Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08

ond picture. The skirt is bordered with
white strapped with blue. A dark red cloth
has facings of white with red Hercules
braid laid over 1t. A charming gown OF
violet and white striped wool has violet
wool facings, and a violet silk shirt OF
course such gowns as these, with white, are
suitable for country wear only, and not for
travelling.
The elegant modiste makes little or no
difference between a seashore and noun
tain dress as to design, vet one might fancy
some subtle development of the forms that
would bring them into harmony with either
environment. For instance, there is some
thing nautical in parallel bands of trim
ming. In tab fastenings much used this
season, one is reminded of sailors recourse
to simple inventions. These are the most
aesthetic fastenings in the world, by the way.
The full gathered blouse with wind-blown
frill below the belt, the long, fashionable
scarf futtering out like pennant, and the
fat, rough sailor hat, all speak of the sea.
The explanation is that horizontal lines are
symbolic Of water.
The Figaro Jacket Is the Co.
Another Jacket in vogue is the Figaro,
which reaches only to the belt A stylish,
mountain dress is made with skirt of
striped wool, Figaro jacket of plain color
like the colored stripe; white blouse, and
wide folded belt of the plain color, and long
Grape scarf of the color, and broad-brimmed
hat
The ideal of travelling cloak is some
thing ample in which one can bundle up.
1t should therefore not be cut into set de-
sign, or have details, but is most elegant
when indefinite in form and possessed of
the power of easy adjustment to each new
pose. Experience seems to have given the
preference for utility to the long, loose
coat, which may be entirely covered with
a cape, or have a military cape, reaching
only to the knee. Sometimes there is q
triple shoulder cape over the long cape,
and sometimes there is hood, pointed
and plated and variously decorated, which
will not go onto the head. Such hood
vulgarizes the garment The illustrations
show cloak of Scotch tweed bordered with
cloth deeply serrated, also an English
travelling cloak, strapped across the back,
double breasted and having hood pro-
fusely made, so that it does service as
hood. There is also French model which
gives the effect of an over jacket hanging
loose from the shoulders, and is charming.
Travelling caps in the market are of soft
felt of Alpine shape, with creased crown
and rolled sides. There are also the usual
skull caps and felt visor caps.
Tho Latest RACES in Paris,
A clever writer sends me the following
from Paris: Fashion in Paris was never
more despotic than now. Not even during
the second empire did it exert such strong
sway over objects so far removed from its
sphere, or meddled in things SO Indifferent
to tickle and capricious ladyhood. 1t pre-
scribes, for instance, at present, that the
hair of ladies with any pretense to being
fashionable, is to be dyed red; that dinner
without Russian sarkusks and allash is i'm
possible; that there is but one color tor
ladies fnery, and all decorative art
namely, mauve, pale, reddish purple re-
sembling the purple markings on the petals
of the mallow. The landscape painter
makes use OF this practical tint to paint an
impressionist sky; the portrait painter pre-
fers mauve draperies to any other for his
model; the latest novelty in stationary is
mauve note paper.
This, however, is not all about mauve.
No fashionable Partisan wears any other
wrapper this season than a mauve levite
Ia russo. This sauU de lit is not only modern
but also dressy and extremely elegant. 1t
is a long paletot like that worn by the Rus
sian popes, trimmed around the skirt edge
with Byzantine embroidery of close silk and
gold threads. Everywhere now Russian in
fuence is being felt, often imparting to