Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-25


| is that girl who does her own shopping,
| using her mind and exercising her brain
| in selections, and knows that good mate
rial is cheapest, and that to wait until
| the first craze is past is wisest. When
| this young woman goes out on her
| shopping expedition she is apt to wear
a blue serge gown plainly made, not SO
| much because il is the fashionable fabric
| this winter as because it is serviceable
| and becoming.
The rage for feather trimming is una
batting, aud the price continually ad-
| yancing. This is not caused SO much by
the Mckinley bill as by the fact that the
ostrich with its well-known Stiffness con-
tinues to bear only the same amount Of
plumage and it is a case of demand in
excess OF supply. Boas in every color
are shown, and for wear at all places.
When this trim ming is applied IL is pref
tier to have narrow lengths OF 1t at
tached under the goods to protrude with
out lying on the surface.
Corduroy velvet is much admired, and
very handsome gown was recently fin
ished by fashionable modiste. The
bodice is of gray silk, fashioned like a
cuirass, a1d heavily embroidered with
steel beads. Another street dress is OF
gendarme blue cloth. The bodice is cut
like cavalier GOAT and fiecked all over
with steel drops.
This leads to the remark that in
metallic trimmings nothing is quite SO
tony nor quite as expensive as is cut
steel. In no com bination Is 1t prettier
than with blue or gray cloth.
When the spunky little California
woman called Ella Wheeler Wilcox "a
gray mouse. - it is fair to suppose she
had expended her venom, but the mouse
went on writing poetry and wearing her
gray coat with a nonchaleuce that while
1t bespoke Indifference to her reviler's
opinion, at the same time showed quiet
taste in dress that is commensurate.
Fashion sanctions this opinion, aud the
winter costumes show decided prefer
enoe for this neutral tint. What pref
tier dinner costume than the following
could be devised:
Pearl gray faille and cream mousseliue
de sole - Underskirt of killed cream
mousssline. Long pointed train Of pearl
gray faille, which extends into skirt
on the right side and part
of the front, allowing the whole left side
of the plated mousseline to show. The
pearl gray silk is slashed on the right
side and the edges are trimmed with
pearl gray feathers. Above, near the
hips, large tuft of pearl gray and plum
colored feathers is attached. The DO iice
consists of Russian chemisette of NOUS
seliue and a corset of plum colored vel
vet. The chemisette is Killed like the
skirt, cut heart shape, very much pulled
across the chest, pulled down the back
and trimmed around the neck with white
strips of feathers. Short peasant sleeves,
arm. The velvet corselet reaching we'll
up under the arm, curves downward in
the front and is slashed and graduated to
the small of the waist. The white chem
isette shows through the front oorselet,
which is joined with antique gold clasps
graduated in size as the cors-let is grad
uated. A thick pearl gray feather boa
tightly encrcles the neck, pearl gray
Swedish gloves reaching partly over the
upper arm; pearl gray feather fan with
mother of pearl mounting.
For the grand dame who loves
warmer tone there is an elegant dinner
dress Of velvet in goldeu-brown of me-
dunn tone, with vest and tablier of
white satin brocade bordered at the foot
with rich passementerie OF forated de-
signs in brown and gold, and narrow
pessementerie to match trimming the
belt, forming epaulettes and trimming
the collar and cuffs. Aud for young
matrou, what can be said against
combination of black velvet and blue
satin? The train and waist are of black
royal velvet with Breton vest and teblier
of stone blue satin of delicate shade,
brooaded with black velvet in fern de-
sign, the tablier framed in with full
ruche of blue saroenet ribbon with black
purl edge. the ruche finishing also the
neck and the sleeves.
Not to seem utterly oblivious of q
young girls thoughts in holiday times
here are some charming creations in
evening dresses that Will touch the
pocket of poor papa more lightly than do
investments in bonds and stocks. For
a brunette there is q pink crepe de chine
and faille. The whole dress is made
over a very deep old rose silk under
dress. Narrow, but very long train of
pink silk. Side and front skirt gar
nished with pink mousssline de sole
flouuce hand embroidered with tea
roses, each rose lying in the lower fes-
toon, with stem running upward, side
and trout draped with Grape, looped only
about the hips. aud deeply embroidered
with tea roses, whose stems are tied with
a pink Louis XVI. bow. This skirt Is
disposed into soallops, whicn fall over
the lower fiounce, and the upper point
of each scallop are garnished with an
old rose butterfly. Plain Grape back
bodice, front bodice disposed in small
folds coming from the side and waist
point of bodice that all meet in front
near the decollete, and there are caught
with Diamond ornament. This toilet
has very antique trimming, which
consists of brownish green feath-
ers about four inches wide,
which, beginning on the left hand
upper end of the train, is applied all
along the edge of 1t, crosses the loopings
of the crepe de chine on the left, mounts
up, is coiled around the waist, then
crosses around the chest and ends on the
left shoulder with q tuft of tips of the
same color. A similar tuft holds the
drapery of the skirt on the right and
outs the serpentine coil of the feather
trimmings. Crepe sleeves, bias cut,
putting on the shoulders and fastened
with a band of feathers half way up the
forearm, and following it are three
model evening dresses.
The first is OF crepe de chine, is of rose
color with side-gores, side bodies and
sleeves of satin brocade of white star les
samine design, on rose colored ground