The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-06-12

new YORK. June lO.--lt tnere is q season
for separate waists, there is also season
for separate skirts. The old idea Of having
one skirt to wear with eighteen waists has
been discarded. and one might also say
that the reverse is true. Certainly there
Is skirt for every three waists and some
times you will flnd that there are three
skirts for one waist.
For example. a woman who dresses very
fsshionably went shopping the other day
and made. first. purchase OF fifteen yards
Of silk OF the new shade OF brown. 1t Is
called mouse color, but people OF discrm-
ination and judgment in the fashions say
1t Is dirt color II is certainly a very
peculiar shade Of brown and makes very
beautiful skirt.
But OF these fifteen yards OF taffeta this
: woman will make plain skirt, which Will
take about ten yards. The remaining five
yards OF silk will be used to ruffle the
skirt The ruffles will fall one over tho
other and will extend from the belt to the
hem. Instead OF being regular ruffles, they
Will be plated. 30 that tho skirt looks not
30 very much unlike the accordion plated
skirt, although 1t is quite different in de-
sign.
SEPARATE SKIRTS.
Every woman has black silk lined
skirt: that Is certain. The rufflos are put
on In various ways. An extremely pretty
skirt on Fifth avenue the other day had u
series OF small ruffles which were put on
to extend very high in the back and very
low In front These give quite an overskirt
effect.
Another skirt was OF green silk with
ruffles of chiffon. These ruflles took the
form Of festoons around the foot Of the
skirt. This was quite on expensive
skirt. as the chiffon has to be plated and
then doubled. 1t s never cheap to trim n
skirt with chiffon, although YOU must con-
fess that nothing is pretiier when now.
Gray skirts trimmed with ruffes are ex-
tremely fashionable and are worn with
waists Of all colors. A gray skirt OF q
sort OF mixed gray goods with large and
pronounced white dot. was to be worn with
very fancy silk shirt waist OF gray and
corise--these two colors which combine 50
admirably
Another fashionable skirt Is the bright
purpllsh blue which Is 30 often seen. trim
med with the most vivid grass green. II
Is really strange how these two colors are
combined, yet the effect Is always pretty,
MANY RUFFLEs
II twenty chapters were to be written on
skirts, they would all be chapters which
treated OF ruffles. So very many ruffies
are USED that YOU wonder why Il ruffling
machine is not made and sold nj popular
prices, There are small rufflers that come
but they are not large enough nor are they
complete enough 10 supply the great de-
mand for ruftling Dressmakers keep Il
dozen hands AT work making nothing but
rfffflsa hon bo az Of 10
not half told,
Skirts are fitted very tightly over the
hips and are very snug in front. They are
almost pulled back. and the days OF the
tight back are recalled. In The back. how
ever. there is big plat near the waist
which gives a fullness to the back Of the
skirt. These skirts, whether ruffed or MOI.
are lined with some vivid color which
reaches to the very hem so that the SKIRT
is very snowy part Of the dress.
With the skirt 20 extremely decorative II
ia not To be wondered at that particular at
tention Ia paid to the shoes. Shoes and
slippers cost little fortune this year and
the woman who does not want to sptn1 d
little fortune on them must look we'll tc
the way she spends her money. IL she
purchases a pair of neat black satin snip
pers she can. by varying her stockings
make them so with great variety Of
skirts. but 1t must be confessed that womcr
Of fashion are having their slippers mail,
out OF piece OF the dress goods. Low
shoes and slippers are made out of clott
and silk IA well as satin. and there Is ne
more interesting sight than n glimpse int,
the slipper wardrobe of the summer girl.
II white shoes are worn they are EN-
broidered and tho stockings also match tn,
slipper in embroidery. The queen VIII
helmina slipper IL greatly in vogue TIL.
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