The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-05-15
how TO BE REALLY CHIC
THE FASHIONS OF al REPEATED
TODAY
SOME TIMELY SUGGESTIONS
Skirts to Be Lined With Nuns Veil
ing-An Ideal Evening Gown-A
Chapter on 'Shabby" Black

NEW YORK, May 10.-(Special CORE.
spondence to The Herald. The French are
"a most conservative nation. have been
looking over a French fashion paper of
ISL, and one might be reading the faliions
OF today. Guerlain and many of the mod
y ern' houses figure in it's columns. The
'canzous" We're tea and morning Jackets
and the white feathers were delicately
tipped with coors. Apron skirts, fes-
TONED ruchings, etc., were all the rage
Here we find the very summer dresses we
are going to wear-fiInsy muslins with
rows of tucks round the skirt, fiounces Of
varying widths, fiat sleeves with "jockeys''
or the shoulders, and bodices with revers.
The hats are trimmed with tulle and
branches of flowers. Black taffeta was
Queen of the wardrobe, and mittens-ttey
are coming in, as have already told you
were the charming addition to pretty
hand and the Improvement when the hand
was not as perfect as it might be.
There are some things, however, in which
the DANES of 1871 were deficient. They
failed to study the relations of coors to one
another and ignored the fact that the
\ small details of the toilet were Of equal
Importance to the gown itself We know
now that to he really chic-and this is the
real. though unacknowledged ambition Of
every wOman-there are several things a
woman must attend to. The most notable
at present is the eye-glass chain. Gold is
too easily initiated, and pearl chains al
though adorable, are expensive. A pretty
idea is to have a twist of tiny silk cords to
match ones dress clasped here and there
with jewels-diamonds, if you can afford
them; pearls or amethysts, If they suit
your dress; but steel, If these are beyond
YOU, has a certain cachet, for it's sober
charms appeal not to the vulgar, and really
good steel is not quite the cheapest thing in
the market.
Next to the eye-glass chain in Importance
Is your underskirt. 1t and your stockings
should harmonic with your dress. Your
veil, too, must be chosen and adjusted
with care. The size and number of the
spots is a matter of careful considerations
for while large and frequent spots accei-
tuate the beauty of fair skin, sthey cast
an unbecoming gloom over dark one.
II report speaks true, we are in the near
future to return to the clinging vogue of
the aesthetic women we have learned to
ridicule as the "yallery-greenery" type
TO rustic or not to rustic, that is the ques-
ton. The authorities proclaim that the
Inspiring frou-frou of our silken skirts and
Innings has become vulgarized by the pop
ulace, who, thanks to enterprising manu-
facturers, are permitted the indulgence of
a silk that rustles, priced at sum that is
merely nominal. These iconoclasts are, TO
my mind scarcely making sufficient al
lowance for the difference between cheap
and rich rustic. The former is obtained
in that refuge of the destitute, moirette
while the latter is exclusively the preroga-
tive of the best and most heavily priced
taffetas. The comforting sense of siiken
interior delies description, and it is with
anything but pleasurabe anticipation