The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-11-08
WINTER COATS
AND GOWNS.

Short sack coats are being much
worn, and they look particularly well
In box cloth and also In fur. Carried
out In mink of good quality. I'm seal
skin or in Persian lamb. these little
coats are very smart indeed. Going
quite to the other extreme, many of the
new coats, both in cloth and sealskin,
are made TO lit closely 10 the figure
back and front, while the sides are cut
away over the hips and finished with
outside pockets, somewhat in the fash
ion OF the newmarket coats which
were so much worn some seasons
ago Some OF these cutaway coats
are made with fun long basques, head
ed with line OF fur trimming, mink
tail or chinchlla for choice, while 9TH
ers again are bordered along the outer
edge with narrow band OF fur
There is yet another variety OF coat.
known as the "semisack." but. like
all half measures IL has not much TO
recommend It, The fronts ht loosely
i'm these coats and are generally dou-
BILE breasted, while the backs droop i'm
ward little. i'm sort OF attempt TO
define the figure. with result which
is neither so neat as a perfectly tight
fitting back nor SO undeniably smart
and sporting in effect az a really well
cut sack
And then as to the autumn and win
ter walking gowns The changes In
these since last year have been many
and great No longer Is there. any at
tempt at fullness in the upper part OF
the sleeves, for, even in the case OF
evening bodices. the sleeves follow
closely the natural lines OF the arm.
and IL scarcely seems possible that we.
who see so much grace and beauty now
i'm these tight fitting sleeves. could ever
have tolerated or even admired with en-
thusiasm the inflated balloons OF two
or three years ago. The newest sleeves.
to make up perhaps for their simplicity
Of form, are very elaborately tucked
! and gathered, and i'm some cases, even
where the gowns are made of cloth.
they are slashed i'm order to show some
contrasting kind Of trimming UNDER
meath.
Very frequently, too. the upper part
OF the bodice and just the top only OF
the sleeves will be made OF different
material, or in a contrasting color to
the rest OF the bodice. For example. q
gown OF dark olive green cloth has a
sort of underbodice of turquoise blue
silk or satin run over with very narrow
black velvet baby ribbons The cloth
draperies are drawn up over the blue
silk back and front of the bodice, while
the cloth sleeves start from a little dis
tance below the shoulder, the upper
part being filled i'm with turquoise blue
satin, embroidered with black velvet
| baby ribbons.
As to the skirts, i'm these also many
| radical changes have been made. The
latest cloth walking skirts are arranged
without any approach TO fullness at the
| back near the waist. They are as a
rule made without any seam in the CEN
ter of the back, and they fasten at the
side. as cycling skirts do. 1t goes with
! out saying, therefore, that these new
skirts fit with sheathlike closeness
around the hips. spreading afterward
with graceful fullness until they are very
ample at the hem. Alas for those who
have to wear them literally as walking
gowns! They are longer than ever all
the way round and so full that il will
be quite impossible for any two human
hands To hold them up out of the dust
and mud of the streets.