The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-02-14
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Fig Leaves.
Sashes are still in high vogue for old and
young.
The light silks will be much worn during
the spring.
Chsmbery ginghams are to be in great
demand for spring wear.
muslin dresses this season.
All the new cravats and scsrfs are very
full in effect over the front of the bodice.
Crimped frills of tinted Grape set against
standing, hghtly-gsthered ruffles of Orien-
tai lace, are worn inside the neck and
sleeves Of evening dresses.
The box plests for dress skirts have grown
so wide that they look like panels, especially
when only three are used, as on cloth and
cashmere skirts. There are double or triple
box pleais, with the center one of each q
fourth of yard wide, and three of these
are all that are needed for the front and
sides of skirt. A trimming Of some kind
is added to box-pleatings; thus a band OF
velvet six inches wide is around box pleated
camers-hair skirts, or there is row OF bro
cade placed lengthwise between each bunch
of pleats, or else there are rows of braid or
braiding pattern done on the material before
it is folded into pleats.
Beauty, properly understood. is the oily
worthy end of life; and besuty is the sppro-
priateness of anything to the place it has to
| I'LL, adoption to ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS fitness
to ell his position in the universe Thus
beauty means, primarily, health, and hence
the moderation of q well-balanced mind,
temperance the wise soul in the healthy
body. And hence all mortal attributes. As
Goethe said the beautiful is greater than the
good, for it includes the good; it is the good
| made perfect To be beautiful, will mus
be strong and character; upright to be
beautiful, spirit must be holy. There are
few things uglier than q weak will and an
unholy spirit. So Mr.. Morris broad defni-
nitlon OF art is "the beauty of life." With
this new view we no longer think him 60
extravagant who said he had rather die for
beauty than live for bread; and Art and
Life are seen to be insepsrsble, and the d.
vorce between them to be significant of q
perishable acknowledgements.
In reconstructing dresses some change
must be made in the length and width of
the skirt back to allow for the psnier hustle,
therefore if the skirt il left as it was cut
last spring, even all round, the extension
would make it appear considerably shorter
in the extreme back than in the front.
Princess dresses and polonsises are ripped
open in the back and side seams and have
additional draperies behind and plsstrons
or panels let into the sides to make the
needful room. About the lower edges the
skirts are no wider than they were last
year. They are only gored less up towards
the top when cut new, so that the skirt is
not so very much wider at the bottom than
it is where pleated or gathered into the
waistband. Basques are modernized and
improved by having box pleats of the ma
terial, or some suitable combination, let in
to the back of the skirt, or it may be that
fans are placed in the side and back seams,
while other bssques are cut short, either
straight round or up over the hips, and
round or pointed in front and at the back,
and either left plain or finished with deep
side or box pleating of silk. A basque OF
very handsome garnet gros grain, which
proved rather tight in both waist and skirt,
was made really elegant by adding a col
lar, cuffs and vest of rich brocade, with or
nsmentsl loops of silken cord passing across
the lower portion of vest from buttons on
the front sides of the gros grain waist. The
basque skirt was cut out in tab scollops,
which were bound in velvet the same color
of the figures in the brocsdes, and created
an elegant finish. Another basque hsd the
skirt cut up over the hips and a coat pleat-
ing was attached to the back, beneath an
ornamental finish of velvet. With skirts of
silk, sstin, velvet and plush, fancy jackets
of ceshmere and other soft all-WOol fabrics
will be worn during the spring, and, indeed,
they will be fashionable all summer for
home or at wsIering-plsces and the seaside.
Sometimes these garments are made in the
color of the skirts with which they are to be
worn, and again with dark rich skirts, the
jackets are in delicate contrasting tints.