Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-06

0 silk brOcaded with silver, the skirt plain and full, the little round low bodice with bretelles of blue velvet clasped with paste buckles and strapping down hand kerchief frill of yellow lace. More lace framed the shoulders and yelled the short round balloon puffs of sleeves.
 Another blue dress was of satin tinted like the forget-me-not.- Narrow lengths of plain blue started at the waist and fell to the foot of the skirt where they were held by rosettes and flower sprays. The bodice was delicately brocaded and was belted with plain blue, two pointed lengths running up over the bare neck and shoulders.
 A pretty yellow gown was covered with yellow net made straight and full and stiffened with ruche of net at the bottom. E'rills of net with yellow roses hanging from the meshes were draped from the shoulder to hem and folds of net were laid about the low corsage with hugeuribbon bows over the bosom and upon the shoulders.
 Somebody might, with profit, write an essay on the wearing of the veils Properly put on there is no more pow erful assistant to coquetry. Adjusted without skill, no article of the toilet is moro damaging. The veil that goes on before the hat flattens the features. The veil that is drawn tight across the nose distorts that feature and it's compan- ions. The veil that sags below the hat brim hangs in wrinkles anything but becoming. It is required of a veil CD that it hold the hair in place; (2) that it be loose but not too loose; (3) that it be illusive and not obtrusive. Be it said with emphasis that a sprigged veil is an abomination it makes woman look tattooed. A wide veil with mod est dots pinned on, not tied, is the de- sideratum. Have a little bunch of gathers in front for fullness, and be lavish of the folds behind. It is the fancy of the moment to line your dresses with white, and the effect is wonderfully pretty, though the ex. pertinent is a peculiar one for hard times The costume of this order is of black crepon, the petticoat lined throughout with white taffeta. The bodice has a white silk collar with crisp little bows of black satin and skeleton girdle of jet fits the waist cozily. The crossbands over the bust and the black satin cape epaulettes are of white corded silk worked out with jet headings.
 Maybe it is allowable to describe a costume or two oprepared for the charity ball. A pale pink silk made up for one of the debutantes has huge draped sash of pink and blue gauge tied in great knot behind. The bodice is full, round and blouselike, draped with pink gauge and with full ruche about the shoulders. The sleeves arc short, but certainly big enough to make a dress of.
 By the way here's sleeve story. A New York woman whose dresses are models of taste on small money over- hauled an attic chest the other day and found a handsome red and black plaided silk gown that had belonged to her mother. Tartans are the fashion, and she pulled it from its resting place without pause or question.
 Make me high-necked waist" she said to her dressmaker, "a fancy blouse, if you please, with big sleeves for after noon teas"
 The dressmal1er considered. Then without comment she measured. The skirt was full one after the fashion of forty years ago.
 ''It won't cut the sleeves" was her verdict, land whered be the use if it did; there'd not be scrap of waist to put them to?"
 "Then cut me an evening waist" said the woman, 'quite low, and use up what's left on the sleeves"
 The waist was most effective one, and the sleeves were balloons as fash ion requires, but short-so short they were nothing more than toy balloons on the shoulders.
 Haec fabula docet, there's moro stuff in one sleeve to-day than in your grand mothers whole wardrobe.
 But to return to our muttons. An other gown for the charity ball was of pale green satin with soft front of cream-colored gauge strapped down with bands of narrow black velvet rib 1x<x H. szxs