The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-06
Proper
Attire for
DRIVING

Now that San Franciscans are paying
more attention to their equipages and
their appointments, they might with
profit direct their criticisms to the map.
propriate costumes worn only too fire.
quently by the fair occupants. One author
ity writes:
The various classes and conditions OF
life are well represented in the great vari-
ETY. OF vehicles manufactured, and each
one should be- occupied IN fitting and be-
coming way. The toilette OF the occu-
pants should conform with the carriage
they are seated IN, and discussion of this
matter is the subject in hand.
Coaching, as we know, has its full dress
and its toilette de voyage. A drag has
also its grande ct petite tenue. A victoria
demands smart dressing from top to toe
No other vehicle has been built to show off
to such advantage a prettily dressed
woman. Landaus and cabriolets are cere-
monious structures; they require fine
toilettes, and never fail to do justice to
them.
Much less imposing are park phaetons,
consequently one should dress with less
extravaganza in them. Basket wagons,
mdBOuClISS LundDO0toi oiO very
tentious, and require modest but as smart
as-you-please dressing. Anything loud or
voyante stamps the occupants as vuI-
garians.
Surveys and carryaIls are substantial,
unobtrusive family carriages, which pre-
sent a pleasing picture of family comfort
when filed with young and old dressed
with taste and fitness.
Remember that carriages built of oak
require jaunty demi-toilettes, never cere-
monious ones, and in accepting invitations
for drive one should consider the equip
ages of the person extending the invitation
and be governed by them In dressing for
the occasion.
70 appear overdressed in a friends
simple carriage is in as bad taste as to be
carelessly or shabby CARRIED when invited
to occupy a perfectly appointed Victoria.
The same correspondent adds: cit has
always been one of my convictions that
women view their carriages from an almost
entirely unitarian point of view and
rarely from an artistic one" and yet she
has just been visiting one of the most
fashionable watering places not very far
from New York watching the passing
show of an afternoon drive. At this fash
ionable resort fetching Mrs. G. L. S. APP
peared in Paquin creation thus described:
The gown was a straw-color grenadine,
built over lizard-green and straw-color
shot taffeta. Skirt separate, trimmed on
the bottom with an entre-deux of Lissierre
plisse bodice fitted over white silk, and
sleeveless, was worn under a ravissante
bolero, built with folds of grenadlne.
Three folds formed the upper part and
three more the lower, separated by a
broad Lissiere insertion. New model
sleeves outlining the arm, and over the
bouffant tops were epaulets of three bias
folds lined with shot silk. which stood out
very prettily. The corselet was exceed
ingly effective, and of black velvet, beauti-
fully fitted in the back. But the fronts
were cut into three straps each, and these
straps were drawn into point and met
under three large ieweled buttons in front
in pairs. Neckband of black velvet, with
lace ruff above, ana two wired loops of