The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-18
The WOMAN OF FASHION.
Copyright.

Copyright.
New York. Nov. l6.-"Why should every
thing that a woman loves be so shocking
~ dear?" 1 heard a disconnected voice
say beside me. "Why should we always be
denied pretty things because we can't
afford them? See there, now!' and she
turned toward a regal creature coming
down the street 1T is easy enough for
her to look perfectly charming, with all
that style, and a full purse back of it, no
doubt What's the use of all the reforms,
anyway, when they leave this most i'm
portant question untouched? They talk
Of equality of opportunity, but I fail to
see it, unless it is opportunity to confis-
cate; and even that isn't equal. II is the
swell women that get along, whether they
are adventuresses or bonifide. I wouldn't
even make a good shop-lifter. My gown
and cape haven't the correct cut for the
occupation" This somewhat extraor-
binary speech from a rather demure,
sweet-looking individual who stood look
ing in a shop window that was filed with
rich fur garments, made doubiy fair by
the soft electric lights. I fell to pictur-
ing the tall, graceful figure in one of
them, and felt confident that she would
be a success. 1t did seem too bad.
1t seems to be fur, more than anything
else, that arouses this rebellious feeling in
women Perhaps it is because the article
is so battling. There is no initiating it
with any degree of success. The clever
woman can get up stylish street costume
for a quarter of what her fashionable
friend has paid. She will have a Fifth
avenue hat reproduced, with the same
ratio of reduction in cost. She can get up
the very latest cape by deity making il
herself; and when it comes to evening
and house dresses. why she revels in
dainty bodices and sleeves and tea gowns
and all that sort of thing made from ma
terials that cost anywhere from cents to
S. "A yard. Even SO handsome thing as
velvet doesn't discomfort her: for isn't
there Velutina, with its alluring sheen that
Ensembles so cleverly. and never betravs
the fact, that it isn't what it seems?
But fur-ah, that's another matter! To
be convinced of the fact all you need to do
is to take your position beside that of the
discontinued maiden and look in that
bright shop window. You know there
no initiating one of those costly garments;
and that if you are unable even
by strict economy, to scrape to-
gether the wherewithal with which
to purchase one, the only thing TO
be done is 20 resign yourself. and thank
heaven that you are at least clothed and
in your right mind.
The first thing you viii notice is the
prevalence Of Persian lamb i'm am its va
rieties-the soft MORE of the still-born
lamb, the silken Persian, and the nno
caracule. 1t makes entire coats and trims
cloth and seal. II has "a lightness I'm tts
finer varieties, which the heavier fIrs
lack, ana give better results for the hale
or three-quarter length, ught-nittinr gar
ments that win be worn this winter these
garments are made with the fun Qodetsd
or back regulation revers and HIGH ROLL
ing collar; or in the newer shape. with tail
Grenade back cut open bon the middle
and overlapping 20 "a considerable extent
lu front they are doubIe-lraasted and
olose-nttlng Tho sleeves ar, nf huge. Dr,-
portions. OF course. s0 tlut fEa Iayga
dress sieve may Doc quite uuharmed mo
reyers droop as much Ha tlu nHn- fo.
ANA you viii notice thHf almost HII or ~
garments are trimmed VIln arst n.arI
buttons.
rher. iH also Prince Albert sham.
among these Persian auI sfaI uuat. ttn
nIll Observe that % nH closely aIsta fn.