Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-15
Decoration Antedates and Accom-
panies Dress.
styles in Gown Making, Ribbon
Extravaganza. Desirable Tour
nure Deviees-Mrs. McKee's
Calling -Blouses
and WaistcoatS.
Homileties for the Home Intended to Benefit
Children, InyaIlds, Parents and Nurses.
An Ingathering of Fashion and
Cooking Recipes

preceded dress, and instaneed the fact
that sayages tattooed themselves long
before they felt the necessity of clothes.
These tattooeTs lived in hot climates and
garniture VS.. garments was an easy case.
A decollette costume in India ink or Per
sian blue had much to recommend it f.
and the civilization that made fashion
| journals necessity may not have been
so much true missionary work as the
Nineteenth century enthusiasts are prone
to declare. Whatever may have been the
advantages of the day of pristine decora-
] ton, women of these latter decorative
days know that yards OF ribbon and
| white pieces OF material with braid, en-
| broiderY beads and flowers are the re-
/ Quisites of the decoration that follows
dress, and when Miss Flora McFlimsey
| starts to the mountains, the springs or
the seashore it takes more than pigments
! TO supply her necessities She
! packs her big Saratoga; no,
she doesn't do that any more,
she takes instead two or three medium
| sized trunks stored with jackets, sun
! dry tea gowns, diverse aud the
many accessories that distinguish her
! from her dusky sisters OF the spicy
/
/ her ears Of gold and the car
| tilege of her nose with rings when in
full dress. It is true Miss Flora has
unguents and paints, but she has Pear 8
| soap as well, and her education embraces
! desire for cleanliness and freshness
| that is conspicuously absent in the prim-
! tive decoration that preceded dress.
| Yet as the ships go down TO Tarshish
! thsE bring fine gold, and it is spun
IE9E9s the slender threads that is
well adapted to decorate the
Z purple OF my lady robe, and deft fin
! gers are busy on rare and quaint designs
| for bordering the rich garments, or it is
/ wrought by cunning workmen into zone
| and tiara for waist and queenly head.
! From present indications it would seem
/ that the age of gold had returned; no
! longer is the glittering ornamentation
! confined to evening dress and wisching
tea gown, but finds its place in tailor
| promenade, although here silver also is
/ Tariously used. The trim jacket Of
| the morning shopper Is held in
| place by q silver cinoture curiOusly
wrought with squares Of hammered sill
yer and squares of heavily brocaded sill
YER gray silk A belt of silk or velvet
has its silver clasp, and these are also
finished with loops of silk and ribbon.
RibbUn Yes, that reminds. Ribbon
plays 4 most important part IN the sum
mer beauties; balancing in the tip Of the
/ fingers an odd-shaped hat, in fact, it
seemed velvet cap with a straw roof.
The owner said, Glow many yards of
ribbon do you think there is on that
hat?' Twas past calculation. Years
ago the milliner would compute on her
q 4
would enumerate five yards OF. ribbon
and you would start saying IN surprised
tones, Five yardsl' But then thatEa
ribbon, it was from three to frye inches
wide and cost pretty penny 9he Ye5r
interlocutor answered her own qaesti44 4:
forty mine yards, and that doegshot nss
clude the Topped strings, LOOK iAg ats
critically At the front of the{s tsasV
roof there were loops piled on loep
the side cluster that was likezthe tElseZ4'
est petaled Hover, while az sf1le back
Ioop-knots and ties III inextFit able1pp-
fusion told the tale of fortFxhine 8aE1s
most conclusively. OF ceurke nsH5fng
but narrow ribbon could be Bessssad in
SO wanton a fashion.
Il glance ut the fish ,atgt dress of the be-
ribboued girl was aglSn@h to show that
s,there was some pesfea FOR gowns as well
ldC many IOh5
set bklsi ~ sent there was a side panel
gagged about twelve inches, the fullness
drawn on narrow ribbon, rs was the
fullness of waist and sleeves; and how
much in the frocl? 81 bought six
bolts, - she said simply, "but [ believe
the dressmaker L al to get two more. -
Which is it, a ribbon period or a golden
age?
But TO come back to gold, we have all
studied about its ductibility, but if is
left for the fashions Of 1889 to teach its
adap8ability; such q lesson was taught
by Sic study OF a pretty bonnet. No,
uossaot at church; a woman never, that
Us hardly ever, sees bounetS III church;
stIs goes TO hear the sermon, she does.
Wal, it was at a pleasant Reunion of
sHea, and the bonnet was black Gulle
Isl i ffea lIded wires, simply trimmed
with looBs az gold metal ribbon and ah
aiorette of gold. The bonnet q lR mode
needs something glittering TO make 1t
!. EsssslIgss. ii is shrinking so rapidly that au
ssslssT1ew it is hardly dlscernable, at
The back it is seen to be not much
more than a coronet covered with
lace. with an occasional flower.
The bows think, and they have borrowed
saNsysgaa from the girls vocabulary, that
tIe inid-summer hat is very ''cute''
with its turned-up brim crinkled in front
and its bIossomed- crown, flushed
off at the back with q knot of ribbons.
The tennis girl, the Watching girl, the
,lEipI shat climbs the mountains. and the
skF3 that has business in her eye, still
puts on her pretty head a sailor hat, and
it is certainly very fetching
Week after week the journals tell us
white is worn: none deny that it
as enticing, especially when the
material IS, soft, like China silks,
wool veilings and chaliies, or
the delicate lawn from which the demon
starch is thoroughly banished. The siik
is pretty when made with round beited
waists and having the fullness on the
shoulders drawn in rows Of thick cords,
forming points III front, behind and on
the top of each full sleeve. The skirt is
drawn upon cords for a depth of over
four inches below the waist, whence it
falls in full, straight liues. Fey people |
can need telling that none OF the skirt |
breadths is gorpd and that they are cnt |
off straight around, exception case of . |
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