The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-01

tire which interests rather than attracts. May. ls00. Caps made of silk, lace, and velvet. with flowers of the same color, will be fashionably. worn at Lord | Melville's trial, with Spanish jackets and scarfs of embroidered silk.
 The conversation bonnet is e nicely modified coal-scuttle shape that is great ly favored. The most fashionable styles ] In straw are the conversation cottage models. which are distinguished for their negligent neatness. At the back the hair and has somewhat pnea dishevellas sn curis uta in front. Necklaces and earrings are of Mocha-stones linked with burnished gold.
 Dresses which are extolled in summer In winter and spring. Our wives, and sisters, and sweethearts are like the daf- | fodils. appearing in all their bright att | ure before the swallow dares to come. and they take the winds of March with | beauty. I Muslin dresses are worn unlined, and skirts are short enough to display the ankle through them. Flowers and loops of ribbon are worn over the left side of the couture and face, so placed as to
 almost conceal the left eye. Fugitive coats made of exile cloth are worn this season. and their name is a tribute paid | by fashion to the sufferings of the ex- lied house of Braganza.
 Since the end of the eighteenth century | the manufacture of delicate muslins (so named from the town of MossouD has been greatly developed at Tarare and St. Quentin |t't
 For the most part. women of royal dis | their own tresses, and many rare gems, including diamonds and emeralds, are worn where flowers are considered too inexpensive. Numerous rich women. | without social position, also adopt this fashion, being anxious to display their wealth and do honor to their husbands 6 circumstances.
 At a party at the Hotel Thelusson great l admiratiO a lad hna tresses were dressed in Greek style--a band of exquisite cameos, representing Roman emperors, encircling her beauti- I full head. Her gown, with waist seven | inches long, and short sleeves, was made of palest pink tulle. embroidered with | cut-steel beads. rore of admiration at the fancy ball in | an Athenian gown, wearing two circlets l of gold as garters which glimmered d | through the filmy folds of her white and | gold crepe frock, and with jeweiled strap pings on her bare and sandalled feet. but | there were other heroines of La Mode if l may so express myself-who were | attred a la Sauvage. or who threw sang squeezed their waists into steel stays 8 la humanite, and wore on their heads either a hat a la Justice or a cap la | folie. ift
 The beautiful white gowns. with spiral | trimmings of pink satin and sprays of brightly colored flowers round the hem of the skirt, are very pretty. The bodice is fastened on the shoulders with many colored ribbands, and draped about the
 neck with Valenciennes lace of great cost. The bare arms are covered with long white gloves round the throat Is neck lace of pearls, and on the hair, worn in curls, is a dainty wreath of roses. This Is for ballroom wear, and the dress-skirt is short, revealing the ankle and the foot in white satin shoe.
 York and Limerick gloves are both less | expensive and much more easy to procure in these times than fine French kid, but they are not so pretty. English Kid things, with no particular fit about them | something like coarse peau de Suede. and maAy a time those who perforce wear them. must sigh for the peau giace,
 A very fashionable article of jewelry is | a gold neckchain and heart with patent spring. which. when pressed. opens and | reveals the eye of friend, relative, or lover, beautifully executed on ivory, and | finished with an enamelled border.
 For morning wear plain camhrtc high
 gown with surplice sleeves and Van dyked yoke, a Spanish overdress of pea green muslin, crepe, or sarcenet, bor- dered with silk cord. and buttoned to the shape in front; winged mob-cape or net of plaited straw ornamented with
 white sarcenet ribbon, Limerick gloves and Spanish slippers of sea-green kid.
 The fashion of tight-lacing has revived |
 sally to an extent of which people of
 former days could form no conception.
 and which posterity will not credit. Stays
 are now composed, not of pliable whale
 bone or leather, but of bands of steel and
 iron from two to four Inches broad, and
 many of them not less than eighteen
 inches in length.
 Bonnets are of a becoming shape and
 size-many of black or violet velvet.
 though those of white or tinted satin are
 rather more In favor with the high classes. drapery of black net is often
 added to the edge of these bonnets. Bon nets are worn rather more forward than they have been for some time past. Hats | of black satin are ornamented with large | rosettes of pink or yellow velvet or sal cenet. We see In carriages hats of dark green velvet, with white plumes and l veil of white net.
 Since the Hundred Days succeeding lets have become the rage. They are re- garded as a political emblem. No inn perialist lady appears in public without a large bunch of violets on her breast Morning-caps are trimmed with violets and immortelles, set side by side. and many lapidaries manufacture ornaments of the same design.
 On the other hand royalist ladies wear muslin or Jaconet gowns, with eighteen | tucks on the skirt, in honor of Louis XVIII. and bonnets of white silk striped | with lacy straw, square cashmere shawl with a vermilion border, and dark-blue kid shoes.
 The art of dressing woman's hair is nearly allied to genius, and, in order 10 l exercise it noblY, one should be poet a painter, or a sculptor. It is necessary l to understand shades of color, chtaros- l euro, and the proper distribution or shadows, so as to confer animation on the complexion and render other native | charms more expressive. The fne art Of dressing a prude, and of letting preten- l sions be apparent, yet without frankly | thrusting them forward; that, also, of l pointing out a coquette, and Of making ] a mother look like her childs eldest | sister; of adapting the style of coimure | to the taste and disposition of the in | dividual-in fine the art of asserting | caprices or of occasionally controlling | them requires more than common share of intellect. and a tact with Whlch 1 one must be born.
 Elegant capotes of blonde or lace with flowers on them, tastefully disposed. are worn at theatres and operas, also hats or velvet and satin. We are sorry for this ! because an audience tn boxes brilliantly 1 attired add much to the Splendor Of all | pubIic spectacles, and, however, taste | fully d cap or cornette may be put on however superb its decorations, It never will, in its present style, LOOK suitao ole to, The full evening costume, and always ejves to A matronly lady the appearance of A femme de charge, rather than tnat oG ,,ci- +-ess of a grand establishment | '(An evening toilet of lSOO). Rather full cray satin skirt, with Agatha robe above | it of mink silk muslin fastened on the lett l shoulder with gold and comedian clasps | onen on this side, and either falling loose m. hound round the waist with strap pings of white satin and cornehah clasps,
 close fitting to the shape In the oaGk N'NN' .iaavaa of mink silk and muslin.