The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-11-23
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Dinner sets this season show return
to borders and solid cOlors in the matter
of decoration. Instead of the dainty
sprays OF flowers scattered over the sur
face the latest patterns are in borders,
sometimes quite narrow. Solid colors are
much used in shaded effects, the two
toned styles, one might call them.
A new dance, witch is likely
to be very popular. was danced the
London, and the ''swell set' in Gotham
will no doubt hasten to import it. 1t is
called &C. |. W. 1t is said to be easily
acquired The couples are arranged AZ
in other Quadrilles, but the music rattles
right through the dance without a pause
embracing the most popular movements
used in ordinary quadrilles and some new
ones.
Styles in jewels arc changing Every
big 5ewe]er from Tiffany to Maiden Lane
is making Il display of pearls. In fanci-
full little pins the pearl holds first choice.
and every ''swagger' girl along Broad
way can boast Of two or three. The lat
est leWelry designs are fetching a lit
tie heart-shaped brooch of dull gold is
one of fashions favorites this winter 1t
has tiny spray Of blue forget-me-nots
across it, while small pearls are in
the center of each little flower. Then the
three-pearl pin is very popular. A we'll
known actress set this fashion month
ago, and now all her admirers are wear
ing them likewise. One is an all-pearl
scroll with single ruby in the center
Another design in scroll has five anne
thysts. The design which every matinee
girl is seeking, however, is an elaborate
leaf, set with half pearls, while in the
center are five beautiful whole pearls, ra-
dating from a cluster of small diamonds.
Coorcd precious stones which at one
time were sacrificed to diamonds and
pearls have now found favor in the world
of fashion. Even coral, which for long
time was. neglected, is regaining it's rank
those old-fashioned stones, the topaz, the
amethyst. the opal and the chrystalite
Naturally the ruby, the emerald and the
sapphire retain their favorite place
among jewels of price. Their cut and
setting show. infinite variety. They are
worn not only as necklaces, brooches or
pendants. but also as chains, belts, corse-
let's, rings. and on high, enormous colt
fures. almost like tiara respondent in
Shlmmering cOlors.
This revel of precious stones, with an
unprecedentedly lavish use of costly furs
-sables blue fox, black fox and silver
fox-in wide cloaks. a la dogaresse or
gether form the distinctive features of
the winters costly femininites in Paris.
The fact that the Prince of Wales does
not crease his trousers, and that he has
not done so for months, perhaps years.
will be all awful shock to fashionable
New York.
The startling news reached New York
in more relia BILE form--in that OF Il
photograph Of the prince. showing that
his trousers are absolutely creaseless.
1t is not accidental. either. Inspection
OF the photograph shows that the trou-
sers never We're creased The whole
thing is deliberate: The prince has
stopped sending his trousers 70 bc
And he didn't tell New York society
anything about it. Men who have been
going about New York for the past few
months with trousers bagging at the
knees and have been sneercd at for their
pains by the .'swell drcsscrs' are now
fully indicated.
There will be scurrying by "swch
dresserS'' to take the crease from their
''pant*." This. a tailor says, can he,
done easily by soaking the garments fo1
half an hour in the washtub and then
hanging them on the line to dry.
When they are dry they will look like
those the prince wears in the picture.
While the prince has gone back to I'M
ironed trousers, President Mckinley
hasn't.
The FIRST gentleman of America" has
his dressed every morning by his pri-
vate secretary or someone else before he
puts them on,
The crease is a most emphatic one. 1t
is made with very heavy f1atiron WELD
ed by a man with a large bicepS, who
must work for many minutes developing
the crease.
1t now devolyes upon New York dude
dom to say which leader it will follow
the prince or the President
And now vague rumors are flying
across the seas to disturb the serenity of
the woman who has been congratulating
herself that she has gotten her figure up
to-date. "A writer in one of the leading
foreign magazines s0lemnly assures us
that ''solidity Of figure in it's most down
right sense has suddenly sprung into a
fashion, and that the svelte, the slender,
the sinuous shall, on that account, be
highly esteemed no longer. The German
build is, in fact, the only correct contour
of the moment, and it is stern and ar
is that padding. with an immense "P, -
is to be called in where nature has pro-
vided only scanty envelope. This is a
sad hearing for the thin woman who has
been Queening it in sheath-like skirts for