Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-12-22
From New York.

CnaI nOu Oh every SIreeI corner ana llnger at the
very shop doors in mute protest against spending
all of ones pennies on ribbons and aces, and the
thousand alurements that the shops offer now
The really swell girl wears tiny bunch of violets
pinned on to her trim jacket, or deep black fur
cape, as the case may be, and goes on her way re-
jocing that her grooming pocket-book enables her
reyel in their purped sweetness, while her equally
appreciative, but always impecunious sister,
squanders a few cents on yellow or white chrysan-
themums-joyous things they are, too! Fashion
says that flowers are no longer worn nor carried,
but Fashion gets so snubbed here in New York the
people wear what they please and are the best
dressed people in the world Just now New Workers.
seem to be wearing what the rest of the world are,
but they wear it with an air that would be
recognized in Booriboolagah. Nowhere are there
such glorious girls, nor such well-dressed, smooth
shaven, well-fed and altogether delightful speci-
mems OF mankind to be seen, and nowhere do you
see such rude staring on the part of men, and Of
women, too, for that matter. Everyone stares at
everyone until one feels something must be wrong
with ones attire, or maybe ones bonnet looks like
Jersey Ito be from Jersey is to wish that you were
never born), but it is only way they have in New
York, there is SO much to see they are fearful of
letting something escape. One soon contracts the
habit of staring back. III astonishing to what
an extent staring can be cultivated, until one
glance will absorb everything from the velvet togue
and red hair down to the overgaiters and russell
Shoes You must wear overgaters to match your
suit if possible or for general wear the russell or
gray suede ones and one must wear veil-one
actually feels mmodest without one, they are worn
to such an extent here, from the tiny dotted one
that covers ones face to the tip of the nose to
large dotted ones extending to the chin. Then
there is the Hading veil, sSscaled after the pretty
and blitheI French actress who played her way into
the hearts of all New York These are much
affected with large hats They are either plain or
dotted net, are large and have deep lace border,
are worn gathered on the hat and tied under the
chin with the tiny ribbon that runs at the head of
the lace border-and there you are, your face all in
bag of net that lends a keep-your-distance
air to the pretty face it encoses, that is charming
Why will the homely girl wear one though? Old
Father Winter has given but one feeble shake of
his hoary head, yet fur abounds from the fascinat-
ing and coquettsh boa in bear, lynx, Angora or
what you will to the deep capes of monkey fur and
that good old fur, but just revived sables. The
capes are "Englsh, quite English so of course
they 60, and the muffs of our grandmothers APP
peal to seekers after novelty and comfort as we'll
They come in lynx or bear, and were evidently
fashioned around good sized handbook, so huge
are they. Redfern displayed one in his window in
combination with charming bit of red broadcloth
The whole thing fairly breathed of '76. The white
Angora muff and boa for evening come quite within
the range of modest pocketbook and are things
of beauty. White boas are even worn on the
street in the day time. There are lovely ostrich
feather boas for full pocket-books and dry weather,
and lace boas for all times, and again for evening
charming little concets in the way of lace and
flower muffs, the flowers fairly rivaling nature in
beauty and fragrance, for they come scented of
course. One pretty girl came into the theatre a
night or two agone, with two dozen more Jacque-
minot roses pinned to her monkey-skn muff,
quaint and startling, but rather satisfactory COM
bination it was too MINNIE MUCHMoRE.