The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-02-01

nificenee, weird, dragon shaped inser-
tions of mousseline were used Then
sashes of every description had prom,
!nent place, and at the height of the
dancing the floating ribbon ends re-
minded one of a confetti shower how
ering about the heads of the dancers.
The day after there was nothing do
ing But the next Dorothy and l be-
gan the pilgrimage along the avenues
and through Twenty-third We met
Mrs y. iii a novelty shop where only
stocks and real frivolities of dress find
abiding place She was putting on an.
enormously weighty looking silver
chain Which hung down to her knees,
and from which dangled fish scale sill
Yer bag. The chain was the latest of
its kind, since it was one-half pound
| heavier than the original Worn by
Bernhardt. Chain Wearing in itself is
not so new. but upon the weight of the
article just now depends its claim for
fashionable distinction The craze for
antiques in this particular is as appar-
ent as in the chatelaine which one wo-
man. in order to Guido all Others wears
madeIof copper.
We met in OH rounds some friends
who gossiped a lot. One told US She
had seen a photograph of Chartran's
magnificent and costly portrait of the
Duchess of Marlborough which he had,
finished Christmas week. The duchess,
according TO account. is wearing her
hair low upon her neck. with small
curl coming forward over the shoulder,
and more jewel clasps than have ever
before been seen on any bodice This
augurs> we'll for the. gold slide. fad
Dorothy bought an assortment of the
sweetest French ginghams in tiny shep-
herd plaid checks amber, pink, blue
and black and white. These she is
having made up into skirts and shirt
waists, heavily feather stitched in
wash Silk. She will wear velvet ribbon
belts and an entirely new arrangement
of stock with a strip coming down the
front of the shirt and tucking in at the
belt Buttonholes are worked in the
ribbon velvet, and she wears studs, of
garnet set in silver or of turquoise set
in gold with link buttons which join
strip of the velvet slipped over the
wrist and worn like a bracelet.
We wound up the end of the week at
a mans bonnet" shop. SO to speak, and
INDUCED npanama straws gayly bedeck-
ed in liberty kerchiefs spotted or boquet-
edin the b6nbon shades. Beforewereach-
| ed the mans halter we had an interest
ing time looking over some old wood
cuts of corsets and stays of long ago,
| which from description, lacked plabil-
| ity, but otherwise We're much the same
| straight front affairs we wear today /
never fully appreciated this latter char
acteristic OF our modern corset until
| saw one of the Hampstead women who
| don't wear one try on coat With
| position back and compared her figure
| to Dorothy's. who at the moment was
staggering around in a petunia cloth
strapped in striped pannezan exact du-
| plicate in cut. Be warned, therefore,
by me not to try the basque coat unless
over a straight front corset. The diff
ference is there. and yet l am unable to
| explain until L make a further study
! what it really is.
I am beginning to wonder what peo-
pie did in the country houses before
| bridge was invented Nowadays the
moment tea is over the tables are pro-
duced. and directly after dinner the
game begins and goes on merrily until
| the small hours. Music is looked upon
as a nuisance. interfering with the
cards: theatrcals are barely tolerated,
and the mere suggestion of drawing
room games is an outrage, if we except
parlor golf which fashionable young
dominic has introduced And here am
/ finishing up my chat hulriedly to be off
for bridge whist though petulantly
| criticising the hold it has upon our af-
fections
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