Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-17
FEATURES IN MEMS DRESS.
December Mems outftter.

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| The bath wrap is an acquired taste.
The white silk band-bow is dead fail
ure
Persian patterns in heavy muflers are
taking.
Watered silk vests in fancy colors are
good for masquerade wear.
The genuine twice-round scarf is not
making much Roadway for day dress.
Quite few novelties IN glove backs are
shown by tho crack stores about town.
Gilt buttons on white vests is great
fad among the hotel chemists of Chicago.
A very genteeI shirt bosom is of fine
linen with two pearl studs decorating it.
y few fobs are worn with full dress,
but not by the men who do the swell
thing.
\ cute little match box is small bird ;
feather i'll silver, set with tiny cOlored
stones.
The full dress shirt protectors should be
very popular III cities where soft coal is
used.
Novelties i'll umbrella handles viii as
usual form big part of the holiday dis
play.
Very rich De Joinvilles have dark, soft
grounds covered with figures sharp and
brilliant.
\ funny little man refused hat with
very loud lining because it might make
him deaf.
1t is a fad among the Paris swells to
sport an emerald solitaire in full dress
shirt bosom.
Holiday suspenders are in white and
colored satins, plain, for the fair DANES
to embroider.
In many quarters it is predicted that
the black silk ottoman Will be "the
thing' i'll muhiers this winter.
Cream colored crepes, with silk stripes
in self ana bright cOlors, are shown in
uegligee shirts intended Tor next season.
A startling pattern in Turkish bath
wraps is red and green mixture on IL
white ground. The design is like the ef-s
feet Ill watered silk.
Embroidery is running wild once more.
1t is seen up and down the side of ones
trousers. Very few men have taken the
style up. Glad Of it.
"Full dress protectors are now made
with high collars to encircle the neck,
answering the double purpose of muf1iers
and shirt front shield.
Fancy cloth vests, checked and small
figured and double breasted, are
"toney' for business men who do not
object to front that is little gay.
a good many embroidered shirt bosoms
are being sold. In the extremely fine
trade the simpler the decoration the bet
ter the demand for the bosom.
De Joinvilles of white silk with tiny
figures in bright colors are regarded ia
vorably by the ''slick boys who walk ON
Fifth avenue these bright afternoons.
A cane or umbrella handle with a time
piece set in, is a novelty. 1t will prove
very useful on cold nights when a man
does not care to unbutton his coat to get
at his watch.
The very sober health shades in flannel
relieved by white goods, silk striped, are
seen in newly made blouses intended for
ladies outing wear. The effect is pecu-
liarly stunning.
Competition among the fancy flannel
men has developed some beauties III the
way of cloths appropriate for shirts.
But many of the patterns are simply
unique, with nothing pretty about them.
There can be nothing sadder than the
expression which creeps over the face of
the man who has on 4 twice-round scarf
when some sympathetically inclined in
dividual asks him if he has a sore throat.
The double breasted vest, out of the
field of fashion for 4 long time, has come
back to it; not with rush, however,
for the style is not being taken up except
by that select class known as the limited
few.
There is considerable chic about the
broad puff scarf provided it is worn by
the right man. And the broader it is the
more difficult it becomes to show it off to
the best advantage. Its expansiveness
sa racts attention and is apt to wake the
arer uncomfortable unless .le1s a fell
yeypo- can stand being stars at pretty
ard snd yet agsear totally acons9sahs.
~ ofssh carq'a gat i,
a delicious smoke.