Evening star., 1898-02-19

summer tissues, more hlmy than any mus
lln They looked at 'mlcrobe" nets with
nne, Irregular meshes, and at striped and
plaided silks patterned like "go-bang'
boards and combining reds. greens blues
and yellows so vivaciously that nothing
short of breakfast food advertisement
could countenance their colors.
The little dressmaker caused the en-
gagged girl to notice how soft and pliable
are the spring wool goods for easy drap-
ing, and how popular is the old-fashioned
tarlatan. They pulled over stuffs for day
wear and evening wear till the counters
ran PINK In twenty shades and forty ma
terials and dripped with Roman and Rus
sian reds and cranberry jelly color The
Ettie dressmaker tiptoed her way to GER
tain rooms where new French models were
10 De peeped at and let the engaged girl
see how long the shoulder seam is now to
pe cut SO that the modern athlete and
Amazon may give her muscles the lie with
an aesthetics sioping shoulders They in
srected sleeves severely tight and bare OF
ornament, and stood before skirts planned
TO give slim, picket fence result by
means OIL trailing draperies, closely fitted.
A Bewildering Array.
Ihey looked at the revived Yak laces,
at the huge picture buttons that come with
the Louis styles and at hundreds of other
things 1t would take a page Of type to
mention; then the little dressmaker cried
out in her enthusiasm:
ITO think that used to be little Fetch
and-Carry' in a black jersey and a white
apron watching you measured and now 1
myself am going to make you all these
bea-u-u-tiful gownsv'
80 they sat down at a round table in q
restaurant to consider samples and the
little dressmaker sketched and added fig
ures and rubbed out and made more
sketches on the corners of the bill of fare.
dont believe you can do better" she
saio' ' win broWs knit and pencil poised,
than 10 nave your travelling dress Of this
new royal blue camels hair All my Gus
toners say their husbands like blue better
than any other color"
Ine engaged girl blushed and dimpled.
nave quite simple French tailor
gown, II l were you, with smart little
open jacket effect, so as to vary the toilet
easily by variety of blouses Then, of
course, you want a skirt that won't go out
OF fashion quickly. Nobody can cut one in
tfese lightning change days; but the drop
SKIRT with full length overskirt will last as
long as anything, and, probably, cut over
Would you have black braid trimming or
black and metal? You'll want small
'MSrquise' hat to correspond; I'd have very
pale La France roses on it, with a large
black Bird
No Birds for Her.
No; no Bird the engaged girl shook her
head. blushingly. "Dick-I mean Mr..
Spring Bridegroom-has made me promise
not to wear birds; he says fur, feathers
and beads remind him of Lo, the poor In
dian"
mo fur! No beads"' The little dress
maker, aghast, stopped ciphering. Men
VINO OBJECT to women's clothes ought to
understand that men make thei fashions"
The engaged girl had a SCRAP of fine
white cloth, and was holding apple green
nately. II
oh" she said, absentlyr .'yeu mean the
great men dressmakers."-, a
NO" answered the little drsssmaker; Il
mean--the apple green goes better, don't
you think? l mean small men dressmak-
ers, poor men dressmakers. with no more
money than have to carrygout their ideas.
DO you know, it's the rarest thing for
fashion to be invented by ia woman"
But" objected the engaged girl, pucker-
ing bit of black silk and laying it beside
the white and apple green,rtI thought that
actresses-" 70 =
Thinking Out Novelties.
mot bit of it, said the little dress
aker. Men in Paris whom nobody ever
hears OF spend their slack time of the year
thinking out novelties. They take their
fashions to the great houses, the most
striking ones are bought-for few francs
OFTEN and 'merci. monsieur for these
small men dressmakers live from hand to
mouth-and there you have a style. Models
OF these models are sent to America; wo-
men dressmakers copy and adapt; other
women like, dislike. wear Probably every
novelty we have looked at this morning
was mans fashion,"
The engaged girl was comparing small
pieces OF lace critically. 1T does seem
qreer," she admitted, without much show
OF interest" Anybody would suppose. when
women spend SO much time on dress. they
would originate their own fashions. There's
so much talk now about money -making oc-
cupations."
There are few women designers" the
little dressmaker conceded; III women have