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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1899)
v t the cou:t. 11 THE PASSING OP THE SHEATH SKIRT. UnleES a woman's bank account be beyond reproach sho must needs have a eonee of humor. Fashion plays such trlcsk. Tbis season it is skirts that are cutting up antics. Two years ago it was coats. The women who knew no better bad valuable furs made up and remade into Russian blouses in August and Soptember, only to find before cold weather had fairly set in, that the pouched front and belted, peasantin spired garment was the sign manual of the ready-to-wear shopB and was ig nored by the furriers of fashionable women . This Autumn the habit-backed skirt hugged the delusion that it was good for another season, until ever so many women had added to their wardrobes every dress they felt able to afford be fore next Spring, and all of these were made with an exaggeratedly mermaid effect below the belt. But then, preBto! every Paris establishment with a repu tation for originality to maintain puts forth a new skirt, and not one of them with a smooth back, No two of the new skirts are alike, but all of them are so different from the earliest models that there is bound to be a tremendous run upon long coats to cover the habit skirt's crestfallen as pect. All of the late skirt models are plaited. Those for cloth are plaited all the way round upon some of the smart est gotvns. Ab the plaits are generated from a seamless and plaitless hip yoke, consummate skill is required on the part of the workpeople. Some of the skirts for evening frocks in simulated princess styles have a few plaits run ning from the low-cut bodice top to the edge of the train; these are over-lapped with a second fabric, to carry out the idea of one robe opening over another, which is always good when cleverly manipulated. "f In the matter of coats and cloaks tnere is UKeiy to do an iuuuuhmoq ui of long garments, but well-dressed women know that they are driving coats traveling cloaks or full evening dress cloaks, and will restrict their use to those occasions, as do the English wo men and French women for whom the new models were first designed. The women with xeally floe fur hats feel, j naturally, enough, like throttling the popular-priced milliners who have flooded the town In a single week with cheap and wretched imitations of the handsome originals. But, after all, the women who own the real sables, chin chillas, etc., have only themselves to blame. It they had refrained from ex hibiting their frosty-weather modes which is what fur hats and fur-trimmed hats are solely till winter had arrived they might then have worn their splen dor undisturbed for a few weeks. But no; out came the fur hatB while the horsea were steaming and humanity gasping with humidity, and as it was juBt when the masses were wondering what to buy, they immediately decided to buy fur; and already, for every wo man smartly gotten up in a sable decked toque, they are fifty with top-heavy-looking structures of Mephitis chinga and other animate dyed in r'ovioua de signs. The criterion of any toilet of preten sion of tho day is the amount of hand work upon it. Trimmings that are roady mado and applied are often of quite marvelous beauty; but in order to bring n gown up to the standard of ele Bunco demanded -by the times much work muBt be done upon the dress mi toriul. The cunningly wrought pro ducts ot the nimble fingers of oversea workers, who, whatever the faots in the ciibo muy bo, turn out work that looks rBB if tllQ wnrlrnra lnvcul It om nrt tnnmp ei'nnly Bowed on; they must bo set in uml mudu part and parcel of the fabric by embroidery of one sort or another. It adds furiously to the cost of a dress, of course. Out of a dozen elegant and elTectivo evening frockfl, seen this week, two of the Beveral notions introduced aro es pecially' noteworthy. One ia very simple the other very elaborate. One is a trim ming made for a net gown from panne, which is nothing more nor less than a long pile velvet, really an evolution of plush, only that does not sound fascinat ing, and panne does. ThiB decoration is made from a strip caught together with needle and thread and art to form a rose like petals, and giving in the end a trailing bodice garniture of lustrous effect. The other is a laro bertha, long stole to below the knees and circular skirt trimming all woven in one, the lace picked out here and there with faintly iridescent paillettes. This is not simple but very beautiful. Spangles en masse are a survival, and savor of the stage ad ventures, but, used with discretion mere ly as a bit of high light here and there, as they are on some of the newest frocks they are their own excuse for staying on after they had been told that their wel come was quite worn out. Minute cue jets and imitation pearls as effective as the real gemB are used in the embroider ies on handsome reception gowns. But these are things that are. Among the things to be, and that shortly, are slightly low necks on all indoor gownB, including day frockb, and these accom pany, in the designs now being made ready, sleeves that hug the arm at the elbow and stop there without so much as a frill. Town Topics. Wanted Several persons for district office managers in this state to represent me in their own and surrounding coun ties. Willing to pay yearly 1000, pay able weekly. Desirable employment with unusual opportunities. References exchanged. Enclose selt-addreesed stamped envelope. 8, A. 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