St. Paul daily globe., 1892-03-13
SOCIETY DECIMATED.
Ward McAllister's Cruel and
Imperious Cut in Gotham'S
Gilded Circle.
This Is Considered an Inn
ppoyement on the Deelap-
alton Of Independence.
Give a Good Dinner and You
Become at Once a Pill
lar Of Society.
Redfern Driving Capes, Spring
Coats and Stunning Even
ing Gowns.
Sneeial Letter 10 the Globe

Special Letter 10 the Globe.
NEW YORK, March l1.-According to
the ''Declaration of independence" ''all
men are created equal" Most of us
who are not too advanced to believe it,
have all idea that God ere eated them so.
but apparently there are some people
in New York who believe that although
this Power created them so, another
and distinctly modern power has iT-
proved OIL the plan. 1t seems
very we'll shalpened satire
that the chief city of the land
of liberty, that declares ''all its children
to be equal,' should recognize leader
in society who is allowed to reduce or
swell its proportions to what dimensions
his whim prompts. The number of the
elect being reduced to $50 looks as
though society were degenerating at a
breakneck pace, or as though epicureS
were scarcer than of yore. That seems
to be the test-tne dinner. Give good
one, and you are pillar of society; give
bad one, and you are social outcast.
Apropos of dinners, we hear that the
habit dividing up a dinner party into
couples and triplets at small tables is
becoming as popular at American din
ner parties as at Partisan. 1t sounds a
little cliquey, but at any rate it saves the
hostess that painful duty of setting the
large conversational ball rolling. But
fancy being poor No. at trefoil table,
and having to play 'gooseberry"
through lalf-dozen courses. That
would not be altogether a pleas
ant arrangement The Redfern
the simplest garment you can
imagine. is one which the spring
season will usher in-of box cloth sim
ply stitched and buttoned snugly at the
throat and reaching down a good dis
tance below the waist. 1t is a very sim
pie and yet very useful garment. An
other new thing is the evening cloak,
made in triplet capeS. These are made
perfectly plain of faced cloth. not even
stitched, but lined with some apprO-
pirate tint Of silk. The spring coats
show tendency to elaboration both in
shape and trimming Many of them
are made of silk. the softness of which
lends itself better to the vatican style
than cloth does.
Revers are very exaggerated and are
not made very stiffiy; bands and huge
buckles are also seen on the Partisan
garments. Evening dresses for young
ladies are Empire STYLES. made in chtfou
lace and India muslin, over slip of satin
and silk. They are charming, the most
dazzling, expensive, longwaisted crea-
ton ever produced cannot compare in
effect with the short waisted Empire
frOck. 1t gives length OF limb to the
figure, which is what most women of to-
day need. Women are just as pretty
as in the days when Lawrence
painted that lovely picture of Emma,
Lady Hamilton, where half the charm
of the picture lay in the costume. Even
ing dresses afford more opportunities
for breaking from the conventional
rules and induiging in some of those
freaks of fancy which on pretty women
have such pretty results. The most
charming materials are now being
brought out for that purpose. Redfern
favored material. He also tells us
that fur is banished from every
spring garment except the Fig
arc Jackets, which are so much
worn over evening and dinner gowns.
Redfern also remarks with emphasis
that tailor-made gowns of tweed are
being made buttoned at the back, which
shows off the figure to perfection.
Long waiStcoatS, modelled OH those
worn by our ancestors in the Georgian
era, are also seen i'll the double-breasted ,
tailor-made COWS. Whole back coats |
are becoming such garments of fashion
able wear in London among title people
that they will in all probability soon
form the livery of New York Anglo
maniacS.
The tail coat, with severely mascu-
line vest and skirt front, is also a smart
style for tailor-made gowns.
In millinery we have to notice that
styles are simple for quite young ladies,
and that wild flowers are used as spring
trimmings. We give sketch of light
green straw, with velvet ruche and
strings, and groups of large buttercups
at the front and back.