Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-04

buttons to a side that held uown the taffeta
fronts. cut in leaf points. The sleeves
demonstrated the worth of a new idea in
arm trimming by showing leaf points Of
taffeta overlapping at graceful distances
down the arm.
81 must not fail to assure you that such
effects are evidently to be taken seriously
into our spring calculations The exceed
ingly modish girl who wore this piece OF
perfection brought the usually warning cle-
ments of skirt and waist into amiCable reia-
tons by girdling her slender middle with
a sash of gray silk muslin, knotted in one
loop and two long ends a trine to the left
side. therefore caution you to keep a
sharp lookout for sashes.'
\ Pearl Gray Foulnrd.
That l have" responded the hostess,
and to that extent do | believe in hem
hat | have taken into serious consideration
&c an idea for my first foulard a house
gown, an application of the sash motif. This
foulard is a pretty pearl gray sprigged over
In tho nest fairy-like taste, with finest
black patterns through which CLEAN just a
touch Of blue now and then. quite an April
day idea.
"All the top of the skirt is going to be
closely laid, narrow horizontal tucks, ever
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extend down we'll upon the hips. 1t will
also cast a fullness into the top OF the
bodice by rising well up under the bust.
My yoke in front will be of a pretty thickly
patterned cream lace laid over pale blue,
with sleeves of the same; but the charm
of the dress lies in a small lace edged kerr
chief o. gray liberty silk, crossing the Shout
ders at the base of the yoke, passing down
one side to the waist line, and there letting
fall to the feet a couple of streamers gar
nishcl with lace"
About Earrings.
well before | CO. announced Maisic,
languidly gathering her splendors about her,
II don't mind letting you into the secret
that IL already wide open about earrings.
Next week | shall break upon a waiting
world with pearl drops dangling from my
satin and sea shell lobes, and | do this not
because | love earrings so much, but that
! love to be fashionable more. Every
mothers daughter at the spread today, save
your humbled and chastened young friend,
displayed pearls chiefly and turquoise oc-
casiCnally. | rather hankered after a pair
that | saw the awfully smart Mrs. Baylies
wear, perfect, deeply blue turquoise, set in
narrow, dark green enamel rims. Hers
were buttons, mine are drops with a dia-
mond spark at the top of each pink gem.
Don't let any woman push you into the be-
lief that only buttons will be worn, for the
Parisians are already clarifying in won
drous beglimmered gypsy loops, that after
all were the only ornamental eardrops ever
in use
Now, what do you suppose we will be
wearing next?' plaintively inquired the
hostess.
lob. the next attraction in the theater OF
fashions is the Mode du Barry. l wish you
could see the new thoater waist. | have
cle Just home from the dressmaker's. 1t is
a brocaded silk, not expensive, but very gay,
with its Du Barry roses worked on a Marie
Antoinette green ground. Its lines are
stifly pointed, not curved in to the waist
at all. 1t is sloped out over the shoulders
like . court dress and cut omen in a sharp
point in front to show a yoke and vest OF
dif,rond tucked white taffeta and then its
garnishment is done with black and white
velvet ribbon, as | assure you that Madame
du Barry, with her vase-shaped figure, could
wear it with ease. | am afraid l shall look
a fright in it. OF course, | cant yet agree
it is pretty, for it is so stiff and so unlike
what We have been wearing, but, like the
Campbells of Scotch history, this Du Barry
fashion is coming inevitably, irresistibly and
by springtime you and | and all the rest
of the faithful will have figures to rival those
in the eighteenth century French portraits
Vale MARY DEAN.