St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-28

vet bow, and glittering with paste
buckle. What if Napoleon didn't wear
a straw hat until he reached st. Hell
enal
Holding its favor still against the
newcomer is the toque, the Dutch bon
net, the mere butterfly bow of jet or
beaded wire, the merest framework of
a head covering.
The sex is divided into camps. The
dashing girl, the merry. laughing girl.
will have her chapeau la Napoleon
or her picture hat of creamy lace and
straw or delicate green, of black lace
upon a silk braid plated to initiate
straw.
In the camp of the toque is the bru-
nette with good features but narrow
forehead and the soulful-eyed girl who
looks unutterable things from her big
and liquid orbs. They are not a bit
alike, these two, but they both look
their best in the demure little bonnet
The toque is demure in size only
There are iridescent chiffons in gold
and green, with big punches of violets
whereof are cunningly wrought mere
wreathS to crown the head; and there
are toques of gold arabesques-the
frame only-with purple roses, and
others of shot ribbon, which are GER
tain to grow more numerous.
HO FOR THE CHIFFON MAID.
In the parallelogram of forces where
of the fluffy girl and the tailor-made
girl tugged for the mastery is the
resultant chiffon girl. Tailor-made had
things all her own way last season.
Miss Fluffy bided her time. She is
gentle. but insistent, curved and
rounded, but vertebrate. Silks and
crepons and chiffons she accepts as
victory partly won. Who shall say
whether compromise may not give way
to victory complete?
Take, for instance, a costume in silk
and wool challie, peach pink, striped
with white. Let there be bands of
ecru guipure edged with ruff1ed pink
chiffon down the skirt front, and points
thereof about the hips, and bishop
sleeves and pink satin waistband. a
bonnet of some green gardeny-looking
adornment, and you snail have garb
which nine women out of ten would
prefer to the stiffest, most angular
tailor-made that ever tailor made.
1t is impossible to get sleeves too big
down to the elbow. or too small be-
low it.
Not yet is the pneumatic sleeve" of
the funny writer's. but we are next door
to 1t, with sleeves held out to their full
bigneSS by wires, and wired bows and
fluffy chiffon sleeves. 1t is a question
more serious than ever how to avoid
crushing ones sleeves, unless there is
carriage for every change of base
Anything SO crowded as a street car
or elevated car at crowded hours means
agony of soul. What martyrs women
are!
Turn we for consolation sweet to a
beige crepon, white spotted, cunningly
concocted, with Nile water silk. Tie
skirt is full-hipped for these times.
gathered into a band of guipure over
the silk. The sleeves are big and bal
loony. The bodice has a draped front
of Nile chiffon. The epaulets are of
guipure, the collar of chiffon, edged
with silk Valenciennes lace The hat
for this costume should be white chip,
with ostrich feathers and a trimming
of beige lace about the crown.
GOWNS OF A BRIDE.
An axiom in double rule of three:
II Mrs. CurZon's waist-belt is to the
hem of her gown as l is to Is, and the
former is twenty-five inches, the lat
ter must be nine yards. And such
indeed is the case with that wonder
full trousseau of hers about which one
hears SO much. Skirts were seven