The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-21
THE WOMAN OF FASHION.
COMFORTA BILE AND YET BECOM.
ING IS THE MORNING ROBE.
Some Dainty Ones-New Things In
Wraps-How to Trim the Fall Hat.
A New Gown Lacsd-A Combination
Suit.

Wraps-How to Trim the Fall Hat.
A New Gown Lacsd-A Combination
suit.
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NEW YORK. Aug. 20.-Morning wrappers
are suoh pretty, comfortable things, are
they notI When once you are clad In a
dainty one, comfortably ensconced In a
great easy chair, slipping your morning
chocolate and reading all your delightful
summer correspondence, you feel as II you
never wanted to rise again and don tight
! fitting conventional gown. Those silky
things are so cool, and you scarcely feel
them, they are SO loose; and still they're be-
coming, even though they haven't any
shape. think the prettiest ones are made
Of white China silk, with fine tucked Jokes
and feather stitching and plenty of lace.
| They're not so very different from a night
| robe, but since women are about to drop
night robes and take TO themselves pajsmas
instead, why let US cling to the loose morn
| ing robe so long as we can. Another pretty
one, slightly heavier, that I saw, was made
of white wooden goods closely striped with
a raised line in pale green. IL had lace
ruffie at the edge over a plain silk one of
green, and lace sleeves and yoke over the
] same green silk.
Still another was of pale mousseline de
laine, delicately printed. The gown was
box-plaited back and front on a lace yoke,
| and fell from here to the ground loosely,
only gathered by a ribbon at the belt. The
box plaitS were run through with ribbon
| where they Joined the yoke, and tied in
bow at she back and front. The sleeves had
lace cuffs and ribbon bows and bands.
Now that summer grows older. our bats
are beginning to look very harvesty. We
must take off any flowers or indications of
| blooming fields that may be there, and cover
them with ripe wheat or oats. On q broad
trimmed hat you'll have room for plenty,
and will look very pretty.
Now, too. that evenings grow longer and
l cooler, we begin TO take more kindly 20
wraps. All summer we were generally
/ satisfied with light feather boas and airy
| nothings to throw over our shoulders, but
now we take general interest in the new
| pelerines and capes coming out. One new
cape have just seen Is made Of three full,
short founces, each edged with narrow vel
1 vet. The top slopes up into high standing
| collar, with a long velvet twist on top
| The cape does not meet in 'front.' but ad-
mits Of considerable view of the bodice
underneath, and is only confined by little
| strap at the neck.
| An exceedingly pretty suit, with pelerine
combined, is all in white and blue The
| gown proper IL UldROHdl COnDludblOn Oh
| these colors, and is out above the belt, with
broad revers turning out from an oddly
| gathered white pongee front. The revers are
| edged with pale blue, and three narrow
bands of it run down the front of the skirt.
The narrow bodice, point downward, is also
| edged with blue. very pretty full ruche,
a few inches above the edge adorns the
skirt. Over the costume goes the pelerins.
made Of the same diagonal wool as the dress.
and edged with the same pretty ruche all
| around, even to the COLLAR, which IN quite as
high, IL not higher, than those of last sea-
son. The pelerine doesn't make any pre-
tense Of meeting In front. Il only reaches
| trifle further than the sleeves
A great many OF our dresses at present
seem TO be gowns within gowns. One dress
seems 20 fit over another dress, or part Of
one This Is the only way we can overcome
the economy enforced by the bell skirt,
which takes such a little material that we
must cut our gowns up in some way and
put another skirt underneath; or have an
under bodice or something else. 50 long as
| we retain our reputation for extravaganza
and fancifulness In dressing We must
give the other sex some reason for comment
and criticism, or they'd die of ennui. poor
things. This dress, Pm sure, would DO Just
the thing for lecture on lavishness First,
it has plain underskirt of heavy white
| tulle, bordered with deep hounce of rose
colored batiste. Over this comes another
skirt of white batiste, sprinkled with rose
| buds This stops couple OF inches above
| the pink iounce, and Is cut up and out in
slanting tabs reaching almost half way to
the waist, so that considerable tulle Ia visi-
BILE. The bodice is double also, first plain
tulle, then another Of the rosebud batiste,
cut 10 narrow stripes a few inches apart, so
that the tulle is not wholly hidden. The
| sleeves are more reasonable; there's nothing
double about them, only big puff on top,
and q tulle cuff beneath.
White Russian blouses are worn 10 this
same double fashion, with serge suits;
| serge Jacket completely covers the blouse
| except where the fronts turn back over she
| blouse.
| A pretty gown. and one that Is, I think,
actually and truly new, is a black blouse
made over a yoke Of big black and white
check. The blouse hangs loose over the
wide fancy belt, and is oddly laced with
| very heavy cord at both sides of the front
| The lacing runs down far below the belt
and then suddenly terminates. The sleeves
are two big puffs OF the plaid over a plain
black cuff.
IL is quite the rage to feather-stitch
dresses wherever there's an opportunity
AT the edges of skirts and bodices, on
| belts or wherever there's a tuck or a ruffie.
1t can generally be followed by row OF
featherstitcning. It's q thing, too that
most people take great delight In doing,
and every woman takes more interest in
a gown that bears some of her own haudi-
| work.
Sleeves don't get much palmer. Some
months ago we heard that shoulder puffs
would soon be a thing of the east, and yet
the latest garments from Paris show no
lessening in the size of the puff True, they
have fallen slightly, but the width increases
correspondingly. A very graceful one has
very long over-puf Of delicate lace hang
| ing without confinement and adorned with
a velvet knot at the shoulder; two diagonal
bands Of insertion below the puff and a
loose tulle ruffie at the waist, with another
velvet bow. Another pretty one for even
ing dress is first pulled, and then a short
box-plaited hounce added, edged deeply
with lace. Another dainty one for gauzy
materials Is caught up into the seam all the
way down, and over the seam a narrow
| lace insertion is laid, finished top and bot
tom by small rosette. A lace ruffle edges
this also, caught up at one side.
EVA A. SCHUBERT,
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