St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-09
STYLISH NEW WORKERS.
why the Women of the Metropolis
SET the Fashions.

why the women Oh the Metropolis
Set the Fashions.
The New York woman is sui generis.
The greatest modistes credit her with being
the best dressed woman in the world. She
outrivals the Parsienne. because she is
even in her dressing. She may lack beauty
but she has that indefnable something, that
cachet, which is called good form. Her
English cousin may look well in dinner
dress or a yachting suit, but on the
street she is dowdy. Nearer home
she is equally unlike the woman
OF Philadelphia, who wears her
gowns as if they were great care for her,
end as if, like the marble steps, their i'm
maculate condition troubled her day and
night Unlike her sister of the West she
does not err by walking in a costume in
tended for the carriage; unlike the South
ern beauty, she does not revel in evening
toilet at the expense of her street get-up,
and very unlike her neighbor, the Boston
woman, she does not wear her clothes as if
they were a duty owed to society which de-
manded that the human form should be
covered.
No, she assumes them as a combination
of colors and stutfs which are to make more
charming that to which nature has already
L
the intangible one envied by all woman
kind and which stamps her from Maine to
Florida. from Brooklyn to San Francisco. as
the woman of New York. So it is easy
to understand why what New Workers
wear is of interest to women; that by this
knowledge they may find choice easy and
become thoroughly au fait as to what shoul Id
be worn. So in these articles it is proposed
to TELL not only those chiffOnS which are
Displayed in the shops, but those which are
chosen and approved.
The street suit that obtains is of cloth,
black and white having the preference,
though mode, mastic, blue, brown, green
and melanges have the vogue. Checks and
stripes, such as tailors show as ''trouser-
ings." are asked for, and the shopping
young woman has grown quite glib in using
this word. A suit of black clothes. with mar
row strip of white upon it, is made with
somewhat full. PLAIN skirt that has abso-
lutely no trimming upon it. A short drapery
is drawn over the hips i'll scarf fashion and
and the ends constitute the loops in the
back that give the bOuffant effect. A very
large hustle is worn, but so securely fast
ened that it does not "waggle," nor does it
show its outlines through the cloth as hap
pens with many an ill-arranged. and so mis-
plain finish, but shows from underneath a
vest of white MORE fastened by small sill
yer buttons. The vest and enormously high
collar are of black velvet a plating of
white MORE showing just over the edge and
forming good contrast.
Accompanying this gown is the hat, para
sol AMI gloves-the first a high
crown turban of fine black straw,
faced with full plating of
black velvet, while its high decoration is
stalk of white lilac and several fern fronds.
The parasol is black satin, has the usual
long stick and knotted handle of natural
wood, while the gloves are pale gray peau
de suede, with heavy black stitching. In
commentator of this toilet it must be said
that the way in which the skirt is hung is
perfection, that the fit of the bodice is
without reproach and the entire expression
one of good form.
Vests las we Americans call them in our
hurry, waistcoats, as is more properly said,
have become a feminine possessions; made
exactly like mans, if it were not for the
fancy fabric and the buttons, some odd
may be gotten undressed kid in all
the tan shades, one skin being sufficient
for vest front. They are light. and COM
bine well with any one of the fashionable
,colors in cloth. Such a vest is made up
with the greatest simplicity, the only deco
ration being the buttons, which are of
tortoise shell usually, though many less ex-
pensive styles are noted To make them
look as much like the gloves as possible
some young women close them with small
pearl buttons, of exactly the same
kind as are continually coming off
ones gloves, but while this has the
charm of oddity, it is guaran-
teed to ruin the temper of whoever has to
do the buttoning. A suede vest looks well
with white cloth or flannel, and they will
be worn in this way at the watering
places or when people are playing at
yachting. For yachting in reality, nothing
has been found to surpass the dark blue
cloth or flannel which will suffer all things.
and not look as badly as might be sup
posed, after all.