The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-23
THE WOMAN OF FASHION
As Seen On Every SunShiny Day On
the Streets Of New York.
The New Stuffs and the New Ways of
Combining Them-Charaoteris Of
the House Gown-Some Gowns That
viii Not Go to Chicago - Silken
Bodices for Evening.
Bodices for Evening.
Copyright, 1880

Bodlces for Evening.
Copyright, 1881
New York, April 22.-Some women do
not care what sort of gown they wear,
so long as all is spick and span beneath
its hem. Their lingerie must be the pink
of perfection. and for more than that they
do not care; the dress over may be old
fashioned or threa5bare; they are per-
fectly Indifferent TO outward appearance
so long as they rest serene in the con
seriousness that in very fact, they are
daintily clad. Then there's the
other sort of woman, the one, that
doesn't care how she looks on the Street,
50 long as she is attractive at home. She
will throw any sort Of old garment about
her when she goes out, and rush through
her shopping or other business, regardless
of the crowd, and then so
home to FIX and prim for hours, in order
to look pretty and homelike. These are
the charming home women that make
such pretty pictures in great chairs. with
graceful garments suggestive of the
Greek. These are the women that &c
vote much thought to the tea and house
gov u anu IT. II lutSt tllut dT6 specially
delighted with the pretty gowns of to-
day The tea gowns have shocked or
shtrred or gathered Jokes; they have
loose empire belts, they have lace epaU-
letteS over the big sleeves. they have all
the soft silks. all the pretty crepOns. and
all the Crinkly silks; they have all the
dainty COlOrs, and all the pretty lace
ruttes. Who could help loving such beau
tiful things?
1t was so very bright out to-day that
every woman that could get there was in
the brilliant crowd that sauntered along
this afternoon in the bright sunshine
There was the woman clad in the very
ldtest-thin, gauzy material shaded from
pale ashes OF 1850 to deep brick color, and
then big pattern of dull green palm
leaves scattered over. There were three
minute black net ruftles on her skirt, each
one headed by band of jet as broad as
the rutfte The Jet ornaments Oh her
bodice were fastened on Jacket shape, and
at the front, where the material was
gathered into full folds, was a fall of
ashes-of rose-chiffon. She wore d small
fiat sailor of rough straw, old rose, with a
few rOSetteS of green fancy silk net, and
few digrettes
Right out of a candy shop walked
forth, brazen as you please, Miss Shirt
Front, with neat, plain skirt, of velvet
ruft1e variety, and with pale pink shirt
stiff. highly polished, shOwinga at the sides
also, hiding itself farther back under the
small bolerO jacket of brown velvet. The
soft crush velvet belt coming up over
looked rather queer beside the hard sur
face of the shirt
The woman in brocade, however, won
the day. She obtained all the stares, all
the turnings around, all the Just looks !"
all the See theres!" Yon'd think her
dress was so heavy that she wouldn't be
able to walk beneath the load But
that's the beauty of the material; it looks
so thick and rich and old-fashoned, and
it is really jvst as light as a feather
You'd think it was a genuine old brocade.
but when you touch it you find it is satin
thread wrought on fine gauze, raised in
such fashion as TO look like heavy en-
brOidery But there's nothing beneath
| the ridges, and there's nothing 30 give it
any weight Such material would be
comfortable even on a very warm day.
All the latest stuffs are particularly
| thin. You can look through almost every
one Of them. Most of them are very east
| ern in appearance and are very fascinat-
ing with the tiny silk spots or threads
| run all over making such quaint designs.
! They are little expensive, to be sure.
! Six dollars yard is the price of that de
| ceptive brOcade, but what would you?
You can get such wonderful effects from
| these beautiful changing materials. that
! YOU are more than compensated for their
cost. OF pale yellow, shading into
! dull heliOtrope, you can make d
! plated skirt - the plaits rather close
over the hips, but falling widely apart at
| the feet, and just caught there with vel
vet heliotrope loops. You can have a
| fancy yoke of gold embroidery or braid
! ing, at the neck, cut away in front in d
| small square. You can have gold fringe
! hanging frOm.the yoke, almost hiding the
! three velvet bands of heliomope that run
around the short bodice. Lastly, you can
| have deep white lace rudies on your
| shoulders, over the plain sleeves that are
| all striped with dark velvet.
| Not all the dresses that are under way
| now are going to the worlds fair Some
| are far too dainty for that great rush, and
| they will stay at home. Fancy dainty
| white silk, rayed with pale pink and
| dotted with tiny dark gray specks, walk
! ing among those great throngs. The two
| little ruffleS at the bottom, edged with
| peach velvet, would be torn and bedrag-
! gled The small double bretelles would
| lose all their airiness, and the white
! guipure of the bodice wouldn't be white
very long. The pretty jet that catches
| the bretelles in front, and the pendants
| thereof, would be torn away very quickly;
and the lovely peach of the velvet belt
and the small capote would not survive
| long under the dust and dirt of the Chi
! Cago streets. All, no! my lady lea YES that
| dress at home; She will air it before she
! leaves for the fair,
! The helioUope fad is still with us 4
new edition Of it made is appearance in
s. skirt of two divisions, each division
armed with three rufi.os. The ruffle APP
pearanCe is, of course, carried out on
/ shoulders as well, in, first, deep white
! lace one, and above in the small velvet
/ one of purple. Then the waist is encir-
| cled with fancy white ribbon, knotted in
! a high bow.
/ A new green goes with it; that is the
/ reason these friends walked side by side
/ in their gowns that suited each other so
well. The green was of a soft, deep let
! tuce shade softened still more by the
| hounces of black mousseline de sole that
| fell over 1t. The fOunceS were cut away
! in front so that the green fell plain. 4
! full fiOunCc on the neck as well covered
! half of the bodice, and Just at the front of
| the neck the hounce and the green were
T, cut away. Very charming was it in Ats
| simplicity
The evening bodice is fast becoming in
! describable. Two of the very latest ex-
! haust powers of description. so vague are
! they. All one can say is that they consist
| of folds of of finest silk or crepon caught
! up at one side in front, and indefnably
combined with ruffies and falls OF lace.
J that moan ont of bare N, fal f,.or,, -, -.