The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-12
THE WOMAN OF FASHION.
Will Mrs. Cleveland Adopt tho In
fated Skirt?
Spring Materials Carefully DIssected-
Their Pccuilnrities and Marks OF
Beauty-Thc Spring Cape-P0nts ON
the Lcnten lat-A Lace Dress.
lCoPYRIGHT. 1898. !

AFRO you going to get Cleveland
dress? 1t will be quite the thing now,
for good long time to come, to follow
the dOings III the white horse, and par
tiCularly those of its beloved mistress.
Then, just as soon as Mrs Grover ap-
pears in new gown coat or bonnet, it
will be ours to secure one like it in
color. sl,apc or size. 1t would not be
good Taste u have il reproduced in
every particular. but would be Il deli
cate acknowledgement of our apprccia-
ton of her TASTE in gowning to appro-
pirate some portion of it in our adorn-
nent.
Let us hope dcvoutly that she will
never don the inflated skirt. For if
she forever disdains it. then may we,
too. feel quite serene in our slightly
tlaring ones.
But we need not wait for hint from
the white house before buying our early
spring gown, for all of the spring goods
have something in common, and we
can scarcely stray very far from what
she chooses The String goods are alike
after a fashion, and yet, after another
fashion, arc surprisingly unlike. As
we cast ono careless look over Il large
number of fabrics we decide that 1t
makes very little difference which one
we select, rs they all look so much
alike. And then, when we come to OK
anime more closely, we wonder what
gave us this first impression. Forwc find
that there is scarcely any actual re-
Scnblancc. They are, it is true, all OF
some dull, old shade, but, on the other
hand of almost every shade Imaginable.
They have, also, almost every one of
them, some thread running over in n
foreign color. But we discover also,
that these threads are rarely alike in
shade or texture. In addition to this,
we make up our minds first that the
queer. crazy designs formed by these
threads are rather similar, when sud
denly it dawns upon us that no two of
them arc alike. This arouscs our in
trre5t, and we begin to thnl. them
worthy of closer attention after all
Then begins the absorbing question of
which o:lc of all these bcwildcring
fabrics we shall select for our own
Shall it be this thin, sheer goods that
has Il fine silk stripe running through
1t. and. besides, q sort of spider pattern
all over it? Or this dark blue with dull
pink ticur-dclis closely covering itn
Perhaps this gauzy black stuff would
be better with the fine gold thread
so closely woven that it almost con
ccals the groundwork; and yet this
dull pink with funny irregular dots Of
palcr and du!lcr pink over would be
prctticr yet; and these palmer ma
tcrials with the silky stripes are very
attractive. Dear. it is SO hard to make
up ones mind.
But it really matters little which one
you take. For, believe me, when you
get one of them home and see it apart
from the dozen other materials YOU are
bound to like it, and il is almost sure
To be becoming For that is the beauty
of them all. They are all soft, and yet
there is something about each that
makes it stand ont. In word, they're
awfully pretty if you consider each
alone. But take my advice and don't
look NJ too many at one time or you'll
never in this world be satisfied with
one. The very finest of them, with the
patterns run over in silk threads, costs
three dollars n yard. But numbers of
them arc much less expensive
The pulling question is, how to have
them made. If it is really decided that
we are not to have the hoopskirt, what,
then, are we to have? And if it is not
yet quite decided, how soon will it be?
While the world is lowering in state
of uncomfortable suspense, wondering
what will happen next, it is SD fc to OBJ
serve the rules laid down during the last
few months. At least there's one com
fort for all of lis, that so far the skirts