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

ing each other and giving vicious little
asols in the struggle to reach a "bargain
counter"
Those bargain counters are but too often
q delusion and a snare, and after the buyer
has fought for some piece of stuff or other
she finds on sober judgment and examina-
ton that she has paid more for this straggly
end of silk or velvet han q piece off the
freshest roll would have cost, or that what
had appeared so fair and fine at first was in
SOM way injured or defective. But neither
one lesson nor ten will convince arabid bar
gain hunter that it is better to buy what
you want when you want it and as much
rs you want than to buy a remnant that is
always too much or too little. This does
not apply to the standard woolens, which
are, as l think I have said before, true econ
omy.
So let us. look at some of the new styles
in fine imported gowns. We notice first
and foremost that there is a good deal of
'drapery on all the garments that will bear
it. This means that some of the long coat
wraps are being draped across the front, on
fhe hips or q little in the back, and that
the close fitted polonaise is seen very often.
Some of these have short draped fronts and
the back breadths hanging free. Others
have fronts reaching to the bottom of the
skirts and Topped up on the sides. In short,
this mode is bound to copy closely after
that in vogue srme eight or nine years ago.
~his difference l note-that there is a slight
raising of the back breadths over a small
pad scarcely large enough to be called a
hustle, yet enough to show that nature has
been slightly supplemented.
These %polonaise costumes are every one
endowed with some small decoration, or
the cut of the collar, sleeves or the garment
itself serves to recall some historical epoch,
it makes no difference what, from the time
of the palmy days of Rome to the second
empire, It is enough that whatever caprice
it is it shall be becoming.
l predict that very many of the daintiest
and most fetching Of the summer gowns
will be Dolly Varden's and Vatican shep,
herdess styles. Those dainty and delicate
lawns and ''sprigged'' muslins will be love.
ly made SO, though as yet the preference
seems to be for the 1880 modes.
This climate lends itself to almost any
kind of material, even during the summer,
so that the handsome heavy gowns of this
season can be worn for a long time and be
quite in style. l think it is the men who
believe that women's fashions change every
week, and that what we get Monday is
passee by Saturday. It is true that there
are always new things coming out, but E
good dress made in a becoming and modest
style remains in fashion as long as the wear
'er cares for it. Sometimes a change in the
trimming or an alteration in the sleeves i!
necessary, but the gown itself is good for a
least two seasons. d
Now, one that I saw the other day is 0
that kind. The dress was of dull gendarm'
blue tricot and was cut princess in tn
back, and the front was drawn across will
several plaits at the waist line, which brok'
the severity into artistic folds. The who'll
dress was bordered with Alaska sable, ant
at the waist and on the shoulders tails wer
used as ornaments. The forearm piece
were entirely Of fur and reached we'll dow