The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21
AROUT ARTISTIC DRESS.
,,u REVIVAL OF GREEK AND OLD
ILL., ENGLISH GOWNS.

Individuality tne rroPef lining AZ "Aoo
Attire-The Fashion of Having
~ Fashions-The Josephine and
o4ber Picturesque Gowns-Spring
Ideas.
Nrw YORK, Feb, 1S.-It's not a hard run
10 he in at the death of a fashion. To as
s;st as midwife.at a fashions birth is quite
another thing.
aside the portiere at the door dress order de-
,ortrent of big dry goods store where
tho nrettv women and the rich women of
the city are fitted.
"She looks like goddess"
COR statue; did you ever imagine
statue dressed up before!"
"What was it you called that thing down
the back, a Chiffon, or some such queer
name3"
Certainly, madame, the Chiffon or di-
,Ioidon.n 1t was the smooth diplomatic
Zones of the head of the department that
renied. st is embroidered after pattern
assigned by Queen Marguerite of Italy.
There's not another in the country like it."
There are Talleyrands in dry goods stores.
Its perfectly lovely"
~ never had better mind to eat than l
have to order one for afternoon teas. What
price did you say~
"Two hundred and twenty-five dollars
TO YOU, madame" this with very courtly
bow.
THE GREEK GOWN.
1t was the Greek gown. We have been
threatened with it for three or four years
and here it was, somewhat modernized, but
IN propria persona, and worn by the most
2f &,.xyir NM riF~ ha had
been planned by designer who knows
more about dress than any ten modistes In
town. He has studied its history in all ages
and is profoundly learned in farthingales.
points, rufus, hose, etc. II he has a hobby
It is the revival of the Greek gown. He
has planned number of beautiful exam
pies for fancy dress for women of fashion,
one or two of them noted bellies, this win
ter, and his notion is that women have only
to see the habit to be impressed with a de-
sire to put it ON. He had scattered cards of
invitation for private view of his latest
efforts judiciously and the scene which
was witnessing was the result.
The Greek gown was truly a thing of
beauty as worn. The model was salesgirl
too pretty to be exposed to the beauty show
of dry goods store. She had a Greek
nose, a Greek forehead, she wore her
hair in Greek knot and her erect young
figure in its graceful garment conveyed
such an idea of health and power, that she
might have posed for Junoif an artist had
any use for such ideal forms of humanity
in these degenerate days. No wonder the
score or so of women grouped about her
ohd and ah'd and gave audible expression
TO their admiration.
The dress itself was a perfe thy plain
princess slip of soft white silk with flowing
skirts and demi- train. Over this was ar
ranged the characteristic Greek drapery,
composed, in this instance of a lovely piece
of white China crepe intricately inwrought
with threads of Indian gold. This chiffon
or long shawl, as it is much simpler to call
it, was doubled to make an oblong with
loops upon the four corners. A button was
placed on the point of each shoulder, and
the middle of the shawl depended in fold
between the shoulders below the waist, its
length being such as to hang within two or
three inches of the ground. In front the
drapery was more distinctly modernized,
the diagonal folds across the bodice being as
shown in the illustration.
OLD ENGLISH DRESS.
The graceful gray-eyed model became a
figure of Diana in the hunting field in a
short underdress of russell brown cashmere
with shawl of the same material embroid-
cred with Greek fret in red, the draperies
drawn through cord girdle conveniently
out of the way. She was Aurora, blushing
at the coming of the sun, in a white satin
gown sprinkled with quvering rose leaves
and draped with shawl of white satin
gauze. She wore blue green velvet with
chiffon of silk of the same shade.
She wore a white cloth with edging of
lambs wool about its draperies, and in
everything that she put on she looked so
natural, so comfortable and SO beautiful
80 that half a dozen women, not all of them
capable of looking rretty in anything, were
discussing ways and means when | came
away
We are on the verge of a craze for arts
tic dress Many women have come to think
1t a necessity to keep one such in their ward
ROBE for special occasions, and some few are
making regulations for never wearing any
thing of the stereotyped order. We are
weaned from Patti who taught us so long
that there was no civilization before or
aside from Worth
The Josephine gown, which Bernhardt re-
vlved in La Tosca" is one of the artistic
experiments. 1t is this which made Adele
Grants reputation as a beauty In dress
makers dress Miss Grant is simply a pretty
brunette. In Josephine gown of clinging
white silk, long trained, absolutely with
Out drapery or trimming, hanging from che
snort waist close about her limbs she is pic
turesque, plant individual With such a
gown she wears no flowers nor jewels, just
q huOI VI WHITE RIBBON IN her mar.
IN SPRING ARRAY.
The old German and English costumes
especially the picturesque old English style
nave much to recommend them to seekers
after individuality in dress Kathryn
bidder, the actress, who has just taken
Miss Eastlake's place with Wilson Barrett
and who is New York girl who wore her
clothes as few other New York girls ever
could, has gown like the right hand one
inquired in the second picture. 1t is soft
gray green in color the plain silk skirts
having but small plating or frill about
me bottom The bodice is full, gathered al
the shoulders and waist. The sleeves are
iull and fastened by jeweled clasps over In
uiah muslin undersleeves. Both throat and
sleeves are finished with old English lace.
Dora Wheeler, the artist, is always arts
ucaliy dressed. l do not know that she has
any hobbies in that direction, but she Illus
trates what is possible for a woman with an
eye Tor form and color in these days when
yne sex feminine has greater freedom than
ever enjoyed before in the makes OF
gowns There is no woman now who may
NOT clothe herself after her own ideas of de
csncy, reasonableness and beauty without
SuoJectlng herself to remark, and there is
every probability that we shall see individ-
ualIly IN such matters gaining ground more
FOR THE PROMENADE.
Spring ideas ara now IN, a 70 t1idIv aduapc