Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-06

the cOrsage. There are cuirass bodcies
with plastrons covered with jangling
coins or fringes; pointed waists cut low
in front with daIntylace fuckers gathered
with tiny rose-colored ribbons; round
waists with costly silver belts
Grecian waists with heavy
silver shoulder clasps and
loose silver girdles with their half-dOZen
superb chatelaine accessories; square cut
pompadour Bodices, with lace fraises in
side; Josephine bodices with panels de-
pending from the side forms; bebe waists
with velvet Jokes, and girdles to CORE
spOnd; empire cOrsages with rich vest
effects and soft sash drapery; directOire
waists, severe and stately; single
breasted bodices with triple vests show
ing beneath; and double-breasted ones
buttOning in every way imaginable, and
so on ad infinitum. The sleeves are va
ried TO match these different styles, but a
certain variety of skirt can be worn with
a score of different cOrsages.
A dress worn BY young lady as at
tendant at a recent wedding was of eX-
ceeding pretty style ard could be easily
copied in other material and cOlors. 1t
was a short dress of luStrOus white corded
silk, with wide band of gold guipure
all around the bottom of the skirt, which
hung quite straight at the back and was
extremely full over very slight
tournure. The bodice to this pretty
skirt was quite a work of art in
itself. In front loose folds of the
white silk were carried from the right
shoulder TO the belt. The open space in
the neck was filled in with fine pIeats of
crepe lisse with gold and pearl dog col
lar as a finish. This was in habit-shirt
shape, and is really one, for it can be
taken ont, and the sleeves removed !,
leaving a model dancing toilet: The
sleeves, however, had fall of crepe
lisse from the shoulders, which might re-
main. rhe left side of the bodice was
decorated with gold guipure. On the
right side of the skirt were ribbons put on
in first empire style, coming from the
waist to about half way down. and there
tiey.
Clara Belle has this to say about styles
as they are now seen at dinners and
dances in the charger cities: Everything
that is new and pretty in the way of toilet
is eagerly snapped up. am sorry, how
ever, to record the fact that eccentricity
is fast supplanting elegance. To what
extremes we may rise-or fall, according
to taste-remains to be seen. This spirit
of innovation is most noticeable in the
plain silk or cashmere evening gowns now
worn. These have undraped skirts, cut
so as TO leave the foot uncovered, full
bodice and very vOluminous sleeves.
One peculiarly is that the full
ness of the bodice is not
continued above the corset line,
where the gathered portion is sewn
upon sort of yoke piece, leaving a
slight beading above. Sometimes this
piece is high and sometimes low, while
occasionally compromise is effected
As 10 the sleeves, there is no arbitrary
rule Here we see low tops with
sleeves to the elbow, arranged in one
long bouillonne, and there short pulled
sleeves in conjunction with high bodices.
A striking feature of the new gown is the
arrangement of the sash. This is very
wide, and, in the most approved cos
tunes which have come under my per-
sonal notice, is without ends But much
latitude is permitted. When the sash is
of ribbon it may be bound twice
round the waist, sometimes starting
from the side seams under the
arms, and sometimes finishing off in
point on the bosom. Much ingenuity
may pc exercised in the selection of
colors for such gown as that have in
dicated. AS q rule combination of two