The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-03-23
Special Correspondence of SUNDAY HERALD.


looks out the window, watches the girls coming
from afternoon church, and says that they Ego
on their shape" He criticises them exactly as
he would a thoroughbred horse, and he approves
or disapproves, as far as gowns are concerned,
but continually returns to the question of "the
shape.n
THE YOUNG WOMAN OF FIGURE
The young woman whe is going out ''in her
figuren as the Frenchwomen says, usually does
it at the risk of having pneumonia, or what is
much less poetic, cold in her head. But,
nevertheless, she feels as if she has not put her
money in the full Golfers of her tailor for moth
ing. She s gowned in mauve, dove, pistache,
or black; her skirt is softly draped, and there
is no suspicion of steels, or anything so vulgar
as a hustle about her. Over her round bodice,
which is of soft silk and only intended for this
special time, is the jacket on which the clever
tailor has lavished the art of his scissors and his
artistic sense of the fitness of things
HINTS FOR A SMART COSTUME.
The smartest one is of black cloth lifting like
the proverbial glove, and rather longer than we
have been in the habit of seeing so-called short
jackets. Like the coat in which old Grimes
was clothed, it is buttoned down before, and
these buttons are of black and silver enamel;
the collar, the cuffs, all the outlines and the
the adornment, which consists of alternate rows
of gold and silver braid. Your frock may be
made at home by dressmaker at two dollars
day, or be the result of your own industry; your
bonnet have been no nearer a millinery shop
than band-box, but if you wear a coat, 1t must
have the stamp OF the masculine cut, OF the
masculine fit, and of the masculine appreciation.
That is, if you want to go out sin your figure"
The marriage of Miss Mabel Wright and the
divorced brother-in-aw of Mrs. Willie Wander
bilt ha. made interesting again the history of
this much-overrated young woman's entrance
into the world of fashion. Her one beauty is
her hair, which is that pure blonde seldom seen
except on the heads of Swedish girls-in fact,
her so-called beauty is that inanelooking blonde
ness which can be seen at Castle Garden any
day, when lot of emigrants arrive from Swe-
den. The gossips tell that several seasons ago
well-known New Yorker was in the water at
Narragansett when, suddenly as if she came
from the sta, there appeared beside him, with
the waves a background, fair young woman
whose long light locks hung around her as do
those of the mermaids, Il mean the mermaids
that we see pictures Of and not the ones we sec
in dime museums) The admring youth, with
stutter that wasinimitable, ingenuously asked
ssAre you Venus ?" Nobody knows what the
young woman said, but soon after her discov
erer sought Introduction, presented her tc
some fashionable women, and she is quoted aE
one of the few who got into the swim by plung
ing into the water.
WOMEN AND THE DIVIDED SKIRT.
The divided skirt is subject of never-endins
interest and curiosity. 1t will always be sexless
1t can't be called trousers, and it is not suf
ficiently feminine to be called a pettcoat
Something funny the other day was seen at tn
dressmakers. Rosina Vokes who wears pic
turesque divided skirts, sent to her modiste
doll wonderfully arrayed in a white silk divide
skirt elaborately trimmed with lace, so that sh
might see exactly how hers were made
WOMAN IN KNEE-BREECHRs.
Did you ever see a woman put on knee
breeches to wear for some expedition in tn
woods? a boy in them for the first time
quite at home, but the most daring of hunter
and fishers among women seems to become lin
and helpless when her costume consists of knee
breeches, leggings, and blouse. She stand
first one foot and then the other out, then sh
stands still and walks as if she were only pc
mitted TO use one leg at time, taking a ste
with one foot and then bringing the other OF
forward to join it before she takes anothe
she is WIlBSIS anu ullcdegt ouc Iuiuhh cNCT.
thing is coming unbuttoned, and she wishes 81
had STAYED at home. Two weeks of the uniqu
costume may make her more at ease, but whe
she first assumes the normal petticoat and ski
she gives great sigh of relief, and says: so
how comfortable am, and what pleasure it
to walk or sit down. - Which goes to pro-
that the natural woman incines toward the pc
ticoat-not divided, but made as pretty as pc
sible with no end of lace frills upon it. l ha
always been convinced that Ewes pettcoat W
made of the leaves of the magnolia-tree trmm
with fringe of lilies of the valley and haYil
for waistband and ties ribbon grass,
SOMETHING NEW FOR EUROPEAN TOURISTS.
Just now the seekers after novelty are rushi
TO the other side of the water to get rest, or NJ
clothes, or TO plunge in wilder dissipations.
course the one desire of those who remain
home is to give something unique to the one W
goes away; it is known that flowers are throl
away Immediately after Sandy Hook is passt
still they continue to be sent in great quantiti
though wine and fruit vie with them HoweV
the greatest novelty was something done fo
very pretty woman who sailed week ago to
If there was anything new in Paris. She was f
tunate in having the captains room, and VIII
she reached the steamer, and entered 1T,
found that an admirer had had corner, viii
seemed Of no use whatever, filled with por
lain tiled box in which were growing a
blooming great mass Of forget-me-nots. Tit
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