Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-02

Such . gown as this is a comfort to the
wearer, who knows she looks we'll dressed,
and she knows, too, that this gown will be
a mainstay for at least two seasons for q
"best" street gown.
I notice with pleasure that there is a tend
ency to return to the combination of red
and blue in gowns both for home and street.
These two colors are natural compliments,
and they go we'll toward making a cheap
gown look handsome. / noticed recent
ly a dark blue serge made for a young lady.
The skirt was plain in form, with five cores,
and handsomely braided with wide black
soutache. The front breadth was left open
on each side to admit of a narrow panel Of
cherry satin. The waist opened over a vest
of the same and there was a sprung hounce
to the waist, lined with the satin. At the
neck there was a wide jabot of the satin,
which spread nearly to the points of the rev.
ers. The high collar was also red.
The young lady whose duty it is to try on
costumes in this particular establishment
looked weary and tired of the vanities of
new gowns until she put this gown on. 1t
took five years off her age and all the weari-
ness out of her face, whereupon I made q
note of the fact that blue and cherry make
agood combination for those who have lost
their color and those who look older thar
they are.
At this same place they make a speciality
of mourning garments, and ! sat and
watched another young girl try on dresses,
coats, wraps, bonnets and wells, and I was
struck by the somber depression that
seemed to fall over her young head by as
ISOLATION with so much funereal black.
But I also noted a very handsome gown
for a young widow who has let a CLEAN of
comfort creep into her sorrow enough to al
low her to take off the bonnet with its tell
tale row of white Grape and put on adainty
little affair made of the material of her
gown, and bordered with fiat, dull jet
beads and ornamented with a couple of
black fancy wings. The Grape veil in many
instances is gathered or plated to a close
bunch and fastened to the back of the bon
net and left to fall straight down the back.
This is as great a physical torture as could
be invented, and how women bear it is past
finding out and proves them to be the
! stronger sex instead of the weaker.
For elderly women there are little close
bonnets that tie with strings under the
! chin, and over these are thrown the wells,
and then they are fastened to the bonnet by
lusterless pins and left to fall over the
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terrible. They pull and drag and give head
aches and backaches. Something ought to
be devised to make the wearing of a mourn
ing veil a little less of a penance.
The double silk warp henrietta shawls
are preferred by ladies who have passed
their meridian or whose means are such as
to preclude changes of style. Others have
mantles bordered with Grape or with that
ugly crinkled tape fringe that some like.
Others, and these are the great majority
prefer a three-quarter black melton coat
without trimming. Others nave entire
suits made of silk warp henrietta faced and
bordered with courtauld Grape, and som
have costumes of the beautiful new eudora
cloth. One of this kind had a plain skirt
with several heavy plaits in the back
Around the bottom was a deep facing Of
Grape, cut in scallops and reaching up to Q