The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-02
FR0CKS. AND ACTRESSES.
Bah TELLS THE TASTES IN DREs IS
OF POPULAR ACTRESSES.

Testefuny at All Times-"Jane's'
Who Know How to Dress-Those
Who Don't Know-Whe1 Lillian
Russell Looks Best 49, The Best
Dressed Actor-Nine New York Tail
ors Express Their Opinions-Some
Oddities OF the Stage.
(CoDufohf1
NEW YORK. Oct. 1.-One would not be q
| woman if there wasn't time when one
wanted to talk about clothes And one
wouldn't be very much of a man if one
didn't appreciate q well-dressed womRn.
The latest fashion suits me to perfection--it
! is the storming of the town by red-not
the dark red, nor dull red. but warm glow
ing. burning red. 1t is fashion to be en-
/ Outraged, because the color is healthy to
, look at. and because it throws good glow
on the face OF the wearer. 1t may possibly
induce women who are fools enough to put
color on their faces to present to the world
at large their original selves, unlimited by
the rouge pot and its accessories.
THE RAGE FOR RED.
| have heard of people worshiping the
sun. ] never felt any inclination to do that
though man | know was nice enough to
say wherever | lived was on tue sunny side
of Easy street. between Velvet aud Plush
avenues; vet as that was after dinner, it
may be taken as compliment 70 the cook
But l can fall down and worship beautiful
piece OF red material. 1t has a charm, an
ludetinable one, and l am happy to say that
the great mRu dressmaIer agrees with me
in this. Men like red, babies like red and
dogs like red it Is true that bulls dol'e like
red, but then you scarcely would care 20
spond an evening in the society Of bull.
CREATORS OF THE FASHIONS.
You go to a dressnaker and You ask her
something about her clothes-that is those
she has for sale, for | never saw good
dressmaker who wore anything decent ner-
self-and when you talk 10 her about wolf
dressed women she will simply speak Of the
women OF the stage. l asked an Intelligent
one the reason for this, and she said:
"Well, any tailor or dressmaker will Law
herself out to make their costumes successes
in every sense OF the word, for, though the
conservative people may deny it though the
fashionable women may laugh az it, is the
women OF the stage who make fashions. IL
began when Worth created all those 1.-THE,
cliuging draperies for Sarah Bernhardt
He understood her figures ana PLAYS. saw
her possibilities, and he dressed her as he
nsver dressed any other woman before or
since All the world-that is all the slender
women of the world-had frocks made after
this style, wore them for tea gowns AID
looked charming in them; but did he make
the mistake OF putting such dresses on Jane
Hading or Mrs Langtry1 Certainly not
He realized that they were women
Of their time, and ne made them
the most magnificent gowns of
their time. For HGdiuEss Brown iluir, steel
blue eyes and French face he used wonder
ful shades of blue odd tones of pink and
soft browns that delighted. For Langtrv's
perfect complexion, bronze hair and eyes
never Of the same color. he used deed whites,
pure yellowB, cosr pinx5, blu 50 as pure as
the skies, and all the clear tones; both
women having their costumes after the
manner of u day. Each one has beauti-
full neck and arms, aud 50 thsy were re-
vealed, and not a suggestion in the fit was
given Of the loOseuess that pervaded the
frooks Of the divine Sarah"
JAMES, GORGEOUS DRESSES.
The haudsoInesu dresses in New York to-
day are WoTn by tombstone Bennett in
"Jane." One il q magnificent heavy SILK, a
bright red, that has a coat bodice with high,
fsnciful sleeves, aid a broad belt OF red
velvet, through which is stuck a diamond
dagger The perfect ft OF this frock, the
illJ6S Va bliS iEufb 81 LDOiesOlYs YET SO per
fectly displayed, are a lesson to any dress-
maker. The other one which particularly
admire 10 white dotted muslin made up
over white silk, with low bodice of white
and gold brocads laced with gold strings
Just in front. By-the-by. I want TO tell
you something about them. A French
dressmaker always believes in show
ny as m 4oh as possible of the neck and
bust. And thus bodice was cut accordingly
but Johnstone Bennett refused to wear it,
although her neck is white and lovely g,
until modest little tucker Of chiffon had
been inssr ed here in Nov York IL WASH
anything so ridiculous as prudisaness. It
was simple mo1esty; she wouldn't expose
that much OF her neck to her own friends.
and she didn't propose to do it on the
stage. And tombstone Bennett is one Of tho
best dressed women on the streets Of New
York, because she is 80 quietly gotten up
that the highest compliment possible is
paid her-nobody seeing her Off the stage
would ever think she was an actress.
ACTRESSES AS GOOD DREssERs.
George Drew barrymore il another wo-
man who knows how to dress, and her
clothes fit her Immediately. She doesn't
make the dire MISTAKE OF wearing her
jewels to breakfast, as Is 80 often done by
actresses-I mean on the ssege-nor does
she come on in a walking suit with satin
slippers. Mrs. barrymore OIL the stage is a
good dresser-that is, she dresses like a
lady, and she is one of the most delightful
women that anybody ever spent half an
hour with.
George Cayvan dresses well both on and
Off the stage, and 80 does Maud Harrison.
Neither OF them make mistakes about the
characters they are to assume. and they
don't gown a country genteman's daughter
in an elaborate dinner costume, such as the
Princess OF Wales wouldn't wear at family
dinner Sadie Martiuot is exquisite in her
choice of clothes. Looking like n bit Of
old Dresden china, she affects, properly
enough, n rather elaborate STYLE and as |
don't think it has ever entered anybody's
head that dainty Sadie Martinot walked. so
one always thinks Of her as gotten up NEST
gorgeously, and reclining in a Victoria
Virginia Harmed is a good dresser at times
but in the part she is playing at present she
overdressos and is rather too matronly. l
have never seen her but once Off the stage,
and then l had the same impression-she
was too much dressed. A good dresser of
the day time on the streets is the woman
whose clothes are perfectly fitting, quiet,
and yet not noticeable.
WHEN LILLIAN RUSSELL LOOKS BEST.
think Lillian Russell dresses better of
the stage than she does on, for she never
looks 80 pretty as when she is In plain