Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-01

pefDlN atllreQ IN q DOQlCe ana Tram OF Ine
richest white satin, brocaded with silver
lilies and yelled with deep, wine-cOlOred
tulle. Her ornaments were diamonds, fU-
bies and pearls. The scene at Buckingham
dlace is described as very brilliant
one, each toilet being carefully chosen, so
that there should be no clashing of colors.
The costumes and all the accessories were
Of the most magnificent, but with very
! few exceptions, beauty, either of form or
feature, was conspicuous by its absence
| New York Post.
FAIR NEcKs AND ARMS.
! It is no longer questionable or consid-
cred bad taste to allow the fairness of necks
and arms 10 CLEAN through the trans
parency of nullS and muslins or the black
meshes of rich lace. Simplicity is studied.
| but it is the simplicity Of the finest and
most expensive fabrics cloud-like with
excess OF lace and Elusive drapeTies. There
are charming new features Of American
manufacture. China crepe Of delicate
| texture, perfectly initiating the Chinese
| fabrics Of old, is seen in delicate cCru. pale
beige, fawn, pale straw color Another of
the domestic silk industry is the manufact-
ure Of graceful and delicate creme de chene.
\ very elegant costume, OF pOtatO-colOr
monte cloth, has an apron in front,
trimmed with gold gimp two inches wide,
with a fine fluffy fringe the bottom of the
skirt, basque. sleeves, and the side of one
breadth on the side corresponds SUI
perb black toilet is a combination Of
satin rhadames, Spanish and guipure
lace. Others are of fOulard silk
One of these costumes has very
wide French lace tiounce on the bottom /;
over this, or reaching the top, are plain
breadJhs, front and side, ike panels; the
back of the basque has fans inserted of
, | oil 1.14s
Il the side seams, are clasped in front with
hammered silver buckles the back
= drapery hangs straight in full plaits to the
2 bottom: the front of the basque is V
r | shaped, admitting a little vest of velvet.
, The fronts of some OF these elegant toilets
, are made of beaded grenadine or lace and
the patterns of the brocaded grenadine
fronts and basques are Outlined with jet,
Other costumes of stately beauty are com
posed Of black Sicilienne, Bangaline and
| surah these are combined with wajered
y silk, wide lace velvet and China Grape
Pretty black alg;e, sea-grass color, sea
y green, dark blue, cafe nOir and other favor
| tie shades of surah silks have floral figures
on small blocks in white all over them
and are simply made with a short draped
poionnase, with plated skirts; or with
short apron oyerskirt, basques and Skin
made with side panels and box plaits II
me D1ch. sen alllLtQ--L New I DIh tIlD
uue.
ALL ABOUT FAT WOMEN.
Doomsday is rapidly overtaking stou
ladies who have calmly witnessed the com
ing of all fashions and the going Of tn,
.. same, placid, invoked and undisturbed.
Growing more fat from a state Of con
! tentment and more content from stat
of fairness. True, they have had to hun
l, out special stay-Inakers and shoemaker
and frocl-makeTs, and hailed the elasti
stretchable Jerseys with a delight that ha
threatened q collapse at a rumOr of then
being removed because scraggy people hay
grown tired of stutling arms and necks 70
their skin-tight garment, which stiCket
closer than poor relation
There always came in, in each season
such distingue lot Of dolmans for fa
ladies, and fat people move with sue
squeaky-shoed majesty through a crow
as to command attention where slim, wiz
er females would remain comparatively III
or noticed. Fat women look better lying bac
d. on the cushions of a coupe than the claI
n board sisters, who spoil all by their nervoU
ed clutches at the blinds and their craning
necks to be seen.
Fashion had always a pleasant little dc
ne nation for the 300-pound slaves, wh
grabbed at it eagerly, and were as please
n, as a child with a new head for its disloCate
~ doll.
Fat women smile a good deal becau.
er' they have lost sight of their large feet, an
are not nervous over ill-fitting shoes as b
er as the fan to a thrashing machine.
But. alas content is fleeing far away, ar
10 the new state of things viii inevitab
as bring on nerves again and thinness, the r
suit always Of much worriment.
K Fashion, for once, has completely ignore
handsome, heshy ladies, who look ham
some because of their splendid proportion
re- although you never met one who did II
ed tell you she sat up nights reading exhauS
ing treatises on how to become thin.
IS Like the artificial Saxon-the stout lad
in spite of her girth and -ponderous wal
RS. will soon be lost to sight, 10 make room
the new creature Of the hour
The raw-boned, shingle-made, magazin
he plate article is rising in the horizon ia.
is and long necks, long, shapeless waists, su
tn pressed hips, angular arms and a gener
gh stick-in-the-back kind of woman is
1a "rule the court, the camp, the grove"
lis, There are very few fieshy old maiC
lie They say worry keeps them fat-chest
est and as thin as hornets. Now is the til
81 for this sisterhood to come from their
oy- clusion and make one more grab at u
are wary mailman, that arch-deceiver, VI
a has thus far hid under a rainwater barr
nd or his own conceit, and eluded the catcht
eat There never lived little girl who, up
he meditating upon the future and her mot
lg- er's borrowed fashion books, did not 10
from her Utmost soul to look some day il
like the impossible, high-shouldered, sma
ial WASTED, pine-board sort of lady dressed
rts as fine as a fiddle in the books. Now lit
Ids maids, your wishes may be gratified to yo
red hearts content
The corsetmakers are insane with gil
as no ready-made machine can crush, COZ
is press and fiatten the female works as C
She whose business it is to concoct vic
not eradicate them.
nst Somebody is bound TO be killed with
d.. this foolishness, of course