Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-29
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Some one has said it is but step from
the sublime TO the ridiculous, and il
is no further from grave to gay
and this Is what Harper,s Bazaar
has to say of wedding gowns if the
| little birds whisper truly there are Fort
Worth brides prospective that will value
few words on a topic evolving anxious
| thought.
| ''IvOry white satin and lampas are the
| fabrics being made into white dresses for
| autumn weddings. Plain satin alone
with ancestral lace for its trimming. is
/ the choice for many such dresses, while in
| others it is combined with lampas, a rich
| brocade with satin duchesse ground
| strewn vita large designs of
! foliage, or Of flowers woven to
resemble embroidery. A single motif of
the design may be large enough to cover
the entire breadth of lampas, or there
may be two groups in each breadth, and
a still more novel arrangement has half
the width of plain satin and the other half
brocaded with large flower or leaf pat
tern. Sometimes white silver or fiat gold
threads are added in the brocade, and the
fabric is then called lampas lamine. but
the choice this season is for white on
white, the beauty residing on the rare
chrysanthemums, thistles, narcssi, and
long slender leaves OF lilies are the
large designs on lampas breadths
that are used merely for the train
or for the front of the skirt or panel,
while the other parts of the gown are of
plain satin; but when brocade is pre-
ferred for the entire gown smaller de-
signs are chosen, such as clusters of
Byzantine, carnations, prinrOses or sin
gle marguerites with long straight stems
clematls in clusters, or branches of wild
hOneysuckle. The formal wreaths and
stiff empire designs of last year s bro
cades are giving place TO Louis Quatorize
designs in stripes, and the Louis Seize
patterns are also copied with bouquets of
small flowers dotting the whole surface,
or festooned garlands held with Marie
AntOinette bows and t1uttering ribbons. -
The dip of so many skirts that is seen
so often on the streets had the critical to
feel as if there should be some specific
directions for the making. of foundation
skirts. The front width should be sloped
from six to twelve inches when folded
double, then V-shaped gore should re-
duce that to four and half inches, the
side breadths from seven to thirteen
inches and half the back measure seven
teen 10 elSiL0Sus n sI66I edDOliL Twelve |
inches should be put ten inches below |
the belt, and six inches below the steel |
set strings, also on the ends of the steel. |
This steel is necessary to hold up the |
back of the skirt, and while it is not a |
hustle it prevents the appearance of fiat |
ness that is most undesirable. When |
ever drapeTies are used, they invariably |
have long straight line effect
NOTES.
Fur and feathers will be the top notch |
of winter style.
The prettiest conceit in. bonnets is like
a baby's cap.
Passementeries are the ruling passion
of the hour. They are superb, swell, |
costly.
New colors in crocheted silk passemen-
teries are shown 10 match the new colors
in seasonable fabrics.
The ACCORDION skirt will appear on many
fall walking dresses, and ACCORDION pan
els will also be frequent.
The military jackets have no vests.
They are looped down the front, fit per-
fectly over the hips and are braided IN
straight and slanting lines.
Decorative hair pins, with crooked |
gold prong;, are quite new. The dla-
nond heads represent a leaf, flower or
)ther design.