Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-12-16
yEW BODICES AND WRAPS
EXQUISITE FLOWERLIKE HOUSE WAISTS FOR
SMART WOMEN.
Evening Wraps Are Gorgeous AfAirs-SOms Of
the Bodies Are Not Very
Costly.

As winter festivities continue 10 un-
fold themselves, and afternoon tea and
other modest home functions become
more and more patronized, the fancy
waist grows in favor aud loneliness.
IL is always so much less difficult 10
successfully accom- Blish half costume
than a whole toilet. Now that the new
hybrid art OF welding half dozen ma
terials aud as many colors into the same
garment has come in, the woman OF
wits and well supplied scrap bag sees
before her possibilities for combina-
ton Of economy and splendor never
known before.
Velvet, silk. lace, chiffon, fur and jet
or passementerie are often seen piled to-
geLher on a single slight body; and yet
the result is not the hopeless tumble IL
would seem.
Far from it, indeed, for judiciously
composed, with a proper blending OF
tones and stuffs, this late freak OF FASH
ion is a thing OF pure and becoming
l0velinesS.
A CHARMING MODEL.
At late afternoon tea given in tiny
but very elegant uptown apartment a
bodice was seen that many quoted as
faithful exponent of this strange Hover
millinery. 1t began with short, rouRd
Elton of dim art red Liberty velveteen-
a charming and inexpensive material,
by the way, worthy Of consideration.
Under this fell loose blouse OF Span
ish valenciennes lace in deep, rich yell
low, hung over the bust, and banded at
neck and wrists with brown mink tails.
Little pointed cuffs and a collar OF tur-
Quoise velvet turned over this, and at
the slight belt and peeping out from the
waist was roll OF gold colored satin rib
bon. The sleeves were bishop shape, three
quarter length, and decorated al the
outside with the Spanish vslenciennes.
This fell In loose, downwaed cas-
cade caught on as carelessly as would
be tornscobweb on a towering rose
bush and the whole was bewitching
fantasia.
Another bodice on the same order
had a round yoke formed in rows of at
least four different designs in jet. The
body itself was Of chiffon in misty
opal blue, with heavy revers of bis
cult lace. neck band of sable and a
pointed collar OF geranium pink velvet.
However. fortunately for evenly bal
anced tastes, there are other modes
than these harlequin patterns to be
chosen from. They do rot adm of the
same possibilities of using up bits Of
handsome materials on hand, but TO
many minds they are more satisfying.
Waists of tartan velvet have only the
splendor OF their plaids, or, perhaps, a
crush collar aud belt OF black satin rib
bon as ornamentation.
Plain and figured chiffons tumble in
tender, drifting pillows over busts and
arms; aid again sober hued one-say
black, for exampe-will be content TO
shine mainly in CAV lining that will
peep through innumerable eyelet holes,
cut in stiff daisy patterns, maybe, all
over the chiffon.
These open work chffons, by the
way, seem favOrite novelty, but, after
all. they are not near so effective as
those plain or figured.
BODICE DESIGNS.
The first thing one notices in the
fancy bodice OF the hour is that all
sleeves droop down and outward, and
that there is growing tendency TO
afpant 2 IN