The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-11-22
Why they are almost everything in toilet.
A girl of today, instead of wanting an opin-
ion as to the draping of her gown, asks your

Why they are almost everything IN toilet.
A girl of today, instead of wanting an opin-
ion as to the draping Of her gown, asks your
But we women of today needn't claim
monopoly upon this sleeve craze, for a soft
voiced, white-haired lady tells me that when
she was a girl it was thought a small mat
ter to pay one hundred dollars for a pair of
thread lace angel sleeves. These angel
sleeves were pretty things too, in their day.
They were such unaggreSsive, feminine al
fairs, and they made the arms look marvel
lousy white and graceful. They We're sweet
things dramatically, sentimentally and devo-
tionally. Think of a pretty woman pray.
draped in angel sleeves!
Nothing in the way of elegant attire can
astonsh your ante-bellum belle. Yes, we
have fine frocks, now. she will admit, but
not SO lie as the ones of her girlhood.
Why, it was nothing in those days for
woman of fashion to buy silk frocks at a
hundred dollars pattern, and as for laceS,
why we don't know anything about them.
Every woman had at least half dozen sets
of thread lace, and of course, she never
used cotton lace at all. all her garments be-
ing finished with the genuine Nalenclennes
or chung. And so we are not so tine as we
think, after all. and certainly not so luxu-
rious as those Old-time southern women who
were never troubled with even the laying
out or putting away of these naughty silks
and refined laces.
I saw "Sally in Our Alley" last week
the genuine Sally of the quaint old song,
only that she was a dark-eyed southern
Sally, and not the fair-haired Sally OF old
England. My Sally was riding with her
swain upon the electric car. she was an
olive-skinned. slender creature with eyes
like dew berries and full red lips that parted
over the most beautiful and dazzling white
teeth that eyes ever beheld. She wore red
wool frock. whose collar was pinned with
81 golden bar, containing the euphonious
name of Sally in large gold letters, and the
letter S, in large gold script, adorned either
of her pretty ears. Despite this
loud placarding of her Christian
name she was withal nice, modest
looking little maid, just the sort of Sally
we have known and loved so long in the
quaint English song.
You must put away your silk tights, this
winter, my dear girl, and your silk shirts
and night gowns and all those pretty
silk friled things that were erstwhile CON
sidered so healthy and elegant; and what
is still stranger, you must discard your black
hose and wear instead stockings OF delicate
tints
The wise doctors have discovered that
silk is unhealthy worn next the skin and
the husbands and brothers abhor black
stockings their sisters and wives because
the Tara boom decay girls wear them.
The wise doctors have prescribed wool
undergarments and the unwise and tickle
women have taken to them like wlldhre
because they were ready for change any
way. And then too, there isn't any denying,
after all, that wool garments are just lit
tie warmer than silk or linen. Of course.
these garments are of web-like weave and
the shirts are lOw-naCked and short-Seeyed
Just like the gauze silk ones, but they do
protect the chest little better and are
quite pretty. One girl who detcSts GER
tain tight-ftting wooden garments because
she has to put them on before she sits down
on the rug TO put on her shoes and stockings,
has devised a novel and perfectly comfortable
substitute for them in the shape of loose
knee trousers made of flannel and worn over
the linen garments of summer. The trousers
fit comfortably over the corset by means Of
an elastic; and they are smooth and dar-
ted about the hips like a skirt and have a
good deal Of fullness in the back. They are
gathered below the knees by means of an
elastic, and the young woman who wears
them declares them the warmest, incest
things imaginable. She needs no fan
mel skirt with them and for wet walk
in bad weather, she can even discard the
light silk skirt which she usually wears
over these trousers.
White lawn and muslin skirts
have already taken the place of
of some of the smart girls. These skirts
are often made of dotted swiss and organ
die profuSely trimmed with thread lace,
ruffies, and they certainly are pretty and
enchantingly feminine.
One little woman here who follows en-
pire styles wears beneath her shirt-waisted
frocks fine null petticoats with their short
baby waists run through with ribbons
What matter the make or materials of fair
woman's lingerie? Whether she folds her
t!f
cashmere or wraps herself in silk. she will
make and drape herself SO as to look and to
be the same adorable, feminine creature.
MAUDE ANDREWS