St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-06
Anglomaniaes Baffled by the
Flat and Smooth Breasts
Of English Women.
Mrs. Langtry an Example Of
a Luxurious Physique Of
This Type.
The New Triangular Bodice
Which American Girls
Must Shun.
Kate Field Wants California
Wines to Be Noted by Gen.
Harrison.

Our girls are baffled in their Anglo
mania at one point. Now. as an an !
aIomical fact, the average Engllsh
young woman is fiat and smooth OF
breast. Take Mrs. Langtry as an ex-
ample of what l mean. She is broad OF
shoulders and hips, and her physique IS
luxurious except in the upper frontage
of her body, which is so built that she
can wear a corsage so low that an
American woman would be arrested for
appearing publicly in it. Well, Lon
don burlesque company has caught the
swell turn, and the chief female beauty
of the organization is OF English and
Langtry pattern-a deliciOusly genuine
and shapely creature. Her costumes
are all decollete in a peculiar manner.
Her upper arms, shoulders and throat
are covered, but just above where her
wishbone would be were she a chicken
triangular opening begins. One
corner of that tragic is at the top,
and therefore the space OF disclosure
widens rapidly downward. 1t is a very
generous triangle, and the lower corners
of it reach low and wide. Nevertheless,
the area of unhidden hide is as smooth
as the middle of her back, and ii may
be permitted so say it in this letter to
my own sex only, a baby would not ind
the aspect comforting in the least. Now,
most Of our new York girls who are &C
customed to copying the stage fashions
of English actresses, are quite unable
to initiate this particular cut of corset.
A plump young friend of mine ordered
a waist for ball-dreSS fashioned i'll this
way. She is accustomed to merely tell
ing her dressmaker what she wants.
All the fitting is done on dummy that
is fac-simile of her own figure, and
so she isn't bothered again until the
gown is delivered. In this case the
dress came home only an hour before it
was to be donned for ball. Her maid
helped her into it. The triangular
opening just framed a picture that
startled its posseSsor and would have
caused a panic in ballroom.
What am l to do?' she exclaimed,
quite aghast.
Here is something in the box that
may help you MISS" said the maid.
The something was a section OF orna-
mental lace and ribbons to fill In that
triangle. The dressmaker had been
wise enough to provide against the dis
carding of the dress for the occasion.
No: it isn't one American girl in hum.
bred that can wear the triangular bod
ice.
FOR THE SAME PHYSICAL REASON
involved in the above anecdote many of
the Directoire gowns are filled up at the
throat with cravat of lace. These
frOntlets, as they are called, are quite
novel, and are made of folded or draped
China silk, gauze, crepe OF lace. They
taking the place of a collar, with the
front of folded silk or lace jabot depend
ing from it, Others have merely the
neck band and full, short lace cravat,
and are. in cream or black lace. In
soft silk these fronts are to be seen
in white, black or any .paler color.
There is again revival of the use of
Chantilly laces, and fresh, handsome
patterns are imported, designed for ele-
CANT evening toilets. Several new de-
signs in black laces also show thread