The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-18
FOR a WELL-GOWNED WOMAN.
Suggestions That May Help Her In Select.
ing and Wearinc< Attire.

Suggestions That May Help Her In Select.
ing and Wearing Her Attire.
Novelty and elegance in ornaments
ton are now lavished on high-necked
gowns for reception, street and home
use, and the evening gown is made
with a severity and simplicity that
make woman dependent for effect
upon her own charms. A dress with
skirt sweeping from the hips, with bod.
ice cut off the shoulders and set about
the cut-out with overhanging panels,
and with shoulders slightly elaborated
by spreading pieces over the pulled
sleeves. is the usual design for evening
dress, and in such a woman blessed
with fine shoulders and neck is lovely
thing to look at But if she isn't thus
favored what shall she do? All the de-
vices of filing in with lace, of orna-
ments set so thick about the low neck
that the neck itself is subordinated, all
these are denied her. 1t is either low
neck-really bare and unadorned neck
or high neck; there seems no medium.
In these circumstances it is but nat
ural that the women who dare not es-
say low-cut bodices should strive to
make the dresses that are permitted
them highly elaborate, and they are
doing this already to such an extent
that it seems as if by midwinter it
would be. the evening dress rather
than the house gown that is synony-
nous with simplicity. Whether
this result will be SO far-reaching |
as to affect street dresses is as yet |
an open question. The promenade |
dresses of late fall are markedly char.
acterized by simplicity SO far as cut is |
concerned, and usually the fabrics are |
modest enough, though occasionally |
one sees some startlingly assertive |
novelty goods Ordinarily, too, the |
scheme of trimming is one of the most !
slender proportions, but the devices |
employed contain a hint of what the |
angular women may do if their plump |
er sisters do not relax the rules for |
evening attire in the formers favor. |
One street dress of the type alluded to |
appears to be simple enough, and that |
is strengthened by the
but the buttons of the dress
were of the two-dollar each sort
Whatever a woman can mean by this
contrast between stuff, general
plan and ornaments except it is to
urge the plump contingent, through
sheer envy, to at least accord belliger-
ent rights to the scrawny sisters,i is hard
to saw. But one direct result of this
since such dresses may be
worn by women of any sort of figure,
is that to have fashionable street
gowns at the most moderate cost by |
just selecting buttons that are priced
by the dozen rather than singly.
In party dresses for young girls not
vet ''out'' there are few changes of
styles. Such may wear short dane
ing length skirt, gored to flare prettily,
and the neck of the bodice is cut round
to show the throat, but by no means
to be low cut The belt is either round
with slight ends, or it is fitted slightly
to little point front and back, the
sash bow tying to one side of the front
Taffeta silk is the favorite material,
and lace, chiffon and ribbon are the
with wild flowers,
rosettes, festoons and quaint touches
to suggest the simplicity of the maid
Of the past generation. All pale colors
are worn, and now and then something
in quaint com bination of dull green
and rose.
The spreading loops at the belt are
being exaggerated ridiculously, and
now little wing-like affairs are shown
that spread at the waist almost as wide
as the tips of the sleeves, and that is
saying much. Quite different sort Of
belt is two hands wide and made of
silk elastic. Not only does the material
Of the belt tend to perfect fit, but the
belt is woven slightly to shape. The
also, is such that the belt
AN be frightened after the buckle is
last. Nothing could bring about a
more perfect clinging to the figure,
md waist that has not just the right
size is reduced to perfect lines at once
when such a belt is worn; that is. if
he corsets beneath are all right.--N.
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O DEAR TREF OF GREAT AGE