St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-18
LIGHTNING CHANGES.
Be Swift to Read and Digest
the Mandates of FASH
ion,
For She Is a Breathless God
"a dess, Ever on the
Wing.
A Woman Must Be a Genius
to Keep Up With
Her.
Some. Of Her Latest Changes
Described and Piet-
ured.

New YORK, Dec. I5.-I am stunned.
overwhelmed, mentally muddled, and
shaken with the surprising velocity and
lightning changes of fashions. l ain
convinced that woman must be almost
more a genius than millionaire to keep
up with these rapid changes. There is,
in fact, hardly time to take breath be-
tween one fashion and another.
Today. and this fact which am about
to chronicle had better be printed and
published at once ere it be stale-ladieS
are giving more attention to the widen
ing of their shoulders, and the drapery
of the same, than to any other portion
of their toilets. Not only gowns but
coats and cloaks and capes are all alb
normally developed with shoulders,
ruffleS. epaulettes and all sorts of IAN
neXeS" in the way of shoulder trim
mlngs. Whatever you do, ladies, In
this particular adornment, whether you
depend on your condescending dress
maker, your courtly tailor, =. your
fair fingers. "'U do not let your
shoulders aspire. let them widen. The
elevation of your shoulders will as
surely mark you as old-fashioned as If
you wore that condemned article known
as a pad" or that still more obsolete
one called ''bustle." In the way OF
shoulder trimming Redfern advises that
which is lined with some soft material,
it is the only thing which is not spoiled
by the fit of the coat over it, and is, IN
addition to this, prettier and more
graceful than what we were first threat
,,%L I.nE eftE al
with buckram.
In proportion to the increasing width
of the gown sleeves, the coat sleeves
also increase. 1t certainly makes the
width of the fashionable woman diprO-
portiODate to her height, but the tailors
found 1t the only way OF solving the diff
ficulty. Most of the coats are very wide
in the skirts. and are cut very much
gored. This makes the world of fashion
able women tremble to think that what
Redfern says about the future style Il
mean, of course, the Immediately future
style; wouldn't commit myself by pre-
dieting anything very far ahead about
Suchan erratic goddesol, may be coming
true.
Fl we get it, depend upon it it will be
in some modified form. After the good
friend and patron that woman has been
to Redfern, Redfern will surely not be
so cruel to woman as to repay her for
her devotion and obedience to his man
dates with
A Crinoline.
A crinoline. without discrimination or
disguise. 1t cannot be. Nothing that
we get resuscitated from the past Is
served up to us quite in its original
form, Fashion, like history, repeats
itself, but not quite in the same appear
ance as that which it wore in the dim
past. whereof the actors are departed.
We were promised the Empire gown,
and now that we have got it, although
we are we'll satisfied with it as it is, eau
we say that it is the Empire gown as it
WAS? Certainly not. We have the eff
feet of the short waist without the re-
atty. High waist bands. corsetets and
bolero jackets all assist in this Empire
effect but the hidden waist line, the
fully defined bust and long straight
skirt falling from under the arms, we
have not that, and we are modern
enough to admit that we don't want it.