Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-21

is a dIapbanous creature, and
the makeup is quite in keeping
with her peculiar style. Bob Spray
danced with her last week at garden
party given by Mrs. Dore-Bullion at her
new Queen Anne villa. he said that
positively his only sensation was that
caused by the feathers of her hat tickling
his nose; that otherwise he might just as
well have been dancing alone. Miss st.
Clair is painfully thin, and Bob never
tires of calling nv attention to the fact.
he assures me that at times sEe is SO
transparent that he locates her the way
the microscopists do the germs-by color
ing them. He makes her blush.
But don't think that flowers are going
out of fashion. Far from it. saw
very stylish big hat made OF black
lace straw, with an extraordinary briEl,
and crown OF pale pink lisse The
back of the brim was arched upwards,
and the space enclosed was filled in with
perfect bank of pale pink roses. The
effect was indescrIbably stunning on the
girl who wore it. Her skin was abso-
lutely without yellow, and her cheeks
glowed like blush roses. 1t was sight
to disturb the equaninty OF a geometrl-
! clan.
Very eccentric girls are affecting a
style of big hat known as the 'crank, -
because the brim is crumpled up in the
most fantastic manner. They don't take
very well, for not one girl in 10 900
looks pretty when she affects the outre
| or bizarre. There 3 point at which pig
nancy ceases and the uncouth begins,
and the thing is to know exactly where
! TO draw the line. My friend Bob Spray
in
and when asked him what he thought
| of one of these 'crank'' hats his reply
was that very few men objected to wo-
men being a little weak minded, but
that he, for one, was Opposed to any
pronounced types of lunacy.
Turning aside from the frivolities of
| fashion to consider the subject in its
more serious aspects, let me call your
attention to the charming toilet shad-
| owed forth in the accompanying sketch.
| 1t is very artistic costume, suitable for
! an evening entertainment of almost any
| kind, and consisting of a combination OF
| pale mauve silk batiste with white and
| pansy finely striped faiIle and bands Of
| pansy broche with pale tea roses and
| very pale green leaves. White
| gloves are worn with this
| dress, and very large and har-
! moniously colored fan is carried to enable
the lady TO withstand the heat and main
tain her aplomb. Some of these large
fans have exquisitely painted scenes
upon them, and that too without render
ing them very expensive. Many of these
paintings are the work of young CIR
graduates of our art school, and although
they are mostly copies OF decorative ar
of the last century, yet there are among
them original compositions of genuine
merit.
Large fans of figured silk are still
carried but their weight is against then
and small woman sometimes has thu
appearance of serving US prop TO hold
one up, just as some little men look lik'
psrambulating hat pegs. The Tyre anC
other shaped ostrich feather fans art
also much affected, and they have {
gauzy, gossamer faint and filmy lool
very becoming to delicate types o
beauty, bu: they aren't suitable for ia
faces or high color. One would say tn
sight was like a moth miller fiutterinl
around an underdone roast.
at the races nowadays in New Yorl
one sees many quaint and charming cos
TUNES. Gray tailor mades are yer.
popular, sometimes plain and sometime
braided. Shirts and open jackets ar
much affected and they do look delight