Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-10-15

Her skirt and jacket are OF grayiSh
green material, through which play
and tighten threads OF cleaning silk,
and otherwheres are dapplings almost
black and threads Of white green almost
white, so that the green seems TO nave
almost the tints and tones Of the never
constant green sea. Her wide collar IS
red shot with green, twisted red cord
binds her jacket, and the skirt is edged
with rui1le OF the red green shot SILK.
Her fat hat is in the rubbish heap and
she has tilted above her provoking curlS
an openw work structure Of gray felt top
ned with black bows OF satin ribbon and
big ostrich plume which seems TO be
trying to conceal the fact that, after all,
that wonderful perky hat with It's
prankish bows and curling plume IS as
fat as its discarded sister IN the ash
barrel.
The Jacket remains central fact In
the situation. 1t touches, II you please,
one extreme of the great fashions
world because, though chic and charm
ing, il is not necessarily expensive
Jump at the other extreme and you
strke-velvet.
Wonderful are the vclvets OF 1893.
There are velvets in the old familiar
solid colors, and a hundred new ones;
aud these are the prettiest OF all l
think, since the broken surface gives
such free play to the beautiful light and
shade effect which is velvets charm.
But there are others far more fan
tastc. Here is one alternate
checks OF black. white and neutral gray
which is, until you catch the play OF
light upon its sheeny surface, just IKE
the checked 6annels little girls used TO
wear in winter And here is one IN long
stripes OF black and white-the fashion
able combination this year, and one In
pink and gray and basket effects and
mixed effects, until it's evident enough
that staid rich velvet has abandoned its
od-time dignity and has set out TO be as
freakish as calico.
have spoken OF a combination that
would have seemed odd in years gone
by-pink and green. One OF the most
beautiful costumes l ever saw, import
ed expressly for one of the Sloane
ladies. illustrates this combination. II
is an opera gown, aud so the cloak
forms an integral portion. The gown
is a very pale pink silk, edged at the
moderately low neck by a TALL OF
creamy lace, the skirt perfectly plain
in front and cut en- train. The cloak
is green, as pale in its way as the pink
of the skirt, but distinctly and uncom-
promisingly green. The material is
moss beautiful, lustrous, flny and
light, aud when one considers the
fluffy swansdown which edges 1t about
it looks like nothing so much as the
moon painted sea, beaten at the edge
IN white foam. Taken together, CLOAK
and gown form a lovely costume OF
richness, almost unequRlled in my
memory.
Swapsdown for my lady's opera
cloak, fur for my lsdy's shopping car
riage. tits, or is TO be, season for
fur trimmings upon stuff gowns and
cloaks rather than tor fur by itself.
So one sees the oldest, richest, most
reckless combinations OF plush snd fur
or velvet and fur, as well as the most
seryiceable stuffs. Sometime the guam
titv OF fur used is almost inhniteslmal.
is the idea, not the effect, that is
wanted. Take the winter coat pareK-
cellence. It is long and It's folds are
rather severe. Upon the skirt, falling
well about the knees, there is no sus-
picion OF fur. The sleeves are above
the elbows wide and bulging, but not 10
an extreme, below the elbows fairly
tight. And the fur? We are coming
to it. Only delicate edging Of it about
each Of the OVERLAPPING collars. That
is "fur-trimmed garment. and very
sensible one, too. The climate Of New
York is too warm, even in winter; GER
tainly too changasble, not TO make such
wearing OF fur dangerous to health.
Alta wedding reception given last
week, when no one was talking or