Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-04-05
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Special correspondence Of Gazette and journal
NEW York, March 30.-I feel like
saying "EIurrah for the girl with the
new dress ~ The new dress is the right
of the young woman. Some day she
may have vote; some day she may be
a Senator and make the laws for the
nation, but | don't think anything Of
this sort will give her as perfect a
pleasure as the possession Of a new
frock. OF course, there are frocks and
frocks. But the frock of this year is
the girliest of all. 1t fairly runs riot
with laces. 1t gets wildly excited with
ribbons. 1t sways TO and fro and an
nounces that it is lined with silk, and it
fits in at the waist and comes out very
broad on the shoulders, so that the
smallness of one and the breadth OF the
other is most pronounced. like girl
with new frock. II tends to make
her amiable. 1t is her right. II is what
men should work for, and do really
think man enjoys seeing his ducats go
for something so positively feminine.
THE SEASONS LOVELY FRocKs.
This year the new frock has touch
of green about it. This isn't meant to
explain the girl. Oh, dear, no. II
only means that she is young and ten
der, and altogether charming. A
woman with u new frock can accom-
piish much. 1t makes her believe in
herself. 1t causes her to be amiable to
all mankind and makes her so loving
that she will yield an inch with the GER
tainty Of getting yard. The new frock
tends towards diplomacy. The wearer
of it disarms her enemies by her anna
bility, and makes her friends love her
more than ever. She finds it difficult to
be disagreeable when she is enshrined
in the newest stuff, the most becoming
color and a cut that is supreme in its
perfection. 1t is queer how much cut
means. A bingham cut by a master
hand, mean that to be masculine, be-
cause there is no doubt that men arc the
best dressmakers, has an air of its own,
an air of smartness unknown to the
most magnificent brocade, if the scissors
that shaped it were guided by an APP
prentice's hands. You and and every
body else have seen people in brocades
who looked like sofa pillows, and girls
in cottons, those delicious pink and blue
ones, that looked like angels.
now TO DRESS.
If there is any one thing woman
ought to know, it is how to dress her
self, and yet, somebody who is very
little over five feet with waist that
would require to be Rugged in sections,
and general development under her
chin that hints at dairy, will elect to
wear black brocade with huge bou-
quets of pink roses upon it, and nobody
has the courage to tell her what mis-
take she has made. If anybody did say
anything she would cry; that kind of a
woman always cries and says that the
material was handsome, and she
couldn't help being fat Well, she can
help looking fat. She has funny
fashion of wearing jet belt. Now, any
kind of a belt will make her look larger,
but she ought to abhor jet as she does
poison, for anything that sparkles
makes its background appear twice as
big.
Then, too, it is possible that, having a
large, fat lobe to her ear, she sticks in a
diamond solitaire, and she ought to
know that she should never wear any
stone that glitters. Pearls or turquoise
belong to the stout woman; all the
stones that sparkle to the slender ones.
By-the-by, speaking of earrings, aren't
you glad to see that the women who
count themselves the elect no longer
wear them? They have at last dis.
covered that pretty ear doesn't need q
jewel to attract attention, and that Ger,
tainly one shouldn't be put III an ugly
ear To draw the eyes of the lookers.on tC
its defects. The only earrings | even
heard of that thought must be bcauti
full were those worn by Salamho; and, il
you remember, they were followed
pearls. filled with exquisite perfume, ant
SO swung on spirals of gold that they
swayed to and fro, and droppeG the
scent on her beautiful bare shoulders
Evidently, in those days the art o
dressing was thoroughly understood.
woMAN's SHIRT FRONT.
By-the-by, l am going to say something
that maybe you won't like. 1t is this
that, ior the spring and summer, in TIL
mornings, in the mountains, OF whei
travelling, there is nogirl who looks 81
perfectly well dressed as she who is tailor
made. 1t is perfect nonsense to say sh
looks like man. She don't. The Ameri
can woman couldn't look that way if sh
wanted TO. She is built in the mos
feminine fashion, aud, consequently
coats and shirts only intensity this, am
look, they increase, rather than tax
away, from her femininity. The othe
day l was talking with fashionubl
shirt-maker in New York, and | aske
him why he charged a dollar apiec
more for a woman's shirt than he di
for mans. With many bushes, Ii
said "a man is just straight up an
down, you know, and lady, well,
: lady-you know-a lady has curve
and a mans shirt wouldn't button o
her" / thought that knocked over III
whole theory Of masculine belonging
taking away from the sweet w1manline
of woman. Probably the most teminir
women IN the world are the Englis
ones, and they are the ones who tir
saw the desirability of the comfortab
cloth skirt just escaping the ground,
the clean shirt, the pretty belt, and Il
easy fitting cutaway jacket.
ADMIRATION FOR STRONG MEN.
There arc no women in the world wi
are so entirely governed by their me
no women who worship them 50 a
iectly, no women who SO dread bell
left without one, AMI no women who
in for the so-called masculine get-up
they do. Once in a while one Of the
breaks out and writes a disreputal
book, but usually that woman would
perfectly happy if some muscular spet
men of mankind would give her go,
thrashing for her bad behavior. n
worship of the English woman for mt
Giles is most amusing. They don't co
slider brains compare with them in
man, and whole household will ko
too to the great big fellow who has w
boat race and count of no moment
all bis rather delicate brother who h