Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-11
THE GAZETTE: FIT WORTH, TEXAS THURSDAY FEBRUARY IL

pun that sets up well above the shoulder.
velvet and silk, or velvet and wool, the vel
vet used for the full upper part A peas
ant corselet of velvet, reaching almost to
the armpits and almost straight across the
top, with full guimpe effect above, is a
style of waist very appropriately chosen to
accompany sleeves Of this design.
The Gretchen corselet waist, so fashion
able this winter, will be even more popu-
larly worn with spring toilets, and it will
not follow one wooden style, but be fash
toned according to Individual requirement
It Can be cut to sharp point and rather
high, or rounded, and made to look like q
supplemental bodice cut very low, especially
under the arms. The corselet is easily
made, and above full pretty underwaist
of soft silk it can be made to look not only
pretty, but very picturesque.
Children's dresses are of a quaint, old
fashioned style, which has peculiar grace
of its own. Little girls wear frocks coming
down quite to the ankle. The following,
for little girl three or four years old, in
mourning, is daintily pretty 1t is loose
frock of black sicilienne, lined with mauve
satin. 1t is gagged with double heading
on to yoke of guipure, the full sleeves.
pulled up little over the shoulders, are
finished with wristbands Of the same
guipure. BY way of bonnet the little girl
wore large capeline of black sicilienne,
trimmed with an enormous bow OF white
satin.
Summer ginghams are now in market.
The newest designs are pinhead checks in
blue and white or pink and white, with
heavy wrought circles in darker blue or
darker pink scattered over the surface.
Light creamy grounds figured with small
blue and pink flower sprays are special de-
signs for children, reminding one of Ores
den china, so delicate is the coloring.
Quaint, indeed, will be the gretchen or
guimpe short dresses of this, finished at
neck, and short sleeves with bias ruf1es of
same. The first installments of new suit
ings are also displayed, differing very little
from the fall mixtures, except in weight
The majority of the pieces are light in col
oring, browns, tans, yellow and white pre-
vailing, with CLEAN Of red or green.
Chiffon is used for vests, ties, jabot eff
fects, fronts of tea gowns and evening
dresses, tops of sleeves and panels.
Turkish embroideries upon thin, creamy
material are much used for tea cloths and
table center5.
The most fashionable pocket-handker-
chiefs for slight mourning are of white
cambria trimmed above the hem with
strip of black Chantilly lace insertion and
edged with border of lace to match.
Ribbon velvet will be more popular than
ever with the coming season, and some
gowns of foulard already under way have
rows of velvet two inches wide put on in
herring-bone fashion around the skirt, or
in straight rows starting from the belt at
each side of the front
The very latest novelties in stockings
are in the silk sandal lace pattern. Half
up the leg the stockings are open work.
They match in color the slipper with which
they are worn. Bronze is the favorite
shade.
The old-fashioned point applique which
our grandmothers loved is revived in laces.
1t is not the handmade lace of olden times,
but lace made my machinery, and one SO
perfect in mesh and figure that it would
take an expert to recognize the difference.