Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-25
WHAT IS BEST WORN.
Strictly Correct Styles for Street Gowns.
The New English Blazer Suits.
What Women Want to Know About Dress
Black Cashmeres Never out of Place on
Cool Days-Natty Outfits.
BY SHIRLEY DARE.

For the Gazette.
"There ism It half the pleasure bu wins
gowns when one has plenty of money -
says shrewd woman with pretty
good notion of both sides of the subject
"The interest comes in when you have
just enough to get what you want by
drawing literally on contriyapoe and
taste. For myself, grow tired reading
about opulence cannot hope to have.
The fashion articles treat of too unlim-
tied gorgeousness for anything below
servant girls Imagination, who seldom
find flights too extravagant to please
them. l wish somebody would write for
women who wish to look as we'll as the
best on ordinary allowances" 1t ism t
impossible to look as Well-not to dress
as well absolutely, but to make as salts
factory an sfsot--on much less money
than rich women spend H one has strict
taste, command of shoTping sense, and
is clever ut her needle. Thfee- fourths
the cost of dresses from nrstr class houses
goes for the making, not for the mate
rial. There is just one thing women
want to understand moro than the higher
criticism or Swedish gymnastics, and
that il dresemakiug. Every girl should
be taught thoroughly how to plan a dress
and nnssA5t IN correct style, for good
dressHiSEers are scarcer than saints. and
hopettones far more so.
ss5eses to tell the wearying novelties of
sstfde, but to select the best points is a
Spfeasing matter. The gown for the
street, rich or plain, is of wool, silk be-
ing left to the dowagers out of doors. A
Well-chosen wardrobe will have a selec-
ton OF these, In cheviot, serge, henri
eta, mohair, and the drap 'ete, most
useful and welcome of fine goods. Each
material has its own special mode for
making, and its own accomplishments of
nat, gloves and lingeree for correct
dress.
Begin with cheviot check for morn
ings and shopping. There are fifty pat
terms of eheviot in small pIaids, but one
will restrict the choice to shepherds
check in gray and white, dead leaf ,fawn
or stone color, with creamy white,
crossed perhaps with bar of faint vel
low, old pink or indigo, or a thread of
less Indefinite, blue, red or amber. Let
the red checks and blue checks and hello
trope severely alone, as they fade, for
one thing, and they never look quite
right for the other. A smart suit in
cheViot has the skirt all round in fat box
pleats, or with gathered straight drapery
in the back, with jacket and plain vest
of thick, glossy silk, or plain surah |
blouse, gathered ut throat and belt, No
fancy stitching, no trimming of any |
sort, but the pleats OF the skirt pressed |
On sharp folds as if laid by q straight |
-edge and stitched firmly to tapes all |
round so that no winds can blow them |
out of place. Ready made gowns are
seldom satisfactory in this respect, and
second=fate dresamakers have pleasing
fotionk4hat slaokly- seoured folds are
refArtistic, which is intolerable and
nosebe endured in cloth gown. The
linen collar and small soft silk tie
20 with this, or the revers are thrown
back to show linen or Silk shirt, or the +
high silk vest always advisable on cool
days.
One OF the most convenient and nat
test OF suits for the street, the English
blazer costume, is made of blue serge
or summer cloth In black, marine or
blue black shades. It is strictly 9 town
dress in its trim plsinness and style, but
will be the favorite walking dress OF the
season wherever seen. The skirt, abso-
Iutsly plain, Is laid in the broad pleats
which give the best lines to the height;
and the jacket with fitted back and
ooss front is adjustable to be worn open
above the chest button and fall together
below or loose to show the silk blouse |
Ind sash which girdles the Esist. The |
outlines are perfect, not an iheh of SUI
9erTuous material IN the whole thing,
md tbs jacket has ~ few seassietas Hsgar-
nent cen be be shaped SbS: Thkse
blazer suits az they are called, be- /
'ause worn with the Washing silk blouse
md sash under the jacket, are the
'ssiest models for q novice ct dress
making.
by the way THE greatest ktlDs for home ] !