The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-04
WOMAN OF FASHION.
Tiny Maids Demand Their Rights
over "Vexatious Tuoks, Frills and
Gathers

over ''Vexatious Tuoks, Frills and
Gathers"
(Copyrightl
New York, June 3.-We women are be-
ginning to pay the penalty of our great
ness, and our platform of rights spelled
with a capital X, and our slogans of up
and make your wants known" We have
had a tremendous success, bat we aren't
yet entirely emanCipatCd beyond the in
stinctivo, vauitics and foOlishness which
have made US beloved through some thou
sands Of years of enlightened life. "trip
peries and fOllies range alongside philOso-
phyand physics and when we have finished
our treatise on the trammels of our sex
we weep that the dressmakers didn't put
half enough stiffening in the skirt of the
gown we want to wear when we deliver the
thumps upon mans irritating pate. We
areindepCndent thinkers and lead indie
pendent lives until it comes to question
OF clothes, and then we quaver and
tremble like reeds waiting for u decisive
breeze.
We know what we want and our new
found powers enable US TO weary heaven
and earth until we get It. And because
we ought to know better, because our
ismS and OsOphies have taught us that
moderation, economy and simplicity are
the greatest goods, we plunge into eX-
cesses and frivolities, stopping Just short
of the awful barbarisms of our grand
mothers as to steel cages and life-destroy-
ing machines.
What we 90 our children do Their
mothers progress has set them ahead a
round dozen of years in the bitternesses
of existence, and their little brains are
premature, together with their little
Yantles.
They are WlseacreS IN the cost OF DAINTY
Dresden hgures, ana they are lar more
beWltchlng IN their conscious picturesque
ness than either you or L ever thought Of
being.
Mamma p1ped small voice IN big
shop devoted 10 the Iasnlons ana Supphes
ofchlldren. Mamma, II IS positively neces-
sary that l should have THAT dress The
voice was Wel0hty with the importance
OF its statement, as the l-year-old gravely
scrutlnlzed a doll as large as herself
clothed in a gown which is an exponent OF
the Lilliputldns' modes.
IL was a talnI mint OF an 1851 gown Such
as we elder children think ourselves LEST
to wear the finest and Wh1test muslin en-
tered INTO Its composition IN an intricate
manner. I can describe from memory
the funny little scene. The skirt quite
concealed the KID ShOd feet OF the en-
We'd doll and was most admirably full
Five tounces composed 1t to the waist,
which was tucked under the arms, tive
tlOUnccs each edged with an inch wide
rutfte Of pure white lace. The waist,
what there was of it, consisted of tucked
yoke, oyerlaid with lace and wound
about bewilderingly with pink ribbons,
which ended IN rosettes on the shoulders
and between the shoulders behind. Over
the shoulders full actual reverS gathered
most
trancing angle obrainaDle. The big sleeve
puff helped to bulge them up, while the
forearm pits fitted closely enough to the
wrist where white rib gloves lent the last
touch of modish elegance The hat was a
large white leghorn, pressed upon hempen
curls and bent In launty attitudes. White
ribbons Marguerites and two snowy
plumes completed the reproduction OF a
costume which may be seen this summer
on many maid of larger growth.
The fashions for children have under
gone radical change within the past few
months-as radical and along the same
lines as our own.
They are a revival of past cpochs: the
1880, tAc Victorian, when the childhood of
the queen bequeathed us pictures OF her
barred neck and barred arm state; the
1860 when some Of us tOddled about in
long be-trimmed gowns which represented
frocls were adorned rather by embroid-
cries than laces and ribbons and blended
colorings; now we choose handsome
guipuros. lace frills and very gay colors
in gowns and hats for our little ones. 1t
is only babies in arms who are limited to
white. and they have the alternative of
big topping bonnets and thirty-six inches
of lace-laden skirts and wells when they
go abroad AS soon as a child can walk
She is dressed as we used to dress our
dolls, in imitation of grown up" people
Of course only inc muslins, lawns and
batistes are tolerated beside the
white silk for state occasions, but
these are often daintily colored in reign
ing tints and trimmed with a great guam
tity of ribbons to match. Skirts are long,
waists are high, plastrans brelettes. col
Iarett6 and revers are much in evidence
while hats. shoes. gloves and amusing
empire coats look like living models Of
what we ought TO wear. Checks, stripes
and cross-bars are printed on everyday
einphams in pronounced shades. And
pale lilacs. fading pinks, warm blues.
with contrasted trimmings are correct for
street, carriage or drawing room parade.