The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-29

Women who do not want to be wildly
| eAtraVagant are choosing the poplin skirt
in pale shades of blue and gray. They
| trim the skirt with silk ruffles, overlaid
with lace, with a cloth ruff1e underneath
| all And thus they get the effect with
| out the expense
sateen, but in every case there is the
elaborate trimming around the foot. You
cannot trim skirt too richly.
| over the elaborate skirt is worn the
plain dress which must of course be held
| up to show the petticoat.
! Summer is supposed to be the time
| of the fancy skirt but it f1ourishes best
in winter, for then the sidewalks are wet
and woman has every excuse for lift
ing her dress off the street Instead of
making her petticoat very long she short
ems 1t to the ankle and allows her trim
| boots to be seen.
1t is a noticeable fact that the most
| elaborate petticoats are worn with the
plainest gowns. as though a woman tried
| to atone for the severe simplicity of her
tailor built dress by her elegant, fancy
| petticoat
some of the skirts. show tiny punches
of violets and small artificial roses set
in the lace ruffies. The lace is looped
with the violets. which are tied with
very small bows of baby ribbon. Petit
coats of this kind are meant only to
| be worn in the house, for they would I'M
| questionably be in poor taste in the
street.
A very novel idea is that of lining
| the gown with silk to match the petit
| coat. This is extremely dainty and a
LADIES tailors. predict that the spring
will show petticoats to match the dress
lining and a hat to match both. :.
What revolution we have had in
retticoats. What a difference between
the starched white skirts of our fore
mothers and the luxurious swish-swish
of our sill1en petticoats of to-day! And
what a revolution it is when my lady
raises her gown at muddy crossing and
ruffies of turquoise. scarlet, old pink or
a brilliant plaid are. seen! This winter
the dark skirts are lined with pale silks,
black skirts often showing lining OF
pale green, turquoise or pale pink, and
so the silk petticoat often matches the
lining. but this, of course. necessitates
a petticoat for each gown not always of
the same silk as satin brocade or even
poplin is used.
under the house gown. The daintiest af-
fair made of white Dresden silk, pow
dered with punches of delicate pink roses
was worn in the house. The skirt ended
with tiny ruchings of pink chiffon, and
below. this was short circular ruffie Of
the silk having a sun pleating of pink
taffeta edged with chiffon ruching.
An elegant petticoat was of turquoise
blue brocade, with satin stripes The
bottom of the skirt was cut in squares
edged with fine ruchings of blue mousse
line de sole. These little squares were
held out by ruff1e of lace over sun
pleating of blue taffeta.
Automobile red was the color of an
other petticoat. The body of the skirt
was of poplin,. embroidered with SIX Tx
polka dots of the same color the puffs
and dust ruff1e were of red taffeta and
a founce of black chantilly lace was
caught by small bows of automobile red
velvet ribbon bows With the severest
talor-made gown Of chey sfto was vas +, worn
the lovliest coral pink taffeta pettlcoat,
with no trimming except the bias putting
and the pinked and sun-pleated ruffies
of the same silk.
Word comes from the South that the
women are forming league against
the silk petticoat. Whether it is the.
"washer-women" who are protesting
against the loss of washing the many
white skirts that the silken one has
routed, or whether the expense of the
thing is considered is not known. Ger
tainly the modish ones are so deliberately
trimmed that buying one or two comes
to quite pretty penny. But if you
make one at home be sure to get a silk
design that has<no 'up and down. for
then you can cut two cores out of one
width as the French petticoats are cut,
and this, of course, is a great saving
of material.