The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-18
FASHIONS FRESH FRILLS
WHAT TIE WORLDLY WOMEN
WOULD WEIR.

So1ne o. the LATEST r antaStlc FrOckS Of
the Fair Creatures Who Follow ths
Exacting Mandates Of Capr.c!ous
Fashion.
A pretty story has been told me of an old
lady Of 20. who dressed two of her grand
children after her own ideas OF the fitness of
things. Not being fashionable woman her.
self, and living very much out of the world.
she hunted the stores for the old-feshioned
pink and blue silks that were worn when
she herself was a girl. She succeeded in
getting the old delicious colors, and she
made up the little gowns with gimps and
short waists and long, narrow skirts. She
parted the children's hair in the center and
braided it on each side into little pig tails
that were tied with cute little ribbon bows.
She found open work Isle thread stockings
for their little feet and patent leather ankle
tie shoes. Then she hung a little work bag
on each arm, and wien the children went
out to walk with her she enjoyed the atten-
ton they received. Everybody said they
looked like pictures, and now all the ether
children are copying them.
Miss, Millington Lathbury y, who gained
for herself great distinction at Oxford a
short time since. is delivering free lectures
at the British museum. The subject of the
first is to be Greek dress, and Miss Lathbury
is to have ley figure to assist her. The
figure will be clad in those flowing robes
which are the dream OF every tall grace
full woman, but which cannot be worn by
short ones. The subject of the second Iect-
ure is no less interesting. 1t is marriage
and life of the women in ancient Greece
H.
and Greek funeral costumes Miss Lath-
bury is pretty and has a sweet voice. So
she is pretty sure to be public success.
A strange fever threatens us. 1t may be
known es the black fever. 1t is serious only
because it affects the mind. 1t has not yet
had any influence upon the baby save
through the medium Of the mind. The
black fever shows itself in the gowns worn
by women. A strange, odd, weird fad has
come up for wearing black. In the fashion
able world one fluids women who do not buv
colors at all. clothing themselves from head
to foot in somber garments. In
the summer, when the sun shines
upon these, it is all very well, but In
the winter it is trying, gloomy and depress-
ing. 1t is said that full suit Of black will
produce the blues quicker than anything
else. Strange to say. that, as the wearing
of black becomes fashionable for people
who are not in mourning, it is becoming
less fashionable for those who are. This is
accounted for on the ground that people
who are depressed by circumstances should
wear bright colors to relieve their feelings,
while those who are in need of no such
cheer may wear what they please.
A truly ideal bedroom for young girl is
fitted up as follows, says the DeItneator:
red velvet carpet covers the floor, and
small silk prayer rugs are scattered here
and there over the carpet. The walls are
hu ng with pink sateen, over which Swiss is
shirred, and the canopy and dressing table
drapery are made up to match. At the
windows are dotted Swiss curtains edged
with Maltese lace, which is put on full
enough to fall In pretty cascades to the bot
tom, and bands of Swiss, also edged with
lace, hold the curtains back at the sides.
Pale pink enamelled wooden poles above
Moorish grille work to match support cur
tains of white cretonne figured with trail
ing vines of wild roses and edged with pink
and white tassel fringe. The deep window
shelves and the Dantel are draped with
similar cretonne, ard the doors are concealed
by cretonne portieres.
Towels, especially the plain linen hem
stitched ones, have taken to them added
inches this autumn.
Bress-mounted mirrors surmount the
newest dressing tables.
Fine lingerie is palmer in that it Is not
lace-trimmed, but its cost is kept up with
exquisite needlework. Fine wide frills
worked at the edge by hand in French knots
In red, blue, mauve, and heliotrope is new
garniture. The frills are put on very deep
and full.
Silk petticOarS in mauYe and blue ore
fiounced with black lace.
The assertion of an exchange is worth
noting, which is that hole bored halfway
through the sole of a shoe relieves its
squeaking by letting out the air. Chlldren's
shoes are especially liable to this bad
quality.
Another unfulfilled prophecy predicted
the decline OF the Louis coat. 1t is instead
the reigning motive of all the autumn iack-
cts and VIII be employed for gowns as
literally as during the last season. The
only cnange OF note Is its added length. The
thres-quarter coats have been SO deplored
by many as un2 raceful and as necessitating,
out OF difference to proportion, the long
skirt which are SO Objectionable, that the
extreme length of the fall garments is some-
what of q sarprise. But Dame Fashion,
like the rest of her sex, is a trlhe contrary,
and apt 10 specially cherish an idea which
she sees there is a tendency to hout.
Are we going back to the old barbaric
days, wheA war paint and feathers in pro-
fusion were consid ered the art and acme of
good dressing2 1t would seem 50. Feathers,
feathers, feathers galore are used upon
women's garments, and now the latest adj
vices say that there are to be ostrich feather
sleeves in evening dresses. This seems
hardly possible. Every one RdmireS a
plump arm, and no one admires thin one.
But who could possibly admire an arm out
of all proportion with the rest of the body2
And such would surely be the case if the
fluffy ostrich tips are sown upon net or
foundation lace and made up into sleeves.
What seems an extravaganza to many
women is the silk skirt which a good dress
maker always insists q wool gown shall be
made over. Yet even to the economist
there are several points In is favor. One
silk lining often serves during the reign OF
two gowns, the foot ruffle, perhaps. being
replaced. 1t is lighter than cambria, anu
has besides, a certain buoyancy, which adds
TO its want of weight lis slippery surface
prevents the wool clinging. and does away
with the disagreeaole swathei sensation
which wool gowns on cambria Innings are
sure to evolve One NAV even economic q
little in the amount of oVerTnaterIal when
the silk skirt is used. IL is beginning to lie
understood that there Is a rationale at the
bottom Of many sC-called extravagancieS:
no xpOD1an FOR instance 40 NH no