The morning news., 1894-09-30
WOMEN BACK IN TOWN.
Bah Tells Of New YOTk'S Gay Shop
ping Time.


Contingent of Us, EternaIIy Shop
Lunch OF Sweet Cakes and Choco-
late, and Don't Buy--Enelish and
French Women Don't Do That Wav.
A Discourse on Corsages, and the
Displaying of Necks and Shoulders.
Taste in the Wearing of Clothes.
Ouida's Heroines and Bravery Re-
garding Bills - Dignifed Women.
How Few There Are.
New York City, Sept 29.-The melau-
choly days have come. the saddest of the
year to mankind and the happiest to the
shopkeepers. For, during these DAYS,
lovely woman goes out to do her fall shop
ping, and to let the world at large know
exactly how ill-tempered she can be. and
how bad her manners are. She will 90 in
and out Of shops all day long; have heavy
packages of material lifted down for her
to look at-material she would not ac-
cept as gift; lunch off sweet cake and a
cup of chocolate; go home tired to death,
with nothing to show for her days work
but innumerable packages of samples.
PURELY AMERICAN.
This fashion of giving samples is purely
reason
why the clerks wouldTather wait either
on a French or an English woman for
they never go into shops except when
they want to buy. They are IN the habit
Of dealing at certain places usually know
what they want, and do not bedevil the
salesman into showing them things they
do not want, or OBTAINING them for hours
looking at stuffs they have no idea Of
buying. l do not know who started the
fashion, but certainly the American
woman is as eager for samples as she is
for gold dollars; and yet what earthly
use are they to hers Tiny bits of cloth,
scraps of cashmere ends of gauze or in
tinitessinal pieces of silk are gotten, made
much of, and nobody can explain the
reason why Men don't buy that way,
and some men are very good shoppers
Going about nowadays one sees the
latest type of woman. She is large. she
is plump, she is a little sleepy looking
She is arranging her halr in low, soft,
bun shaped affair that comes far down
on the back of her head, not unlike, by
the-bY the waterfalls that one sees in the
old-faShioned books. And then, her bon
net is so far back that it looks exactly as
if it were falling off.
AFTER SOME DUCHESS.
Who is she imitating2 Some one of the
numerous ducheSses whose pictures are
on sale and whom she has selected as her
hideous buns would ever be worn in the
country, for they take away the shape of
a wOman's head, and as they require a
great deal of hair, one is forced to be-
lieve that some false locks are assumed.
Lately women have been wise enough to
arrange their own hair as best they could,
so that the shape of the head would show
to good advantage, and then they have
worn no stolen locks, but the bun necessi-
taJes hair pads and false hair, and both
of these suggest untidiness.
With all the dignity demanded by the
new type. the woman who is affecting it
yet, assumes somewhat girlish air.
That is, she looks as If she were ignorant
Of everything in the world, and not as if
she read the daily papers. To carry out
this idea, which permits veritable baby
stare, there is not gown she possesses
that does not have bid of either lace or
chiffon upon it. Sometimes this bib is
very short, reaching just to the bust
sometimes it extends to the waist, and
again, it falls far below, at If to hide all
outlines Of the figure for fear they might
suggest woman rather than girl. The
prettiest thing to wear about the shoul-
ders for the evening, are the very deep
lace capes, made, as they oftenest are, of
creamy white insertion and golden brown
velvet, with deep, white frill as their
finish. These are very pretty and femi-
nine, and sufficiently suggestive of wrap
10 40 Tor the theatre or the opera.
GOWNS AT THE OPERA.
Bythe-bye. speaking of the opera, her
sweetness, the Princess of Wales, has
been expressing herself very freely on the
subject of gowns that are cut too low. /
wonder what she would think If she could
see the circle on the opera nights
here in New York. The more
bones woman has the lower her
frock is devised, and the more she sug-
gest the fact that she is a close cOnnec-
ton OF some well-bred COW, the lower will
her bodice be found. Now, a very fat or
very thin woman never looks well in a
low bodice. 1t is possible that the throat
may be beautiful; show that then but
uraW the line there. 1t is possible that
the shoulders are beautiful; display them
II you wish, but at least be little modest
about 1t. l think if all women realized
now men talk and how men look at them
when they so lavishly display their
charms, they would put on penitent's
robes and let their bones and flesh be hid
uen from sight forever.
NECKs AND ARMS.
like to see a beautiful neck but
uon like to see an immodest woman.
lhey can talk as much as they want
aoout usage and being unconscious of the
impression made No one becomes sufi-
GENTLY used to displaying what ought not
w W seen LOT nef TO forget IL. AS gen
eral thing, American women have not
beautiful necks and arms Like their
French sisters, they are apt to be a little
skinny; unlike their French sisters,
Jney are not wise enough to
hlde their defects, but they display
tnem, and simply make themselves laugh
Ing stocks for wiser people English
women have beautiful necks and arms.
Osually, they are low busted and can
wear their bodices with modesty cut
much lower than can the American wo-
man. | do think that women ought to
give little more thought to this, and
mat the line should be drawn between
WHAT'S beautiful and what is not, for
really that is what makes modesty and
lmmodesty.
ONLY FOR THE DAYTIME.
But to return TO the fashi ons. The
Hansborough hat is predicted not only
Is IL predicted. but it is here, in felt and
velvet Here, with from eight to twelve
feathers surmountiug it, and suggesting
10 one that, while it may be beautiful and
picturesque for the street or for afIer-
noon affairs, there will be some idiot who
VIII wear it to the theaters, and make
the play simply dead backness TO who
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