The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-03
DREAMY DANCING GOWNS
REFINEMENT OF ART IN The SEA
SONS BALL DRESSES.

SONS BALL DRESSES.
Uhv Some May be Worn Repeatedly
and others but Once-Worth's Quaint
Musical Classification of His Ameri-
can Patronesses-Mrs. Cleveland and
Ward McAnister-How Fashion is
Gloved and Shod.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-The reign Of tulle
has set in and Frou Frou returns to town
with the melancholy days. Balls at the
country clubs last week closed the suburban
season and furnished dancing frontispiece
IN the winter fashions. The Tuxedo and
Westchester bathrooms saw nearly
all the dancing set in freshly imported
Gowns. by which means the winter
STYLES are definitely prefgured, aud
an observation or two may be had on sever
alsociety beauties whose taste and assured
nosition allow them to direct the strict
line of style to their own individual ca
prices.
The wardrobe of woman in the dancing
set has its bulk in evening gowns, and, odd
Though it may seem, there are women who
are seldom, or never, seen during the win
ter season except in evening dress Their
dav begins with late dinner and ends in
the small hours of the morning, and gives
them often no opportunity to put on any
other sort of costume from weeks end
20 weeks end. 1t thus falls out
that plenty of men have long acquaint-
ance with women whom they have never
seen in any but evening garb.
Who shall tell what marriage disappoint-
ments are referable to this state of affairs
for the contrast between thequiet gown and
homelv surroundings of morning and the
radiant condition of evening is like that
between a piece of fireworks before and
after lighting. Repressed in daytime, there
are resumed with the evening gown all the
thousand scintillatiug charms that arise
from excitement and the certainty of look
ing beautiful. Who shall say that dress
does not make the society woman?
1t is often queried by the uninstructed
whether fashionable woman wears the
same ball dress more than once and the
Imagination revels in the thought of the
variety of costumes it must take to furnish
forth belle for the season. The costume
of woman of refinement is consummate
work of art and, like any other art produc-
ton, its effect is not exhausted at first view
1t does not become familiar, but invites
study and gives more new pleasure each
time it is seen. Therefore such a gown
may be and is worn many times without
being considered old, and this is the pecun-
larry compensation obtained by those who
pay enormous prices to have their dress
designed by artists.
Nothing more surprises the uninitiated
observer than such gown. He looks in
vain for the distinguishing features of panels'
and revers, and buttons, etc., which he has
been told gown of the season must possess
None of the novelties are visible. 1t is.
instead, a tout ensemble of such refined
blending that it defies analysis. 1t is those
garments which are crudely designed and
conspicuously display the latest novelties
that can be worn bat once. Therefore if
woman would dress both economically and
elegantly she should not pursue the newest
fangleS OF the shops, but instead must con-
slider refinements and the art that conceals
art
The story that Worth has his prominent
American customers scheduled under
the titles of musical pieces and
paintings need not, on this exposition, seem
fanciful one. They relate that he told
Mrs. Adolf Ladenberg that she was the
Moonlight Sonata and he would design her
a gown accordingly. This may account
for her partiality to white in her costumes.
WI o Luz NO 1bOSLO hO t,OWAo a III otTdu-
ger" and Lady Randolph, it is well known,
he calls Lady Grense" The analogies are
interesting and not so far-fetched, either,
and the anecdote serves TO emphasize the
fact that gown may and should be work
of art
Apropos of this, the trousseau of Miss
Annie Bigelow, daughter of Mrs. John
Bigelow, who was married last week to Mr..
Butler Harding of Philadelphia is, am
told, in quiet and elegant taste, and as limo
cent of surprises as a Haydn sonata. This
is interesting to those who knew her mother
and remember that not the least of that
warm hearted woman's idiosyncracies was
her love of gay dress. Sic adored color
and fripperies, and in preparing her gowns
it would seem that her customer must have
had in mind the gorgeous. splashed 'Slave
Ship" of Turner. Mrs. Bigelow, if bit of
gossip may be interpolated, adored young
men as much as she did gewgaws, and many
young fellow tells to this day how he has
lodged her in crowded reception rooms.
To lean on the arm of handsome youth
for promenade, or to capture one for an
ornament to her victoria in the park. gave
her unalloyed delight. On account of her
propensity to choose friends wherever it
pleased her, her salon was often what the
conventional call mixed, and for this rea-
son 1t has been considered matter for con-
graduation that Miss Annie and the other
members of the family have escaped MISE