The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-28
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and If you will only give me time I will
get round to an account of a precious little
frock over which my cousin and a tall
rosy, well dressed creature from Chicago
struggled for possession. The Chicago wo-
man landed 1t eventually, for Ii became
her figure best, and while l sat outside
the contest the suffering victim of vow
I took notes on that same gown and later
in the season l shall initiate its delic-
ious lines and curves in another color.
For the Chicago girl IL was strangely
becoming in a shade called violet blue
The top and bottom of the skirt and
sleeves and the upper part of this unf1g-
ured foulard were packed into tiny tucks
and then there was the mere outline of an
overdress sketched on the surface of the
skirt, by a graceful piping done with a fiat
cream colOred cord.
This cording bordered the fronts of the
waist where they were split open down
the front and revealed a vest of cream
lace laid over cream net. Upon the vest
was knotted in pretty carelessness a sash
tie of cream surah and the ends were not
fringed, as you may have guessed, but
We're drawn down and concealed in the
rather broadly folded belt of the same
color that encircled the waist.
Il spent at least ten minutes bordering
whether l might accept as an indication
of the future the neck arrangement of this
gown II was a simple crush collar of
cream surah running up rather high back
of the ears and finished in the rear by
a generous bow of wired silk. Just the
sort of collar We wore three or
four years ago. Altogether 1 re
gard the little silk frock as
triumph Of dressmakers' art and the girl
from the Windy City, with her bright
hair and cheeks, bore the soft silken drap-
cries with the majestic grace of a goddess.
Now If it viii be any consolation to your
soul, Mrs. Van Knickerbocker, 1 can
quote the saleswoman as my authority
for the fact that plain silks are going
TO be preferred to figured ones, when the
time for wearing light clothes arrives and
that trains are sure to take to them
selves a number of inches more when the
flowers begin to bloom.
A MeIon-Green Organdy.
"As I was going on to say my cousin
with commendable fortitude, when find
ing herself worsted in the conflict over the
six gown, hurried for consolation to the
counter where they are selling muslins and
gnghams and our first purchase was
stunning melon green organdie illuminated
with black rings stamped upon it's YER
dant surface. This is to be made up over
a slip Of green, cut quite plain and fulled
a trifle at the back. Three accordian
peated fiOunces are going to surge and
ripple from her knees down and be
topped off by pipings of black silk laid on
at the knees in deep Vandyke points.
las to the waist that was my victory,
for my pretty cousin hankered after a
| fashion distinctly Of the last century,
while l bent all my Influence to the choice
| of a sweet little body founded on a yoke
| of imitation cream colored cluny lace, run
| ming down, not only well over the bust
nd CHI I'M
| of the arms as well. Below the yoke two
| small lateral fiounces of organdie ran
cross the arms as well as the bust and
| there a slightly pouched front was drawn
| into "a stitched belt of green taffeta. An
| other Inspiration of mine was that of
| edging all the ruftles with a narrow gaug-
ing of black net. Added to this / ordered
| triple straps of black ribbon run up over
| either shoulder and a bow of light green
| panney fastened on the light breast and
| if my cousin is not bowed under a weight
| Of gratitude to me for helpful suggestions
| then / can only wonder at her lack of ap-
probation for valued favors received"
All in Lateral Tuclxs.
"And you went and saw and were not
| conquered by these temptations" asked
the hostess with awe in her tones
We'll" admitted the heroine of the oc-
casion modestly, II did buy just one, only
one little frock, and that was so simple.
so truly inexpensive that / can't see where
1t violates N the least my resolution. It's
a pretty piece of pink perfection in that
new shade Of rose they call Venus pink.
for il has just a glamour of violet over it
and the woman is yet to be born whose
coloring it would not agree with
"EXcursioning about l soon came 10
realize that lowered organdies are not go
ne to b. half SO modsh as those In one
delicate uniform color, worked up into
gowns by the aid of lace and velvet rib
bon. SO filled with dreams Of conquest g
TO come on wide verandas with the mer-
curry striving 70 beat its own previous tall
records / laid out a small sum in pink
frock and then l made haste TO my little
soamstress. She persuaded me into hav-
ing both skirt and waist laid in lateral
lucks beginning quite narrow al the shoul-
ders and broadening TO nearly twelve
inches at the foot. over my shoulders
she cast a yoke of lace with wing revers
failing upon the shoulders and with a
small girdle and a Big breast knot OF Jac-
oueminot red Liberty satin we did achieve
a triumph that once seen will not, I'll war
rant you, be soon forgotten"
Mary Dean.