The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-24

makes a woman's waist lock twice as large
as it should look. A narrow band looks
stingy, and so you see that to get it on
just right requires an artist
Mrs Roberts fur cloaks are every one
in the height of artistic perfection, and no
one doubts the lady when she SAYS that
she always employs real artist to design
her cloaks and gowns.
One might almost venture to saw that a
mania for wearing heads is subsding. The
reason for this conclusion is based upon
the fact that one occasionally sees new
cloak now without any fur heads at all
upon it. Very large antique clasps are
used to hook the collar and to fasten the
cloak at the waist in the majority of cases,
but very many of the latest importation of
cloaks are closed by means of invisible
safety hooks and eyes.
The Audubon people have been making
such furry and such stir in polite So
ciety, both here and abroad, that it is
rather surprising to note the fact that
plumage is still fashionable. The Audi
bon ladies set about banishing bird wings
from millinery this year with force and
gusto quite unknown in the history
of their society With great worldly
wisdom they set about getting the patron
age of royalty and the success of their
Judgment is shown by the fact that there
were actually fewer gulls shot this year
than ever before. The Princess Louise.
the Duchess of Fife, and even the pretty
Princess of Wales, lent their encourage
ment to this movement and it looked for
a short time as if BIRDS wings were to
adorn members of the feathered tribes
only.
But American women have not that
great veneration and respect for royalty
which their foreign sisters have, and SO
they pooh-poohed the idea of giving up
birds wings just because the Duchess of
Fife approved of it, and they saucily in
quired what in the world Princess Louise
had to say about the propriety of the wear
ing of murdered blackbirds upon other
women's hats. And SO, birds wings,
birds feathers, birds heads and birds
plumage of all kinds are Just about as
plentiful as they ever were.
1t is interesting to know that the Audi
bon ladies do not object to ostrich feather
trimmings, because, they reason, that to
obtain ostrich feathers 1t is not necessary to
kill the birds.
But isn't it carrying the idea of preserv-
ing life little too far, when one gees so
far as to object to the killing of birds for
ornament? Think if this idea were con-
sistently carried out, how inconvenient it
would be. There would be no more kid
gloves, because it would be wicked to kill
kids, and kid gloves are not necessary, YOU
know.
There would be no heads nor tails for fur
trimmings, and, indeed, if one were per-
fectly consistent, one would be unwilling
to wear fur at all unless it were made up
in the plain style of wrap, so that on no
account could it be laid open to the indict-
ment to being used for other purposes than
warmth and warmth only.
A leading milliner who imports all her
hats and who boasts that she has not hat
in her stock which retails for less than S35.
was bemoaning the fact that it is so easy
just at present to achieve ones own mil
linery effects.
Take those broad-brimmed hats with
soft crowns, for example," she said
They are very simple to make. You
cover the brim with velvet, and then make
a big, loose. cap-like crown out of another
piece Of velvet, trim it with a few standing
feathers, and the hat is according TO the
latest freak of fashion. ANY lady's maid
can easily make such hat in half day,
and there. behold my lady is provided
with i new hat quite as fashionable as |
could make for her, and which costs a
trihing sum of So or 81. 1t is really
terribly annoying. and for one shall be
very glad when these hats go ont of style.
1T is quite different with turbans,
although they look much simpler to make.
But 10 trim turhan properly takes a
miiilner. because the stvle is severe and
the outline is sharp. Therefore, II must be
softened with trimming and given the
proper touches here and there orit will not
be becoming. Anyone can make big elab-
crate hat. but 1t takes mil liner to do the
small, simple ones properly"
Of course, you are wearing a sash with
your evening gowns and your dinner
dresses. But if you are not, Just go to
your dealer and procure a piece-a whole
plece--of ribbon. about four inches wide.
TO match your gown. Na6e il into a bow
with two very short upright loops and two
very long ends that viii hang way to the
end OF your train. Fasien the ribbon on
just between the shoulders Tack" the
ends AZ two or three places in their length.
SD as TO keep them IN place without ap-
pearjng stiff, and 10 you have vour SASH
and Won may be sure that you are quite
fashionable.