Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-30
FADING YEARS FASHIONS
.nr,,sIONs OF G AYETY FOR
THE COMI>G WINTER.

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- nrazs Fabrics-Climatic
I.,.Ies of Underwear and the
.,,Iocy of FianneI-EvOlution OF
tton and the Science of style
ling aud Evening Dresses-Tea
rv,s-Princesses, Etc.
WV YORK. Oct. 29.-All the indIca-
.,a.s mint TO very gay winter Tor 1856 :,
NV business is prosperous and 1t Is not
.presidentiap' year. But just now
'-orotv is distributed. and fashion mas
e,regsted at Lenox, at Tuxedo Park,
,,,ortic CITY and other resorts before
crrstallzlng for the season" In Ne"
yort Tuxedo Park is the latest fasniona-
,,otod in the way of au autumn stopping
,Ioce-one cannot say resting place, for
s.sbiors and fashionable people are never
.uoras 10 rest. 1t is lovely spot on
.ro Erie road. an hour and halls ride
h-o,, Now York, between 5000 and 5000
.ocres in extent, with a pretty lake, an
nla,apt club house and IA cottages all
.oiJ MIR. Pierre Lorillard has already
snapt sl.5OO,O0O upon 1T (the cottages
orc furnished as well as built), and thus
d. new "swell" centre is established.
Trxedo Park is to LenOx what the Metro
Han Opera House is to the old Acad-
mc of Music. 1t is the half protest,
Saif overflow of the younger exclusives
n%sinst the exclusiveness Of the older Oc-
cnnauts of the territory; and, like most
scions they Guido the old stock upon it's
own lines. ,....... .,-,,
The difficulty about shutting the world
out of anywhere, is that natural klnshlp
asserts itself: and very sooh that which
- shut ont seems more desirable than that
when is shut in. At present Tuxedo
park is an idyll. The Orange mountains
torm glory round about it; pretty girls
md bjcycllsts inhabit it; Mrs. James
Br0vn Potter lends her picturesque
presence to it before going abroad for the
Tinter: and the ball that was given there
swo weeks ago put stamp Of correctness
and brilliancy upon the social life. Cot
tasss at Tuxedo Park are not intended for
rarnapent hOmes---only for two or three
months occupancy in the autumn-after
having spent the summer at Newport or
Bar HarbOr You 90 there, as one OF the
occupants u a cottage rem arkea, ito
wear out your old Clothes" But one
would rather have some of the Tuxedo
Park old clothes than new ones elsewhere.
Not that they dress in silks in yelyets and
faces, atleast not every day.
WOODEN FABRICS.
There is widespread idea that fash
ionable women and those who can afford
silks never wear anything else. Never
was a greater mistake. Really fashiona-
ME women, especially young women,
only wear silk on occasions; their out
door dress, and especially walking dress,
Is wool, lined with silk, perhaps touched
up with velvet. but more frequently pure
wool with lining OF silk which does not
show.
silk dress worn ordinarily ana at a
country house would look so out of place
that the wearer would be set down as
ignorant and inexperienced. Age is
privileged, but even its uniform of gray
ur black is more frequently fine cashmere
with silk, tnan all silk or saJin, as form
erly. Wool Is not tor a season. it has
come to stay. 1t is put to serviceable
uses to which it is adopted. For outdoor
wear it is infinitely superior to silk; for
the atmospheric currents have free play
In It and through 1t. IT puts US in rela-
tiOn with them instead of shutting us out
from them like silh. The reaction in favor
OF wool anu its restoration to high place
In the general economy of wOmen's dress
10 asanltary blessing.
question which needs solving ard
which ought to be taken up by physicians
Is mat OF underwear next the skin. There
is no cllOaIe 10 which some sort of
WOODEN garments cannot be advantage
ouSly worn; but young women and So
clety women avoid it as much as posi-
Die, often altogether, because it interferes
Win the wearing of the fashionable low
1ecks and short sleeYes-or no sleeves.
Inere are vigorous young girls who de-
clare they can stand it; that the cold does
not make "A nartiClp Of diffopan ne 90
mat they do not need flannel or merino or
gauze or wool of any kind; and that in
ldct lhey possess a skin 50 sensitive they
cannot bear the tOucn OF wool, This, of
VouIet' involves contradiction which
tuey 90 not perceive. A skin so sensitive
ougnt 10 De protected; and IN time thew
suuer II ON the absence Of proper and uni
CHtl recently there was the excuse of
S'gisHe eosrseness, want of adaptability
"u "dHO ol variety IN the underwear
woven or made for women. There iss sill
room tor Improvement, but there 10 NOT
idcA OIL variety. The difficulty is q want
graceful form and finish in the heavier
au oon pIele woven garments and the in
" u.4uacy OIL the pretty little vests-with-
| ~ o1, VI d"eGs--ot woven or knitted silk or
'N "uu WOOL 10 meet the requirements.
sAln-llke garment Of soft wool covering
sIe bouE Is a luxury which can only be
..PPIeclated by experimental knowledge
o Hs virtues. lis at once a medium and
au absorbent. 1t should be changed tre-
SueHuy' and 1t preserves all other cloth
ms from contact with the skin. IL pre-
ives ah equality Of temperature and
~aiu'dlhs equable relations between the
.9u! ahd The outside world. Ills cleanIv
81" eAerclses gentle influence which is
oV,iier ielt than described; but is tran.
sn]lhg and beneficial. Now that ner-
aus diseases are SO common. all the
tiusee OF disturbance ought to be care
snaI "eigned; all remedial agents given
s CONSIDERATION, and any one who as
80 10 give wooden underwear for
=. Oueh tle soitness, hghtness aud grace
lDIm demanded, ia accordance with
rsce portions Of their attire, will do his
'a,e service, A''
Ter, esseallal feature must be three diff
,oo 'n, uegTees OF round aud square neck.
Va n"' me medium and the high. Now
,iIp nave only the high and low: unless i'm
,,,,,L u@Hu Bnlt and IN average STYLES. no
go neck forms at ali. The Jaeger,
o.so'Iu uhdergarments-whic | muv
tney icy loeu more than a year AGO before
n, uau oeen introduced into This conn
81 r. ale becoming rage with men: but
VaraD! women object To them as thew
urai ~. ielhally made--in the pretty. mai
mro. .iut 81 the wOol--that the mauufac-
t6sS. are spelling them and destroyInp
White. "u"i''y by making them
cbanSoIn travel and the sort of inter-
pnr mat mas become common betwean
| Tpra,'Oheh or society and thosa Of