The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-03

body In the known" Enormous white
muffs are worn also. Mrs. Ladenburg car
ries huge one of white lace and crinine
as the fittest accessory to a dlrectoire
dress OF pale gray cloth. which Is made
with luxurious redingote having q wide
shaped founce of heavy lace the color Of
the clcth The faring collar and revers
are covered with lace over white satin,
and the whole garment is edged with
ermine The underskirt OF the costume Is
OF stitched gray velvet, and the hat is Of
gray velvet with black and gray ostrich
plumes. The muff Is probably the largest
yet on exhibition.
Stitched, figured and checked velvets
are among the most fashionable materials
A novel costume lately completed has an
underskirt of pastel green. velvet. covered
with broadtail, which is headed by lows
of black and old braii. The tInis Is Of
checked velvet in shades az love color.
brown and pastel green. and Is edged liku
he lower skirt with broadtail. The bodice
has n yoke OF lace and vest OF stitche 1
green velvet. The sleeves are stitched
'lso, and the hat with brim of stitched
ard crown o, checked velvet completes n
most striking arrangement.
~
II the dressmakers are to be trusted,
the plated skirt will sucueed; If the re-
bellious threats OF women ;iave weight,
it will be failure unless much modified
1t is the conservative opinion that the
bonnie femme skirt plated all around
will gain a small following. modesto
whose predictions are usually within reas
enable distance of the truth says that the
triple box plat will endure for the win
ta,. tn tyiy nj n
overskirts.
Miss Marion Fish, the slender daughter
o; Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. is wearing a
"bonne femme" dress of a delicate beaver
colored cloth the plaits being stitched
down with blue silk. The bodice. OF heavy,
creamy lace, is decorated with stitched
scroll bands of the cloth, and is caught
at the throat by a blue velvet tie with
silk fringe.
Miss Fish is having some very dainty
dancing dresses made in spite of the fact
that exaggerated reports of the grand
entertainments to ge given by her mother
to mark her coming out have apparently
decided the family to have no coming out
festivities at all.
One of the more elaborate evening gowns
is of fcwered white panne combined WITH
white tulle, which, spangled with steel
and caught with bunches of purple cle-
mats, forms the undersliirt. The over
skirt OF panne is dotted with lace designs
under which the velves is cut out and
edged with small silk cords, a foundation
skirt of white satin showing through tha
lace. The low. dainty bodice is adornod
with punches OF clematis.
simpler costume is of pale pink gau2e
dotted with white chenille spots Tho
lower skirt is composed Of plated flounces
headed by small pink roses. The upper
skirt is founced without the roses. Ths
bodice has hands OF roses around the
decolletage and across the shoulders.
If one were asked what is the most fash,
has been fashionable so long that it
ought TO give something else I chance but
in point of fact II is more the rage than
ever II has been
MIS-. George Law wears street dress
of the richest shade of vcnetian red, with
pipings Of black velvet down the edges
of bodice and skirt. matching the sable
on the high collar.
Mrs. Oliver lselin's stepdaughter, Miss |
Iselin, wears a red dress OF shade paler
than automobile, which is made with |
Directoire redngote having double revers,
the outer ones of white panne, ctnbroi |
dercd with soft pink and gray and black |
Silks. those below of stitched cloth.
Magnificent carriage and evening wraps |
are OF red cloth. trimmed with baby lomh |
jr of baby lamb lined with red
Tailor dresses wander further and fur
Their from their traditions of severity. ard |
admit greater md greater variety OF |
decoration. This is partly dlie to the
American womans unwillingness to con-
inc special dresses to wear On special
sorts of occasions-ihe Americas hobby
being general utility; and partly tc the
prevailing craze tor eXtravagan e. Never
heless many of the most elegant tailor
iresses are still absolutely without trim
nings the plain skirt of black broad
10th relying on It's perfect cut and ut
or its undoubted cachet: the coat being
short. tight and worn over silk waist
II the most fan ,lfll description. One
uch costume lately finished is lined
throughout with white anu worn with
White waist Of lace and satin. Another