The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-07-01
ALL ABOUT GLOVES.
What Is and What Is Not to Be Worn
the Best-Dressed Women.

What Is and What Is Not to Be Worn ~
the Best-Dressed Women.
To reduce the glove bill is always
perplexing problem. The most econo-
mical way after all is to select the best
gloves in shades that will not easily
soil and to make sure of perfect tit.
Gloves that are too large, that wrinkle,
soil more easily than those that fit per-
fectly. The heavy kids in four and five
button lengths, with broad stitchings
on the backs, are not only very fashion
able, but durable. The seams of these
gloves are Tapped and they are finished
with welts and large bone or brass but
tons. For street wear nothing can re-
place the tans and deep grays. For
calling and theater wear light gloves
with black stitchings are much worn
this season. There are many novelties
in gloves this spring, but, as always
happens, they are not chosen by the
best-dressed women. There could be
no more horrible and disgusting fancy
than to clothe hands in grass-green
gloves, tritie more hideous than those
in royal purple.
American women are extravagant in
the use of gloves. Many wear them too
small. A hand bullying out of its glove,
short of finger and scant of palm. is
not beautiful. Our cousins across the
water on this point are wiser than we.
They try to have gloves fit, but never
cramp and pinch the hand. 1t is pre-
ferable to have them little large than
to have the appearance of wearing an
outgrown glove, like a schoolgirl
shooting up to maturity and leaving
her clothing behind her.
Besides, tight gloves injure the cir
culation, produce cold hands, and gen.
orally help put person out of sorts
with herself and the world.
Gauntlet gloves are confined strictly
promenade, theater or shopping dis
trict, betokens the stranger-the wo-
men from the suburbs or country, used
to driving and wearing them from
choice or from force of habit Silk
gloves grow prettier each year. Jetted
and open work tops are novelties.
Gloves are coming out in the most
astounding shaded of green, bright
blue and purple. Do not, however, be
inveigled into buying them because
they happen to be new-nothing could
be in worse ia ste than colored gloves
for day wear Soft tans and grays are
about the only shades worn by we'll
dressed women.
To mend gloves, cut strip off the
top of a long glove, and insert a morsel
of it under rip, attaching it with
blind stitches to the sides of the aper-
ture. That is done when the finger or
the glove is small or short Again,
sew up the rip withcotton of the self
same color, not with silk. But the best
thing of all is this mending tissue.
When heated it will attach itself close
ly to the inside of the finger and tell
no tales.
lily embroidered back in harmonious or
contrasting color is as close to the one
buttoned ''marquise" of our grand
mothers day as the revival of bouffant
sleeves and crinoline has yet made i'm
perative.
Importers show every year caprices
in decorative gloves, but the plain, per-
fectly fitting ones with three rows of
stitching in black of the identical color
are always in good taste.
White gloves will continue popular.
In their place. nothing is prettier; worn
with bedrabbled gowns at all times of
the day in crowded city streets they are
decidedly vulgar.
For street wear glace kid of two or
four button lengths, matching in color
the gown or trimming, is the accepted
thing; the large, heavy buttons are
Observation-Disclosures Times.