San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-18
LATssr.AODES IN LONDON.
from the London Telegraph.

This week interest as regards
millinery matters has been center.
ed in preparations for Tuesdays
drawing room, which, for one so
early in the year, promises to be
exceptionally well attended. Vel
vet will be worn for trains in many
instances, but there is a newer
DISCRIMINATING the dress in velvet
and the train in satin or brocade.
There is just now great. revival
of the old refined and cultured
taste for real lace, and berthes of
this beautiful fabric will adOrn
many of the low bodices which
will be worn On Tuesday. Thirty
years ago real lace lappets, as
worn at court, went out in favor
of the tulle wells which are now
used depending from the well.
known court plumes.
There is another way in which
real handmade lace is likely to
be used as well as in trimmings
for court and evening dresses,
and that is for ties. Several of
the smartest dressing women have
superseded the winter boa by
bows of lovely cd real lace, and
eminently becoming these prove.
The lace is tied under the chin
and falls in ends, the length of
which is matter of individual
choice. Some ties have no ends,
others have them reaching to the
skirt hem. Those which are short
seem most popular. Bows afford
excellent opportunities for the
display of pretty little jeweled
lace pins, SO much a feature of
modern jewelers. art. The effect
of daintily arranged tie, pinned
with diamond swallows, wishing
bones" in diamonds, or the rent.
providing pig of the Emerald Isle
elegantly simulated in brilliants,
is quite fascinating enough to
justify some expense of time and
trouble in arrangement.
The new demand for real hand.
made lace, point gaze Brussels,
Brussels applique, point Duchesse
and real pillow laces has created
quite an excitement among the
thousands of women and children
workers employed in lace-making
in Great Britain and in Belgium,
who for years have been either ex.
creising this industry at reduced
scale of remuneration, or finding
other employment where they
could.
The favorite new method for
trimming hats and bonnets is
rather curious at first, but, like all
really innocent innovations in
style, it gains in favor with closer
acquaintance. There are ears,
sometimes of plated lisse some
times of velvet, occasionally of
ostrich feathers, and again of jet.
Some of these ears have a startl-
ed, upright look, like those of a
hare. Again, they are smart and
spry in character, like those of a
well.bred horse. In some ms.
tances they are crescent-shaped,
and are often fashioned like those
of a Mercury's cap, while the car
like devices of a Norseman's hel.
met have evidently been taken as
models in some. instances, as
though our milliners had seen
something fascinating in the sub.
stantial headgear of King Lear's |
band of a hundred knights at the
Lyceum and copied il in dainty |
feminine fashion. They have |
quite taken the place of the
Mephistophelian and antennB.like |
of trimming which
obtained all through last season.
Many of the bOnnets, trimmed
with fans of jeweled flecked tulle,
have one diamond ornament pin.
ned into the fiat point which
nestles down IN the hair in front. !
The favorite shape ofthis brooch,
which may he of any jewels, is 70.
settle in form.