The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-08

full point in front. A deep chiffon
1ounce around the bottom of heavy silk
dress is not unusual, and chiffon sleeves
pulled to the elbow and supplied W it'll a
ruffle are highly fashionable Indeed, this
combination of heavy material with thin
is one of the most marked peculiarities of
the season.
Dark silks are yelled with white; white
silks are draped with black, and so on
through all the extremes of color 1t is
not an unusual thing to see q deep Grim
son dress with pale yellow tulle looped
over it, and caught up with festoons of
flowers of contrasting color.
For ball dresses, nothing is as light and
airy as the chiffon, and at the same time
nothing is as perishable. The material is
so delicate that, if ever SO slightly stepped
upon, it is sure to tear and will hang in
great long rents before the evening is half
out. Frequent trips to the dressing room
and liberal use of the scissors are all that
preserve fashionable woman in chiffon
from being bundle of rags and mass of
tatters.
If Mrs Cleveland and her baby are popu-
lar in America, the Duchess of Fife and
baby Alexandra Macduff are no less popu-
lar in England. Everything that the
duchess wears and everywhere that she
goes become facts well known to the So
ciety world and the newspaper reading
people.
The duchess is remarkably we'll supplied
with good sense, and therefore one is pre-
pared to hear that in place of the fashion
able carriage wrap, she has provided her
self with long, straight coat and heavy
cape for driving. The coat is called the
Inverness and it buttons boldly down the
front with seven big buttons. and it has
huge pockets on the side into which
her ladyship's hands may be thrust should
the air be too keen and nipping.
The cape has quite jaunty appearance
and will surely be copied by ladies who
fancy the sensible-ooking dress rather
than the dainty kind of a wearing apparel.
The material Of the coat is exactly such as
is found in mems clothes. 1t is heavy, all
wool. and must of course, be made with
that tailor-like finish which is the crown
ing achievement of every such garment.
But let no one suppose that the woman
who possesses an Inverness driving coat is
going to live in it, for such is not the case.
The woman who is sensible enough TO pos
sess such garment and who has the
money to properly execute her desires.
supplies herself also with heavy winter
wrap for the street.
These wraps are wonderfully handsome.
and if they are not as becoming to women
as were the styles of former years, 1t - not
the fault of the wrap. 1t Is only the fault
OF the fashion which has decreed that coats
be cut in that trying three-quarter length.
As an offset to the disagreeahle length of
the ClOaks, women OF taste are making
every effort To dress themselves In colOrs to
harmonic with the cloaks, and thus make
the three-duarter length as little notice
able a. possible. Just why fashion should
have deCreed tins martyred martyrdom of
styIe no one knows. But the ClOaks are
in the stores, and sone must pertorce buy
them il one would be i'll the style
How do Won manage always to look so
styllsh and we'll dressed. even when you do
not consider yourself particularly dressed
up?" was asked of woman who was well
known for her good taste and artistic
dressing.
If | were to tell YOU the secret of my
good clothes. you would hardly believe
it," said she land vet since you have
asked me so frankly, ! viii tell you, be-
cause il is not q secret that | care 10 keep,
aud / would much prefer To see other
women follow ing the same example. 1t Is
lust this | dress always IN gray or
black.
I'm gray or black Why surely you are
not now dressed in those Colors eutireiv2'
YES, | am. on Will see that | am II
YOU look closely, although there are 50
many shades al gray that one can really
wear quite a variety Of color without ap-
pearing to be dressed all in one hue. This
gown. tor example, IS a French gray. Ii
is a little on the blue, SO that III certain
lights it appears almost like blue dress,