Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14
A Short Resume of Seeming In
congruities that Find Author
ity in Fashions DEGREES.
Embroidery Used With Excellent Eff
feet = Fur Trimmings for Cloaks
and HatS-ChristmaS Dresses.
A Timely Warming for the Nupital Season
Notes from Fashion Centers.
Tried Recipes, Etc, Etc.


season of gift-making and holiday fes-
tivities are the same, so that some atten-
ton must be given to dress. By 4 strange
incongruity parasols and furS at present
distract the feminine mind. Flowers on
winter bonnets and parasols with frosty
skies would have once seemed the vagary
of an unsettled brain, but now pansies
and roses nestle amid folds of heavy vel
vet, and fashion approves. ParasOls
neatly rolled either i'll cases or buttoued
carefully are seen in the hands of stylish
women, the long handle serving the pur-
pose of staff q la TOsca. The fashion is
not so senseless as at first blush appears.
In northerly ATTITUDES where slippery
pavements make pedestrianism danger
Gus, the parasol used as cane
may render it possible for saints as well
as sinners to stand in slippery places,
while in the south the fair sun often
shines out with unpleasant fervOr. Fur
has long been associated with severe eli
mates, but its use is no longer restricted
to regions of frost and snow, but has be-
come almost universal. 1t is used in
trimming cloaks and dresses, and where
The bonnet matches the cloak as is the
case now fur is often the only trimming
No fur supplants the old time favorite
seal skin, that has adorned beauty almost
since the world began: but sable is used
sparingly, and mink, gray squirrel and
Persian lambskin find many purchasers.
Sling capes of lambskin are favoriteS,
while mink and squirrel are used for
lining the long cloaks so much in popular
favor. Ball and opera cloaks are pro-
fusely trimmed with beads. Bretelles
are formed of a massive network of cash
mere, ruby or bronze beads.
Fringes of the same beads surround the
neck and edges OF the sleeves. The bre-
teles narrow to sharp point at the
back, where large ornament is placed.
Copper and emerald green beads in a
diamond network form breteles for Il
luxurious cloak of satin brocade shot
with the faintest green, mauve, and
gold, the heavy raised figure being of
golden olive. The wrap is lined with
plain olive blush.
\ pretty example of the commingling
of embroidery with fur in trimming is
seen in an afternoon dress of gray cloth
made with an entirely plain, straight
skirt, embroidered in black very deli
cately, like a cashmere shawl, with
palms running one into the other. The
work in itself is a perfect joy. On the
edge is a narrow band of astrakan.
The corsage is entirely embroidered
gathered III around the throat, closing
bias fashion, and finished with Il rim of
fur. A sash of black surah ties the front
Tea gowns that have come to mean any
kind of house dress admit of many varia-
tions,. and a clever woman with a limited
income, enjoined with ample time can
contrive not only many tolored gar
ment, but one of diverse material n past
Il Il I,1
reft of FRESHNESS uniting in fashionable
tea gown, heavy fabrics such as velvet
and plush being combined with delicate
gauzcs. The under dress may be of
white, rose pink or delicate blue, with
dark overdresS of heavy material, a new
feature is the long train, longer than has
been worn. -.
Uniformity is no. longer desirable, the
two sides of a Iady's dress being so diff
ferent that a careless observer might
think he had met two ladies with similar
faces.
Pretty easy gowns for home wear show |
the back closely fitted with the waist cut
off just an inch or so below the belt. To |
this is shirred or pleated full breadths |
IF the dress fabric. The fronts are
like Il long half-fitting directoire !
red;ngote, and are very often of an
entirely different material and pattern |
from the back drapery or even the back |
Of the bodice. These fronts open over |
skirt that is Shirred three or four inches |
from the belt down. y Shrred waist or
shirred yoke, with blouse effect below !
shows on the front of the open redingote.
The sleeves match the back drapery in
kind, and the easy gown as Il whole, |
though made up of two or three fabrics |
Or dress remnants, is a pretty and very
becoming success.
Newly impofted dresses of reseda, ma
pie leaf and Seranium green cloth are
made with bodice folded and Tapped from
side to side in empire style. There are
usually three deep folds, which are Sewed
In with the under-arm seams of the cor
sage, the last one reaching TO the upper
portion of the arm hole. There are vel
vet sleeves, Il velvet sash or girCile, V
shaped velvet piece on the neck which
fills in the space above the soft empire
turns down broadly over second still
broader one of the green cloth.
Fashionable modiSteS are Just now
making great use of the new Oriental
bToche and matelaSSe galloous, employ
ing them as borderIngS with stylish and
elegant effect on gowns of fine wool, vel
vet and silk.
The very newest dresses are made with
araped skirts that cover all but the lower
part of the left side of the underskirt, and
this is trimmed with a very handsome
cut-out embroidery, either in exquiSitely
RmalgumatPd cOlorS or in straw on black
Or dark shades OF green, blue or green.
These embroideries will be immensely
worn during the spring and i'll the
height of the next London season. The
work may be done ut home by skilled
needle women, and, indeed, among
them there are many who, thanks to the
revival of the art of needlework, can do
most artiStically beautiful work. The
designs are usually Scroll-like, with eX-
tremely fine and varied stitches intro
duced TO I'LL up the spaces. Partly floral,
partly geometrc, these embroiderieS are
more perfect in color than in pattern.
Beautiful harmonieS in blues and greens
are TO be seen, not in any pronounced
tones, but in those ''teuder tints of
fading'' that have such refined
effect of softneSs. The favorite
width of these is from five to seven
inches, and the left side of the skirt,
ZONE inches above the edge, is the most
usual place for introducing them. Some
times the embroidery runs around the