, 1890-09-04
WHAT LADIES WEAR.

Inc fAlntest snhue Oh plhh o'"sS"S'J
is designated as fashionable.
An interesting study this year is the
hats worn by the girl oil the period.
Pink continues to have great run rs
n fashionable color for eveningiiresses.
Masculine girls are supposed to have
MS great variety of scarfs ana scarf
pins as their brothers.
A large china stork, between whose
wings canes and umbrellas can be placed,
is n new "hall ornament"
Imitation tapestry for the walls pleases
Mr.. and Mrs. Veneering, and also the
propretors of certain barrooms.
White duck trousers and waistcoats
for mon, as introduced at Newport
garden party, come little too late.
Fencing foils in gold or silver are the
newest designs in lace and bonnet pins.
Girls who don't fence can wear EN-.
Not a few ambitious swells adopt the
double. breasted frock coat for breakfast,
which Is by no means good form.'
Somebody makes bold to say the pro-
portion of gorgcously dressed women
this season, who are ladies, is small.
Fashion is going back to tho plain,
straight pull-back skirt, with fringed
ruche of knife-plaiting round the
| bottom.
A new pulled scarf for Beau Brummel
is 'just out" AS the colored woman
said, 1t is just tho same with several va
riations.
Wigs used to be confined to old women
who had lost their hair, but are now
worn by young ones who have plenty o!
their own.
What is known as "linen thread en-
broidery is rapidly increasing in fashion
able favor simply because it Is Some
thing new."
Revelations in carpets and rugs are
promised for the fall. There will b,
much that is new and beautiful in de
signs and coloring.
Somebody says, and with a grain o.
satirical truth, that fans set with pre-
cious stones are only intended for royal
ladies and variety actresses.
Birch bark book covers are something
new. They have slip on the side In
which the name fthe book, written on
bit OF card, cBn be inserted.
Fine cut-steel beading, used in con-
junction with rich silk mbroideries
appears upon some of the exclusive
gowns for early autumn wear.
We are told there will not be any
marked or material change In the sizo OF
form OF printing or visiting cards. This
of course, is highly important.
Lace has always been regarded as the
very poetry of dress. and the tilmy
dreamy fabric is playing an important
part i'll the toilets OF the season.
Another year something to take TIA,
place of the blazer will have to he intro
duced, for that garment has been run
very long distance into the ground.
There is a tendency to immodesty IL
the evening dress of young girls tha
ought to bo condemned. 1t may vel
be asked OF what can their mothers b,
thinking.
Kid bonnets, vest, belts, collars, gloves
and shoes, all matching in kind an,
color, TO be worn en- suite with silk an,
velvet dresses, are among the caprices o
fashion for next season.
No one seems to tire Of the blous,
waist, and models in heavier fabrics ar,
being made up for autumn wear, scarle
blouscs, black satin, and blnoK sural
models appearing among other fancies.
A serious question presents itself t
to the fashionable people at the summer
resorts in New England. Shall they al
low their daughters to accept the atten
tons of college students who are serving
as walters?
Elbow sleeves appear upon many O
the reception and dinner gowns. Thes,
are generally full in effect, being either
pulled, loosely draped or In regulat
bishop style, finished with tho fashion.
able irlll OF lace or plated lisse.