Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-28
FORWOMEN
Velvet a Favorlte

For driving and indoor wear, says
London letter, velvet is the faVorite
material. 1t appears i'm whole costumes
or trimming cloth and tweed gowns
These are for the most part made with
the tight-fitting bodices which the
dressmakers seem determined to intro
duce and which are so eminently suit
able for reception and calling wear that
there seems every likelihood of their
coming to the fore. But the long three
quarter coats are undoubtedly the mode
of the moment and destined to be the
favorite style for street wear during the
winter. These are smartest when fash
ioned of the new cheviot serge.
Newest in Shopping Bags
There is a new crop of shopping bags.
The idea is to have them match or har-
monize with the costume and with this
end in view the most fascinating variety
has been provided. The colors are a
| bewildering showing of themselves,
while the various finishes are an in
teresting study, ranging from velvety
beauty to the softest of silky SEM
blances. Patent leather is retained,
and so on, of course, is seal and the
other standard sorts. The shapes are
varied, though not at all extreme. The
rounded pocket shape rivals the slender
oblong, while a wedge form and a broad
pocket shape are bidding for favor.
Small Hot Water Bags
The tiny hot-water bags holding
hardly more than a teaspoonful are
useful in cases of neuralgia of the face
and jaw. Filled with boiling water,
they can be held in the mouth thus
bringing the heat directly to the source
of the pain.
Now a Medicine Chest
The girl of the period has acquired a
medicine chest. The leather case comes
in almost every shade, to suit the COM
plexion or imagination of the would-be
possessor. 1t varies in size from six
inches by twelve inches. to 11x14. 1t
contains bottles, cut glass and glass not
cut. Some have plain shoppers of
ground glass; others are mounted in
silver. Small pockets contain surgeons
scissors. lance and forceps boasting
gold handles: the cut glass bottles have
gold tops, with the name Of their con-
tents burned in an uncut space.
Making of Laces
In the present fashion of wearing
quantities of lace, an opportunity for
fostering the production of fine, hand
made laces is seized by a society in
France, and is under the patronage of
the wife of the president of the repub
lie, Madame Loubet. A yearly "salon
de dentele' will be held. and a great
feature will be competitions for new de-
signs in lace.
Blue the Color
Blue, pastel blue in all the rich
variety of curious tints that the word
e+o Ie 10 color in
Paris. 1t fades into greens and often
off to gray, it reflects a tint of gold, but
it is always blue. In gowns, in hats.
in fancy waists, even in wraps 1t pre-
walls, and every advanced mode prophe
sizes a tremendous vogue for 1t this
season. Peacock blue, so long banished,
has come back in its own, marine blue
holds it's own, and all blues are ad
mittedly good by reason of pasters pre-
dominance.
Novelty in Mirrors
There is a novelty in mirrors, the kind
which my lady has long elected to carry
swinging from a chain. The face of
this now mirror is discreetly covered by
a very large beetle with outspread
wings, in which a few shining stones
are noticeable. This ingenious conceal
ment slips aside when the mirror is
needed, and of course its back corre-
spends in design.
Princess Rides Astride
It is rather alarming to those con-
servative ones who dislike to see women
riding cross-saddle to hear that the
princess of Wales, who is not eccentric
in the slightest degree, has issued a
command that her little daughter, the
Princess Mary, be taught to ride
astride. Englishwomen long renowned
for their seat and carriage in the hunt
ing field are going in more and more
for cross-saddle riding.
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