Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-16

cloak with either pleated or full back aud
over-frili, which gives very pretty cape
effect to the top of the wrap. This over
frill must be in graduated width to suit
the shape of the pointed yoke. Some
plaids make charming autumn wraps
combined with plush or velvet Jokes
Canvas cloth is also used but il should be
lined with surah, which, however, gives
the garment much richer effect. White
cloth too makes a snowy evening wrap of
this style, the top frill being pinksd out
in round scallops, and the yoke and high
collar being made of tinsel cloth, which
may be laid directly upon the cloth yok 9
of the wrap, the collar being lined with
pale colored silk to give elegance OF
finish.
In the third Illustration you will find a
very elegant com binatiou costume oou-
sisting of mauve peau de sole with pansy
fable embroidered with white iris as
shown in the engraving. The waist and
sleeves have some charming bits of style
in them, the pansy faille being made in
Figora jacket style and the peau de sole
sleeves being pulled to the elbows where
they are met by long tight fitting cuffs
OF faille. The hat trimming and parssol
dress.
1t is darkly limited that the thin
woman has had her day and that plump
figures are to be preferred by dame
fashion in displaying her creations This
possibly has some reference to the pre-
5icted revival of Louis XIII. costumes
and the consequent demand for queenIy
forms and majestic carriage TO set off
the Powered brocatelles, the heavy en-
broideries and dull colors, and to wear
with becoming grace the huge collarette
of old guipure, softening the crudity of
the stuff by its cobwebby wilderness. This
prediction of course has reference to the
coming winter, and III antme, the lath-
like figures may continue 10 revel in the
soft and clinging stuffs of which they
have so long had the monopoly, and
which, too, it must be confessed they
have worn with exquisite grace.
In the fourth illustration the lady on
the right is clad in a dress of striped
siciliepne, white aud olive green; gray
gloves and white and olive green
striped parasol. Her mantlet Is very
original in material and make up, the
collarette and iounces being in gray silk
tulle and the front part of gray surah,
interlaced with very dark gray oheniled
plush stripes. A gray csinture fastens
this plastrsn.
The lady on the right wears dress of
maize pongee, finely plisse with a chicory
fiounce all around the lower hem; white
gloves and bonnet in pansy velvet with
maize silk ribbons and gray steel
diadem-like aigretta in front. Like
her companion, she wears q very stylish
mantlet IN pale mauve wholleu batiste
bordered with gray ostrich feather trim
ming. A pale mRuve Arabian silk
ceinture catches up the mantlet as shown
in the engraving.
With that delightfully."- whimsical and
altogether ineonsequential mode of ac-
tion SO characteristic of Queen Fashion,
she now threatens to return to white
gloves, white stockings and white slip
pers. Light shades of gray and drab are
to be the modish colors for the gloves of
promenade costumes, aud for evening
dress there may be slight maize yellow
tinge with cream stitching. Gloves are
to be longer than ever, if that be pos
sible. and without buttons except at the
wrist to mark the location of the brace
let. No more black or colored gloves
are to be tolerated at and after dinner.
That's fiat. And as to stockings, which
Occu eO III dCcOEu Win tuo
shade of the dress, they may be white,
that is, simulate the white of the lace
stocking, provided the feet be encased
in white glace kid slippers, making up,
it must be confessed q style OF foot wear
dainty enough for Queen Nab or Gin
derella herself. This taste for white will
show itself in other ways; for instance,
in the use OF white pearls for dressing
no hai W vii ia
and worn high, with the pearls arranged
on one side in the form of a countess
diadem. A triple row of pearl
beads will be worn around
the neck and the fan will
be of white mirabout plumes mounted on
ivory. White tulle made demi-train
princess aud cut V shape will be ia
vorite evening dress, especially for small
dancing parties. The starched white
linen shirt fronts will remain popular for
morning costumes, worn with high vest
aud loose jacket, plain skirt and
loosely tied scarf; in fact, English all
the way through.
Without pausing TO ferret out the why
aud the wherefore, 1t must be admitted
that London styles of female attire have
been extremely popular during the sea-
son just past, and we may as well make
up our minds that in oil matters pertain
ing to the world OF sport, London will
hereafter make its influence felt in set
ting fashions for women, as it has for
men. Paris finds IL impossible to check
this influence, and is wisely yielding to
It; but just how far the French capital
will be willing to suffer this interfer-
ence remains TO be seen.
CODyripht 1890