Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-02

and down each side the front. This is for
a young married lady and is one of the
riches. garments of the season.
There was a handsome wrap that is wor-
thy of mention. This mantle was of gray
and brown brocaded satin and was bor-
dered with white ostrich flues. The steep
collar was of seal brown velvet, bordered
with stiff gold embroidery, and it had a
fancy silk and metal fringe. 1t was lined
with quilted satin of a soft, sage green.
Other capes there are, many of them super
posed and pinkedor scalloped and embroid-
cred on the edges, and many quite plain,
but cut with a knife, which gives them a
finish that no scissors can.
There are many beaver and covert jack
cts, finished in the most exquisite style.
There are hundreds of short jackets Of a sort
of REFER shape, and there is no possibility of
enumerating the different capes.
I notice a growing in favor of the blouse
waist in one form or another. It used to be
thought that a blouse was intended more
for comfort than beauty or dressiness, but
nov the handsomest gowns have blouses. l
recall one thatI saw where the gown was
Of seal brown cloth, with a figaro bordered
with fur, and with a cape collar also trim
med with fur. There was beneath this
figaro a blonse of salmon yellow surah, with
a belt and high collar of the same. There
were loops of surah held by rhinestone
buckles at both belt and waist. Blouses of
white silk or chiffon in more ways than l
have time to tell are added to corsages.
They are generally, when for evening,
draped with something else, or crossed by
ribbon or held in by trailing wreaths.
Among many handsome dresses that have
come under my notice the past week is one
deserving of special mention. This had an
under dress of biscuit cashmere, overlaid
around the bottom and up the left side of
the skirt by insertions of venetian point.
There was an overdress of moss green cam
el's hair, draped in a most graceful fashion
across the skirt. TIE waist had a pointed
opening, covered with the lace over the tan
and draped from the shoulders surplice
fashion to the belt in front and to a point
in the back. The sleeves had falling puffs
of tan over tan forearms and loose full caps
of the green made double. These were az
ranged to be longer in the back than in
front. A more ideally beautiful gown than
this it would be hard to find. Made with
maize and white woods it would he almost
classic.
There are so many novelties in small
things, like fans, combs, jewelry and other
notions, that one scarcely knows where to
begin. The fans now seen are enormous,
but are quite as beautiful as they are large.
I saw one Of white point lace stretched over
black crepe lisse and mounted on ebony
sticks, which were picked out with silver.
On the lace was hand painted a bunch of
poppies and grasses. Another was of white
crepe lisse, with the sticks arranged so that
narrow pink ribbons could be run through
in three rows and end in bows on the outer
sticks. Along between the rows of ribbon
were hand painted trailing arbutus sprays.
One fan had bows of ribbon set on the
sticks Inc Il border of ostrich plumes on the
edge. Some of the fans lave long bows of
ribbon to hold them by, and others have
cord and ~tassels; others have nothing. All,