The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-17

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wear garments with the newness well off
oi them. and hot in any way remarkable
Tor their elegance or style. For morning
weddings plain scanty skirt of any check
or plain material and the Louis Quatorze
coat is suitable. Even plain skirt with
loose open bodice may be worn by guest
AT one OF these morning weddings. The
occasion. while a formal one. is not con-
sluered such as TO warrant full dress.
!, Another side to this dress question is
the ethical one. which, with the nicely not
hitherto considered, .forbids guest TO run
the risk of wearing a better gown than
that IN which the bride Is arrayed. The
bride Is the central figure, the observed
one, the only one who is entitled to a
gown which shall attract attention and
consideration. For guest 10 90 dressed
in richer material than that worn by the
bride Is coming to be considered as bad
form as for the hostess TO over-dress her
invited guests
For evening wear the shades Of hello
trope, pure turquoise and the various tones
oil green are fashionable. Red and black
are also much worn and indeed are nearly
as popular as they were two seasons ago.
Deep red gowns with studs of jet gradual
ing in size toward the waist are fashion,
able
An entirely new style of dress has low
cut bodice, with the neck filled in with
lace. A tucked yoke is also seen with
these low cut bodices. and for dinner wear
thin lace yoke, drawn high above the
neck with a narrow ribbon, is seen. A
saving is affected in dresses by means of
these low neck bodices. For the street the
neck may be filled in with yoke of coll
ored cloth, supposing that the material is
black, and for evening the yoke may be
trimmed with jet. Black Bengaline makes
up into unusually beautiful dresses, when
combined with jet and supplied with
jewelled front.
All kinds of jewels are not considered
good form in the morning. The only
really morning jewelry consist of pearls,
diamonds or Jet. Some beautiful forms
and Jet and onyx are seen combined with
diamonds. With diamonds, so says the
fashionable world, one other kind of jew
elry will pass muster for morning wear,
and that kind is the sapphire. But the
two gems must always be worn IN combin-
ation
The passion for feather trimming has
lasted over into late spring, far exceeding
the season when such ornamentation has
been considered suitable. 1t is still seen
as IN edging to the border of the high
Medici collars and finishing the cuffs and
lapels of the Louis Quatorze coats.
A pretty dress, ecru in tint. and ladies'
cloth in material, came down in the Broad
way cars yesterday. The skirt was scanty,
drawn back so tightly that the wesrer
seemed scarcely able to walk in it, and yet
when she did take step the dress seemed
to yield, and produced an effect as grace
tul as is ever seen in the new umbrella case
styles. The waist of the gown was but
enthusiastically buttoned with visible but
tons all the way down the front. The but
tons were of gilt trimmed with silver.
On each side of the buttons a broad
lapel of navy blue velvet was turned back
until the outside point of the lapel almost
touched the high puff sleeves. The collar
was a standing one, at least two inches in
height, and broad collar-like lapel stood
up around the neck and turned back in
front in two large points. This lapel or
collar was also of navy blue velvet. As
wrap against the GOODNESS of the late after
noon the wearer carried over her arm an
ecru cape which, when donned, would be
tight fitting in the back and thickly
braided with cord of deep brown. Full
puff sleeves, bell-shaped at the hand, and
loose front bordered with feather trimming
completed the trimming of this pretty gar
ment.
On the newest gown, chiffon, thickly
gathered or shirred in several rows, is put
about the neck of gowns and down the
'front.' being used exactly as the feather
trimming has BEEN The chiffon is ex-
ceedlngly easy material to handle, being
light, soft, silky, yet sufficiently firm in
texture to hold its own when placed in
standing rows of gathers or shirrings. 1t
comes in all colors, and its soft, pretty
effect is becoming to the face.
Just one more dress. 1t was worn by
bds bleu, a literary woman who is so plain
in dress that she seldom permits herself
the luxury of wearing anything more
elaborate than the round waist and Puritan
skirt of year ago.
The dress was grry belize, with full
bodice. There was Swiss belt with steel
embroidery and more of the steel embroid-
cry trimmed the cuffs and went across
the front of the narrow skirt in a
broad band. Scroll edging in steel was
used sparingly upon the waist. A high
collar was of red velvet, and there was also
a plastron of the same material. With
this gown went hat with gray rustic
straw, caught up fancifully Mt one side,
where a great bunch of red and gray
ostrich tips held it in place.