Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-29
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
What Will the Spirits Say
a Century Hence9
MUST BE IN FASHION EVEN IN BED


some One Predicts Paiamas for Ladies'
wear-They are Unfeminine in Appear
ance - Night-gowns Have Adorned
4 Poetry and Romance, Pajamas Never
Can-sDeclal Notes.
New YORK. Aug, 9.-Inanother hun.
q bred years the world will have undergone
81 such a complete change throughout that
3 the spirits that haunt it now the spirits
& that haunt psychological meetings. and
s. create uncanny disturbances in haunted
houses, won't know It again unless they
9 visit it regularly. Fashions in every
q thing viii have changed, and IL possible
a there will be more fashions than there
are now. 1t is the fashion to speak in a
4 certain manner; soon it will be fashiona.
& BILE TO have certain mode Of thought.
< Alas it is coming to that.
Yon would think that in bed one might
be free from fashion. You might think
4 that in the solitude of your own bed
chamber.we might throw care aside and
y 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 were in the
arms of Morpheus only. But not so Even
IN bed fashion pursues us. There is no es-
Gaping her
Alas Happy, happy past. No more
shapeless, baggy, comfortable night
gowns; no more four-post bedsteads
. gone are the homely patchwork counter
panes and frilled white night caps gone
are the lavender. scented sheets, darned
with lovely exactitude. We use pat
chouli, now, and there is no time to darn
Enchior fhuf fugfaQH of nfohf.
gowns we are to wear paiamas. Now,
paiamas are not comfortable, by any
means; quite the reverse. But there is
something so very new and revolutionary
about them Carrie Careless" points
out with great ingenuity that they are
more decent than nightgowns in case
of fire. Well so they may be, but
who dresses for fresg l maintain that
nightdresses are prettier and far more
feminine. They have had position in
poetry and history that Paiamas can
never fill Fancy Lady Macbeth wander
ing about in the corridors of the castle.
saying "Out damned spot, out / say l'
in a pair of Paiamas Imagine BESIDE
mona being smothered in Pajamas, OF
Tennyson's May Queen being called
early in Pajamas.
But bed attire has come to be consid-
cred much more important thing han
it used TO be- Curling tongs and instan-
taneous waivers have taken the place of
the old fashioned curl papers. Curl
papers it is said, insure the best results.
But what if woman desires to look
lovely in bed2 What if she is a woman
with a tall forehead that must be covered
by day2 Must she sacrifice her nightly
appearance2 Or shall she sacrifice her
nightly appearance to her daily appear
ance2 Well that is a question for her
self to decide
For autumn costumes new colored
erge, china blue, has come in This /;
f,ovelty. Golden brown serge is another
+ tbaonable thing. For trimming round
Tho irts bands Of satin, with bows OF
fiacbesn set at intervals Of about nine
two 81. art are the thing. There are
sKirt, lounfe fashions which particularly
Il begnOted One is the corduroy
sbeteen which is going to be a winter
Fterial Another is perfectly immense
leeves, immense In width / 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 even more fur trimmed than last
The chatelaine pocket is yet another
fashion which am hidden to chronicle
it will be made of the same material as
the gown, and will take the place of the
inevitable reticule, without which M
American tourist considers herself com
plete