Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-31
THE LATEST GET-UPS
Sunday Gowns, Tennis Gowns
Yachting Gowns.
Madame LIE Vanway and the Ash
Blonde Belle.
The Latest Fads and Fancies and
How to Utilize Them.
New Brace1ets-Hideous Paper-Charities
at Home-Glove-Fitting odice.
Black Is Taboo. Z
Special Correspondence to the HERALD.

there are none so sweet as Sundays"
chant the knowing maidens, and this is
true.
A demure, quiet, subdued church cos
tune will make a pleasing Quakeress
out of very ordinary girl, and will
transform well-looking maid into
beauty.
Church gowns must be quiet. Any
thing else is essentially bad form, and
bad form is something that nobody can
stand, "don't you know" tovquote from
the ever lucid Mr.. McAllister.
NV
/ saw demure, moss rose bud OF
girl come out of church Sunday, and
she was dream. She wore gown of
gray. Such gray! Not the cold gr ay Of
early dawn or the warm gray of twilight
1t was regular dove-like gray, that
made the little mink look precisely like
Priscilla, the Puritan maiden, or Evan
geline, or anyone else, very prim and
very sweet. 1t was made as 81 IMPLY as
nuns habit, and she wore the quaint
est bit of serious bonnet all Of gray,
with just suspicion of white in it, and
wee, little bunch OF moss roses. She
carried prayer book OF white and gray,
and she wore the very tiniest knot of
violets in her belt. Yet there be
those who say that this same dear little
sinner is the best amateur skirt dancer
in town, and can astonish her friends by
deliciously wicked kick that puts the
gaiety girls quite in the shade.
Oh well, variety, you know, variety,
as the giddy marquise remarked when
she babe the world adieu, and sought
refuge in cloister.
x*x
Foulards make dainty tennis make
ups. A polka-dot affair in blue and
white is nice and cool looking. Red and
white is bad-very bad. Red is hotand
should not be sign of that gay color
son is over. What would the brunettes
do? Wear yellow, of course; that's de-
liciously cool. Blondes are wearing yell
low now, by the way, and they're look
ing pretty in it. That is, they do if the
yellow is just the right shade. If it
isn't, it kills the delicacy of the blonde
skin. A straw blonde ought to shun
yellow and wear anything that will
tighten her tendency to look ashy.
There are some daring combinations of
colors this year. Pink and red, for ex-
ample.
Yachting will soon mark it's victims.
A sensible yachting gown is a joy for
ever. 1t must be trig and taunt and
ship-shape, and it must avoid ribbons
and bows and fiummery of all sorts. A
futtery, fy-away girl is a nuisance on
board ships. Her ribbons are always
whipping people in the face, or getting
caught, and her sash is sure to get
twisted around and look disagreeably
unreliable. There are some very smart
jackets made of white Turkish toweling.
They're lined with blue, and they are
buttoned with big pearl buttons. They
are wonderfully becoming, and they
make'a very demure gown, saucy and
alluring. There are no anchors on
those Jackets. There are no anchors on
any of the smart yachting affairs. An
chors are entirely too plenty on cheap
readymade suits.
There's new bracelet. No, it isn't,
it's an old bracelet nobody has worn
one like it for fifty years, though. It's
an armlet, an antique armlet, with
darling little jeweled peak on the top.
You wear the bracelet just over the vac
cination scar.
Blue letter paper is to be the fashion.
1t is hideous. 1t is hard to write upon,
and it is harder yet to read from. Plain,
thick white paper is much the better
form.
Charities are the most fashionable
thing going now, even more chic than
they were in lent. A girl who hasn't
one poor girls home, a couple of visiting
committees, anditwo or three miscella-
neous cast-your- bread-upon-the-water
affairs, is not Sin the SWIM" It's a
very good fad, too. A very good fad.
A great deal better than pugs and harm
less Mexican shiverers.
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Talk about a glove-ftting bodice!
Why shouldn't a bodice be glove-itting,
when it's made of suede? Some of
them are made of suede these days.
And they're lovely. They're pretty in
gray, in green, in tan, and they're posi-
lively enchanting in white. A rich tan
suede bodice, cunningly broidered in
dull gold isn't bad, and soft-white
suede bodice wrought with silver is
tempting to a degree. They have to fit,
though, these suede affairs, or they are
worse than caricatures.
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Black is taboo. Colors are de riguer,
SO unless you want to pose as an interest
ing widow, put away every shred OF
black you own. It's good idea to take
a certain color that suits your complex
ion and stick pretty close to that, vary
ing the shades and combinations. Then
you always have accessories to match,
and don't have to fret over new fan,
gloves and hose every time you don
new gown. They do say it's fretting over
small things that brings wrinkles.
Therefore, be warned in time.
x*x
| saw pretty woman on the car yes
terday whose face was strangely famil-
lar. She looked precisely like an ash
blonde belle | used to know, only her
hair crimpled up under her hat in the
curliest little red curls imaginable. |
looked and looked at her. She carried
herself like the ash blonde. She spoke
like the ash blonde. Mirable Dictural
she was the ash blonde.
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