Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-06
mand this same baby will make upon your
intellectual nature rs the years go on.
CHAT ONEASHION.

CHAT On FASHION.
Between the seasons is favorable time
| to discuss dress reform. Autumn fashions
are not yet pronounced, although summer
! costumes are getting shabby. The butter
| flies that fit from one watering place to
another are loathe to exchange their orange
and black for the demurrer shades in gray
| and brown. Yet even of them it is said,
| that in their Fittings they stop long enough
in some large city TO order costumes 10
como TO them at their next stopping place,
| to be carefully folded in long boxes with
! longer bill for husband or papa to settle.
! The reformers pay little heed to the gay
, ones and have been busy of late in trying TO
| invent 4 suit suitable for ladies' outdoor
| wear The 200 of Boston have given it
! their approval and are pledged to wear it
! the first stormy day in October. 1t is de-
! scribed as dark striped cheyiot skirt worn
! half way to the ankles, with deep cape of
! the same material and 4 blouse or shirt
waist of silk, flannel or the same material,
and small. neat hat, felt or dark straw,
rather of the English walking or toque
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bows
The lower part of the limbs are to be
| covered with cloth or fine leather gaiter-
! cites to correspond with the shade of the
| gown, and q neat umbrella and four-button
giace kid or Biarritz gloves will complete
the costume. London offers the strong
minded a model that is made of cheviot or
serge. This is also worn with gaiterettes,
| has cap of the goods, q cutaway four-but-
ton coat basque, with rolled collar and out
side hip pockets and n vest of solid colored
cloth, which shows above and below the
! four buttons. The skirt hangs like an
ordinary round one with most of the full
ness 1T the back, but it is in reality like
very wide bag, scanned upon the under side,
with two holes left TO thrust the feet
through hence the name of Enclosed
skirt.
While Boston and London are inventing
common sense costumes, New York women
. consider it their religious duty to dress as
becomingly rs possible and TO look their
prettiest in all weathers. For them, and all
women like them, the merchants are dis
playing cheviots, casLmercS surahs, Hen
rietta cloth and merinos. IN solid colors
there are diagonal cheveons, stripes, single
and double plaids in all colors and of every
shade. Some of the plaids in black and
white are from two TO three inches, and
have long hair woven in that which is left
to hang at quite length.
Mixtures of gray and white, gray and
blacl; as grounds, carry nap effects in gray
OF colors, which are very pleasing.
Cording is being used for early fall we'd
ding trip gowns and cloth for those to be
used later.
Ginghams are still shown III gay plaid5,
with discs and half moons, some III plain
red with white moons. These are made
simply, usually round skirt with the bod
ice full on the shoulder and gathered into
belt.
IN heavier material all skirts. are made
clinging and very narrow. cut on the cross
and decidedly long in the back.
Coats continue to be worn, and open over
4 boufTant plastron with high, rolling col
lar outside of straight band embroidered
either in gold or in some shade to harmon
ize with the gown; there is also small
high-shoaldered cape that can be worn in
the cool days The art of skirtmaking is
put to 4 new test in the umbrella skirt,
which is as close-ftting, as the name in
dicates. It is cut with two narrow cores
on each side, and the seams are often fin
ished with a large velvet cord. tt is right
to say. however, that the style is only
adopted by women of pronounced tastes,
who are always On the lookout for some
thing new.
The advance numbers in millinery lines
give much space 10 what seem small affairs,
although in reality a very important part of
a woman's toilet In hats and bonnets the
small effect seems still to predominant and
the bent is to bend them into as many fan
tistic shapes as possible. In hats the low
crowns still find favor and felt and fur will
be largely used. Coque plumes, small birds
with outStretched wings and owls heads
are used in trimming. y felt fiat has 4
crown made of large pOuf of ostrich
feathers the color of the felt, an aigretto
and a bunch of three ostrich tips is in the
back A brown felt has a straight brim,
narrow back and an edging of feathers on
the brim Ruche OF feathers around the
crown, with aigrette and made feathers in
the back similar to an elaborate pouf But
terhy of brown and gold beads in front.
Armure ribbon will be used this winter,
and house in New York has ordered Nos.
% and 30 for their exclusive trade.
The gold and jewel craze has subsidized,
and all of the trimmings for the fall season
show an absence of the gaudy tinsel. The
black and colored jet effects seen on made
feathers are sometimes called Jewels, but
they are not the tinsel and jewel effects of
year ago.
Just now lace and flowers are sparingly
used, but the gravitation towards aigrettes,
wings and coque's plumes is very marked
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