Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-08

SNAPPED tops, are In good taste
Vatican fans in lisse or lace are the
favorits. Some OF the lisse ones have
sticks of carved wood the color o, the
lisse, and along each fold pendant metal
lilo beads. For service the Japanese fans
are in request. These come in odd shapes
and queer folds, black and gold or black
and silver being the most approved.
The description of two ravishiug cos
TUNES will suffice as conclusion to THE
GAZETTE s weekly chat with its fair read
ers on the sll-absorbing topic, chow to
dress beautifully.
A DAINTY COMBINATION
Is Parma violet, with pale Spanish yell
low, the BILE For of the French. A
charming little gown in Spanish effect
was lately made of black silk figured
with violets and combined with pale vel
low silk yelled with black Escurial lace.
The bodice was composed of the lace
over the yellow draped with the silk
across the shoulders aud down the front
in scarf effect. The large leg-o'-mutton
sleeves were of the silk. The skirt was
composed Of the silk but draped up in
front to show band of black lace aud
yellow silk and finished at the back with
insertions of black lace showing the ell
low silk underskirt through. A gown
of black India silk with rose figures was
made up in combination with panels of
black lace over rose pink, feature of
the dress being a smart little boiero
jacket OF black lace over rose silk.
THE SEAMLESS BODICE.
A pretty summer gown is of India
silk figured in dainty colors with an all
over pattern of conventionalized flower
and Leaf. The bodice is finished with q
full-shirred vest. coming to q point at
the waist line. 1t is an excellent ex-
ample Of the seamless bodice, the deftest
art being displayed in drapiug the figured
silk with fine effect. Little rosettes in
groups oil three are made of the narrow
est picot-edGed ribbon. in pale tomato
red, olive and lettuce greens, and all the
other colors of the silk trim the bodice
on one side of the vest.
The skirt of the dress is fully draped
and finished at the bottom OF the front
breadth with ruche of the narrow rib
bon. The skirt is fastened over the
bodice and finished at the top with a
careless sash, which is fastened at the
back under a large rosette of the many
colored ribbons; this rosettee seems to
NOTES.
Very short gloves have appeared.
Fanciful house jackets are all the rage.
Black branding adorns new tennis
blouses.
Petticoats of soft surah silk grow in
favor.
Leaves of black lace stand up among
the flowers on many stylish bonnets.
For "half" mourning, lavender suede
gloves with black points are prepared.
Black Leghorn hats trimmed with a
wreath of butteroups or daisies are worn
by the smallest girls.
Pretty striped silk serge blouse waists
are shown, which are designed to " ear
with skirts made of muslin, organdIe,
crepaline and batiste.
One of the novelties for the present
season is the Rored skirt of silk corded up
each seam, even in the front, and fin
ished with cord as thick as the thumb
around the foot.
Dainty plaid ribbous, in such COM
binations as pink and cream, pale blue
and leghorn. Nile green and old rose
are used in preference to plain ribbons
for trimming white summer gowns.
Open work stockings are displayed of
silk in every hue that can be selected for
dresses, which apparently signifies,
though ladies will never quite give up
the convenient black hues for general
use, that the dainty custom of accom-
panying gowns with appropriate stock
ings for dressy occasions will once more
be revived. y
A very old fashion has been revived
IN the cording of each seam af the bodice
and also the closely gored skirt. A
heavy cord goes round the bottom of the
skirt and up each seam. Silk generally
covers the cord. When the gown is OF
figured or striped fabric, the cording cor
responds with the flower or stripe in
shade.
The trimmings upon the new princesse
toilettes for evening wear differ consid-
erably some being made up with Grecian
draperies of crepe lisse caught up on the
skirt and left shoulder with costly
buckles eff gold OF silver. Others have
short sleeves with Corday folds over the
breast of superb real lace or pearl-dotted
silk tulle.
Hammock dresses designed for
elegant wear on sultry, lazy
afternoons are announced. They
are made with long flowing
ing Greek lines; they are steelless, oush-
ionless, half fitting, but graceful withal,
having no look of untidy looseness, and
are made of all the soft, pretty crepa-
lines, challIs, carmeIites, and also of
China silk, foulard and surah.
Among all the draped, pleated, and
crossed bodices, the gloye-ftting corsage
laced up the back is finding its way
among the fRvorites. The fronts are
fitted as closely as possible by deep
seam down the center, which is covered
by narrow but deep plastron, the point
of which reaches below the vast line.
This plastron is always handsomely dec
GRATED. Similar effects appear upon the
bodice portion of long clinging prlncesse
dresses.
Household.
Men have essayed to describe women,
but after reading the attempts of the