Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
July's Sunshine Revealing Facts
and Fading Summer Fashions.
How a Man Fans and How a Woman
Receives it-JaDanese Ideas in
Fans, Frocks and Parasols.
New Work for Busy Fingers that Love to
stitch-Women in Business Clippings
from Fashion Journals-Reelpes.

| propositions, but they are facts, and
and facts, besides being stubborn things,
have more or less the charm of novelty,
| because they are not often obtained.
Aside from their faculty Of getting into
a well they are often so bediZened by
frIlls and furbelows from imagination IS
warehouse as to become as ineonnu as
any woman who is metamorphosed by
fashion s hand. Think You, We men OF
observation, that you would know your
last nights partner at the ball could
you see her with her curl papers, the
gown of Incidence, and the roses of her
cheek gone, to be only restored by Nine.
-'s preparation. Facts, then, are
not to be despised. That they are old,
sometimes diSagreeable, always stub
born, none may deny, yet they should be
cherished Solomon SAID several Sun
days ago IN one of his discourses that there
was nothing new under the sun and
surely in July, ''between seasons, - no
one Will expect a fashion writer to go
out in search of what he declared did not
exist. No, no; Livingston and Stanley
may go exploring in Africa, but the
Column will sit in the shade
and fan. Yes, fan; we are too wise,
we are, TO be famed, particularly when
the tanning is to be done with a pretty
gauze fan. What does the GROWER say?
''There's no sense in those gauze
things. - Well, the girls know that as
well as he does and more; they know
''these don make the wind blow, -
but what of that? They are prettiness
itself with their carved ivory sticks and
a delicate spray of flower gracefully
thrown across the transparent surface by
the hand OF some friend, well skilled in
water coloring, such a fan is pretty
and the girls will carry it. There
is no denying that for solid
GOODNESS the japanese fan is, the
superior, and when the mercury, like
the cruel tide goes creeping up these Will
be sought after; but what OF the muscu-
line tanner? Does he WELD it any more
successfully. With the zeal of a new
convert he fans so vigorously that the
bangs fly from the forehead; soon they
cease to curl and fall straight and IN a
hopeless sort of fashion; then the ribbons
fly, the lace becomes disordered, and all
because he grasps the handle with a
mighty grip and has never caught the
SWaying wrist movement of the bland
Chinaman or the gentle Japanese; you
turn to tell him: "'Never mind, m not
too warm, - and whack he takes
your nose or hat, and now "hot III the
collar. literally as well as metaphoric-
ally, he relieves his tired elbow by re-
signing the fan he has welded so unsuc-
cessfully. The japanese loses none of
its value because of him; it is good,
faithful and, in July, fashionable in the
hands Of those who can use it.
"Between seasons and hot is har-
vest time for the genuine shopper who
knows that now embroidered robes can
be bought at half price, and knows full
well the value of the advertised bargains
in laces, ribbons and all classes of goods
not staple that only live one season, and
which the merchant counts dead loss
unless sold.
a thermometer that indicates from
eighty upwards as Enthusiastically indi-
Gates, carry parasol, and that now
means of those pagoda shaped ones sug-
gested by the japanese fan. 1t is a small
country, that kingdom of ''isles of the
sea, - but how much it has enriched the
store of beauty since it has been open to
the world. The pagoda shape Is the parasol
of the season as while it has the charm
of novelty it does no violence to the idea
that a parasol is to shield from the sun S
warm rays, which is more than can be
said of the latest eecentricity, for it has
large opening right in the center, with
all the framework exposed, and while
you shade your face and eyes by the
sides of the parasol and its lace border
ing, the sun pours down through the CEN
ter right on top of your head.
However, there are any quantity of
lovely parasols to chose from, the ma
jority being lace covered, and if a body
has def fingers and a silk sun-shade
which begins to show the sign of wear,
it can be transformed and disguised by
full covering of dotted net This should
be laid in fine knife-plaits at the outer
edge and shirred with a tiny frill about
the ferule at the top, and fall of lace
edging to match may De added. There
are novel and dainty parasolettes for
carriage use, one design being twelve
ribbed and star-shaped, and made of
colored lace laid over any shade OF silk
which is in harmony. Dark, stained
wood, metal-mounted, serves for
handles, but natural-wood sticks are
generally preferred. Bows of handsome
ribbon or heavy cord and silk tassels or
nament these handles.
In all departments fashion has its
crazes, and popular fad for ladies now
is applique of lace on skirt of light wool.
A breadth of the wool goods is stretched
in q frame. A. piece of lace of the re-
quired size is firmly basted over it. The
double material may be finished in the
frame or removed according to the con-
venieuce or inclination of the operator
With soft, fine cotton the edges of the
lace figures are embroidered on to the
wool goods in buttou-hole stitch. Then
the figures are attached by running
stitch or darning. When the work is done
the net or foundation of the lace may be
cut away, leaving the figures firmly at
tached to the woclen fabric. Expert
needle-women darn down the figures and
cut the net away before embroidering the
edges, but this should not besattempted
by novice.
Straight, round skirts of lace houncing
are shirred in three or four wide rows be-
tween the belt and bottom of the skirt.
Some Of these shirrings are made over
tissue or lace footing, and are wide
enough for ribbon castings. In these rib
bons of suitable widths are run, and long
ends are left, which may De tied IN loops
hours Of ono side of ho irf