Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-21
LIZ VANWAY'S GOSSIP
The Lucky Woman Who Tray-
els This Summer.
And a Nice Little Story About
the Coast.
The Living Poem of Girl at the Sea
Side.
Dear Old Mohairs-Tweeds and Cheviots.
Accordion Skirts-A PROPHETS Fun.
Observation-Disclosures
Spoon Fad-Fillets.
Special Correspondence to the HERALD.

The woman who's going to travel this
year is lucky. She'll have such lots of
pretty things to wear. More than that,
she'll have such lots of comfortable
things to wear. First of all there's the
dear old cool never-get-wrinkled, never
get-dusty mohair. Mohairs are lovely
this year. They come in pretty stripes,
and they're nice made up with just bit
of solid color, to give them back
ground. Then there's the brilliantine.
know delicious travelling gown made
of gray brilliantine. The skirt is shirred
over the hips, so as to give a quaint
short-waisted babyish look; and the
bodice stops short just above the bust
line. Inside that bodice you wear a
CAMP. That CAMP is white or it's black.
and it's India silk or it's striped
foulard, or it's null. The sleeves
are slashed affairs that look like
pages sleeves, and there you are. It's
the queerest, simplest, most fetching
little affair / know about.
x*x
Tweeds and cheviots are always good
form for travelling, but they are trife
heavy. A surah bodice is beautifully
cool thing to don with light little ac-
Gordon skirt. Accordion skirts are
time they'll stay long while, for they
are made "all in one." That is, the
waist and skirt are joined, and then you
don't step on your gown every time you
go upstairs and tear great hole in it,
and can't get it mended, and wish you'd
never been born. None of those things.
x*#
By the way, it's great fun to be
prophet, isn't it? So delightful to say,
81 told you sop
Well, Pm saying 81 told you SO" very
vigorously these days.
There isn't French plate published
that isn't a plate of princess gown.
The figure lines are the lines followed
nowadays; there is no more of that
ugly line at the waist that cut woman
in two. It's all as it should be, and
81 told you So" long ago.
**x
People are queer; sometimes they're
more than queer. This very morning a
ter to see me. The daughter is tall and
thin and awkward, and trifle round
shouldered. But she has nice, fresh,
girlish face and fluffy hair.
This is what the deluded mother said
to me: "Now, Clara is bad figure, and
/ want you to design something that
will make her look well. think nice,
long, stiff corset would reduce her waist.
Then by judicious wadding you could fill
her out and be able to drape something
pretty upon her."
What happened?
Nothing-nothing at all. Only poor
Clara will not get mice long corset"
Nor will she get wadded gown.
She has a pretty, graceful gown 80
designed that her awkward angles are
converted into real symmetrical curves.
She doesn't look as if she were in a stiff
box, nor are her hands fiery red, as they
would be had she been laced into said
corset.
She will not walk as if she were tread
ing upon eggs, nor will she sit down
with that creaking sound that reminds
the unhappy by-sitter of a new saddle.
All these negatives would have been
alternatives if she were dressed as her
misguided parent requested.
x*x
By the by, speaking of corsets in con-
ing. Corsets are useful sometimes, use
full to the stout woman who wants to
keep her figure something near
trimness. But the corset must be short
and it must be loose.
There are undoubtedly some figures
that are the better for corseting. But
here's the secret of success in that line.
If one is luckless enough to be obliged
to wear stays, let them use every artitice
to conceal the ugly truth. Wear them
loose enough and short enough to de-
ceive the uninitiated into the belief that
stay lace is unknown to the wise
wearer.
Above all things avoid the long bone
that makes a young woman look as if
she were emulating the poetic Silas
Wegg, and persisting to regard herself
in "boney light"
Bones are unpleasant things, very un~
pleasant, whether they're human bones
or only steel.
They are best left alone. All, all
alone.
x*x
Skirt draperies are fuller now than
they were. White India muslin strewn
with yellowish daisies makes delicious
gown for young girl. Dimity is pretty
for girls, too, and organdie and-oh,
well, and anything that's soft and fine
and innocent.
**x
Leghorn hats are all the mode. White
ones for blondes and black ones with
poppies on 'em for brunettes. Some
times it's reversed.
A big floppy black hat makes blonde
skin very clear, and white nat brings
out the sparkle in dark eyes. You has
your choice, whether you pays your
money or not.
#*x
Marquise rings are the latest hat orna-
ments. You pull the ribbon through
them, you know. Colored straws are
out of the world.
Nv
Plaid parasols are the last caprice.
White ones are the most-well, the most
recherche. No help for it. It's the only
word that tells the story. You mustn't
say parasols by the same token, you
must say sun umbrella. It's longer and
it's twice as cumbersome word as para
sol, but it's English, and therefore the
thing -.
x**
There are some awfully pretty get-ups
in the Men and Women company. Aw-
fully pretty. There's dear little gown