Show WOMAN OF FASHION But What a Sad Woman These Penitential Days DULL GREYS AND BLAC SHow S-How to Make Them Just as Pretty ns the Brighter Colors Combinations of Pale Greys and White i NEW YORK March 2 1S92Special correspondence cor-respondence of THE SUNDAY HERALD Oh how sad and solemn I feel Its the I first day of Lent and Ive just come back I from church and the people there all looked so mournful and so sorrowful and so oppressed op-pressed with their load of sin I And they I all knelt devoutly and closed their eyes I think perhaps they wouid have groaned I only it would not have been decorous for these high dames of fashion to groan And I peeped when they all knelt and closed their eyes for I wanted to see what they looked like And they appeared so funny and strange For only last Sunday they were dressed in the brightest array of colors and there was pink next to fawn and yellow next to lavender and gnen next to grey and all sorts of bewildering mixtures And now where are the colors Gone anyway Why I was so astonished at first that I put up my head straight and stared and then I remembered quickly and bowed it again in confusion But I looked attain through my fingers this time at the Puritans Puri-tans For that is what they were everyone every-one of them The brilliant colors were all gone and were replaced by the saddest and moat som re of hues Greys of course dull browns blacks and a very dull old rose were the colors they wore the ludy that knelt right in front of me had on a very pale grejj bat the material was run very closely with a heavy cording of black and so it disguised the light proy very successfully success-fully The skirt was tuttom d at eac hip The lady next to her had on a very dull brown also light and run with a small diagonal stripe of darker brown and at the bottom of the skirt were two rows of orown velvet to mated the stnj I I d s t ° i p t2 54y4 kr V TO WEAR AT DOME DURING LENT I saw another of two shades of very dull awn in a tiny stripe The edge of this uirt had a narrow and very full feather dging and abovo it were three narrow iows of braid to match the darker fawn The rows were about an inch apart and each one was again edged with very tine gold cord The gold was so unobtrusive that it could hardly trouble the wearers conscience to any great extent But when we all rose after service and filed out solemnly I strolled down Fifth avenue and into nn establishment whore there were some gowns all ready to be worn by a fair devotee who had suddenly transferred her allegiance from society to church One was an exquisitely pale grey and over it ran a large flowering design in a shade a trifle darker At the bottom of the skirt were three small flounces of grey silk The brrl l tLc ro Lc PW 3i + rrfv Rt R + trrd rte rJ AN IDEAL SPRING COSTUME waist was made plain and round with a deep belt of white silk put on full At the neck wore three little ruffles and there was one at the top of the sleoves and two more at the cuff A spring hat went with it of thin light straw trimmed with afresh a-fresh sprav of roses Tho hat had white strings and a pair of white gloves had been ordered to complete the outfit There was another that was ever so I pretty It was more sombre but I liked it Tho material was a very dark greyalmost black with white lines running through It Feather trimming edged the skirt The waist was very long and had a small pointed belt of white at the waist line The bodice was cut at the neck very low all around and joined to a chemisette of white with straps of the material over each shoulder t 1 A 0 f 1 D i 1t11 l r IL i DARK GRET WITH WHITE LINES fastened at the back to the top of the bodice The sleeves were full and puffed at the top with a tightfitting undersleevo There were yards and yards of beautiful material lying there in a soft heap ready to ba made up It was such a pretty coloc palo yellow n little softer than ordinary yellow and wrinkled just like the old seer suckers Then there were little grey silk stripes through it that looked like ribbon sewed on This is the order of the stripes and if you can get material like it I think you will agree with me that you never had a prettier dross First a broad stripe of I the crinkled gold and a thread stripe of the grey Then a small stripe of the yellow and another threadlike stripe of the grey Thin repeated three times Then another one of the real broad gold stripes Then a halfinch stripe of grey and a halfinch stripe of gold and repeat this five times then begin at the beginning and go through it again It was so soft and so pretty I wished that it had been made into a dress But when some of the pious folks get home from church and lay off their wraps the pretty waists yousee then dont always harmonize with the dark and simple skirts For instance a black silk one with a fancy pattern in knots all over it The vest was turned back in deep revers into the very thinnest of points The waist itself was of white silk gathered back and front and fastened under a broad full belt The collar col-lar was plain just like the belt only narrower i nar-rower It looked so pretty with the girls I complexion which was extremely clear and with her hairs which was a soft light brown and curled in a fluff over her head She did not look very sanctified in that waist though Do you think 801 EVA A SCHUBERT |