St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-07
THE NEWEST SKIRT
What the Girls of America
Are Coming To in Easter,
1895.
GLOVE FITTING AT THE HIPS
And at Least Seven or Eight
Yards Around at the
Bottom.
SCANNED TILL ALL STITCHES
Hats Are of Course Straw,
Broad-Brimmed, and Are
Turned Up Behind.

NEW YORK, April GA young
woman who is clever (she paints
with William M. Chase and does
newspaper work when the light is
not good, to pay her bills) came into
a newspaper Office yesterday. She
sought the Office of the most good
natured editor. "Ah, just stepped
in to see if you were here. 1t is sc
long since 1 have seen you"
Now, this swas not strictly true,
for she had seen the good-natured
editor the day before, but, in point
of fact, she had a new gown. The
good-natured editor noticed the
dress and reflected incidentally on
the ways of clever young women
Or perhaps he reflected on the ways
of clever young women and noticed
the dress incidentally. The distinc-
ton is not material. The dress is
for it was built with one of the new
skirts.
Do you appreciate the new skirts
Do you realize what the clever
| young woman and other young
The young woman's dress was con.
! structed of leaf-green cloth with
draperies glove-ftting at the hips
! and seven or eight yards around al
the bottom. To graduate a skirt OF
those dimensions is a. task that
engineer. 1t is the most exact and
the most engrossing of sciences,
failure in which means financial
ruin; success, shekels and the smiles
OF the clever young woman
The new skirt has cores past
counting. It is scanned until 1t is
all stitches, and might almost as
well be made without any cloth at
all. 1t has three or four hoops run
in at the bottom, and it is faced up
about ten inches with silk and a
stiff crinoline. The result is De-
culiar. One is a living picture, or
whereabouts, to the thighs; below
that one sweeps and sways and
trails.
The clever girl had black Jet to
cover the seams of her green skirt
In front, and, indeed, as the fashion
is, all the way around. She had a
black silk yoke to her bodice with
black jet to edge it, and three black
jet bands down the front and be-
hind. She had a green straw hat
with black feathers, and if she didn't
sell all her manuscripts she quite
deserved to do so.
There's nothing in this world that
brings in money like looking as if
you didn't care to bring it in.
QUAINT HATS FOR EASTER
Easter hats are of the coarsest,
most loosely woven straw that I
have ever seen, but light in weight
and in color. They are big, broad
brimmed, low crowned and turned
up behind. l watched a young So
ciety girl trying on" at fashion
able shop this morning. She was a
little thing, brown-eyed, brown
haired, saucy-faced and most inter
esting. Her first love was q picture
hat of corn-fower blue straw with a
flight of blackbirds about the crown.
the broad wings expanding in front
with an effect that was most daring
After this she tried a huge black
straw with f1eur-de-lis velvet folded
In loose band about the crown and
with short black ostrich plumes nod
ding over the edge of the velvet in
a dancing circle. Over the hair he
hind trooped two or three great pur-
pie and yellow fieur-de-lis, with their
green lily flags accompanying.
A third effect was a hat of vel
low wheat straw just touched with
brown. It's trimmings were huge
yellow roses, with green leaves shad-
ing in spots into crimson.
SEEN AT A WEDDING.
at a wedding reception day or
two ago L saw the prettiest bonnet
OF this spring. 1t was worn by a
little woman in dark blue dress
sprayed with scarlet peoples, and it
was woven Of green and brown pop
Ply stems, with the scarlet flowers
nodding all over it in welcome to-the
smiling sunshine and the smiling
flower season. There were budding
peoples. half-blown poppies and pop
pies full spread to the winds. 1t
was toqGe-Shaped and i'll front Law
two mother peoples, big, with deep,
soft crushed petals. above which
rose long loops of the green stems.
at the same wedding festivities
the bridesmaids wore pale violet
silk dresses with low c.owned,
cream-coiored sailor hats, about