Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — WORN BY THE WOMEN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WORN BY THE WOMEN

SOME OF THE VERY LATEST IDEAS IN DRESS. Not Necessary to Hove on Unlimited Number of Striking New Gowns—The l.ess Pronounced of the Older Styles Have Not Yet Gone Out. Sothtm Fashion Gossip. New York correspondence:

VEN if your iudgLm ment is excellent, M you may think that ■ unless you are supplied with a large number of striking gowns you might tint just as well stay at Hjr heme down cellar 8 instead of going v away and having a St lovely time this suidm er. Put !“Vi don’t you believe |\ it. The real truth \\ is that the new V\ vogue came in so m\ suddenly and so m violently that the JflSMSkless pronounced of TSs-y? the older styles did not have a chance to be really

out, and that now they do not look as queer as do the most pronounced of the new style. The great run of people are dressing pretty much as they always have, with a variation here and there in favor of late ideas. Skirts are undoubtedly wider, but they are not all balloon, nor are they nearly all ?;ored and cut with wonderful back ailing folds, while many are merely full on the band. Sleeves are all more or less big, but they have been, you know, since the pretty sheath skirt of a year or so ago. Bodices are seldom made plain and the basque, dear to the hearts of us all but a little while ago, is no more. Round waists are pretty generally adopted, and there ii likely to be a tendency towards frillltiveness on the best regulated gowns. The ultra things will always be but the medium, whether happy or not, we have always with us. So, if you are one of that Kind, don’t you go down cellar; just stay up stairs and have a good time and De as happy a “medium" as you can. A promenade costume which is very stylish'and yet avoids the extremes of the present rules is to be seen in the initial illustration. It is composed of

green foulard and garnished with lhce and ribbon. The skirt is gathered in back, but it will not be very full, as all the seams must ba biased. Around the bottom are two ruffles of lace trimmed with rosette bows of green ribbon. The bodice comes over the skirt and is hooked to the latter to prevent it from slipping. Its lining fastens in the middle, but the foulard at the left side. The yoke is pointed in front and back, made of pleated foulard and is sewed on separately, thus constituting only a trimming, and is edged with a lace ruffle as shown. Commencing under the arms at the sides is another pleated arrangement of foulard corresponding to the yoke, the right piece lapping over, the same as the yoke, and each finished with a tiny rosette. The epaulettes over the sleeves are of wider lace than that edging the yoke. The sleeve 4 have a full puff and a long tight cuff. With the dress is wornadre sy little toque, of ecru lace, trimmed with green faille ribbon having gilt picots. A lace bow, with an aigrette, shows in front. The tie strings are green ribbon. The second toilette sketched is in pale blue mousseline de laine figured with dark blue and trimmed with dark blue surah. The skirt is garn'shed with a folded strip of surah put on zigzag and the points held in place by small butterfly bows of ribbon; this constituting one of the new variath n i of the general round-and-round skirt trimming. The bodice has a shirred piece inserted in lack and front, finished by two bands of surah pointed at the waist in back and front, with a third piece down the center. In addition the bodice is garnished with bietelles of the figured mousseline. The collar and folded belt are of surah. The present summer girl borrows indiscriminately from the cradle and the

club, the latter being, of course, the man’s club. She wears neckties, visor caps, frock coats, shirt waists. English gloves and all the rest of it from the club, and from the cradle she takes baby gimps for her wash muslin gowns, baby caps tied under her chin with fine lace pleated all around tie face, baby hats with great rosettes at either cheek, and even baby frocks. The only real trouble about it is that too often the wrong girl goes for the baby things, and the effect is awful. Nothing is more distressful than the girl wife tfco

