Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-22

some quaint Persian design the coioring
well displayed on white or light ground =,
the long scarf is shirred at the shoulder
seams and brought over the bust in nat
ural folds; then shirred again at the
waist line and left to fall down the mid
die of the skirt, the great lowered
breadths being seen as if beneath the
solid colored sides that appeared TO open
upon them.
June, September and October are the
months for brides, and the rare beauties
of the trousseau are calculated to tempt
a Joan to speedy, Eyes. Among a
wealth of pretty gowns for all occasions
what can be more elegant and attractive
than this vision of black and pink The
redingote polonaise is made of black veil
vet opening in front to show a petticoat
of pink crepe de Chine hemmed with
three rows of scallops. Heavy black and
pink frin5es, though which shine CLEANS
of pearls, adorn the dress, the draperies
of which are caught up here and there
with pink knots.
The gradual emancipation of women S
arms is certainly hailed with Joy by the
majority, for while the coat sleeve is not
abandoned its bounds are so enlarged
that woman need not present the appear
ance of a skewered fowl. Now the coat
sleeve is usually gathered at the top,
forming slight puff at the shoulder. 1t
is diminished in size toward the elbow,
and thence to the Wrst is close fitting
after the old style. 70 stout figures,
however, the fullness at the top is not
desirable, as it gives seeming greater
breadth to the shoulders, and fashion is
sufficiently complaisant to permit
one to dispense with it al
together If desirable. pretty new
style is made like coat sleeve, but is
finished off with puffings, which droop
over cuff embroidered or braided like
the epaulette, which is also made in the
plain material and pulled on the shoul-
ders with three rows of gaugings.
Children s dress grows more and more
attractive each season, and that quaint
beauty that owes its presence to Kate
Greenway Is losing none of its popularity.
The little tots trot around in their short
wasted, long-skirted gowns, wear their
pinafores and grow highly indignant at
their brother, a size larger, dressed a la
Fauntleroy who pulls out the big bows
of their wide sashes and plays horse,
much to their discomfort, the
dismay OF nurse aud the
wreck of the immaculate smoothness
of sash ends. Mamma looks up reprov-
ingly, but her thoughts are on a very
stylish pelisse she has seen that will be so
pretty for big Sis in her journeys to and
from school. 1t is made of checked
wool. The front has a double row of
buttons; the back is gathered, and the
cape is plated into a circular yoke TO
avoid the fullness. High turnover collar.
Hat of felt, trimmed with long ostrich
plumes. For two-year-old in its out
ings, where health and freedom is the
prime consideration she has just finished
a com Portable flannel blouse that is
gathered back and front at the neck, and
at the waist there is a ribbon run in d
casing TO draw up and tie i'll front; the
collar and the cuffs are of velvet. When
the wind grows keener there is to be
worn with it plated shoulder cape set
on square yoke and finished at the neck
by high standing collar, then with
Fee cap, the tassels noddlng in every
fashion. mamma $ darling boy is fit
subject for a Reynolds.
Another becoming fashion for misses
suiet is of cashmere. The waist is
pointed basque, TO which a round skirt Is
set on in box plaits, the seam being COW
cred by band of velvet two inches wide
of darker shade There is wide round
collar extending over the points of the