The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-25
GORGEOUS TEA GOWNS.
NEW DRESSES MADE FOR LEAD
ERs OF NEW YORK SOCIETY DE-


From the Philadelphia Press.
NEw York, Feb. 2.-The fad of the
Winter is the tea gown. Rivalry in tea
Gowns has come to be marked feature of the
dress competition of society. Dancing
dresses and dinner toilets are not so fresh as
they were when the season was two months
Younger, but to bring out something origi-
nal in tea gowns continues to be the dear
delights of the young matron's hear.
In the tea gown line, as in all other lines,
there is the approved and there is the eccen-
tric. TIE approved tea gown is here illus
trated. The material of the gown from
which the drawing was made while it was
still in the hands of tbs makers is rich
mahogany red plush. This opens over a
loose front pale pink silf, held by a gridle,
defining the waist line and then falling in
narrow fan plains to the hem.s The back of
the tea gown follows closely the most
beautiful curve in the human body from
the neck to the broadest part OF the hips,
and then drops away naturally in the long
sweep downward of the tram. The plush
sleeves are long and show a lining of pink
silk There is a broad band of Persian
embroidery in Eastern tints of dull blue,
mink and ecru laid about the throat, finish
ing the cosage.
There is not a woman nowadays who
makes a study of dress who does not devote
herself to mastering the tea gown. Mrs.
Crnelious Vanderbilt, who has been rather
noticeable throughout the Winter for the
modesty and quiet simplicity of her attire,
has vet fine wardrobe and thoroughly
understands the tea gown. One of the
prettiest which she has worn this Winter is
IF white satin brocaded in silver, swith full
front of silve tulle. At the neck there is a
great standing collar Of white plush and the
draperies are confined at the waist by an
embroidered girdle of silver braid.
Mrs. Vanderbilt likes to dress in white,
and another of her tea gowns is a rich robe
of white silk, the front entirely covered
with rare old lace, the work of the Venetian
nuns, the like of which could not now be
bought. With this she has worn once or
twice a nocklet of five rows of superb pearls
of the most exquisite clearness and beauty.
MRS. VANDERBILT AND MRS. WHITNEY.
She has also a tea gown of pale blue
broocade, very rick and cut like a simple
prindess robe, edged about with gold lace.
This dress has front of blue tulle, dotted
with spangles of real gold. There are puffs
of tulle at the shoulder tied with knots of
blue satin ribbon, whose long ends hang
nearly to to the hem of the gown.
Mrs Whitney, the wife of the Secretrry
of the Navy, who belongs to New York
society quite as much as to that of Washing
ton and who is one of the best dressed
women in either city is a devoted of tea
gown She has had three or four new ones
this Winter, two from Worth and one or
two made in New York, the most striking
of them being perhaps a gown of pale
yellow satin brocaded with running sprays
of fine flowers in white. The flowing front
draperies are of robins egg blue silk, EN-
broidered with wonderfully delicate and
intricate tIacery in gold thread. A great
gridle of seed pearls is about the waist, and
the bodice is trimmed with ropes of pearls
and filled in at the sleeves with gold lace.
SOME FAMOUS woMEN's DRESSES.
Mrs. Chauncey NJ Depew wore one after
noon last week tea gown of the lovely
shade of blue called ardoise in Ottoman
silk This was Princess robe over a piei-
coat of silver brocade and was worked
about wsth arabesque ggures in silver braid
and trimmed with fringes of heavy silver.
Mrs Bradley Martin has put about as
much money into tea gowns as any woman
in the city. One of her recent trinmphs in
this line Is a robe of deep crimson plush
whose pile is so thick and so soft that to
touch it is to get new idea of possibilities
in textile fabrics It's long train is arranged
in cascades lined with golden satin. The
golden rosebuds and opens over draperies
Of gold-colored silk. There is a standing
collar of crimson plush lined with Nile
green silk and the long, full sleeves are of
gold lace with knots of gold ribbon. 1t is
gown worthy of an Oriental queen and
only an American queen could pay for it.
Mrs. Orme Wilson, who was Miss Carrie
Aston and who, since the family was thrown
into mourning, has been Obliged to lay
ogi1 do xfa,,e g orAr oh haG
some of the most tasteful tea gowns seen in
the city this Winter. One of these was of
| ashes of roses surah silk with peticoat of
darker shades of gray ana gold tulle. An
other was of pansy purple velvet with front
of pansy silk glistening with gold pendants
and the waist olaspeed by unique gold
ornaments Yet third was of pure white
silk encrusted about the collar with
hundreds of pearls and the girdle a triple
rope Of pearls.
Mrs. Ogden Goelet never looks so well as
in tea gown of deep blue velvet, and Mrs.
| Elliott Roosevelt is radiant in rose-colored
silk with front of silver gauze. Mrs.
Marshall o. Roberts was long since smitten
with the tea gown craze and had entertained
in an art structure of black MORE satin,
with black gauze trent and sleeves slashed
at the shoulders and filed i'll with the same
material
Mrs Paran Stevens has galaxy of tea
gowns. A magnificent one is black velvet
with petticOat of black tulle. Another is of
cream color ed cloth braided with gold, with
petucoat of silver gray satin and huge sash
OF pale lavender satin. A third is of ruby
plush, with pale blue silk draperies forming
The front, a strip of gold passementerie rum
nlng about the shoulders and down to the
waist line, square train resting on the floor
IN folds and a hyavy gold girdle, its tassels
reaching the hem Of the gown.
To enumerate the woven who wear tea
gowns would be to run through the list of
all the dressy woven in the city. We are
lavlshing fortunes on clothes New York
mas become the dressiest capital in the world,
and with ladies' luncheons and ladies. teas
and seml-ceremonious afternoon gatherings
o. all sorts among its smartest and most
fashionable entertainments a gorgeous tea
wardrobe is counted necessity. Silk
enough goes into the tea gowns to crpet a
state and the velvets and bushes used are
lch enough and heavy enough to make a
q1Ifop curtain for the Metropolitan Opera
House.
SPRING DRESSES.
Attention to toilets for home wear does
not stop here, The simple house gown is
looked after almost as carefully, and the
women who are dressiest society are fire.
qlently the most appropriately and arts
scally gowned in the family circle of a
aaly morning. The house dress is consid-
N wholly with reference TO daintiness OF