The times., 1899-03-19
Spring Fashions
IN SHIRTWAISTS
Lady Algy Ties and New Neck
Links.
New ParasOls Are DistractingIy
Pretty and Expensive.
Easter Brides VIII Wear Gowns
Made From Their Grandmothers'
Chinese Crepe ShawIs.

would stoutly deny, at least so long as
there is anything new TO tell of these use
full garments.
Many of them are being made in the form
OF sailor bfouses. The wide square collar
falling over the shoulder may be of white
embroidery, on an otherwise sober, solid
blue, or red gingham shirt, else the body
and collar may be of gingham and the
sailor vest in front will be a of fine nee
die work. The sailor type Of shirt does not
preclude the wearing of a stiff linen col
lar, and one of the new shoestring ties,
literally no wider than silk lacer, drawn
in long, narrow bow in front, and the tie
made fast to the collar by very small pearl
headed pins such as the men affect.
Now it is an indisputable fact that some
sensible women are not going to wear ties
at all with their summer shirt waists. pro-
vided the shirts collar is high band with
a deep rolling outer flap. Just under the
chin the points of the rolling collars have
buttonholes worked and through these slips
gold or silver linked affair, or a stiff gold
loop made on the exact pattern of our cuff
buttons, the heads ornamented with deeply
sunk cabochon jewels. A neater, sweeter
finish for collar would be hard to find,
and this will appeal to women who have no
knack for putting perfect bow in re-
fractory necktie. Sometimes two hand
some pearls ornament the knobs of this
new collar stud but the stud is oftenest
worn as an exact match for the cuff but
tons.
Women are going TO take kindly TO the
crisp taffeta ties called the Lady Algy, that
have been recently introduced as COM
panion to the new shirt waist. 1t takes
just seven -eighths of yard of taffeta 10
make a tie or you can purchase this detail
ready made in the shops. Strict adherence
TO the rule of fashion demands that ones
ties be made not of ribbon but of piece
taffeta, and all edges narrowly hemmed
by machine. A Lady Algy consists of a
buckram stock covered smoothly with silk
and having ever widening sashlike ends
drawn forward from the back of the neck,
Joined in an ample knot under the chin
and letting fall to the waist line two ends
cut in dart points. In the matter of neck
fnishings the mood now seems to get
away from anything like imitation of the
masculine mode, such as we have known
and followed slavishly for the past two
seasons.
old embroidered Chinese crepe shawl. with
rich silk fringe, heritage from an ances-
tress who wore the shawl tenderly as
wrap, If ii has turned the shade of old
ivory and is fragrant with the spicy
sachets amid which ii has lain for years,
have il forth and turn 1t into gown.
A white silk gown with an overskirt
made of such shawl is the most modish
and sumptuous dinner toilet possible at
present and If you wish to realize what
q treasure you possess in your shawl. just
go TO dressmaker and price costume
with such a drapery. She will ask you
from three to six hundred dollars for the
toilet the price dependent upon the size
and ripe beauty of the shawl drapery.
About a skirt of pale cloth or silk the
shawl is invariably hung in series Of
points and the fringe and beautiful en-
broidery suffice for decoration. The most
perfectly gowned brides of the Easter and
spring season are going to the altar in
dresses made from their mothers or
grandmothers' shawls and the bodices are
Ekillfully worked up from small fringed
shoulder shawls.
A goodly number of dresses simulate the
genuine shawl effect by the deft use of new
crepe de chine edged with fringe and over
laid with ribbon flowers, applied on the
surface OF course beneath the fringed
points of the overdress swirl out, about the
feet waves OF soft chiffon fiounces.
Having touched on the question of bridal
wedding season comes in, all bridesmaids
will appear in gowns of transparent white
stuff over slips of gay silk, and the flower
for the weddings of '99 is white lilac for
the bride and the palish mauve lilac
blooms for the maids. The groom must
wear tuft Of white lilac In his buttonhole.
and the best man and every usher will
accept his buttonhole favor from the faint
ly tinted, rarely perfumed bouquets Of the
maids in waiting. The slip beneath the
silk veil, net. chiffon, or liberty gauZe
draperies OF the bridesmaids dress is most
apt to be wrought of that soft, brilliant
and most popular fabric called taffeta
mousselaine. II is used, by the way. a deal
for trimming and for the points of chiefest
honor in the structure of many smart and
special toilets.
Spring parasols are just beginning to
stretch their gilded ribs and prim their
gay plumage for covetous woman, whose
heart Is sure TO be set on a dome of ducks
egg blue taffeta picked out in embroidered
black silk dots, or a striped black and
white taffeta, with a wide fowered bor-
der and fluffy silk fringe ecging top and
bottom. These at least are the two most
distinct and pleasing styles in market.
though there is no reason TO predict an alb
sence later on OF founced chiffon, lace and
open-worked sun-protectors. The first
flock of arrivals show without variation
slender Stuus OF pate yellow pOliSneQ WOOu,
handles crooked and ornamented with a
fat rosette Of silk TO match the covering.
representative number of pretty para
soils are edged with heavy deep silk fringe
and a forecast OF future elegancies in the
parasol of pale tinted crepe de chine, en-
bossed in roses, stretched over a chiffon
lining and bordered with fringe that
shows alternating tassels of silk and
strings OF fine crystal beads.
That all fashions move in circle is at
tested by the fact that We are destined to
wear as the smart slipper of the season
q shape and material seen oft before. The
slipper is either black patent leather or
dull finished French kid. with red heel
surprisingly new about all this save the
three pretty points that run upon the in
step and the oval buckle of imitation .dia-
monds and rubies that are fastened at the
base OF these points. So chaste but chic a
style OF foot covering naturally cannot be
worn without new hosiery, and the stock
fngs are undeniably very pretty. A per-
fecily plain black stocking is now quite
questionable. Ankles must display pin
stripes of interwoyen silk in three coiors
and close set, or openwork woven over
color or checks that are most elaborate,
or q powdering of minute -colored flowers.
Hannah Moore,s Letter.
At the height of her popularity and lit
erary success In London, Hannah Moore
for while lived with the Garricks, with
whom she WAS a Driue fayorite Molly