The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-01-25
BRINGING OUT A BUD.
COST OF FER OUTFIT, WITH ITS
DRESSES AND ORNAMENTS.
How Swell Young Daughter of a Wealthy
Man Is Prepared for the TRYING Ordeal
of Meeting '.society'--she Has to Have
Almost Innunerablc Gowns.

of Meeting "society''-she Has to Have Z
Almost Innumerable Gowns.
Some years ago wrote about the man
ner in which a Fifth avenue family of my
acquaintance kept its oldest daughter what
you might call satin lined and cotton bat
tinged with luxury, like bit of exceed.
tGgly delicate jewelry in its case. Now !
want to tell little, just the yeriest trifie,
that | have happened to hear about the
manner in which that young lady's sistel
is being got ready for what is called bel
debut in society. As | remember the
story of the surroundings of her sister,
whose marriage made "A great stir about
two years ago and who IL now wrapped up
in little baby OF her own, there WAS 10th
ing more extraordinary than that she lived
III great comfort and had nearly everything
that she wauted-a French maid, remem-
Der, and great closets full of dresses and
bureaus full of linen, and very pretty
bedroom which, by an odd chance, hap
pened to he called into for moment when
she WAS away,
The most striking things in that room, as
remember it, were the great cheval glass
in which she viewed the effects OF her dra-
peries and the set" of her skirts, and a /
pretty rosewood "priedieu," with an ivory |
on which she knelt to say her probably |
commonplace prayers every night and
morning 1t strikes me now, though did
not think of it then, that perhaps not so
many persons would slight their prayers If
they had II pretty rosewood contraption,
! with cushioned shelf for their knees star
0 ing them in the face and getting in the way
of their feet every time they dressed and
] uudressed-rohed and disrobed. mean, of
!, course.
But now she considers herself IN old mar
! riptl woman, and may even have French
, novels to read and to hide when the younger
one visits her. And she and hcs mother are
just now very busy in preparing to usher
. the younger girl into the giddy whirl of so
i ciety, in which Ill the older ones spend their
ornamental lives | had never thought of
! it before, and | wonder how many of my
:, readers have ever considered what it means
, to bring out such girl. OF course !
!. knew that some one gave party-a mother
or aunt or sister-and that the bad or
debutante had to be well dressed for the &C
casion, hut gracious sakes! as any fashion
G able woman would say who reads this the
! dress for that one night is nothing at all.
% Well, not exactly nothing at all either, for
q have heard that it cost more than 800,
u and the ten dollar handkerchief that she
T. dollars worth of lace scwed on it.
Il The shoes, the silk stockings, the orna
I, ments for her hair the stickpins for her
il. corsngc md the exquisite linen which will
y intervene between her dress and her person
~, are all Of the finest and cost a lump sum of
10 hundreds of dollars So it docs cost some.
y, thing, after nll-that and the order at Sher,
III rvs fora supper for sixty, and at the florist s
L for literal banks Of flowers. And her little
't cousin, who lives with her and is to be
% present at the installation of the belle, is to
be dressed, it seems, within what l would
call nm inch OF her life.
But that coming out night figures very
W lightly in the cost Of the occasion. This
~ young lady has been in the hands of sew
M cral tresSnakers for more than II month
rs. and has nearly two dozen new dresses un,
nj der way When heard that | remarked
Il. that ! had not rememb ered that she was il
(e short dresses and needed Il new set. ! wa,
" laughed ut for that. BLESS you" suid hel
N father, who was my Informant, 'she wears
,a~ dresses as long as her mothers and mas
Hr done so for a long time" What she /.
e. having now, it seems aru dresses of "a kim
lie she never needed hefore--dresses for publi'
y and social functions, from which she uset
~ to be barred when she was merely girl
- Among these new gowns are theate
90 dresses opera dresses and cloHks, t.i
M. gowns, dinner dresses and dancing and re
cepti0n dresses.
As Il rule she hns to have II bonnet T.
match every dress and shoes and stocking
that accord with the evening dresses.
~ half dozen new wraps, solne Of then
- from Paris like one or two Of the dresses
no., are in the list that this irreverent fitthe
nj ratified off to HE when he found that wa
atr interested. And even these are but the big