St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-05
THE HABIT AND GOWN
Spring UshePs Both in, One
for Riding and the Other
for Weddings.
First Impressions Are Keen
est, Nothing as Much
AfterWard.
EXpectant Feelings During
the First Sitting for a
Photograph.
An Unique Riding Habit and a
SimDle Weddinp Gown for
An Unique Riding Habit and a
Simple Wedding Gown for
Spring.

Special Letter to the Globe.
NEW YORK, March 4.-Redfern says
that this the is season for riding habits
account for them going together except
that the spring, tine beautiful spring"
is coming on and the fresh breeZeS are
tempting the fair equeStrianS out in the
same seductive way that they incline
the young mans fancy" lightly TO
turn to thoughts of love.
Spring is the beginning of the year,
bright, fresh, verdant and untried, like
the first impressions of youth.
Have you ever noted the sensations of
First EmPressiOns!
They are either very, very blissful. or
very, very dreadful. They are intense
in any case. Nothing DleaseS or moves
one SO much after the first time. One is
never so wonderfully happy again or so
wonderfully miserable. Not that there
Is any need to suppose that the great
mass of mankind blaSe after the very
first Impression. But the peculiar, vivid,
knife-iiSe keenneSS can only be felt
once. You cannot repeat, be you ever
so simple, be you ever so impression
able, the delightful feeling produced by
the first novel which you ever read. 1t
opened gates never opened to you be-
fore. These showed you glimpses, dis
tances. vast vistaS, of things which you
were surprised and delighted with your
self for understanding. You will re-
member how you read certain passages
over twice. You lost yourself and for
got the world and your surroundings.
You felt elevated by the heroic passages,
little caring whether you dined or not.
And then the nervous, eXpectanU
feeling of the first sitting at the photog-
rapher's! And then the cold, hot frenzy
of excitement that preceded the first
ball! Then the delicious, mad SenSa-
tons mated to the first kisSi All these,
l repeat, are felt once, and once only.
Enjoyment which some may reckon
more reasonable and lasting may come
after, but never again that peculiar all
alive feeling that went with the first
impressions.
But there are cOmpensations in all
things. The first keen woe of misery
cuts as deeply as the first Joy ethereal
ICES. The first misery hurts more than
anything ever hurts afterwards.
1t was the mention of spring that in
duced me to wander off into this strain
of moralizing. And spring to Redfern
means wedding gowns. Dreams OF
white merveilleuX, satin and lace. But
Redfern says that women are getting to
have little more individuality OH the
subject of wedding gowns. They don't
all follow like SO many sheep in the
footsteps that others have made on the
way towards the altar.
The other day a pretty woman was
gOwned by Redfern in q creation of dull,
soft white cloth made with these brace
like shoulder friliS, pleated fatty into
box pleats over the shoulders, pleated
girdle of the cloth ending in pretty ro-
settles of purely French kind, which
you must see for yourselves, as it is I'M
possible to describe them. The skirt
was, OF course, the new kind, la crino-
line, which means that il is very full
and sets out well about the feet. 1t was
decorated with folded bands of the
cloth. / venture to say that the bride
who wore this simple gown looked ev-
cry bit as charming as any sumptuously
gowned bride in priceless lace and
satin.
If were bride, though. would on
that occasion dress superbly. Nothing
should be too good for me, 10 material
too costly, too soft, too rich, too delicate.
1t is the grand event of woman's life.
Everything either begins here or stops.
Therefore, it should be well celebrated.
ApropoS OF crinOline skirts, Redfern
is making them nine yards wide, and
these are as graceful as possible to look
at. The bands are becoming a trit1e
hackneyed, and flounceS will be seen
OH all the best gowns.
Speaking of riding habits, only the
very daring women are challenging
criticism and jeers with the frock coat