The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-05-17
New York Fashions.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
Npw Yopy Nav 16 II

From Our Regular correspondent.
NEw York, May 16, 1902.
The season has advanced sufficiently for the
feminine mind to have fixed itself on some
special fancy; this year, boas have been the
selection and in vast variety as to color, shape
and material, they are subjects of study. Ex-
IRENE 1uffiness about the neck, is the leading
characteristic and while some reach mar
vellous degree in this direction, others spread
themselves down quite distance at the back,
so as almost to take the place of now discard
ed capes. Apart from huffiness, the great
desideratum is length. Fashionists proper
look discainfully on front ends which do not
end with the skirt but there comes large
and not to be despised class, who content
themselves with lesser elongations.
Numerous ends of ribbon, floating in the
air, often herald the approach of a fair one,
but as this was ''last seasons" peculiarly,
it is not so highly esteemed by extremists, as
plated ends of chiffon or tulle caught at in
tervals by curious fancies in the same or kind
red fabrics, or again a wide finish in silk edged
by plating, double or otherwise. ranks
high, but must complete boa in the same
material. Great prestige attaches to boas
made exclusively in crinkled silk leaves that
hutter with every breath. The majority, how
ever, are made in better known fabrics, such
as thin silk, chiffon, tulle, net or lace and
frequently all or most of these favorities are
made up in combination.
The management on a still day of these
accessories, when worn with skirt much bet
ter fitted to an always still dummy in shop
window, than actual use in wearing, renders
many fashionable woman quite as useless as
TO iocomotion, as an Oriental lady, who does
not aspire to free use of her limbs Feats of
agility and assistance in getting about, must
,Ia,1
manipulation of fairy like parasol and wide
hat made to catch the breeze, are added diff
culties. A fashionable woman on windy
day, who endeavors to walk, is curious OBJ
ject The sex would be lost, but for the tailor
suit or the independent walking skirt, either
one transforming her so completely and rem
dering her so independent of weather or es
cort that grumbling men may fee! quite as
uncomfortable regarding the new women's
career, as in former days when their lamenta
tons for dependence on them had the greatest
reason. Hats to match short-skirted outfits.
are likewise markedly on the helpful order.
In stitched cloth, with but slight pretence of
finish, they lure on to out door feats of many
kinds and might presumably tempt even Mary
Walker to change her faith and enter the list
of shirt waist girls. But who shall say ought
against the lovely flower laden hats of the
Gay. CreatlonS tney are anu Sweet ehouSh "
meltthe most cynical heart. A poppy adorned
example recently shown in Lord u Taylor's
window set seal on the prestige of this floral
adorment and beside it, a brilliant red albat
ross cloth dress, the skirt laid in plaits to a
lace yoke and with lace waist overlaid by a
jacket in material, was pretty enough to suit
the most critical masculine and wiring confess
sion that without prettly dressed women the
world would be too dreary even for him.
Lucille" Black lace mitts are to be very
fashionable, doubtless because harmonizing
with the present run on lace. Hosiery shows
the favorite idea to an unusual extent and
even gentlemen's hose are now sometimes
lace woven. Lucy CARTER.