The morning news., 1891-11-29
NEW YORK SOCIETY CHAT
EVERYBODY STILL IALhlNS
ARour THE HORSE 5HoW.-

so-,a pruIiant Gowns and the People
Who Wore Them-AproDos OF the
Astor Baby-The Duke di Lite and
Other Arrivals-The Round OF Gayety
Rao,ns in Earnest-Rivsl Musical
Ieaders-Italian opera and the Fall
Academy Show-Notes on Engage
raents and Receptions.
NEW YoRK, Nov. 2s.-Ths social season
In New York may be said to have been
fairly opened by the horse show, aud no
more picturesque and spectacular opening
could be desired. The affair at the Madl'
son SQUARE garden was, indeed, the most
extraordinary event Of its kind that New
York ever saw.
Society simply gobbled the horse show.
turning the exhibition into dress display
of more brilliant kind than the city has
enioved for many years. and establishing
within an amphitheater turned over to the
horses a beauty show over which nobody
who has In him a spark Of artistic feeling,
not to say romantic gallantry, has yet
ceased to ponder and debate.
In fact. the scenes at the garden and cpl
sodes growing out Of the show are still
everywhere the dominating themes OF social
talk.
Those who did not know already have
had an excellent opportunity to see Just
what the horsy girl OF the hotit ton is like.
Her checked ulster has become familiar,
and her self-possession is really fascinating.
Some people have been complaining that
she is not always so young as she might be
and that she hasn't the tender and aromatic
characteristics of the merely ordinary buds.
But the attention she has received is the
best mark of her status.
The gowns were q revelation. ! said
something about them last week, but as
everybody is still talking Of the dread Of
beauty In which they floated. il not Of the
costumes themselves, IL cannot be out Of
place 70 mention in particular that they
were peculiarly daring In color, and
presage the Perisiap brilliancy of the win
Ter fashions. Imagine a sylph in a dark
sDrown gown, bordered With sable, with
a fetching Meohlin lace waist-coat.
brown, sable-edged hat, splashed with
yellow and tied under the chin with
broad ribbons Of a pale chrysanthemum
yellow. Imagine another in a gown of
reckless and superb crimson, opulent sleeves,
a black bodice, Spanish lace and plumes
Ttvalling each other on the hat This is
Winnie Davis-"of course" the society
women say Nile greens and pale blues are
SNerY" mrs. IleTre hoIuldru cOm-
bines the blue with black velvet. Other
fads are the combination OF fur, cloth and
lace, pompadours and Mary Antoinette
brocades, ietted skirts and silver girdles
Mrs Paran Stevens went at least twice in
q loud red gown. The daughters Of Sir
Roderiok Cameron were seen in quiet brown.
Mrs. W. h. Vanderbilts black silk had
silver trimmings. and Mrs. Stuyvesant
Fish's pearl gray was spattered with dainty
blue silk bows.
Naturally there has been a good deal of
chatter anent the fact that so many of the
boxes were bought up by people who had
money enough to 'get there" but of whom
nobody had ever heard before. The accusa-
tion Of being ''moneyed nobody" never
proves fatal in New York. II you are a
moneyed nobody long enough you become a
moneyed somebody. 1t is only question
Of staying power.