The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-06

EW YORK, May 5.-The spring
wrap Is always beautiful: 1t
doesn't need to be protective to
II more than n limited degree,
1t Ia foam and roth Of rib
bons and laces and ruffies; IL glimmers
and flashes with sequins and jet. and 1t
belongs TO the sunshine and sweet air,
Jux ~ do the young leaves and blossoms.
and the big hats covered with chiffon
roses. and the spiders canopies misnamed
parasols.
When II Is long wrap II is like n veil
that floats about the figure, transparent
and misty. Often the under side of 1t Is
OF white chiffon and the upper side OF
black net, fraying into lace edges and
broken with insertions OF black Chantilly.
When II II a short wrap II IL a dainty
fchu cape flmy as "A summer cloud, and
whimsieaily suggesting an impossible rap
prochement of laughing loving Marie An
toinette and the grave Puritan maiden in
simple gray frock and snowy kerchief.
Or else II Is eapriciously extravagant
little bolero. a garment tit for Nab. queen
OF the fairies. with its collars and revers
and even Innings OF costly Malines. Allen
con or Angleterre lace and its frostings
OF embroidery and seauins.
TO he sure there are heavier wraps
driving coats of putty-colored cloth, long
enough to reach tho knees and deliberately
stitched to stimulate double garments
the Nendvked upper part falling over
rows OF horizontal stitching and the coll
lars and cuffs maintaining by their decor
a,ions the same piops fraud
Aud there arc race coats stitched and
embroidered until II would seem that
''seYen maids with seven needles stitch
ing seven years" could not accomplish
their intricaces OF detail One such coat
In pale mastic cloth belongs To the trous-
seau Of Miss Edith Morton. whose mar
rage took place last week. IL reaches
the feet H. % 81
the back, the sides being laid in fiat
plaits which seem to fan from under "A
short holero. Round the neck IL Il white
cloth cape braided with arabesQues In
mssllc color This rises NJ tho throat INTO
high collar and g. prolonged In front
into a panel In tho form OF a stole, which
continues 20 the bottom of the garment
and then encircles 81
Put despite this and other examples
the latest long coat iS ~ nothing thicker
than taneta, and Is remarkably full by
reason Of an inhnity % tuCks and vet
commercially llght because ununed and
most cltverly manipulated II Is semi
ntting rather than of sack shape aud II
OF black Il has immense rever~ and collar
OF white silk. ircrusted perhaps with a
coarse tinted lace, white down the side
may fall SCARF OF decp yellow apDllsue
For the matron "A thrce-quArtrrs coat
Of more dignity is of llack psau DO sole
stitched pcrpepdjCunrly I'm ine tucks. and
having its skirts osvgluid with deem
application of coarstly patterned black
l.uNcuu lace The coat Is edged BY tho
inevitable chirou fran ruehrd with cause
and It's enormously hish. iowerliko collar
seems 70 he held in place by a broad black
velvet ribbon which Is knotted back and
front leaving long. loppe3 ends
In contrast with these garments arc
hordes NJ little taneta coates and boeros
- stu ionsil smart severity. these resting
for tncir sole success OBS elaborate tuck.
insx stranuiues bnt DARING outline ~
rcvcrs and high collar One new hsltro
though May is upon us Is 10 black velvet.
with fAcings OF white satin black lace
and rows ~ black velvet riehau
Another short coat which may ne made
81 white or slack satin. Is lucd With soft
Marie Antoluette silk. and mas seams
rcVeTs, collar and cuffs 0yerlad With lace
or heavily stitched
A little black silk coat which Is Nelnr
worn by Mrs. George Gould Is trimmed
diagonally on the body and sleeves with
rows % black guipure insertion The
sleeves are also tucked diasonaIly. ana az
the wrists there are frills Of black chiffon.
The square revers are edged with QUILL
ing OF black chiffon and rose,tes OF CHR
fon. while soft folds OF the same sauzv
material are drawn down between them
and appear in front. A kuotted silk fringe
surrounds the basque and at the throat
there Is a scarf OF the fashionable Clunv
lace in deep ecru tone
The hat which Mrs Gould wears With
this coat is made OF orossway folds of
black glace silk. and the brim is yelled
with chiffon. Two large rosettes OF ehlf-