Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-21
VIM. NEELY x CO.
NEW HAVEN, Saturday, May ai,

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 The following article on Dress was written for us by one of New Haven's Society leaders.
 From time to time others of like interest will appear in this column.
 How TO DRESS This is question easi- ly answered in hundred different ways. The days of tights are full upon. us. Jenness- Miller, with her dress reform methods, has revolutionized the feminine mind and tight lacing, wasp waists and starched skirts are things of the good old days. To preserve one's outline from the dainty toe-tips to the slender white throat is the latest fad. The old style of under wear gives a much less slender and will lowy effect, and, in consequence, the tights have been adopted by nearly all fashionable women. It is not necessary to buy the expensive and non-durable silk tights, when the same effect can be pro- duced by the lisle and cotton tights. To be sure these do not come in as delicate tints, but the black are quite as fast in we'll It is one of the requirements of s fashionable woman that 6 certain frou- frou of her skirts shall herald her ap. proach. The rustic of e starched skirt is not the fashionable rustic. The cultivated ear can detect the fraud st once. It must | be a silken rustic or none at all that the fashionable woman adopts. And even { silk skiIt must be of a certain quality ol else the rustic lacks an essential some thing. These skirts come in all shades o silk, the favorite colors being red. pink mauvs and yellow.
 | The silk must also be chsngesble, s' that in reality a skirt of any color show many shades and will harmonize with an, gown.
 Hosiery was evera womsn's weak point To see well-booted and pretty ankle don up in hose of finest texture peeping iron l beneath the silken skirt, is another re quirement of milady of fashion.
 The silk stockings, in delicate shades carmine, red, tans and sombre blacks,- are the very height of all that is beautifu in that direction.
 l However, for the fashionable woma with good ideas, whose purse will not pc, init the luxury of silk hose. there is tn lisle thread stocking in all the latef shades, with double heels and toes, tn uppers ribbed or plain, according to one fancy.
 The woman who brides herself upo knowing just. what is the newest and IL test will number among her possession now |" tie bow" These "tie bows" a, just out. They are made of silk, u width of one's hand, and are long enoug to tie in an immense bow at the throa Some of them are hemstitched at tl ends, while many have a finish of dee 4 lace. A bow of this kind can easily manufactured at home yet, as they con in every color and design at the shop
 there is really no economy in laboIir
 over one yourself.
 The style in gloves remains much Il |, same as last spring. There is the caste :, so popular last year, reappearing this SC j son. Then the chamois glove, in pu
 white and yellows, will also have its a
 customed hold upon the fashionable
 The beauty of this glove is it can
 washed, so long as there is anything le of it. A glove of glsce kid, that seer to have favor this spring, is of pu yellow shade with trimmings of blac black buttons, black stitching and bls' | edge.
 An occasional red glove is seen vii
 trimmings of black. The Suede, in del
 cate tints, pearl greys, tsns and white, st
 hold their own among the more e1treu
 styles.
 Apropos of all that is extreme in styl
 the streamer is one of the new and shol
 lived crazss. Fashionable women are ( | icouJ uioOoioihS " DO oad AoAAAb anu S another month the streamer will be rel
 gated to the dim recesses of obscurity.
 one wishes to be absolutely chic tn
 spring they must have 8 Knox sailo The sailor hat is broarder in the brim an
 a little higher in the crown than tho
 worn last year. Now while the Knox b
 is the only really swell sailor in the mark
 for those who do not mind how much the pay for one, let me tell you quite ent, nous, of course, that you can get the san shape at some of the dry goods shops au at much less e1travagant price. Aft, . carefully selecting one that fits perfectl, take it to natter, have a band put O such as decorate the mems hats, and yo have a sailor that ten to one Knox himse
 would discover no defects in.