The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-12

shaped away widely on the bust to show
open vest, collar and cuffs OF white vel
vet, dotted with blue or green, while from
the chin TO the waist line falls torrent
of delicate time-tinted lace. A narrow
strip of heavily stitched taffeta is by all
odds the choicest medium for a girdle at
this moment, when satin and velvet
crushed belts are out of feminine counten-
ance.
The best foot foremost as this goes to
press shows a buttOned or laced round
toed shoe of patent leather, treated with
stitched-down straps of black satin-faced
vesting. 1t is the Partisan novelty. be-
coming familiar sight. A very taking
little laced shoe put forth for walking is
made of fine dull-finished canvas, and
where the edge of the toe-cap and DON
COLA meet a strap of patent leather is
stitched on, thus producing a very quiet
but most ornamental shoe. Big fat ro-
settles of ribbons in two coIors are gain
ing fashionable ground on slipper toes,
but wave of good sense in shoe shap-
ing having only momentarily possessed
the feminine mind, we are now suffer-
ing sharp reaction even to the high
heeled, arrow-toed French form.
A WORD ABOUT COATS.
Just about one woman in 500 appears to
have screwed her courage up to the point
of purchasing and wearing a long tailed
box coat, and the frank admission must
be made that the Ioveliest figure is ut
terly lost and forgotten when swathed
in one of these bed-gown shaped affairs.
Coats that clip the figure close and let
fall the shortest of tails certainly have
no reason to fear any rivalry on the
part of the baggy sisterhood, and yet
certain percentage of box coats are worn.
They appear to the utmost advantage and
with the smartest effect when cut from
macintosh cloth and worn on rainy
days, and the majority of them depend
on stitched strappings for ornamental
ton
Velvet coats have been sadly overdone
these last few seasons, and are in con-
sequence rather under the ban of disap-
proval, though a few good and pretty
| ones have made their appearance, with
vests of bToadcloth, Persian lamb or
satin handsomely embroidered. Most in
| teresting and admired, however, of all
! the walking wraps is q close toned
| short coatee of that bright, black satin
faced French merton the tailors love-
and this. built doubie-breasted with a
spade front, Is for the autumn of 99 the
/ acme of good taste.
! THE EXPIRING SPANGLE.
! The final expiring effort OF the spangle
! TO maintain It's proud position OF ,pular-
| ity must be recorded, for sorne women
! there are who buy robes OF net stiffened
| with big black sequins that show every
| one in its center small pearl or rhine
! stone bead; but these are not thrifty in
! vestments, such, for example, as are the
| chenille dotted laces, nets and silks.
] Truthfully speaking, that chenille dot is
! everywhere, and most frequently IT is
! back of medium size, strewn on the deep
Killed founces of bright green and blue
! taffeta silk under petticoats, on the SIX
! en- tresses of long, delicate-toned fringes
! of varying sizes OF dot outline like the
! stars on an astronomical map, the de ign
! of the cream and cheese yellow laces
t In imitation of the chenille dot tufts OF
| fur large as a quails egg, appear in rath-
! err peculiar contrast upon oh ffon and the
/ heavier lace robes, but the triumph of ex-
! trayagance and sartorial whim surely has
been reached with the lace dresses on
j which appliques of broched silk are made.
DAINTY VELVET MUFFs
| Happily this year, when furs have
/ reached an extreme of costliness that
! renders them unapproachable by any save
| the truly wealthy women, velvet muffs
are considered of modish superiority to
| those of fur. Through their quaint orig
! inality Of shape and decoration they have
made strong appeal to patronage and
| with their handsome calling or theater
/ gowns the women are carrying tiny, odd
! ly shaped Frenchy mauchons of gay
! coral-colored velvet incrusted with lace
! lined with rucked taffeta and showing a.
| cluster of pale-gray ostrich tips in a vel