The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-13
FASHIONS UP TO DATE.
Some of the Many Things the New
York Girl Wears.


York Girl Wears.
At this timely season, when spring
styles are coming in and it is off with
the old gown on with the new the fem
mime heart yearns for New York, that
Mecca of the fashionable woman.
Fashion journals are poor substitute
for the knowledge to be cleaned in a
walk down Broadway or through the
shops, or an evening at the opera.
Mrs. w. B. Seeskind, who has re-
Gently come to Sayapnah from New
York, has brought with her not only
many pretty gowns and bonnets that
are marvels of the couturier's art, but
a host of clever ideas about little fads
of fashion and points of dress, those
unwritten touches that mark the New
York girl above her fellows.
1t is the age of elaborate
gowning, Mrs. Seeskind says.
To go into New York
theater nowadays is almost like enter
ing a reception. White, all white,
from clinging silky gown to rose laden
chiffon hat-for the New York woman
has abandoned for theater wear the
girlish rose or piquant bow in her
fluffy hair, and crowns it instead with
a tip-tilted mass of tulle.
/, A typical hat in Mrs. SeeskindS own
wardrobe is purest white except for a
cluster of pinky-whi roses al the back
of the rolling brim ~ The brim itself
is laid in tiny folds of tulle, it's outer
edge outlined by a fiat two-inch banG
of pearls. The crown, or some new
hand-woven straw that has a silvery
CLEAN, is untrimmed except for a ca
bochon of pearls set far at the back
A unique combination in a winter hat
is a crown of white plated chiffon
and cup-shaped .brim covered with
brown fur. Another hat for cold
weather is white beaver faced with
tulle. Two long white ostrich plumes
soften its edge and at the back is a
knot of black velvet.
"A lovely hat for spring wear is in
the new flower effect, which is to be
most fashionable. Violet leaves form
the crown and the rounded brim which
curves away from the face and slight
ly upwards and is a mass of purple
violets. There is no other adornment
of any kind. The gown that is worn
with this charming hat is dark blue
of the new canvas cloth, which is
something like grenadine. 1t is fast
ened at the back-everythfng is fast
ened at the back-and trimmed with
blue, which is one of the very latest
wrinkles. 1t is laid on the skirt in an
effective design, and on the corsage
emphasizes the curve of waist and
shoulder. The material is out away
from the front of the bodice so as to
show an interlining of pale yellow taft
feta almost covered by scroll design
in embroidery on white silk. For every
thing now must show beautiful hand
work if you would be fashionable. A
lovely gown that illustrates this per-
fectly is of white satin crepe de chine
that wonderful new fabric which can
cost anything a yard The entire gown
is formed of circular tucked medallions
inserted with embroidered stitching.
The seams of the skirt are herring
boned together with narrow silk braid
instead of floss, and above the grad
uated circular fiounce is a scroll pat
tern in the medallions. The high
corsage is made with elbow sleeves,
which are an essential feature of all
evening gowns, and it is finished with
a wide girdle of heavy Irish lace, which
hangs we'll below the waist line in front
and has the long position back. A
true New York touch seen in all the
gowns is the taffeta petticoat whose
upper flounce over the silk ruffies is of
accordion plated chiffon.
Another gown equally charming is
of the same material in pale grey, with
no trimming except the elaborate en-
broidered designs that cover the skirt
and corsage.
A beautiful dinner gown is of finest
black Brussels net with a delicate in
terworked pattern of spangled jet,
made over white taffeta. The neck and
sleeves Of the corsage are unlined, and
the sleeves are quite plain, with little
fitness, gathered at the wrist into a
slight bishop effect. A tiny fold of
rose pink velvet edges the transparent
collar, and at the shoulders is a short
loose garland of very small wide-open-
ed pink roses fastened to loops of baby
ribbon. A single band of the roses is
laid against the front of the bodice
from shoulder to waist. There is a Cir
die of plain black net gathered over
a roll of white chiffon and ending in
two balls of jet. 1t is fastened at the
back, hanging more than half the
length of the skirt, and at the waist
line there is a shorter drapery of the
ribbon strung roses. The striped effect
of the jet is woven into a scroll de-
sign near the lower edge of the skirt,
which is finished with a narrow seal
loped f1ounce, bordered with roses, and
falling over a white chiffon under
ruffie.
A dark blue velvet suit, a coat of
Persian lamb and sable, a long black
satin cloak with deep collar of bee mar
ten fur, are all very handsome, but too
wintry to appeal to Southern taste in
March In shirt waists the new Gibson
cut is to be seen in every material.
novel effect in pongee is the stitching
of light blue silk The tucks and the
mannish little pockets are finished with
blue stitched arrow heads. The cuffs
and the front of the waist are fastened
by numberless round brass buttons set
close together. The colored stitching is
also seen on white silk blouse done
in three shades, red. yellow and blue.
For shirt waist wear there are big
choux, butterfly bows of point d'espfit,
worn just beneath the chin.
It is by these little tokens you know
the New York girl. From the crown of
her pretty head to the sole of her well
shod foot, she considers the mode. The