San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-09-05
RULES FOR MOURNING.
The Dresses co Wear and the Time
They Should Be Worn.

They Should BE Worn.
Ladies Home Journal
A southern correspondent writes of
the discomfort of wearing what Is
styled deep mourning in her climate
especially during the warm weather
adding, of course. a widow must wear
Grape. According TO the English
fashion a widow must be literally
swatned Grape; but according TO ply
siclans and advanced American no
tiNns, she need wear but little and
that not long. Slaves of fashion do
| not wear Grape year, but many SEN
| slble women who are in fashionable
society wear Grape veil over the
face only three months, then omit 1t
except for church wear, and use the
| light nuu's-veiling wells thrown back
with a bonnet of the same material
and face veil of Brussels net. These
hame widows never wear Grape in the
| souse using in its piace the light
weight silk warp Venetian Grape or
Grape cloth, which are dress good of q
crapy texture fit for the closest mour-
ming. When these are lined with
percaline they are comfortable in the
warmest weather, and should have
folds of white Lolting cloth basted in
the neck and sleeves. After six
months such gowns are worn any
| where.
The first mourning worn by
widow is supposed to be a silk warp
Henrietta, trimmed with Grape, but
very little of the latter will answer,
and this dress Is kept for caurch and
street wear until the Grape cloth is
worn out of The house.
After three months widow wears
dress of nuns yelling, aud, when
line with Saline, this is remarkably
cool. For house wear she can, from
the beginning of her mourning, wear
= black lawns, China Grape, black and
white ginghams, challles etc. In
reality a widow can be made comtor-
= table and still obey Nine. Fashions
, mandates but she must not do many
l unnecessary and distasteful things
4 because they have been done before.
For q parent, sister or brother many
wear nun 's-velling wells or none at
all; yelling aud Grape cloth dresses
from the first. with black and white
thin goods for the house. They also
wear in cooler weather black figured
or plain cancels hair, serge, armure
and cheviot. These Henrietta gowns
. have a black silk vest and trimming
OF silk gimp.
AS soon as a widow leaves off her
Grape veil she also wears the very
fashionable cancels hair goods.
Young ladies are allowed to wear
, white house dresses from the first
and widows af.er year.
Straw hats trimmed with Grape are
worn by young women not adopting
Grape. Suede kid gloves are worn by
: all until too warm for them, and then
silk glorves are allowable.
The oder of black goods that this
/ correspondent epeaks of depends
+ | greatly upon the make, some manu-
fscturers being more fortunate i'll this
: respect than others. Grape always
will have peculiar scent, no expert
ments having yet removed it. Mour-
7 ming dresses should be well aired in
shady place at least every two
weeks. First of all remem Der That in
these days of physical culture we are
wisely taught that our first duty is to
care for health, aud it is suicide for
= delicate woman TO wear very deep
mourning during warm weather.
ANY of the thin dresses mentioned
r should be lined with plain black per-
caline or lawn. In buying lining for
mourning ask for the fast black cam
brio, percaline or whatever it may be.
The old notion of measuring ones
: grief by the depth of the veil is fast
going out, and it is well-known fact
that physicians do not approve OF the
excessive use of Grape.
With many the mourning affects the
spirits and consequently the heal'hs
which has caused general light
; mng of such somber costumes.