Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-28

Women are noleo LOT their shopping
nroclivities, at least they are so charged
and If TO all things under the sun there i,
A season. then is this the season for
hopping and its accompanying delights.
Neither is it simply idle pleasure, for
laugh as men will and chuckle over their
good DANES purchase of door plate
that might come in handy if she mar
ried again, there are bargains to be Sc
cured If the buyer has the wit to discern
them. Summer dress fabrics If not too
pronounced in style and color will bear
LAYING away until next year, and
summer hosiery and gloves
lose nothing il Information. Mer-
chants who appreciate money values
are ready TO make sacrifices for cash,
particularly desirable as their notes fall
due. and they pile upon their counters
stufTs and remnants that are truly bar
gains.
A stroll through the leading dry
goods stores OF this city reveals that here
as in other centers of trade there are
bargains to be secured, and women who
are ayailiug themselves of the oppor-
that can be used to brighten a frook of
fading beauty, few yards Of two ma
teriaIs that combine well, pretty bit
that can be utilized in a Norfolk jacket,
blouse, or peasant waist. Norfolk
Jackets are now worn with the little
skirt showing below the belt, are a
graceful and comfortable waist and can
be bought now at greatly reduced prices.
They have the shirt sleeve. with deep
turnover cuff turnover collar, and belt
Of the same. If the latter is over two
inches. a narrower one should be sub
stituted to confer the long-waisted look
which is now striven for. The blouse
always suggests belt and of course the
buckle. The proper cut for travelling
wear is a belt of leather studded with
steel nail heads. Some one suggests that
the nails are 10 fasten leather upon pop
ular approval as a trimming in autumn
work. This does not hold, however,
only so far as the heads themselves.
These are seen in jet and colored stones
on velvet and lace. 1t is the belt buckle,
however, that grows in size and beauty.
The latest fancy is for ivory
buckles, srtistically painted in flower
designs, the eXquisiteness of the
execution rivaling miniature painting OH
the same substance of a century ago.
The extremely wide belt ana straight
buckle have had their day. Those who
affect the short WASTED style put q
Gordon sash around their waist and defy
criticism.
Another season may show radical
changes in styles, but the purchaser of
bargain gingham or white dress need
not hesitate TO make it up with 3 group
,nrv Hn
tween a quarter and a half inch wide,
set their own width apart at the bottom
Of the skirt and similar tucks in smaller
groups on sleeves and bodice.
AS the warm days linger and tlack
toilets are still considered charming, q
word in praise of mousseliue de sole may
not be out of place. The striped is love-
ly, and with good reason is preferred by
ladies whose taste is unquestionable.
The stripes are of satiny texture and
in some patterns are an eighth of au
inch in width, set, perhaps, 4 half inch
apart and barred with similar stripes for
a border. Other patterns have the stripes
set wide apart, with brocaded vines be-
tween. The floating, transparent black
costumes already popular, and for which
this mousseline de sole Is one of the most
satisfactory fabrics, will be given q new
impetus doubtless by recent heroine of
Julian Hawthorne who appears 'in q
black gauZy dress as soft and fine as a
SPIDERS web; on her arm a gold SER
pent with an amethyst on Its head; her
eyes full of dark light. - The sheer black
organdy makes pretty dress of this sort
for afternoon wear. The striped NOUS
seleine de soles are repeated in white,
and a most attractive pattern is four
inch plaid formed by a group of lines |
barring n half-inch stripe. A mixed |
plaid has some OF the lines in tinsel, but |
the pure white is much better. The big |
coin spots in black and white thin goods |
are permitted to those who like them, |
but they have no intrinsic beauty.
A new touch IN the sailor hat is to put |
gold cords around black brim. When |
the hat is white a combination of white
velvet, green bugs, gold cord and pins is
frequently seen.
A more simple trimming for a hat of
this description is white tulle dotted
with black chenille, the putting high in
front and fastened in place by long silver
pins with quantity designed heads.
From the various sources open to an
explorer there seems to be little doubt
thst dress is tending in character to-
wards the Elizabethau period. This
tendency does not, however, extend TO
skirts; the faTthingale of that era is too
expansive and rigid for moderns and
then too Worth, the Gutoerat in dress,
has decided that hoops are inartlstic.
The rule seems that skirts shall be simple |
and what ornamentation there is shall be
for the bodice and sleeves.
skirts are made quite close fitting to the
igure; many are shaped to it by seams
n front and on the hips, but little full
ness being seen except at the back.
Over these elose-ftting skirts, paniers
are sometimes placed, but they only
lerve TO decrease the size of the waist.
A rather novel and pretty sleeve has a
series OF puffs, about six in number, ex-
ending around the arm from the
houlder to the elbow, the lower half of
he sleeve a loose fitting plain coat.
High sleeves and high collars, with long,
harrow waists, are the conspicuous
eatures of q dress of the early part of
he Seventeenth century. During the
lot weather, that In this latitude creeps
nto October, the comfortable round
bodice will continue to be worn and
concession TO prevailing style will be
made by drawing the full waists down
lEder a pointed waistbsnd, the outside
icing fitted over tight lining.
A simple frock suitable for little girl
q the autumn is made of O pretty shade |