St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-04
LOOKING FORWARD.
What Will the Spirits Say
When They Visit the
Earth in 1892?
1t Is the Fashion to Change,
and Especially to Change
Fashions.
The Latest Change Has to Do
With Fair Woman's Sleep
ing Attire.
Pajamas Are to Supplant the
Dainty Night Dresses
Of Old.

NEW YORK, Sept. LIN another hun-
dred years the world will have under
gone such q complete change through
out, that the spirits that haunt it now
spirits that haunt psychological meet
lngs, and create uncanny disturbances
in haunted houses-won't know it
again, unless they visit it regularly.
Fashions in every thing will have
changed, and, if possible, there will be
more fashions than there are now. 1t
is the fashion already to speak in a GER
tain manner, soon it will be fashionable
to have a certain mode of thought. Alas,
it is coming to that.
You would think that in bed one
might be free from fashion, you might
think that in the solitude of your own
bedchamber might throw care aside
and also throw aside all our Vatican
pleats, and bias folds, and glove-like
fits. that we might if we pleased look
ugly and devoid of style, when we are
in the arms of Morpheus only.
But not SO!
Even in bed Fashion pursues us.
There is no escaping her. The black
ness of the night encircles us, the OBJ
livion of sleep makes picturesque eff
feet valueless to a certain extent. and
yet we are not exempt from the relent-
less goddess.
Alas! happy, happy, happy past! No
more ~shapelesS, baggy. comfortable
nightgowns: no more f%our-post bed
steadS. Gone are the homely patch
word counterpanes and frilled white
nightcaps there is something delight
fully old world and quaint and savoring
of Pepy's diary about n~ightcaps); gone
are the lavender-Scented sheets. darned
with lovely eXactitude. We use pat
chouli now, and there is no time to
darn.
But bed attire has come to be con-
sidered a much more important thing
than it used to be. Curling tongS and
instantaneous waivers have taken the
place of the Old-tashioned curl papers.
Curl papers, it is said. ensure the best
results. But what if a woman desires
to look lovely In bed? What if she is a
woman with a tall forehead that must be
covered by day? Must she sacrifice her
daily appearance to her nightly appear
ance?. Or shall she sacrifice her nightly
appearance to her daily appearance.
Well, that is a question for herself to
decide.
For autumn costumes a new colored
serge, china blue, has come in. This is
2 great novelty. Somehow, serge always
cen to mean navy blue: but china
blue, though it never can compete with
the old-fashioned navy in service and
popularity. is a very pleasant change.
Golden brown serge is another fashion
able thing. For trimming round the
still plain skirts. bands of satin. with
bows Of the satin set at intervals of
about nine inches apart, are the thing.
There are two or three fashions which
Redfern is very particular l should
note. One is the corduroy velveteen
which is going to be a winter material.
Another is perfectly immense
Eleeves-immense in width, l mean,
and another is the extreme length of
coats. Apropos of coats. they seem to
promise all to be looSe-fitting, and this
winter will be eve more fur-trlmmed
than last.
The chatelaine pocket is yet another
fashion which l am hidden to chronicle.
1t will be made of the same material as
the gown, and will take the place of the
inevitable reticule, without which no
American tourist considers herself
complete.