The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-25

cook. or as the very lady's maid herself.
a woman's feet must be veritable |
"Trilbys" now, and ready to have their |
portraits taken at moments notice.
And they mustn't even dare to be in con- |
dition to become the centers of intolerable !
pain, which is great improvement on the |
old days that nobody has had time to for
get yet.
AS to the fngertips, the deft little mani
cure soaks, trims and polishes to the point
of absolute perfection.
Then she folds her own hands demurely, |
surveying her handiwork with lifted eye
brow.
Now, Madame" she ventures to sug-
gest, "take care of the hands"
They are the product of her art those
hands, and they are no longer for use, but
for ornament.
All this time we've left my lady shiver-
ing from her bath, which really isn't fair.
Father Kneippe says she will be just as
warm in linen mesh underwear as if she
wore flannels.
AS it's very much the fad to be sanitary
Just now, and as the linen underwear is
rather absurdly expensive, it happens to
be very much the thing.
OF course, it's in single piece, the gar
ment the children glibly dub 'combera-
TONS"
If she hasn't the linen fad yet my lady
dons a union suit of silk or of wool so
drawn through-a bracelet to say the
least.
Now this talk about Paris silks and
linen. and things is tiresome. II is non
sense, too.
You can get everything just as good
| and every bit as expensive right here in
San Francisco.
You demand the proof?
Listen. 1t is Patricia talking with her
: quiet home dressmaker.
Patricia wanted silk waist-just one of
those economical little affairs you can
wear with any dark skirt.
Madame advised Louis Quinze jacket.
cit will be necessary for you to have
Louis Quinze jacket"
"And the silk-?"
at must be a rich brocade."
''And it will take-?'
Eight yards; yes. eight yards includ-
ing the sleeves"
1.-THE silk will COST"
-Four dollars yard. Yes, certainly
You will require silk of pectable
quality"
"And trimmings?"
"Ah, certainly, trimmings. Beyond
doubt you must have trimmings. A vest
of white satin full, like this. At the
sides bit of spangled trimming, just to
brighten up little only-twenty dollars
say for trimming if you already have
lace?'
"Of course you understand there are to
be full ruf1es of lace, and the twenty
dollars for trimming of course is exclusive
of lace Oh, yes, certainly"
ooh, to be sure, 1 have plenty of lace,
and as for findings and making -"
Findings and making. Oh. yes. GER
tainly."
1.-THE findings and making will be abo ut
Just $42 including the silk linings,
of course"
And, notwithstanding the high price of
coal this season Patricia went away pc r
fectly satisfied after arranging for one or
two simple dark skirts with good silk
| Innings, to complete her scheme of
economy.
I've just been reveling through some
trunks that dear girl has brought straight
from Paris.
If the things of beauty slowed within
those trunks are no better than could have
been planned and made in San Francisco
where is the man who will rise to say, even
so, that they are not "the highest product
of civilization''-in clothes?
The lingerie is story of itself, and
problem in economics or ethics or some
thing besides.
black silk and wool tights that every we'll
regulated woman is wearing.
The dear girl who owns the trunks is
wearing this practical sort of thing her.
self. and never anything more feminine.
But the hemstltched and handwroupht
underwear that would have been enough
for our grandmothers proved irresistibIy
attractive all the same.
There's a trunk full of it, the dainty
handiwork of French nuns, done in the
converts as it used to be done in castles
where high-born danes were virtual pris-
oners, depending for excitement upon their
embroidery frames.
Delicate ribbons are everywhere among
the laces and embroideries of this cambria
lingerie.
There are chemises galore, revived in the
hope that the big sleeves of to-day would
make them possible again.
They are the prettiest garments ever in
vented, but the robes de mutt of this ward
robe that might be trousseau are as
elaborate and more useful.
Gowns of lambs WOOL striped in soft
grays and delicate shades we CAL the
"baby colors,' are lace and ribbon
trimmed, and charming enough to tempt
the very Marthas to luxurious lolIing in
"my iadys chamb er.'
Short skirts of lambs wool, embroidered
or belaced. fill long-felt want beneath
the wide faring silken petticoats of the
day.
And then the corsets. Yes, corsets still,
Jenness Miller to the contrary notwith-
standing. Not in the least like the hideous
structures generously displayed in the
shop windows and labeled ''corsets four