The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-19

and otherwheres are dapplings almost
black and threads of light green al
most white, so that the green seems to
have 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 ruffie of the red
green shot silk. Her fat hat is in the
rubbish heap and she has tilted above
her provoking curls an openwOrk
structure Of gray felt topped with
black bows of satin ribbon and a big
ostrich plume which seems to be try
ing to conceal the fact that, after all,
that wonderful perky hat with its
prankish bows and curling plume is as
fat as it's discarded sister in the ash
barrel.
The Jacket remains a central fact in
the situation. 1t touches, If you please,
one extreme of the great fashions
world because, though chic and charm
ing, it is not necessarily expen sive.
Jump to the other extreme and you
strike-vslvet.
Wonderful are the velvets of 1888.
There are velvcts in the old familiar
solid colors, and hundred new ones;
and 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 more fam
tastic. Here is one in alternate checks
of black, white and neutral gray which
is. until you catch the play of light
upon its sheeny surface, just like the
checked f'annels little girls used to
wear in winter. And here is one in
long stripes of black and white-the
fashionable combination this year, and
one in pink and gray and basket eff
fects and mixed effects, until it's evil
dent enough that staid rich velvet has
abandoned its old-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-pinll and green. One of the most
beautiful costumes | ever saw. i'm
ported expressly for one of the Sloane
ladies, illustrates this combination. 1t
is an opera gown, and SO the cloak
forms an integral portion. The gown
is very pale pink silk. ed I'D at the
moderately low neck by fall 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
most beautiful, lustrous, filmy and
- IL.
fluffy swansdown which edges it about
it looks like nothing so much as the
moon painted sea. beaten at the edge
to white foam. Taken together. cloak
and gown form a lovely costume of
richness almost uneaualed in my
memory.
Swansdown for my lady's opera
cloak. fur for my lady's shopping car
riage. II is. or is TO be, season for
fur trimmings upon stuff gowns and
cloaks rather than for fur by itself.
So one sees the oldest. richest, most
reckless combinations of plush and fur
or velvet and fur, as well as the most
servicea BILE stuffs. Sometimes the guam
tity of fur used is almost infnitesirual
1t is the idea, not the effect, that is
wanted. Take the winter coat par
excellence. 1t is long and its 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 bullying. but not
to an extreme. below the elbows fairly
tight And the fur? We are coming
to it. Only delicate edging of it
about eScb of the everything collars.
That is a 'fur-trimmed garment" and
a very sensible one. too. The climate