St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-21
SAINT PAUL.
LOCAL TASTE IN DRESS.

elry. the amount and character of the
adjournment, and defines the line at
which such adornment ceases to be good
taste and becomes vulgarity. People
who break the unWritten law and cover
themselves with bangles and baubles
TO almost as great an extent as did the
old lady of the nursery rhyme, who wore
''rings on her fingers and bells on her
toes" at once, show utter ignorance and
lack of the refined taste which has
formed and controls the fashion. l
have seen beautiful women i'm ST. Prul
whose beauty unadorned save by the
simplest of ornaments, would be en-
HANGED by the very simplicity of the
adOrnment-I have seen these beauties
bedecked with diamonds and bangles
TO such an extent as to resemble the
popular idea of heather goddeSses.
1t scarcely seems possible that these
fair ones can be actuated by desire to
let all the world know just how many
bracelets, rings and brooches they pos
sesS. A woman may have a most varied
assortment of jewelry, and yet need not
betray her anxiety to exhibit it by wear
Ing the entire contents of her jewel
case every time she dresses. Who ever
heard of well-bTed woman wearing a
ring on her torefnger? Yet it is done
here in st. Paul, and il is charitable to
believe the lady wearerS simply Odd,
eccentric, rather than vulgar. As
matter of fact the girl or woman who
has youth and beauty needs no jewelry.
Wear little ring if you like. a pretty
broOch-without diamonds. perhaps
delicate bangle on your arm, but do not
cover 1t with bangles; there is where
the vulgarity of the be-bangled is
shown.
know girl who has twelve bangles.
and wears them. She should, from the
advantages of education and refined
surroundings which have been hers.
know the exact limit between good
taste and vulgarity, but she prefers to
go with the swim, and is guilty of just
as grave errors in dress as those of her
acquaintance whose advantages have
not egualled hers. She told me
one evening that each of the
twelve glitIering bangles was the gift
OF different admireT, and Immediately
fell twelve degrees IN my estimation as
result of her confidence. She's nice
girl, | believe, and bright as the shin
ing bangles for which she has pr0sti-
tuted her smiles to the men of her &C
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comprehend that in thus levying on her
male friends she is guilty of proceed
Ing at once highly improper and dam
Rerous to degree. Men talk about
these things sometimes at the club.
That pretty little Washington girl
who was the guest of certain ST. Paul
family few months aro was, in my
opinion, the best dressed woman at all
the society events she attended during
her visit. | don't think she wore soli-
tary jewel of any character in the ball
room. She was beatty. though,
blonde beauty. with skin as fair as
the fairest, eyes that were heavens own
spiteful women called red, but
which /, in my account of
the affair, described as golden
brown. There were costumes worn by
many ladies on that occasion which cost
small fortune. There were diamonds
representing millions of dollars, there
was JeWelry OF every description upon
the hands and about the npcks OF the
dancers. One lady, whom most people
know in st. Paul, whose facial express
ion Indicates that she has bone TO pick
with the world at large, wore dia-
InOnd rings on every finger of each
MANU-. q titiilblfu HUM at liCI cOl sage.
diamond circlet about an unattractlve
neck. and looked the acme OF vulgarity.
The Washington belle Wore, / believe,
cheese cloth costume, which fitted her
beautiful form to perfection. and cost at
the outside 80. Her well-rounded arms
were bare to the shoulders, and just
enough OF the bust was en- evidence to
display her perfectly formed neck.
Flowers tastefully arranged at her cors-
age, and in the general garniture of the
costume completed the outfit, for |
don't believe she wore an atom of jew
elry of any description. Yet the Wash
ingt0n belle was the best dressed
woman in that room by long odds, and
shone by contrast with some of her be-
JeWeled sisters.
BY the way, this oyertiressing is Just
as much a fault with the men as with
their wives and sisters. True, there is
a certain set in which errors of taste in
dress are seldom to be chronicled,
but then there is another set which,
while not. suppose, composed of the
creme de la creme of st. Paul society,
is made up of men and women who
can afford to, and do, entertain Iavishly,
and dress as their fancy dictates. |
belonging to this set make it point to
wear diamond in their shirt bosom
sswben in full dress, adolescence of vul-
display the same by pinning
aside the ends of the scar, which
might hide the stone. The idea of wear
ing heavy cable watch chain when in
full dress is one, believe, peculiar also
to the young men who are guilty of the
other vulgarity, Beth are fearfully bad
form; in fact no well-trained waiter
would be guilty of such indiscretion.
The nan who knows how to dress wears
no jewelry at all when in evening dress.
None is needed, and its presence be-
trays either eccentricity OF lack of
knowledge of the propreties. 1t is
no worse taste to attend a dress
affair in sack coat than to
transgreSs in the manner previously
mentioned, and thought the man who
attended a ball few weeks ago in
morning suit less culpable than some
of those Who wore all the jeweiry they
had in stock, and used every effort to
display it.
journal announces with considerable
positiveness that the dress suit of next
season will be radically different af-
fair from that which has held sway for
so long. The swallow tail will survive.
says the writer, but the full length
trousers are doomed. Dozens Of Pari-
sian leaders of fashion have appeared at
balls and receptions during the season
now past IN tight-fitting knee breaches
and black silk stockings. Even the sill
yer shoe buckle has been revived,
though the buckle that will probably
be worn will be much smaller than the
0GOrpSciun
fathers. Recent Issues of Partisan illus
trated journals depict the gallants of
the ball room attired in the manner de-
scribed, and recently returned sOjourn-
ers state that the abbreviated dress cos
tune is now quite the proper caper in
France.
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