Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-12-19
FASHION is CONSIDERABLE.
Easy to Have Good Dresses at Ren-
sOnable Cost.


Especial CorrespoAdence.1
NEW York, Dec. 1S.-It has always
seemed to me particularly hard that
young folks could not have everything
they wanted and, above all, young
girls to whom becomingness of dress
and dainty belongings are SO much Of
Z necessity. doubt II there lis any
longing so agonizing as the young
girls desire to have the pretty things
necessary to set off her face and form
to their best advantage and to know
that unkind destiny has placed them
beyond her reach.
1t Is easy in these days, or compara-
lively so, to have good dresses at
low cost, because it takes SO much
less stuff to make gown than 1t did
even year ago, and, besides, If one
gets plaid or some one of the woolly
surfaced stuffs little or no trimming Ia
needed. The solid colors are more re-
fined. yet for the young plaid In al
most all of the designs is nice and
suitable, and one can always get an
incredible amount of wear out of them,
as the all wool twills and other all
wool plaids will wash like calico. There
is neat and pretty plaid dress shown
in this illustration, the prevailing tints
and colors being in greens, with here
and there line of dull red and dash
of creamy white. Clan plaids are al
most entirely relegated to children and
to borders for golf capes.
The golf cape has gone far beyond
the original limit set for it, and now
nearly half the women and even chill
dren one meets has on one of these
capes. Most of them have the body
Of the cape right side out, and this is
Of rough stuff between astrakhan cloth
and Irish frieze In appearance in solid
color. The back OF this material.
which is very thick and warm, Is
plaid, so that the ruflle Of the cape is
simply turned wrong side out. The
hood is made in the same way, and
little shawl fringe carrying the colors
finishes 1t. These capes are certainly
bright and pretty, though intended
strictly for golflng or runabouts.
The illustration shows three things,
one being the gown, which can be worn
Mt home or abroad: next the postiche
guimpe yoke. This is made of some
kind Of light silk, tucked. or, in fact, 1t
can be trimmed In any way. The pret-
ty new openwork silks would be very
suitable for these yoke gulmpes. The
form of 1t shows that 1t should be
made up over stiff lining. The collar
may be overlaid with lace, or that. too,
may be tucked. 1t has band OF bias
velvet one inch and a half wide all
around 1t and fastens invisibly In the
back. This Is pretty to wear with any
dress.
The hat, which is the object Of the
fair maiden's earnest alteration, Is an
empire bonnet of silk beaver In n rich
tan color. There is n band OF seal
brown velvet and strings of the same.
Inside the brim Is a seal velvet rosette
with gilt ornament. Directly on top
is mass Of velvet wallflowers with
all their rich shades of yellow up to
golden brown, and this is topped by Il
true lovers knot of wired velvet rib
bon. Just imagine sweet little face,
with brown hair and eyes, under this
hat! Golden hair would be as pretty
and carry out the scheme of color Just
as well.
There is n queer novelty in made up
velvet gowns. 1t reminds one little
Of the Alaska Indian bedquilts, In that
1t is sewed with tiny pearl shirt but
tons, like dots, Some have them scat
tered all over the dress; others have
them arranged in various patterns
along the edges of tunics. etc. Polka
dots are. seen in all the fabrics now ar
riving for spring and next summer.
Some of them are worked in silks on
woolen surface, and on silks they are