The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-01-30

vet attract attention. "A woman, who has
a pale bluish-purple orchid in her button
hole, comes out of n florists shop wearing
one. IL has n long, slender back, close
fitted, and in front it is single-breasted
and has sloped bias seams to give fullness
to the skirt, which reaches to within a
couple of inches of the bottom of the dress
below Ii has big Continental side
pockets. and. as the orchid shivers across
the sidewalk and the carriage door is
thrown Open n black brocade lining shows,
with pale bluish-purple flowers dotted
over it like the orchid that mods in relieved
contentment as the woman steps to her
warm seat inside.
A girl with the clear pale skin that in a
different sort of woman might hint at
opium smoking comes down the avenue
quantity mufiied in one OF the long, black
velvet capes that would hardly venture
outside of New York city, with its high
shoulders flaring collar and full breadths
reaching quite to the girls knees. It's
yoke is of pale golden yellow satin thickly
covered with costly passementerie designs
in black arabesques, and 1T has a delicate
satin lining TO match the yoke and a mar
row band of sable fur for a border.
A woman all splashed with warm color
drives the capped girl out of the eyes Her
pale creamy brown cloth Is barred with
stripes, each stripe bounded by black
lines holding dots and spots of flaming
III.
is belted with wide folds of black velvet,
whose short sash ends stand out bouffant
behind The coatlike front has turn
over velvet collar prolonged down the
the front in broad pointed reveres turning
back from bodice of oblique stripe, and
skirt front across which the scarlet dots
zigzag most bewilderingly. The girls
hat is a fat poke OF black velvet with an
edge of black ostrich feathers and n bunch
of black tips pointing straight upward
and tied with "a narrow scarlet ribbon.
Her sleeves have long black velvet cuffs
and her gloves are creamy brown like her
gown.
Next comes picture in green. A very
slender dark girl is its anmating spirit,
and she wears an emerald green velvet
skirt, short in the back, for a wonder
that is, short for these days-and rather
lighter green cloth redingote almost cover
ing il and fitted with scrupulous exactifsss
TO the figure. About the tunic is "A band
of glossy green lophophore feathers, moro
of which edge the wrists and neck. The
redngnote is turned back from n high
cloth collar at the throat with deep velvet
revers ant over the girls smooth black
hair is n green velvet hat with green feath-
ers and ribbons.
The green girl mods TO n girl with boa.
The boa is worth seeing All this worlds
boas are large; this one is very large, in
deed The girl who wears IL seems To get
the cue of her toilet from the long lashes
Of her gray eyes. Her face is not at all
noticeable except for her eyelashes, which
droop like n fringe Everything about
her is cleverly designed TO heighten the
effect Of this popularity. Her dress Is n
gray viquoque: its plain skirt is trimmed
with three rows Of the hairy fur of the
gray Mongolian goat. The fur bands arc
in themselves very narrow, but the long
hairs hang down all around. The round
mantle has two short capes covering the
shoulders, and both capes and mantle are
edged with narrow glittering steel braid
winking over the top of more long fur
fringe About the top Of the standing
collar IS disposed the huge round boa, its
ends reaching almost TO the ground, It's
smooth. silky hairs dropping curtain-like
most decorously. The gray felt hnt Is
non-committal enough with Its steel and
velvet trimmings and its bunch OF stiff
feathers I'm two shades Of gray not 20 in-
/ tcrfere with the general effect OF the
whole outfit, which l. eyelashes. eyelashes
aud eyelashes over again. II takes an un.