Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-27
Some Proper Kinds of Gowns
for Cool Days.
The Bernhardt Drapery a Fa-
vorite for Evening Affairs
How to Look ApprOachable, Yield
ing and WOmanly.
The superstitious Maiden-SOme Cloak
Wraps and Jackets-A New Corset.
Belts and BuckIes-Ensnaring
the Hearts of Men.
gpecial correspondence to the HERALD

Special correspondence to the HERALD.i
SAN Francisco, Sept. rs, 1891.
The properest kind of proper street
gown these cool, delicious days, is made
of cheviot. Lovely autumn brown, for
example, barred and streaked and ringed
with the safest, most Elusive reds and
deceptive yelIows. All these soft colors
shade into the brown SO easily that you
can scarcely tell where one begins and
the other ends. The cheviots are not
hard and stiff, as was their wont few
years ago they are pliable and caress-
ing, and that makes them becoming.
It's only certain very perfect type that
can stand hard, cruel colors and stiff,
unyielding materials. That certain type
certainly does manage to look fetching
in semi-masculine attire, but the others
well, the others do not.
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Reich cloths are used great deal this
fall and it's very regal when it's used
with fur. Black martins and bears are
the swagger animals this year. There
are charming possibilities in Silver Fox,
and even in the queer little red brown
tree squirrels. The tails of these little
creatures are fascinating adornments for
gown if they are put on correctly.
Only do not, for the love OF beauty, hang
them all over your gown, till you make
your friends think of an old-fashi0ned
chandelier. all swinging bobs and puz-
zling prisms. Feathers are all the rage
again. Feather boas, feather ruches
and feather trimmings OF all sorts. I'm
glad of it. Almost any girl looks pretty
with her face nestled into soft moss OF
fluffy pumage, and there are colors to
suit any taste.
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1 pity superstitious damsel from the
bottom of nv beart. She cannot have
one of those lovely peacock gowns, and
those same peacock gowns are the pref
test things going. There are visions IN
cream white, broidered all over with
glinting peacocks' eyes, and there's
loose boa of the eyes that goes with that
gown that's simply enchanting. Even
ing gowns are simply enchanting any
way. There are so many kinds OF them
| ANY girl who goes to cotilion and
sees another girl with gown Just like
hers has only one course to pursue. She
must not sulk or pout, neither must she
say savage things to that other girl.
| She must change her modiste.
The Bernhardt drapery is the most
favored for evening affairs, and there
are countless varieties of that style
alone, not to mention directoire, empire,
colonial, Greek and whole lot OF other
fascinating styles.
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1t is possible to get up gown these
days, out of three or four materials. 1t
will be not only pretty gown but
very stylish one. That statement all
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largely. 1t takes woman of exquisite
taste and a serene consciousness of her
own good Judgment, to get up gown
like that. Her friends will all try to
persuade her she's a fright, and her
enemies will all 'tdamn her with faint
praise ;" but her gown is insthe fashion
quite the same.
Cloaks, wraps, jackets, mantles, any
thing you like; they are all fashionable.
The half fitting cloth jacket, trimmed
with suggestion of rich fur, is the
latest agony, though. That same half
fitting jacket must fit just as we'll as ii
it were tight fitting; remember that
piece of advice. half-fitting jacket
that doesn't fit is worse than tight
tea gown or loose riding habit.
The graceful, convenient pelisse is
charming garment for tall, slight
women, and there are some ravishing
ones made up with feathers and em-
broidery this year.
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Now | want to say something about.
corsets. / abominate the ordinary ones.
l agree with all the artists as far as that
goes, but if you must wear corset, get
a corset as is a corset. Have you ever
tried the Delsarte? It's lovely in shape
and style, without being stiff in effect
| like to see a woman look-well, APP
proachable and yielding and womanly.
| hate hard, little waspish waist, and
a high grenadier pair OF shoulders.
hate abrupt angels and stiff postures, as
a certain very clever gentleman is said
to hate holy water.
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Bosnian linen is the newest thing for
'kerchiefs. Its woven OF shining threads
thing of beauty.
Leather belts and quaint buckles are
outlasting the summer. They will be
worn great deal in out OF door gowns.
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Now is the time for walking gowns
ana Walks. OlIls, IL YOU want otASue
eyes, and lots of magnetism, take walk
) every single one of these lovely days.
Stay out Of doors every minute that you
can. Get out of the paved streets and
into the dirt paths. There's health and
beauty in an afternoon on the ground.
Good spirits, good temper; bright eyes
; and well-ftting gown have done more
to ensnare the hearts of men than all
the cosmetics ever brewed. Try it, and
see if you don't astonish mama with
your conquests the coming season.
: NINE. LIE VANwAY.
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