The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-14

summer comes and declares that it is time
to wear little toques.
A very pretty large hat NAV be made by
covering one Of the ha!brinmed circular
crowned hats which are now the latest
style in Paris with Irish lace.
II the lace is floral design. it is daintlly
pretty if wrought out in gold or pale cray
silk, so that the flowers set out upon the
black background of the hat. Ii the hat is
merely framework. il should be covered
first with black net, and then the lace
should be put on over it.
A very lovely gown, that was recently
shown me as a sample Of what French
dressmaker can do III achieving beauti-
ful calling costume, had a hat of this sort
Around the low, full crown, there was
twisted band of velvet OF greenish yellow
hue.
There was a putting of the velvet
around the edge of the hat brim, and
feathers of the same color were punched
at the back.
The gown that went with this hat was of
green Bedford cord, made in the long coat
fashion. There was vest of pink crepe
de chine, and the Bedford cord, which was
OF q deeper shade than the velvet on the
hat, buttoned up snugly over the vest to
within three inches of the neck.
The skirt was perfectly plain and deini-
trained and around the bottom of it, as
wen as IEOulll the lO4uc THERE WAS tfllCk
band of green feather trimming. Pink
gloves stitched with green and large
feather fan with a still larger green bow
tied in the ring, were among the finishing
touches suggested by the tasteful little
French dressmaker.
Rumor has 1t that 1t is coming in style
to part the hair again, and to band it upon
the forehead in waves. The fashion is
such trying one that it surely will not be
generally followed. A bang is too becom-
ing to be brushed aside in the form of a
part
A bang, properly cut and curIed, will
take anywhere from five TO twenty-five
years away from the age of the wearer.
HAIR parted in the middle and banded on
the forehead will add from five to twenty
hve years to her who is bold enough to
wear il.
There are few sweet-faced women who
can wear this style OF hair becomingly and
to advantage. And when this hair ar
rangement is possible, it is so very be-
coming to these few that all the world of
women, homely or pretty, ugly or plain,
snubbed nose or Grecian, launch into it
without regard to their natural gifts.
One afternoon last week, a certain beau
tiful girl who lives up IN the quiet, Sc
Guided part of Madisop avenue, took a
walk down that thoroughtare, with her
hair parted and drawn down over her ears,
Win SCaTCeIN Il 4plic W ouOH nbcic TIC
hair had once been curled.
The girls cheeks were so red, her COM
plexion was SO fair, her eyes were so
bright, and her countenance SO sweet that
all who saw her looked and marveled TO
see such simplicity upon so pretty girl.
But, mark you! And listen to the
moral of this tale, The next day there
appeared at the same hour, upon the same
avenue, score of girls, particular friends
of the sweet-faced one, who had brushed
aside their bangs and come out to walk
with parted tresses over their foreheads,
feeling sure that they were as beautiful as
she whom they were initiating.
But alas! The first girl was pretty
The score that followed her example were
homeiyl And to see them making guys
of themselves in this fashion was a warn
ing TO others not to go and do likewise.
The sweeJ-iaced girl is still! wearing her
hair parted But her Grecian-faced sister
has discovered that when she parts her
hair she makes her face look like a Ratchet,
and so she has gwen UP the idea of dis
carding bangs. The other girls Who looked
respectively ike walnut dolls, old maids
and dowdies have gone back TO their
crimps and curls. and Madison avenue
blooms again along the squares that were
laid waste OF beauty by the sudden change
OF hair dressing.
Have you noticed:
That crayats Of the dress material sre used to
finish the necks Of the newest dresses2
That il is the style 20 tie ribbon around the
neCS and let the ends hang down the back 10
tae bottom OF the skirt?
Tha; it is gong 70 be fashionable to dress all
in one cOlore
That cotton Bedford cords are going to be very
po5uiaF2
That an old dress may be coaxed into elegance
by the addition OF = lsrge riboon bow upon the
front, and another upon the hack-wi,h long
ends
M !
formerly wore muslin, because silk is quite as
cheap in the long rum
And finally, have you noticed that every
woman carries a big bow OF ribbon through the
ring uf her fan, ana that the bow matches her
hat; he- gloves and the bow upon the back Of
her dress