Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-04

| per, silver and steel. to say nothing of
| mock gems of all kinds, snowy enough
to suit the tastes of ali sorts and condi-
tions of womankind.
In the third illustration you will find
another style of felt hat, pale gray of
q very novel and pleasing shape, fitting
tightly and comfortably to the hair, and
| trimmed with birds and ribbons. The
large bow of pale green ribbon-har-
| mOniZing exactly with the pale green of
| the birds plumage-is set high and con-
| spicuously in front. Behind this bow of
outstanding loops, there are several swal-
lows with fawn colored and pale green
plumage and white breasts, arranged in
quite an original and telling style, as if
they were actually in flight, and had
stopped to Craze the surface of this pretty
hat, which can hardly fail to please those
fond of refined novelties.
The day is far distant when birds will
cease TO be used for garnituring women 3
hats. The naturalists of course, are
greatly shocked at this barbarIty in taste,
rs they term it; but they profess to be
quite as much disgusted as they are
shocked, lnasmuch es these birds are not
used in their natural colors, but are fan
tRstically dyed to suit the tones and tints
of ribbons and compilations of fair, frail
women!
In the matter of fashionable colors for
the coming season it may be stated that
they are to belong as usual to the subdued
and delicate shades such as dun pink
light turquoise blue. blush gray, golden
and seal brown, light beige and tan,
brownish reds and several shades of yell
low; quite sufficient of a gamut to suit
nj nF
the intense brunette, blackpr than night,
to the pale blonde, with hair of q whitisb
yellow and eyes of pale skyblue, COM
monty known as the bleached out blonde,
but very delicate and pleasing type
withal, as it usually indicates skin of
hue TO put the lily to blush.
The last novelty in hats to which
shall call your attention is crownless and
consists Of deeply curved and orinkled
brim of Swiss rush, turned up very
sharply both in front and at the back.
This graceful and picturesque nat fits
closely 60 the hair, encircllng the coil
and giving very charming and naive
expression TO the wearer, who should, of
course, be young and handsome, for l
have alwayS found that novelties look
best on the heads OF such people, strange
as II may appear. A French writer has
SAID that We should forgive everything in
young aud handsome woman, even her
lack of heart, that being too much to
expect along with the other charms.
But how about the ugly ones2 Are they
to go yelled or keep within doors? Pos
sIbly they are to be put to death2
Well, TO return TO this pretty hat. On
one side there is large pink rose, with
a mass of foliage and buds, the rest of
the trimming being formed of cream
chiffon, printed with au old world pat
tern, consisting of large red roses and
pale green leaves, the whole effect of
which is most artistic. Possibly 1t might
be well to end this chapter on hats by
talking about something else, the hair,
for instance, which must abound in
''wavy' effects and not mar the outline
of the head. So extremely fashionable
are these ''wavy'' effects that even gay
Paris has felt itself called upon to adopt
our English word TO express the proper
thing in the arrangement of the hair
The word ''interview, which they
adopted some time ago, caused death and
destruction in violent attempts TO pro-
nounce it. and now it's hard TO say what
they'll do with this new word ''wavy.'
The modishDess of all sorts of ruffs and
high collars necessltates keeping the hair
pretty well up on the head. and, no
doubt, there il Will remain during the
coming season. Only very few orna-
ments are used for coiffures nowadays,
the result, no doubt, of the perfection of
art in the making OF false pieces which
enables lady to supply deficiencies
without arousing the slightest suspicion
that she is not all she seems to be.
In perfumes, too, there is manifested
refined taste, a very agreeable change,
for the sitting Odors of former years made
life at times hardly worth living. There
Is considerable philosophy in the use of
perfumes. Some don't need any at all
and others need delicate and FAINT odors,
mere suggestions of perfumes, while
others still stand in need of fresh and in
vlgorating perfumes, such as are called
''clean smells. It's subject which
calls for study aud intelligent action.
Men have been known to fall In love
with women sight unseen as the saying
is, merely from iuhaling the perfume of |
a handkerchief dropped by the lady. The |
great desideratum is TO get perfume in |
opposition TO your peculiar temperament |
or physical coloring, so TO speak. II you |
are inclined TO be dull, somber and |
splenetic, don L select q perfume which |
will harmonic with your character.