Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1875 — Advice to Would-Be Fashionables. [ARTICLE]

Advice to Would-Be Fashionables.

The fashion correspondent of the London Hornet says: “Young ladies who go out much, and have not the purse of a Croesus for their pocket-money, should always strictly adhere to black or white. With a black silk dress and a white silk dress it is astonishing what a deal may Undone. With the black silk dress you have a high moyen-age, with body of the same, for home or visiting, sans ceremonie. ■ A low, square body of the same is afterward indispensable, as over this you may wear a gauze or jet cuirass apron, tied at the back with bows of ribbon, when you have an elegant at once. The white silk dress, with a low body, can be worn at balls of the greatest pretension; and, when , worn with a white cuirass apr< n of white Chambery, or. even muslin, it makes an exquisite dinner-dress. Pink silk dresses, blue silk dresses, any colored silk dress, indeed, can be made into rich demi-toiiet dresses by means of a white cuirass and apron, tied at the back with ribbon bows of the same color. The cuirass and apron, when worn for evening, are generally made in one piece, like the front of a Beatrix robe, only both body and apron are fastened at the back. This shape, however, to fit well must be most exquisitely cut. With a black silk and a white silk dress and a gauze or barege or tulle apron, tunic, ®r bodice and a white Chambery or muslin tunic and bodice you will have sufficient toilets to last you through the season, however much you may go out. It is always meferable to have a few dresses -well and stylishly made than a larger number which are the reverse. I have known ladies who have been the belles of- evening parlies in plain silk dresses, stylishly made, whilst otherst in pink satins anil lace have appeared old-fashioned and inelegant. Richness of dress goes nowhere compared to style and cut.”