The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-12-07

OF yellow velvet on her right shoulder, and
from this a wide velvet ribbon crosses to
the waist and is fixed with another bow
When she locks at you from under dropping
eyelids her fingers play with necklace Of
long jet links strung with amber beads.
A neat little home dress which drew a
chair to tile hearth fire for me yesterday
was of beautiful tint of doe-colored CASH
mere. 1t had a full cOrsage, with a trim
ming of bronze-brown velvet ribbon car
ried on either side from the shoulder seam
around the front edge of the armhole. The
two lengths were then brought forward to
meet in point on the BOSOM Another
length of ribbon was carried about the lower
edge of the bodice TO the point in font,
where it coaXed the full plaits down. The
skirt took the simple sheath shape, and was
finished with three narrow brorze-brown
velvet frills. There were velvet sleeves.
Here is the frock worn by the first bios
som of our winter crop of daily debutantes
az a, the earliest OF those perennial nulsances,
the coming out teas. The maid was tall and
rather pale with yellow hair She was not
pretty except as her eyes shone with the
joy of her new Importance. She looked
very slim as she stood all in white at her
mothers side. Her gown was a delicate
Chinese crepe trimmed with white ostrich
feathers. The corsage was confined by
sQuare-cut open corSelet of white silk
framed with white passementere and tied
across with ribbons. Oddly enough, but in
thorough harmony with prevailing fashions,
there was white silk train. The crepe
sleeves had long, tight lace-edged cuffs
reaching to the elbows, and the round
throat rose rather too stiffiy from a high ruff
Of ostrich feathers.
Call on woman in the morning and you
are likely to lind her in particularly 9sthe-
tic Greek dressing gown of white or perhaps
OF silvery gray cashmere edged with silver
embroidery and loosely held in at the waist
by a long silver cord with tasseled ends
Such robe has tight-fitting sleeves, but one
ingenious woman of my acquaintance has
provided herself also with hanging over
sleeves, and these, when she wishes to use
her morning robe for tea dress, she deftiy
fastens on. In these days of differentiating
toilets so carefully according to their many
uses 1t is often convenient to know how to
double up on ones gowns.
Agnes Booth always looks we'll indoors
and this is her latest toilet for a house gown.
over an underdresS Of mauve crepe, clasped
at the waist by great disks Of gold, she wears
a princess robe OF deeper mauve velvet, out
lined down the front with bands of sable
fur, and open at the throat, where the
corsage is edged with deep lace frill
one OF The new models in the shops is a
simple frock of moss green silk trimmed
about the skirt with eight blades of dark
green irideScent cocks feathers, aud having
two bands on bodice and sleeves running
diagonally. Another is princess dress of
thin white cloth, trimmed on the skirt with
fifteen rows of black velvet ribbon. The
bodice is of white brocade, the side pieces
forming panel folds that Iun to the floor.
while the skirt material is carried from the
waist to either shoulder III narrow folded
braces. One finds tight sleeves with shoul-
der caps trimmed like the skirt with velvet
ribbons. Are there pretty ideas in Il toilet
of peach-colored faille? 1t has plain skirt
with a deep gathered flounce and a full
bodice with folded corselet of mauve velvet.
Copyrighted. ELLEN OSBORN