The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-03
FASHIONS AND FLOWERS
APPROPRIATE DRESS FOR THE
SEASON OF BLAND AIRS.

of Uniformity-Fixed Standards in
Fashions-The Proprietbs and Diver
stiles of Dress-What is Fashion and
Who are the Lawgivers?-The Secret
of leadership Essentials of Sue
cess-The Spring Bonnet; Pretty,
Piouant and Impertirent-Var
and Changes in Headgear-The House
Iacket-To Whom Adapted, and By
Whom to be Avoided Influx of New
1deas-Fashions of tbs Future-Nov-
elites in Linens-New Discoveries in
Trimmings.
New YORK, March at is a curious
and beautiful thing in this world that life
is always young, and always being re-
created The joy of rev birth comes
with each returning seasoo, and one almost
feels ashamed of the pleasure one feels in
the ever-recurring mirasle of the fresh
grass and gay, professional flowers
One even recognizes with something of
the same welcoming interest, thenew spring
materials for dresses-the pretty cottons
and lighter tissues, which harmonize with
the outdoor season and the return of light
and warmth | am sure, if were a man,
should be particularly glaC in the spring,
TO have women in the worlC and | would
not have them without their lights and
colors, their fads and fances, their change
ful fashions in dress and all TIE elements of I'M
expectedness, which give lew aspects to life
and make it interesting. II women can
feel this charm in other women, men ought
to be still more susceptible to it, and in
deed, some of them are. If they are not,
they are callousad or naturally insensible.
What funeral assembAge, the gathering
of people, anywhere, would be if women
we're uniformed in black cloth, like men.
"The principal difficulty" remarks some
Door bewildered woman, who cannot decide
between the multifariols collection of de-
signs and fabrics submitted to her, sis to
make a choice For my part l would rather
be obliged to submit to a standard" But
that is just what she can do, if she is so
minded; she may be free or in bonds, and
still be in the fashion.
Those who are rot satisfied with the lati-
tude allowed them. with the efforts made to
suit diversity of tastes-and even of purses
must be very har1 to please, and ought to
glance back at the successive fashions of
the past fifty or 100 years, to realize the
actual and immeasureable advance all along
the line of woman'S clothing from almost
all points of view specially those of warmth,
protection, adaptability and general becom-
ingness. A great deal of the variety comes
from the eternal addition to our resources.
We do not now getrid of anything, we sim
ply appropriate it; lay it aside perhaps, for
a time in favor of something else, but keep
it on call, when wanted; and there are
always some who want it.
For this season, it is impossible to say,
what is and what is not, fashion. in any
general and popular sense of the term; for
everything is accepted that suits the circum-
stances, and the very people who are the
elect leaders, who spend thousands of dol
lars annually upon their clothes, will take
the most pride and make their greatest
dress success out of some yards of lace or
old embroidery which has been "picked up"
abroad or been in the family for generations
at home. 1t is not only the possession of
resources; it is the knowing how to use
them, which is essential to success, even in
the art of dress. This is what is meant
when we say, one woman can wear so and
so and another woman cannot. We mean
that one woman knows how to wear it and
the other does not.
Thus by always keeping the freshest part
and the new or revived idea well to the
front, one woman will get the credit of
being rich and fashionable dresser, while
another may spend much more, but make
such poor use of material, that she will
always be considered more or less of
dowdy. This is very hard on man, if he
furnishes the money. 1t seems to me, that
except a sweet, cheerful and sunny DISPOSE
ton, there is no quality should more prize
IN woman-if 1 were a man-than the
ability to make much out of little; in short,
put herself and whatever means were
placed in her hands TO the best, most taste
full and intelligent use. Life is SO difficult
nowadays for the majority, it is so hard to
keep place and time and cultivate domestic
and social ties that faculty is a positive
addition to income or capital, and assists to
make life song instead of bowling
wilderness.
Ii such women exaggerate little if their
draperies are a trifie too boutfant, their
bonnets piled up little too high, they must
be forgiven. They are apt to touch an ex-
IRENE in the effort to escape the suspicion
OF Homemade but it should be remem-
bered that the pretty, if conventional dress,
is probably clever "make-overn and the
bonnet put together at the cost of frame
and flowers. "Why waste so much clever
ness IN such 3 direction? Why not put it
INTO money InakingN 1t is the desire to do
this on the part of those who do not need to
earn livelihood, which makes it so much
more difficult for those who have a liveli-
hood to earn to gain the opportunity, and
reduces the average of social and domestic
enjoyment. There are actually better
things in this world than money making;
there is learning to do without it or with
less Of it.
THE SPRING BONNET
is as high as ever; but it has more of brim,
ana the brim is very obvious, almost imper-
tlnent. 1t projects like a scoop, it is thrown
up like shovel, it is coquetishly turned to
one side or closed in point In its hollow,
over the forehead, ribbon bows are placed,
or leaves, or flower, the effort being to
equahze its Importance with that of the
crown; but the whole effect of many of the
pointed ones, with their short, rounded
sues and tall trimmings, is singularly that
VI a struttlng, barn yard fowl.
lhere is great variety in the straws, and
some OF them appear in very pretty and
modest shapes The capote and close-cap
shape, which only consists of a crown, has
largely disappeared, and very properly, for
Uney are not suited to straw nor to summer
wear. The toque is retained, and is made
=. nannel and hight, spring cloths-checks,
ayrlp9s and miXtures-to match suits. 1t is
also useful, for it does not need much trim
inhg; ana twist, fold with loops of rib
D9n or velvet and wing is all that there is
tgoh Tor. The toque is, however, over and
eooVe all, suited To materials, and when ar