Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-12-29
FANCY DRESSES FOR YOUNG GIRLS.

FANCY DRESSES FOR YOUNG GIRLS.
thought it so delightfully."- quaint. Now
the 1880 costume is just the thing for ball
gowns for this winter. So an authentic
1880 gown will hardly answer for a fancy
costume this winter, but perhaps some la
dies can 90 further back than that in. the
dim and dusty records of the past and
bring a great-grandmother's frock from the
old cedar press in the garnet. If not, there
are intelligent costumers who can supply
an unlimited amount of ancestral silks,
and, what is better, keep the secret.
Fancy dress balls certainly have a charm
all their own, and in many respects are
boons of priceless worth to some men and
women. Some others suffer, but as long as
the fiat has gone forth let us all make the
best of it, and let the faithful writer of
what to wear and how to wear it have her
say. Among the prettiest of the designs
for the children is that old favorite-Little
Red Riding Hood. She must have the little
red cape with it's gathered hood, which may
fall back on the shoulders or be drawn up
over the head. The rest of the costume
doesn't matter.
Then there is sweet, SLEEPY little Bo Peep
and Goody Two Shoes, Mother Hubbard,
Cinderella and all the long list of old
friends made familiar by many pictures
and many legends, all, however, telling the
same old tales. Those are easy to copy
and never fail to please both wearers and
beholders, for is it not fairyland made real,
and are not the rosy wearers as lovely as
any fairy queen? The boys can be Prince
Charmings, with beautiful eyes" or Tom
my fuckers or Simple Simons or Little
Boy Blue. We know them all, our fathers
and mothers and their fathers and mothers
knew them, and our children and childrcn's
children will delight in them. SO let there
be plenty of those dear little boys, and
don't mind the horns!
All these costumes are easy to reproduce.
We have but to follow tradition, and in
fact it would be we'll nigh impossible to
imagine anything that has not been before.
But little Cupids with short skirts and
warm waists, from which the snowy wings
protrude. are too cunning to forget. We
must make allowances for climate when
we dress our Cup.:s. for the original lived
in q warmer c0ul.:ry and was not subject
to Group. If Cupid compromises on a
pretty short kilt and has his wings all
feathered out and the bow and arrows, we
will love him just as much as if he wore
nothing but his smile.
The what we may call fancy dress is
made up from several ideas wrought i'll to.
gether. One of this style is called Dresden
shepherdess. There was a skirt of pink
t%affeta, with a wreath of green grapes and
foliage around the bottom above a f1ouiice
There was Il drapery of blue velvet around
the hips, and another around the shout
ders, held by masses of grapes and foliage.
On the head was a tiny hat trimmed with
vine leaves. The young lady is to wear long
suede gloves and carry a fancy staff. She
might call herself a %bacchante or vintage
or almost anything, and nobody would say
anything, unless to admire the outfit.
Another very pretty, though not strik'
ingly novel character, was Priscilla. The
dress was short to the ankle and rather