The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1899-10-28

''"oeie PidCe tne1f orders Tor something
quite alike the styles to be met at
every turn.
How utterly dowdy the street dresses
OF drawing room length. made several
weeks ago, look beside the latest word
IN walking dressee! These escape the
ground all around and, with the speci-
al'y designed coat and toque, have no
end OF chic. The majority of women do
not discriminate between the street
dress for carriage use aud the street
dress for walking. A goddess cannot
Look we'll groomed in skirt that is soil
ed about the bottom. A walking skirt
must u, soled If 1t touches the ground.
A trailing ekirt that is held up to pre-.
vent it being soiled becomes crumple
and frumpy. The skirt designed to
sweep must sweep. Hence the new
walking skirts that are neither storm
frccks ncr golf frocks, but made after
designs expressly planned for the city
streets are not for the freedom Of the
real d)wns or the artificial links.
Nine hundred and ninety.nine out OF
thousand Paris models Of gowns made
for Americans show the sheath back
and the train that is little else but q
tail. The exclusive designers in Paris,
however,, are beginning to depart from
these outlines, introducing something OF
fulness at the center OF the back CT
skirts, and making on gowns for formal
occasions trains spread out generously
insterd Of collapsing like wet flag on
MINDLESS day.
II one sees it in Paris it is not neces.
sarily so. Paris exhibits some weirdIy
dressed women who are extensively
clothed. No city on earth, either,
marks 50 radically in its dress the bot
tomless alb, IS between its women OF the
upper class and the women who are un.
classed. But, none the less, Paris is the
birthplace Of every new style. London
has never launched a style unaided.
New York's best dressmakers and tail.
ors make their gowns better than tho
F'erch d., and cleverly adapt PSrisian
ideas as we'll as adopt them. But New
York has never introduced really now
style yet. The fret departure from
reigning mode is made in Paris. and so.
when Paris says enough Of given ST., le
that il the beginning Of the end Of it,
New evening bodices are very low
VERY, very low, without vestige OF
sleeves. and kept in place merely by
shoulder straps Of jewels. This is
1aripgly handsome style on a Diana.
when the jewels suit her. A wisp o;
lace worth az much as several stores,
worn over one shoulder. relieves some.
what the tension Of the beholler. es.
pecially one who recalls that shocking
Drawing Room when Mrs. IS right
shoulder strap OF pearls broke during
her curts,y, and when, in her involun
tlry IF IT to catch the pearls, the left
one broke. Her Majesty, it will be re.
called, covered the outcome with her
own lace shawl and gave orders that
never again should anyone be presented
to her with 80 little besides confusion
TO shield her in the event Of jewelers.
bad workmanship precipitating situa-
ton.
Low.necked dresses are going to be
worn more than ever before in this
country. Nobody has ever devised any
thing so becoming to the face and head
as lovely neck and shoulders. high.
necked gown simply makes hat i'm
to cast the becoming shadows.
which dress that swathes the wearer