate old paintings. So far, so good. The
larger the latitude, the larger the
FIELD FOR ORIGINALITY.
For much of the above we must thank
aesthetic Oscar, who has stirred the public
mind to think on such matters, and
thought being aroused, one knows not the
ending. Oscar, whom Fate has cast into
lodgings directly opposite and who in
purple-faced dressing gown gazes medita-
lively from behind soft lace curtains; oc.
casionally emerging into sunlight, as
striving for new thought, he throws back
the street, he wears-pantaloons and-an
overcoat. So far has principle yielded
to Jack Frost. But large round collar
like those worn by boys, causes the passer
by to look with stare and say wondering
ly, s'that must be Oscar Wilde"
FUR CAPEs AND BACHELOR BUTTONS.
The sign and symbolism of young lady
hood is fur cape. Long Or short fur;
black lynx falling shaggy around shout
ders shapely enough to bear it; seal more
modest in outline; ditto beaevr. Choose
your fur according as nature has
bestowed proportion, while if you should
chance to be too stout, would say merely
little collar. A bunch of yellow bachel-
OF buttons looks ever SO pretty nesting on
a fur cape or the reddish brown, aesthetic
colored ones that florists have gotten up to
order. These bachelor buttons look pretty
on jackets, too, and on tickets they are
worn. They look pretty with anything
and with anything are worn, sometimes
hugh punches, causing the most hardened
bachelor to pause and stare. Young ladies
sometimes wear long, silken, fur-trimmed
caoaks but usually they are given over to
their elders.
FUR LINED CIRCULARS
certainly have nine lives, for again they
come up. Wear one if you have it, but
choose not one if you are buying. Better
the cloak. Muffs are as small as they can
be; side appendages, ribbons, bows, passe-
menteries, ETC., having gone away some
seasons ago and never came back. Quite
economical, likewise, are the muffs, of ma
terial with fur bands to match cloak or
dress. A change if you are dressy enough
to need changes, refuge if your purse is
not what purse ought to be. Nor are
batchelor-buttons and other flowers given
up to young ladies. They chiefly wear
them, but aunts and mammas can do the
same. Yet hardly in SO pronounced way.
The belle of eighteen thus bedecked is
one among many others; the belle Of
forty is thought dressy, yet not unduly SO
in our metropolitanized eyes, Hoping
your printer may prove equal to that last
long word, proceed to
GLOVES.
What is not terra Gotta is tan, and what is
not tan is terra Gotta, save at balls, ETC..
where ivory and flesh color are much worn
In shape, the mousquetaire, which, like
Pharoah's rod, has swallowed up the Bern
narOI, blarrlIy anu all tndu is unereunuO OF
kith and kindred. The Harris seamless
known everywhere from its great superior
ity, is now in mousquetaire form and re
tanning all it's elegance of fit and durabil
ity, remains, as heretofore, the choice fol-
those who wish a really frst-class glove
Of thicker kid, but much sought after
comes the Harris pique derby, stitched il
black,while undressed kid mousquitares ar,
likewise in demand. The shortest gloves
too, nowadays, are long, beginning at 81,
or eight button lengths and runding t.
eighteen. Note, however, that have sale
esbutton lengths" not buttons" for but
tons does not mean buttons any more, bu
what would be buttons if there were but.
tons. Because there are only two or tire,
buttons at the wrist, and the remaining ex
panse stretches up, up, up the arm, Otter
to the elbow, or is allowed to lie in an ar
tistic mass of wrinkles.
WHAT is A BUTTON.
In writing of the mousquetaire shape,
bethought me not of the Jersey gloves OF
fine merino woven and in cloth shades
fitting close and both pleasant and pretty
for general wear. For little girls there arr