Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19
WOMAN: HER FASHIONS.
NULL SLEEVES THE VERY LATEST
PARTISAN NOVELTY.
The Peacock Costume Morning Coats.
New Fans-Two Colored Gowns-Boots
of Sueds-The Mother Hubbard-New
Card Cases.

SAN FRANcIsco, April 1S.-There's no
use talking. Parisians know pretty
idea the instant they catch sight of 1t.
They catch sight of one rather often,
too, by the way.
The very latest caprice from the gay
city is really delicious. Delicious Null
sleeves, very thin silken null sleeves,
are worn with newest decollete affairs,
They are becoming to degree, and
chic, oh, how chic they are.
There's nothing prettier in the world
than glimpse of snowy arms cleaning
through the soft threads of the null.
Snowy seems to be the correct term for
arms, so l use it. Sounds just bit
cold, though, doesn't it? Rosy is
much more alluring adjective, but then
form is everything after all, and form
but to return to our sleeves.
pretty arm is ten times prettier,
and an ugly one is a trife less uglier,
when these half transparent things are
worn.
No one but Partisan and coquette
could have originated such a brilliant
idea. Some one has said that the far
famed beauties of the Orient owe much
of their reputation to the filmy wells
which half conceal, hall reveal, their
faces. Sounds believable, doesn't it!
Dear little two-button coats OF cheviot
are nice things for morning wear.
There's something nice that goes with
them sometimes, too, besides a neat fig
ure and pair of roguish eyes. That is
waist coat of Scotch plaid surah.
There are some new fans that are
rather agreeable. 1 saw one last week
made of three big golden chrysanthe-
NUNS. The three blossoms made an
oval which did not open out very large,
nor close very small-still it's new and
delicate, SO it's welcome.
Economical souls can shout aloud
with joy for two-colored gowns are COM
ing in more and more. Velvet bodices
are once more in vogue with stuff skirts.
The sleeves must match the skirts in
color, but the bodice is often different
in hue.
Peacocks are SAID to be unlucky. 1t
would take very superstitious woman
to reject peacock gown, however, for if |
ever there was pretty gown, although |
a bizarre, it is one made to initiate the |
plumage of the bird of evil omen. The
feathers are embroidered feathers, to be |
sure, but they're beautifully real. Then
there's Marguerite gown, all embroid.
cred with the dainty flowers which |
trusting women love. Gray is the back
ground, or dark blue, just as fancy die
tates.
Boots of suede matching the gown are |
to be the rage, but it takes a purse of
Midas to wear them. That is something
decidedly in their favor, however, to |
some people.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox has come boldly
out in favor of Mother Hubbards. To
be sure she doesn't call them by that
euphonious name, but they are "um"
nevertheless.
She advocates them for the house, for
the ball and, shades of incredulity, for
the street!
While there's man living the Mother
Hubbard will be despised garment.
Men do hate them with such virulent,
hearted hate.
Mrs. Wilcox says the Hubbard is
comfortable. So is a -four sack. What
evil spirit is it that urges women on to
flourish the red rag of defiance at every
idea OF beauty and good taste, and then
to say they do it in the interest OF COM
fort?
Why, there never was time since
the world began when comfort was en-
throned on such a pedestal. Comfort |
That's the reason all the stunning
gowns these days are supremely grace
full and superlatively comfortable.
There is one new thing. though, that
really means something. Gard cases-I
mean big card cases. A card case
is something nowadays, let me
inform you, a very considerable
something, something which has
a place for handkerchief, place
for coin of the realm, and last of all, for
cards. Handy, isn't it?
Corduroys are more the mode than
ever-soft, pliable corduroys, of course,
not the stiff, heavy things fit for Nim-
rod d-and they are coming in the pretti-
est shades imaginable. Corduroy is
another staunch material. 1t will wear
while one stitch holds together, and 1T IS
very effective when properly made.
Life has it's compensations, after all,
hasn't it?
For instance, when l am tired OF the
last thing in fiction, when the songs
like Annie Rooney pail upon me, when
even the antics of a fox terrier seem a
trife dull to my melancholy mind, l
know where can go to find never
failing joy.
just HE me to my attic and get out
a pile of old fashioned books, and all
any doidrums disappear.
Was there ever anything so amusing
as an out-of-date fashion plate? l do
not mean the very ancient ones, not at
all. The pictures of four or five years
ago are the ones that look like practical
joke.
The tiny waist, pinched into the SEM
blance of an hour-glass; the enormous
tournures and the multiplicity of rutfies
and tucks and braids and ruchings-
why, it makes one giddy only to look at
them.
Yet the Greek gowns are never anus
ing. A Persian robe OF couple OF CEN
turies ago is as softly pretty as moon
light on summer evening; and the
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