The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-01-27

nifcence, weird, dragon shaped inser-
tons of mousseline were used. Then
sashes Of every description had prom
inent 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 1 be-
gan the pilgrimage along the avenues
and through Twenty third. We met
Mrs. 3. ia 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 a fish scale sill
yer bag. The chain was the latest of
its kind, since it was one-haf pound
1 heavier than the original worn by
/ Bernhard. Chain wearing in itself is
/ not so new, but upon the weight of the
article lust 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
made of copper.
( We met in our 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
1 hair low upon her neck, with a small
curl coming forward over the shoulder
and more jewel clasps than have ever
/ before been seen on any bodice. This
Iaugurs wen 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 viii 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
ia 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
q mans bonnet shop, so to speak, and
INDUCED inpanama straws gayly bedeck-
ed in liberty kerchiefs spotted or boquet-
ed in the bonbon shades. Before we reach
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 pliabil-
ity but otherwise were much the same
straight front affairs we wear today. 1
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 q coat with
position back and compared her figure
10 Dorothy's. who at the moment was
/ staggering around in a petunia cloth
strapped in striped panne-an exact du-
plicate in cut. Be warned. therefore.
! by me not TO try the basque coat unless
over q straight front corset. The diff
{ ference Is there. and yet am unable to
explain until ] make a further study
what it really IS
am beginning 10 wonder what peo-
pie did in the country houses before
bridge was invented Nowadays the
moment tea is over the tables are pro
Guced. and directly after dinner the
same begins and goes on merrily until
the small hours. Music is looked upon
as q nuisance. interfering with the
cards. tbeatricals are barely tolerated.
and the mere suggestion Of drawing
room games is an outrage. i we except
parlor golf which fashionable young
dominic has introduced. And here I am
finishing Up my chat hurriedly 10 be OF
for bridge whist though petulantly
criucising the hold 1t has upon our al
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