The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-03-30
OWEN, MOORE CO.
APPROPRIATE GLOVES.

Many Of the rare shades of gloves shown
this season are extremely effective when
worn with appropriate costumes, but
they become really garish when donned
with dress that does not harmonic.
There is more in the proper selection of
gloves than either tho retailer or the
customer very often imagines, as the
subject is generally left to the clerk by
the customer asking: ''Will these gloves
look well with such and such dress?"
making it really imperative for the clerk
to be a woman or a man of taste; for
should they advise her wrongly, some
day there will be reckoning on the part
of the customer.
AS to the quality Of gloves, button
glace is worn for walking, travelling, and
what is styled ordinary wear. In light
and dark tan this glove may accompany
any color except gray. The grays can be
worn with any tint except tan, as the
gray glove does not harmonize with a
tan suit, though tan glove does not
look quite so badly with gray gown.
A bright oolored or conspicuous glove
should never be worn for these occasions,
which might be dubbed ordinary.
The Biarritz glove is worn for travelling,
walking, rainy days, playing tennis, and
outdoor and athletic sports generally.
These are supposed to be thoroughly
neglige, and are withal very comfortable
to wear; but do not commit the mistake
of supposing that they should be tight
fitting. It is safe for the customer to
buy the size that she usually wears, and
then they will fit with that stylish losse-
ness that is particularly affected by the
French women.
The reseda green shades that have a
grayish tint are very handsome with a
silver-gray or black dress, particularly if
the hat has touch of foliage. Pearl
gray, now one of the most fashionable of
light colors, is successful with any
costume, unless it be one of the tan tnts.
The new reddish shade affected by tile
French may be worn with gray, white or
black gowns.
Bright scarlet shades make the hand
look larger, and yet may prove effective
with an all-black evening costume, Lit up
only with a bunch of rich scarlet roses.
Yellow gloves for evening wear may
accompany any shade except lavender.
Lavender gloves look well only with
white, black or lavender costumes. Flesh
colored and pale pink gloves may accom-
paYy black, white or self-colored
tcAettes.
Faint blue gloves look very handsome
with forget-me-nots worn in the corsage
of a black evening gown. The mode and
putty drab shades, very often called
"coachman's drab," are striking with
any costume worn, except tan. A dar
reddish heliotrope has been worn with a
black costume with most excellent effect.
White gloves are nowadays worn for
visiting and evening, with any color. A
cream white does not seem DIS conspicuous
as a dead white shade.
For evening wear suede glove is the
only one permissible. For afternoon
concerts, or visiting, or even church
wear Though the latter hardly comes
under the head of ''dressy" occasions),
a suede glove is preferable in the eight
button mousquetaire style. The new
gloves having black fnishings tone down
the bright shades and give the glove a
remarkably stylish air.
The glove is such an important part of
the costume that it seems as though too
much attention could hardly be paid to
this one little article. and yet, if we think
about it, what portion of woman's
costume, unless it be her bonnet, has
been as much written about as the glove?
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