wrong kind of a face, framed in a round baby bonnet with two or three curls pulled out either side on the wrong kind of cheek. But the right girl in the same thing is just too sweet for anything. The fabric of the next model presented is black silk, and it is set off with narrow jet passementerie and white lace. The moderately wide bell skirt is garnished with a festooned gathered ruffle, headed by jet passementerie, which is repeated twice further up. The bodice is alike back and front, and has a plastron of white lace over white silk. The inserted piece below the plastron is trimmed with pointed rows of jet. The elbow sleeves are finished with a black silk frill and a band of jet passementerie. The three pretty dresses shown in the twp remaining pictures are for outing wear, but before coming to consideration of them in detail a pointer in bathing suits mav not be amiss. Let the other girls taite to new fashions in bath suits, don’t you give up the sailor style that allows a low turn-away sailor collar and a vest set in to simulate a shirt

of the kind the real sailor men wear. The kind meant has stripeH across and mo collar, giving a straight line across the chest, just bolow the rise of the neck. That is, stick to this if you havu a head that sets finely and a well*developtd neck. The costume itself may not be classic, but it will give your classic lines a chance. If the bath season is not long enough, then lot other girls have soft shirt waists in their outing and yachting rigs. Stick, you, to the sailorman’s shirt. If the weather is real warm you are sure to stick to it, but what of that, if the lines get a chance? Coming to the couple shown in the fourth picture, the costume at the left is made of white woolen suiting, with the plaid in different shades of rod. The round waist 1 has double brotellos that form a collar in back and full glgot sleeves. The costume is finished by a shirt wa-st and black silk four-in-hand. The belt is red striped ribbon, fastening with a buckle and leather straps. The other dress is composed of pale mode-colored gingham trimmed with embroidery. The skirt is unlined and is garnished with two ruffles of embroidery, each put on with two rows of gathering and showing a small head. It fits snugy over the hips ami the fullness is gathered in back. Tha blouse waist has a tight lining, over which the embroidery is draped with a slight fullness in back and front, but plain under the arms. The embroidery is pleated Into tho collar and waistband. The lining hooks' in front, but the embroidery comes over to tho left shoulder and under the arm. The sleeves haye a deep cuff of embroidery and a full puff of the plain gingham. The belt of pale blue satin ribbon ties at the side, and the standing collar is also made of a band of this ribbon with a bow in batik. The very dainty toilet of the last picture is made of striped foulard, trimmed with changeable taffota silk. The skirt is rather wide around tha

bottom, and the front lias a panel of three lace ruffles put on plain and edged with two bands of taffeta with pointed ends, as shown, The round waist has a deep decollete filled in with laco in front, but the buck is high at the neck. Revers and folded belt are of silk. The puffed sleeves have large double epaulettes of lice and a lace cuff. Here is a grist of whims: Cut glass buttons are the things for evening tailor-made white gowns. A watch in one sleeve-button and a perpetual calendar in the other makes a pair for a business woman. Collars and cuffs are again seen with tailor gowns. Gold and silver tips are put on evening shoes. A diamond hangs by a slender chain from the ring on Miladi Satin Palm's hand. Gold-tippad shoe lacings will do for a little offe ing at Miss Richgirl’s shrine. Real lace and lacings with gold tips increase the expense of the swellest corsets. Now he gives her an ivory and gold-mounted calendar, with the engagements she has given him marked thereon that she may not forget. She has her own special orchid now and the favo.ed swain may wear it. It isn't always smelling salts; sometimes it's whisky in that little bottle a-swinging from her bqjt. She writes her notes in French now. and there is a handy little bcok with all sorts of French notes ready made. Her manicure seissdrs have silver handles. In her boudoir there is a cut-glass and silver-mounted cordial tei. Creme de menthe and yellow chartreuse are the cordials. Her lorgnette has a crystal handle. Everything is made of crystal or cut glass that can be. No matter whether your cheeks are rosy or not, you are all right if your lips and the tips of your ears are. You must not use your coat-of-arm9, it is shoddy in this country; but if you have one you mu3t be sure to say that you don’t use It. Her bonbon box is of crystal, and, banging as it does from her bolt, its transparency attests her admirer's constant generosity. No matter if her shirt-waist is only plain cambrio. her studs, collar-button and sleeve links are all right. CtaprtfcM. MB-

A NEW SORT OF SKIRT ORNAMENTATION.

ANOTHER.

TWO VACATION DRESSES.

A THIRD.