The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-12

The Topeka stores have been rather
quiet the past week as the openings are
all over and there have been no bar
gain days worth mentioning. All of the
staples for winter are in and the only
new things shown from now on viii be
novelties.
Never before has there been such de-
mand forreadymade clothing as there IS
this season. Formerly only the COM
monest kind of garments could be pur-
chased ready made, but for several years
past there has been a decided improve
ment in this line, until now almost any
article Of women's clothing may be pur-
chased ready made, and at the same
time be almost as satisfactory as
seamstress can make them.
This is more noticeable in suits than
almost anything else, as the ready made
ones may be bought at very reasonable
prices and as pretty as the regular
tailor mades which cost two or three
times much.
Wrappers. house gowns, matinees,
lingerie and all the other minor articles
of dress may be found to suit all tastes,
and the time and worry they save is
boon to every woman Formerly only
the business women bought ready made
garments but now her example is fol-
lowed by nine-tenths of the women who
have little else to do but devote their
time to society and clothes.
The New Skirt.
The skirt of the fashionable gown is
cut to fit with extreme closeness
around and below the hips and flares
above the knees. This is applicable to
the tailored as well as to other skirts,
except that the flare is less extreme in
the tailored, as the skirt has not the
slightest train
Still another feature is the universal
tendency toward long lines and sweep
ing effects that in many cases approach
the princess form with striking close
ness. When skirts are embroidered the
tendency is to have design in each
gown branching upward in pyramidal
effect. The Norfolk jacket illustrates
this feature as applied to tailored suits,
and in every variety of dress the same
characteristic is to be found.
Occasionally the horizontal decora-
ton of last year is combined with this
newer vertical idea with excellent
effect as in an evening gown imported
by one of the best houses. 1t is of
white tulle. tucked vertically nearly to
the knee, then trimmed with five
stitched bands of white taffeta en-
circling the skirt
A Comparison.
Place the New Yorker beside typical
western girl-one, say, from Kansas
clothe them in identical garments, and
the difference becomes even more pro-
nounced- They may be equally Gull
tured, equally intellectual equally
charming, but they are not alike. The
her eyes will be more widely open; she
viii look at the world with franker
gaze; she viii be slightly more indie
pendent or aggressive more used to
doing for herself says the Woman's
Home Companion. She will take the
rough manners of the hurrying men as
a matter of course No frown will
pucker her pretty eyebrows when she is
Jostled- She walks with less lightness
and more sturdiness. She outbreathes
an air of accepting things as she finds
them, and making the best of them
In all probability she is the daughter
or man and woman who were among
the vests winners. Her parents found
life hard, she finds it easy; but the re-
suit OF their long battle against I'M
tanned nature and restricted social con-
ditions is Swallowed in her.
The Autumn Sleeve.
With the putting away of summer
frocks, diaphanous draperies of lawn
dimity and organdy, we have also put
away much of the fullness and redund-
ant size of our bodice sleeves Now and
then you viii see a zibeline or Vene-
tan cloth with the upper portion of
the sleeve tucked and then belling out
suddenly.
The autumn tailor models show a
closer fitting sleeve. 1t Is by no means
tight, but il Is arranged in folds tucks
or cords to lie smoothly on the fitted
lining The daring model with bell
shape about the wrist we had all sum-
The smartnesS of these bodices de-
ponds In a measure upon the neat
effect of the tailored sleeve Mousoue-
taire cuffs and square turned back
GUNS are seen on the stylish sleeves.
They harmonic with the shoulder col
lar which has insensibly become an ap-
panage of the bolero. In such a case
the collar does not meet on the breast
but only goes as far as the bolero edge
not Infringing on the blouse front,
which is usually of different. softer ma
ter1al and frequently of another color.
Some of the tailor cuffs are quite
small, and close fitting. with the air of
neatness we associate with the idea of
a tailor-made frock
The Peril of Pride.
Once there were some very swagger
people in an ultra village not far from
the metropolis who decided that no So
ciety yet punched together was exclu-
sive enough for them. Ever the Colon
ial Dam es failed to meet the REQUIRE
ments- So they determined to start a
new aggregation that should be the
real thing, says q writer in Smart Set