Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-19

Do0y Oh the coat ntS snugly IS S0meW nat
short WASTED aud buttons with three
buttons, solid gold If thy purse can buy.
The revers are continued from collar,
half standing and slightly rolling, TO the
the first button and are rounded in out
line. The glgot sleeves are slightly
buffant at the shoulder and button
closely from the waist to the elbow, the
small buttons being covered with the
material. The skirt part slopes from the
hips and terminates as does the "spike
tail - two of the gold buttons being at
the waist line. Coats of course require
shirts, and the popular style is what is
known as the "Vassar. - 1t is made
very nicely, with front tucks and finished
with cuffs. A standing collar with
turned over points Is worn with this.
In sleeves there is a falling
reason fashions in woman IS attire have
to pass through kind of pendulum e1-
perience. The reaction from enormous
bustles resulted for a time in a most I'M
becoming fatness, and the skin-tight
sleeve, that had neither comfort or
beauty to recommend it, is in turn sup
planted by one of exaggerated fullness.
Fortunately, there are women who have
ideas and taste and given little time and
money and she will choose the street,
house and evening dresses without re-
gard to iron rule, and ere many days
find following that a leader always
gathers. OF this class was q young girl,
a trim little body, with dark eyes and
hair, who was quite surprised at the COM
motion her latest gown produced among
her friends, not for moment regarding
il herself as a work of art; but such it
surely was, and a gingham at that.
The ground was one of the crushed
strawberry shades, stripes of
which alternated with stripes made
up of alternate black and
ground lines. The skirt was plated.
The bodice opened over a wide vest of
plain, with high collar, while a turn
down black velvet collar and points fin
ished the neck of the bodice, which
was trimmed round the pointed bottom
with band of velvet. Full sleeves
gathered into deep elbow cuffs, parasol
of the Bingham and black hat, with a
broad brimmed front, trimmed with
tulle of the same shade as the dress,
made as artistic a suit as one will hope
to see and one suitable Tor many differ
ent summer scenes, from its very be-
comingness and piquancy.
Jackets were never more popular than
now, and the style can be made to do
good service especially the Fedora cut.
If the reader has q dress a little shabby
about the buttons or soiled and worn
under the arms, a jabot of lace down the
front and a Fedora jacket gives the
wanting freshness to last summers
gown. Frequently only Fedora fronts of
velvet are put on, and puffs at the shout
ders. Cuffs and collar of the same ma
terial are used and with good effect.
There may be no cause for anxiety in
the knowledge that great deal ls being
said and written about different schools
of teaching grace in manners. But with
man dressmakers and men lecturers on
taste in dress, the selection of color, and
the posings, with Delsarte methods and
generally, there seems
danger that woodland graces and
rural simplicity will have the 60
by ana maidens, who pose and pos
ture according to rule, whose faces
scarce light with a smile and who rarely
laugh, will supplant at least in "sas-
siety the dear old-fashioned girl
whose heartiness was the savoring salt
that saved society from wearying in
sipidity, and the wine of human inter-
that was opened for yesterdays feast
Heaven grant 1t may not be: let society
have the freshness and want of self
that is the sparkle in the
every day cup and the piquant sauce for
daily meat.
NOTES.
Panels are coming in again and prom |
Use to prevalent during the present sea-
son.
White gauZe is now the correct thing |
for wells. These come double width, so |
as to lie full on the hat and come below
the chin.
One of the Inoongruities of fashion is q 1
ace or silk gauze dress with high COL
arctic of seal, sable or monkey fur
lightly buttoned about the neck.
Although oolored borders on handker-
,hiefs are considered very bad taste,
It'll little color is introduced by having
he hemstitching done in colored threads.
Recent importations of hats from Lon
lon show a return to trimmings of
ostrich feathers, in contradistinction to
lie fiower-laden French hats SO much in
'ogue at present.
Large buckles are worn for both day
md evening, but chiefly with the empire
,odices and their broad bands. If an
ique all the better. They are in various
metals and slightly bent to fit the figure.
The newest bonnet is a large black
ace butterfly, one pair of wings folding
lat upon the sides of the hair, while the
Their rises on either side of the coiffure.
he attenn@ are in sparkling jet.
Frills of No. 16 ribbon trim the front
dye of basques; also pass around the
ollar in center fo.d. Evening bodices
re trimmed with clustered bows as
pauleJtes, and a doubled ribbon to
latch in the neck and sleeves of the
odice.
Pretty and inexpensive dresses are
lade of cambria with deep flounces,
he edges of the fiounces finished with
arrow embroidery. All around
ounces of embroidery are also used,
nd in this way it is not unusual for al
lost all of the visible portion of the
ress to be of this sort.
The surplice bodice is the best suited to
ashing gowns. The fronts are gath
red in. each shoulder and cross on the {
hest, the ends disappearing in the waist
ands, and the V-shaped opening at the {
eek can be filled in if one likes with a
llrt of colored p!astron. {
A large tour-leaf clover formed of