The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-03
THE WOMAN OF FASHION.
Some Practical Hints For Practical
Women.


Serviceable Colors and Trimmings.
How to Enliven Your Black Gown.
Pretty Conceits for Evening Wear.
How Senator Faulkner's Betrothed
Arrays Her Couture.
(Copyright)
New York, Dec. while we fashion
writers have been prating of the magniti-
cence and luXuriousuess of the styles of
to-day, the dear public has been standing
aghast 1t is all well enough, say they,
to tell US of velvet and ermine, and
damask and point, of gauzes and passe-
menteries; we are waiting to read your
graphic description when we want
amusement and diversion. But is time to
have done with these pretty pen pictures,
and to give US some information as to
what ordinary folk should wear. Three
new dresses a season is the limit of our
capacity; therefore we cannot indulge in
caprice and extravaganza. Is there moth
ing common sense and practical in the
winters growing
Now, in spite of the wondrops fabrics
we have been holding up to the public
gaze these weeks past, and the brilliant
pictures we have been painting, there is
pile of sober fabrics just back of US;
there is a quiet home-like scene that de-
serves to be hung in a conspicuous place
| it represents busy family circle, mother
and daughter. They are seated in their
| pleasant sewing room, and you will see
| one Of them busily stitching at the
machine. Another is ripping up an old
black gown; while still another fashions
some dainty straps out of warm crimson
satin. A tot sits on the stool at her
mothers feet, pulling out hastings, and
! fuzzy-haired girl reads to attentive
| listeners.
You will not be able to recognize that
! black gown when the finishing touches
| shall have been put to it. Its skirt has
not been changed to any extent, for it
/ was made in the early part of the spring,
and will do very nicely. Two satin ruff
fes will be added to its feet, that is all.
! Then the short bodice will be elongated
| by hip rufes, the sleeves will be cast
away, and newer and more dropping ones
of black satin inserted. A tiny roll of
satin will encircle the waist. This is for
the tall girl of slender built. She will
wear it evenings also, and will not feel
out of place, for it will be frightened
with dainty collar and coquilles offresh
lace. The brown girl sewing the Grim
] SUI SlIlJ, Has SutCGtutu III SCblluS uOIGN
enough together for a brand new outfit;
and package lies open before her, show
( ing a pile of rich brown diagonal, and,
besides it, a roll of the new ''irOnedn
velvet. 1t is both irOned and "furrowed,'
and she will have it in two bits of ruff
ties at the bottom of the skirt, and
in two more half way up. She
will make two fiat collars of the
brown diagonal, each edged with a small
velvet ruffle and she will have single
velvet roll at the waist, and a velvet
collar The sleeves will be Of diagonal.
This, also, will answer for many oCca-
siOns; but the skirts will fit so very
closely at the hips, and fare so prettily
at the feet; the sleeves will not be so
large that they will be out of place in
doors, and the effect will be SO unasS UNI
ing, and withal so wholly fashionable,
that the girl will not be afraid to wear it
very often. For already a reaction has
set in, and the quiet, almost severely
made gown will be most favored for after
noon wear. In fact, the danger already
seems imminent that severity will step
over into manniShness. The skirt and tie
of the tailor-made girl sometimes suggest
nothing of the softness attributed to the
sex. But the three-gOwns-a season girl
| will attempt neither extreme. She will
content herself with her brown, her
black, and her one gown of pretty, mixed
COlOrS, trimmed Win SlOJ or fancy
velvet Her new black ought TO be of the
finest. softest quality she can afford, with
a silken thread or design in it possibly.
Then, If she can make for herself a couple
of sets of fancy collars and belt, to add
for evening wear, she will have sufficient
change. Warm crimson for brunette,
possibly a clear yellow; a white is al
ways goou, particularly if you have any
fine lace to combine with it, Remember
that your belts must be no longer broad
and full, but tiny rolls, that bring out the
slenderness of the waist For the short
bodiced effects are grown distasteful, and
we want no more of them. The narrow
band has long streamers in front, falling
to the feet. These sets are wonderful
| brighteners, ana ii a jeweled clasp catch
the band together all the better. Some
times the belt is broadened into an Ori-
entail scarf, knotted loosely and falling in
| fringed ends.
Black dresses are also frightened by
revers of white satin, by epaullettes
revers, bibs or bands of lace, generally
rather heavy. Then the girl that longs
for something a bit daintier will perhaps
get along with one gown less for ordinary
/ wear, and get herself a pretty waist
Some of the daintiest of these arc striped
lace and silk, or lace, or velvet, and one
sees not infrequently a little jet intro
duced. Russian or fancy pulled sleeves,