Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-11-08

selves in their outer garments i'll order
to get the softest cambrics, the finest
muslins and the choicest embroideries
in their runder-garments. 1t is in the
lingerie OF her toilet that the French
be said that the pride is very jnstitia-
BILE. One hundred dollars will not be
too much to put down on this acrount.
"A woman's laces come under the same
rule. The softest, finest webs are lux
uries dearest to every elegant woman's s
heart, and, though these may be had
from $40 to $500, it is likely most girls
will spend 800 for laces if they can
take the money out of something not
so priced. Under flannels and two
flannel skirts will cost about SlS or
$2O. For such parts of wedding out
tit as jewelry and toilet articles no es-
timate can be made, as they may cost
the smallest or the largest amount. A
fan and shopping bag are essential,
and SO is a dressing case. with the
travel and toilet dear to n woman's
heart. Fifty dollars would be fair
estimate, exclusive of the jewelry.
While the above estimates are very
close and based on actual bills recently
paid by the father of an expectant
bride, they are at the same time much
beyond the power and perhaps the am
bitlon of very many young women i'll
respectable society, who expect to
marry and maintain social relations,
and have full intention not to call Oh
their husbands for dresses within the
orthodox year. Such woman at one
stroke would sweep away large item
of expense by making part of her
garments herself and getting the rest
made under the supervision and with
the aid of a visiting dressmaker. The
more opulent young women do no
sewing. Our present subject does
nearly all of hers, and probably does it
as capably as enthusiastically. She will
be married in her cloth travelling suit,
which need cost her only $50 and be
very pretty and becoming. If posi-
BILE. however, she will have silk COS
tume-the chef d'euvre of the ward
robe-and this will cost $50. She will
want a stout, serviceable street Co.'S
tune, at from 800 to $40, and cloak
at $50. She, too, will have morning
dress, pretty and graceful, of silk and
cashmere, costing only $15, and her
dress bonnet will cost but $S, and her
travelling hat So, for she bought the
materials, stole the styles at fall open.
ing, and made them triumphantly her.
self. Thirty dollars will cover the cost
of her muslin undergarments, and col
lars, cuffs and Guches will take the
place of laces. She will content her.
self with three pair of gloves at 81 sc
costing 50, one-halt dozen cambria
handkerchiefs at So, and two pair OF
corsets at 81 so per pair. The flannels
will cost her no more than So, and hel
toilet articles $5. When she has &C.
quired travelling bag at S5, and wa.
terproof rubbers and umbrella for Sc
more her outfit is complete at a cost OF
about $3.50. Yet many sweet girl
has been married on much less and
been happy and made her husband and
friends immensely proud of her. Won
derful stories are told of what may be
done with cleverness and 500, and the
man would get prize in the bride who
gave herself creditable outfit for that
amount But certainly the last esti.
mate could be considerably reduced.
That silk costume is not an absolute
necessity, and the travelling suit may
be made to last a year as street dress.
Nobody knows, too, what wonderful
bargains may be picked up in the
smaller articles, and those muslin un.
dergarments may still be heavily cut
into. Gloves need not cost 81 so, nor
bonnets $l3. Beside, the above figures
take into account nothing the bride
may already possess. They give her
every article new. But, OF course, all
women are more or less well supplied
with most Of the articles named, and
very many would not consider it neces.
sary to purchase any more than a
single new dress and bonnet, with
gloves and boots, beside patching up
glaring deficiencies. And for the com
fort of all whose purses are limited il
may be said that 10 woman with one
decent dress need refuse to marry the
right man.
A RATHER LUXURIOUS OUTFIT.
For the convenience of such as may
be contemplating matrimony and also as
a fund of reminIscence and compari-
son, the following list of articles in two
classes of wedding outfits are append,
ed in form convenient for cutting out
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