The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-28
WOMAN OF FASHION.

Paris. April 1s.-What one sees In the
shops Of Worth. Felix and Doucet is apt
10 be the fashion Of the coming season,
so / can safely say that green will be
one of the new colors and wood another.
This green is a decidedly new shade,
and has more yellow in it than any yet
put upon the market. / think it could
be called a golden green. out Of ten
frOcks for the spring. eight viii be made
OF either green or wood color.
DOucet. whose frocks are worth a kings
ransom. has WORKED out some wonder
fully pretty ideas in the way of COM
bining tulle and silk. and the silk now in
favor is on the cashmere pattern order.
One Of these charming gowns was made
with fiaring skirt and a deep rufie of
black lace caught up at various points,
with knots Of the tulle, out of which the
bodice was most cleverly fashioned.
The tulle. or. perhaps, more properly
speaking. the mousseline de sole, was as
light and heecy as tulle, with some of
the body of the moUsselline. With this
old rose tulle We're used straps of black
beading, and the sleeves of the cash
mere silk were finished with bands of
the jet reaching from the elbow to the
wrist. With it a large Powered hat was
worn.
Another but simpler frock made by
Doucet was ordered by a French belle.
The colors were blue, yellow and red,
combined so cleverly as TO make perfect
harmony. and the frock was fashioned
with perfectly plain skirt, fuller than
those We have seen during the winter.
The bodice consisted of a sharp-pointed
waist with full vest Of dark blue crepe
de lisse, and ribbons fashioned into small
fly-away bows, held in the crepe at either
side. The sleeves were of the familiar
lego mutton shape and had large, stiff
cuffs of the blue lisse over plain blue silk,
with small bows of the ribbon at the side.
4 hat had also been designed to be worn
with this frock, and / think IL one of the
prettiest displayed by the clever shop
woman who makes hats to be worn with
DOucets gown. 1t consisted of a large,
rought brim of blue straw. with a crown
of fine straw and immense bows at the
front and back of the crepe de lisse, over
which hung some scarlet pOpies.
The polka-dot In silk is again in vogue,
and it can never be improved upon. 1t is
made in blue and white, white and blue,
red and blue but the newest of all is of
wood, green and red three little dots in
one bunch. sprayed over a ground of tan.
This silk is not expensive, and requires
only little lace with a touch of velvet
to make ii up into an ideal spring gown
Several of these silk frocks have been
made with deep pla1tingS or the SILK
around the bottom of the skirt, and above
that another plating of lace or crepe
lisse In a color either to correspond with
the silk or on the same shade. There is
a great liking for that ''rufiy' look about
my lGdy's feet, so many of them have
quantities of rufes and plaitings either
of lace or soft materials, After the stiff,
severe skirt they are quite refreshing and
seem to bring in with their fiufiiness a
touch of the spring. One gown | admired
very much and it was made of green and
gold shot silk. The skirt had a ruffe
from the knees to the edge of the gown
of the finest yellow lace, artistically ar
ranged, caught up higher in one place
than another, 50 as to give the whole
skirt a very graceful look. The bodice had
a covering of this same yellow lace, which
over the silk was exquisite, while the
fun sleeves were finished with A tiny roll
OF velvet around the cuff of the deepest
shade of green. while the collar and mar
row belt were of this same velvet Its very
simplicity was its charm.
Another silk gown which l think could
be copied was made'of dark blue cashmere
silk. the plain skirt made much on the
style of those we have been wearing
The waist was entirely fashioned of blue
mousseline de sole. with a short Zouave
jacket of the cashmere silk. Collars and
cuffs and marrow belt were of blue vel
vet. covered with gold galloon, and the
sleeves were of the cashmere silk. COW
cred to the elbow, with the mousseline de
sole.
To have velvet and tulle in a frock is
an effective result, but the velvet must
be used sparingly. While looking at these
silk gowns, l noticed a very handsome re-
ception toilette, which ! was told was for
one of the coming spring weddings. The
material was pink tulle, with perfectly
plain skirt and tulle bodice fulled on from
the round cut corsage into soft band of
rose velvet, and across the front of the
bodice was drawn a band of the same
velvet, laid on very fat and gathered at
the shoulder into small choux. The i'm
mense puffs called sleeves, were of the
velvet. and the gown was one long TO be
remembered from its artistic beauty of
colOring, as the tulle was a few tones
paler than the velvet. Rose pink from
either the palest to the deepest shade
is ever exquisite, and that, with green in
all tones. is the color the Parisans ia
vor most for evening gowns.
Here, " said the clever designer of these
frocks, "are two gowns for spring to
be sent over to America as models -
They certainly were striking in the origi-
nality of their conception, and one of
them l liked much better than the other
which, although very handsome seemed
to me a little bit daring for a gown to be
worn even In a victoria. My favorite was
a heliotrope silk. The skirt had an over
drapery as old-fashioned as any of those
worn a generation ago. only now one
does not think 1t too old-fashioned, but