The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-25
WOMAN OF FASHION.
Thinking About Her Dresses
Even at Christmas Time.
FUR IN NEW SHAPES AND FORMS.
Seal Stil1 the Fnvorife-pretty Bodices
to Engage Ones Attention-Even-
Ing Gowns Again.

NEW YORK Dec. l9.-FSpeclal Core
spondence. Surely we wouldn't think of
fashions on such day as this. Why. it's
Christmas, the day we forget ourselves
and think Of others We haven't any
time to bother with styles, and petty diff
ferences of fashion and trifiing advance on
the modes of q month ago.
No? Well. then. let me tell you of what
thoughtful parent has purchased for his
pretty daughter. That will interest you,
/ know. 1t is one Of the daintiest bodices
you ever saw, and she is going TO wear it
tonight at the family gathering-just to
please him. you know. IL Is Josephine
bodice, made of peau de sole, in a deep
rich red draped softly across the front
with rose-colored mousseline de sole.
caught up by a big cameo. Then there is
q very high belt OF the same canoes, and
one catching up each short sleeve puff of
the monsseIine. Her hair Is so very dark
and her skin purely olive that she is de-
lighted with the thought of the result.
Now. have l succeeded IN getting you
interested, and can / not persuade you to
listen for a short space while discourse
upon several more bodices almost as
pretty as the one this fayorite daughter
will wear?
Hearken, then, to this description of one
in mauve velvet. close fitting, and with a
bolero formed above by gold and mauve
embroidery, from which falls deep
fonnce of lace. long in front, gradually
shortening over the hips and at the back
until il is caught up with q chou of ribbon
and long steamers. In the front, also,
there are choux where the lace and en-
broidery join. The short sleeves are full
lace iounces falling beneath embroidered
epaulets.
Another one with loosely falling lace
effect is of scrpent-green silk, shot with
rose. The low cut corsage is bordered
with pink feather trimming shading off
into green, and IRON this the lace fiounc-
ing fails. This time it IL at the back that
lace hangs long into deep. slender point.
Butterflies OF lace are poised on the shout
ders.
Two more are there cone of pink ben
gaiine, the other of yellow brocade. The
bengaline has a dull pink feather trim
ming and steel passementerie bands for
adornment; the yellow broc ade has
fiouncing of white chiffon across the
pointed bodice, and a high crush belt of
the brocade.
But there's another subject we may dis
cuss even on Christmas day, and that is
fur. It's warm, comfortable subject.
and seems to suit the glowing fire and
family gathering, particularly that most
comfortable and popular form of it-seal.
Seal still reIgns queen of all furs TO other
has conquered it, although its overthrow
has often been prophesied and threat
ened.
But though it is still supreme it has as
sumed new guise. We see it no longer
in severity Of iorm in straight. plain gar
ment almost devoid of shape. 1t has
dropped the old conservatism and taken
unto itself many new notions. We see it
now plated and gathered in many fanci-
iul ways, in long Vatican folds. in gath
cred cares, in short plated collars, and
the effect is not so ungraceful as one
might suppose, for the fur easily adapts
itself to the change, and appears none the
worse for 1t either.
1t looks prettlest, perhaps, in the long
military cape. falling free from the collar,
edged with other fur. generally Russian
sable; or, perhaps. with a close row of
Russian sable tails LAID around on the
seal, not hanging below it.
In the short fur garments-the little
capes and the Eton and BOiero jackets
however. other FUR IL just as popular. One
always finds the mink, and there are also
the gray krimner. the Persian lamb or the
MORE Persian. OF course. the military
cape is the latest, and often forms the only
outer garment, even on cold days. But it
is very deceptive. and while it looks warm
and protecting, hanging far below the
hips, the wind has a quiet way of working
up under it and sending little chilis
through the person who was rash enough
10 come out so clad.
Much more sensible are the small sleeve
less fur jackets over the cloth coats. These