Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-06

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are not suitable for Young girls. Hosiery
may be cOlored. hut it IS much better 70
select black, dark red, or ivory white, as
these are sure TO he disable. and il should
be OF silk, spun or pure, according TO length
of purse. Spun SILK hose are warm, can
be used with more freedom. and are there
fore usually preferred To the thinner and
more costly styles, except for evening
wear, and then the place is often Occu-
pied by fine thread hose, or those may be
worn beneath fine silk ones. Too much
Importance cannot he laid upon the neces-
sty tor girls keeping their feet warmly
and regularly clothed. There IS absolute
danger as we'll as great risk IN changing,
/ as many girls dO,trOm warm cashmere hose
to fine open work thread whenever they 20
to a party" perhaps without a carriage
( or the protection of fur-ined boots. Ger
/ tainly the methods adopted with young
girls nowadays are bad beyond retrieyal,
or rather the want of all method and the
ways into which they are allowed to drift
are At total variance with any hope of
usefulness in the future. Pale in the
morning, with lack-lustre ewes, they come
down to a waiting breakfast at 10 or IL
O'Clock, lounge about listesSly with
novel until it is time to dress for a round
of calls. OTan afternoon reception, and con-
slider the day dull or lost one that does not
end in a ball or theatre party. Don't
ask me-" cried girl, in reply to request
that she would attend a morning class OF
some sort, Il do not rise before noon, and
it is all | can do to drag myself down
stairs" She was buttOnIng herself up in
a sealskin coat, and her maid stood ready
to put on her boots and hand her mUtf
and fuTred cap. That same evening she
was at ball, in pale yellow tulle and
satin, where she remained till three in
the morning. And this will be repeated
at least twice week during the winter.
DRESSING FOR NEW YEARS.
There is no special dressing in New
York now for New ears day, for New
Years calls have ceased to possess So
ciety significance, and receiving" is kept
up as a good old custom by old-fashiOned
people, or by the working, business and
professional class, who cannot devote
their every days 10 calling and society.
/ The day IS still pleasantly celebrated by
very large number OfpeOple drawn from
! these sources; but the percentage Of the
/ young Is small. the preparations are of a
4 moderate and simple character, and the
/ occasion derives its principal interest
] from the meeting of old friends and the
/ retrospective turn given to the CONVERSE
I ton, Tor there is less anxiety in regard to
! the number OF calls among the StaId and
middle aged, and more willingness TO
/ prOl0ng calls into visits where
| there are several decades of events to re-
I call and talk about. A chance for sleigh
/ ing on New Years day is hailed BY the
| young folks as the most prOpitiOus of all
| happenings. Large parties are OrraniZed.
/ who drive To the fine house of the relative
! Of one Of them on tue suburbs, gather the
! young people OF the neighbOrhOOd there,
! OF 20 from house To house, Russian fash
| ion, returning in the evening to city homes
for dance. \ certain set among the
ultra fashiOuabes ignore New Years day
I'LL
I upon which nothing is TO be done because
I the public could participate in il. and
which they give up To the public like the
Fourth of July, refusing even to have a
dinner party on that day, lest they may
be supposed to DC keeping the day.
AFTERNOON RECEPTIONS.
Ladies who DO not 20 out a great deal
sre often puzzled in regard to the proper
toilet for an occasion to which they attach
I Importance because it does not often oc-
cur, and perhaps consult a friend. If
is an afternoon reception, OF which there
are so many during December and Jan
[ uary, the friend says handsome walking
dress will do. and the lady goes and is
/ distressed to fiud her hostess in full dress
/ and perhaps surrounded by half a
/ dozen friends, who assist her to receive
/ in very low cut satin dresses Of the lightest
/ shades, with trains two yards long. Look
/ Ing at her own dark, simple costume
/ and remembering the elegant long trained
I light silk that lies at home in the
recesses of trunk or closet and so seldom
/ sees the light, the lady feels like reprOach-
ing her friend for misleading her, until
she is cOnsOled by seeing other costumes
as simple as her own. Afternoon receD-
tiOns are still 50 new that the question of
dress for them is not very well understood.
4 Besides, ladies' who give afternoon recep-
| tiOns not infrequently close up with din
( ner and theatre party, or themselves make
one Of a party to assemble at some other
house. This is the excuse for full dress,
/ which Is quite out Of place-certainly as
/ much so as a dress-cOat for a gentleman
I before 8 O'Clock. An afternoon reception
is often large and somewhat prOmiscu-
/ Gus affair, and it is certainly one to which
! the invited guests expected to 20 in
/ day dress, for there is often hut slight ac-
/ cOmmOdatiO1 for removing wraps; and it
/ is very bad taste, indeed, for any one to
/ mingle in such an assemblage, at an in
/ formal hour, in light satin with long train
| which lies upon the ground only to be
! trampled upon, and with bodice so low it
leaves neck and arms exposed from throat
to finger nails except the space covered
/ by an inch of strap which con-
meets the back and front together.
A dress for lady receiving"
may be as handsome and as rich as the
/ wearer pleases, but during the day it
! should be short and the bodice square or
I heart-Shaped or high to the throat, not
! low. An effective reception dress worn
! the other day was of pink and silver bro
! cade, with PrinceSSe train and half
/ sleeves of black silk velvet. The br0cade
I formed the pulled front of the robe and
/ high puff5 to the sleeves, which were plain
/ velvet from the pun to below the elbow,
I where they were trimmed flat with en-
! brOidered lace, which also formed a small
! Medici collar. An OpaiiGe silk worn on
+ the same occasion was beaded in 4 fine
! and delicate network pattern and Orna-
I manted with birds, greenlSh gray and TWO
/ together, upon skirt ana shoulder. The
! large detached patterns in brOcades can
not be made becoming. They are very
! ugly, and many will be left, q dead loss,
upon the hands Of the dealers.
| Ball dresses are, rs stated in my last,
! of tulle over satin, with low, solid satin
! bodice; and this is worn almost without
exception at The fine private and Del
/ mOnicO balls. Yellow tulle, red tuile,
( black tulle and gray tulle are employed,
/ but white tulle more than any other.
/ Sometimes the tulle is embroidered, and
I this embroidery reappears round the
neck Of the bldice. A black tulle en-
/ broidered with small sunflOwers, a red
/ tulle dotted with pendant chenille, Il yell
/ low tulle spangled over yellow satin, a
I white tulle fringCd with frosted glasses
\ over white satin, a gray tuHe over satin
garnitured with tulips. were among the
\ t0ilest al a recent great private ball. But
4 one OF the most elegant women in New
( York, the wife of an artist, wears always
! black or white. Her handsome dresses
/ come from Paris-a black one this year. "A
| white one the next. When they have
! done duty as long dresses always plain
/ trained skirts with square or heart-shaped
/ bodces they make over into short cos
/ tunes, morning wrappers or house dresses
I for summer wear. Always simply yet
( perfectly dressed, her clothes cost her
/ probably not more than One-fifth the
/ amount expended by many more preten-
/ tiOus danes.
/ SOME OF THE LUXURIEs OF THE MALE
TOILET.
/ The fact has been several times stated
/ in these letters that American women do
/ not take kindly to silk underwear. Much
+ was written and said about it on its first
| appearance some years ago, and one
! might have imagined that every other
/ woman had possessed herself Immediately
! of complete stock of pink, blue and ecTu
/ silk undergarments, tied with ribbons
/ and trimmed with valencieRnes lace. AS
/ a matter of fact, the sales at the general
! dry goods stores fTequented by the great
I majority were so limited that they ceased
! to keep silk underwear in stock, and even
| in some of the best houses it is only sup
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