Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-08-20

It is no new fashion, this Of detach-
able sleeves. Like so much more
which are fancy to be recent and novel
the detachable sleeve is a revival OF
chivalric custom.
Untold years ago, lovers begged and
treasured their mistresses' sleees as
they did their tresses. A prayer to
bachelor knights before the siege of
Thouars, 1906, warns them: Now
God hinder you from bearing sleeves
or tresses, if you allow Thouars to be
forgotten in Its distress
1 There have been periods when the
mems sleeves were remarkable. But
they were times in which masculine
garments were more ornamental than
at present Their adjustable sleeves
are said to havesnad somewhat the APP
pearance of lace .or rich cloth wings,
and the removal did not uncover the
cavalier. Other anS palmer sleeves
supplanted the gorgeous additions laid
aside.
The detachable sleeves which are
pleasing fastidio1s feminine fancy
during this extremely critical summer
are of lace, usually Renaissance. They
, cover the arms easily, but not loosely.
And are meant to- be worn with or
without lining. Women have thought
it not too much .trouble to button
them, invisibly, onbo the waists of eve
ming frocks, thus turning them into
gowns for the daytime. Again, lace
I detachable sleeves are useful to en-
! .bellish a silk waist.at moments no.
tice
For the student of tcostume and for
note in the Dress Book perhaps the
sentiment at possibilities of the remov-
able sleeve are their chief interest. Ac-
cording to history, it is.not more irreg-
Enlar for a maiden to unpin and dispose
unto her lover her arm coverings than
for her to sever a curl or bestow a
mouchoir.
. Whether sleeves which undo in a
twinkling will become regular fea-
lures of women's gowns or if their lit
tie day will. pass again with the sum
mer cannot be said now
But the sleeves, always an object OF
Importance in feminine furnishings, is
exceptionally significant just now. 1t
cannot grow smaller, and it must, then,
wax shorter or larger. Perfectly close
arm coverings are becoming only to
figures without flaw. Tailor-made
gowns have-tSght sleeves, without mod
iste exception.
Leaving the strictly plain, one sees
endless devices for broadening the
shoulder effect without seeming to in
crease the size OF the arm. Chief
among them is the Early Victorion
sloping shoulder. Where the dress is
made with a yoke of contrasting color
the yoke material is extended third
Of the way down the arm, as in the case
of Nile green barege costume, with
yoke and lapels Of cream giupure and
a foulard of blurred blue and white. A
new and novel costume of biscuit-eol-
ored cloth has Renaissance lace sleeves,
yoke and shoulder pieces of the cloth.
Il KEYNOTE OF FALL FASHIONS.
!. The effect is that of extraordinary
slipping shoulders. Unless change
suddenly should come, this line proba-
badly will be the keynote of fall fash
ions.
Evening sleeves are the merest
wisps. Over the shoulders are straps
of velvet like the gown or contrasting
with 1t. A length of artificial roses is
considered sufficient support for a tut
lie bodice Even a tiny breadth of il
fusion pretends to keep in place many
a close-fitting waist. Whether or not
I sleeves are worn with a lownecked
gown, the shoulders themselves must
appear uncovered.
[ Black ribbon velvet, which reappearsf
\
so persistently and agreeaoly in the
seasons modes, forms one pretty apol-
| Ogy for a full dress arm-coveringS. A
Iprincesse bodice of Renaissance lace,
FOYER she'll pink liberty satin, ends at
the shoulders in two narrow fiat gath
fers of flush pink tulle. Ornaments of
let and rhinestone--or diamonds as
1.-THE jewel box affords-seeure three
f1oose lengths of the velvet to the decol-
iletage. They fall adown the arm, en-
lphasizing its whiteness. A fiat band
fof blush pink antique velvet. which is
three shades deeper than "fush' pink,
tops half the bodice.
A yellow sink and linen dress with
Elton jacket is made with the usual