Show 1 WOMEN OF FASHION Which of the Styles Will Suit Me Best 1 A VERY MOMENTOUS QUESTION How a New York Highland Lassie Can Gc Herself Up to the Scott Own Taste Somethine Sew NEW Yom June 41891 Special correspondence corre-spondence of Trie HEUALD What are you t going to wear njy pretty maid this summer I sum-mer of trace when the fashions amilo on so many varied creations i Shall you chooso a tightfitting bodice setting as closo as your skin until it reaches the waist lino and then ending in a Huffy flounce or shall your bodice bo tight and extended over the hips until you seem to be all waist Shall j ou chooso a Louis XIV coat with ruffled waistcoat or a Louis XV with a smooth ono Either is in tho height of style you know Or will your taste lead you to a waist with two rows of full oldfashioned ruffling of the same material running from the neck to the waist line botb in tho front and in the back Or shall it be a surplice waist gath ered at the shoulders and crossed in nun like simplicity over your breast you wily little siren if you are thin and would add a cubit to your breadth Or shall you have a shirt front a dicky and a vest a In man and a cutaway jacket Shall you havo a pancake hat as big as a platter or a littlo bit of a poke that upon investigation in-vestigation prove to be only a wreath of flowers with a couple cf velvet strings fastened fast-ened to the back of iU It you are u wise woman you will chcdso tho latter for you I will bear in mind that the former independent independ-ent aggressive style of headgear is admired by men as being chic smart and nittynot to say iIybut the latteris loved by them as something altogether approachable womanly and sweet and the only thing that a woman ought to wear upon her head anyway any-way And then about your parasoL Is It to no for show or for use for shade or for sun A Is it tn bo plain or fussy 1 Is it to Do diaphanous diaph-anous or solid substantial or chosen for its wearing qualities The fashions are really so varied that you can not well go wrong in your choice or dress if you bear always in mind three or four things First you must be flat in the backnot a sign of a bustlo or crinoline you must have a shopping bag dangling at your side you must have a skirt that drags and you must be all alike in tint Your whole costume must correspond in some way Suppose you have a dress of one of those lovely soft now spring blues striped in white You must with this wear a pair of white gloves stitched in blue and on your head must be a little wreath of flowers with blue velvet strings or should you chooso to be natty a pancake sailor hat If you have chosen a brown India silk with lovely pink and white thistles upon it remember that you must wear tan gloves shaded almost into brown and that a pink bonnet with brown velvet loops upon it or brown tips standing upright upon some aggressive point in the hat will be stylish and becoming becom-ing ingSpeaking Speaking of feather tips one is reminded to take noW of the exceedingly novel way in which they are now fixea upon a hat J Instead of being snugly nestled in a nest of velvet loops bows and ends they are put all by themselves standing boldly upright as upon a soldiers hat Right in front of the pancake sailorlike a spire upon a church steeple stands a little bunch of black red blue pink or whatsoever color feathers tho wearer may have selected There seems to be no excuse for their being there and no special reason why they should remain for they do not appear to be very securely fastened fast-ened and unless one is educated fully up to the style truth to tell they are not ornamental orna-mentaL But they are sturdy uprightbold and aggressive little upstarts so to speak that seem to say that for once in their lives they are given a fair show All the world of women have come to a realizing senso that they must wear trains if they would be anywhere near the present atyle On all street dresses whether they t I frI 11 I vi FOR BHEEZT WEATHER be light dark or medium a little train of from two to eight or even ten and twelve inches seen Of course these trains become be-come terribly soiled from constantly sweep Ing tho streets and of course they are worn to rags in a few weeks time But fashion requires that they shall be worn thus and it is of no mortal or womanly use to kick against the taste of the dame when that lady has put down her foot in as emphatic em-phatic a manner as she has upon this occasion occa-sion All tho women must wear trains and that settles it Some very good facings are found in tho I stores for the protection of the dress skirts There is a waterproof lining and then a rubber lining and thirdly a ruffling All three are intended to be worn at tne same time upon tho under edge of the same skirt This in a measure protects tho fabric so that instead of being wholly vila at the nrst wearing tho dress is only partly I I soiled and it is reserved for two or three I weeks of street sweeping to make the dress as nasty as would otherwise have been on I the first trip down town I Doctors are telling us that tho Sirocco of dust and dirt induced by this train sweep ing fashion is most unhealthful keeping particles of dirt constantly astir to irritate the throat lungs and eyes of pedestrians Children fare worse than grown people because be-cause they are nearer the sidewalk and get consequently larger dose of the dust and I I debris but it is bad enough for all and tho 1 prayers of u suffering community are ascending t as-cending unto tho throne of Dame Fashion Imploring her to say that we may soon wear nice short skirts again of sensible walking length Anent sense in dress some one says that she caw a pair of hoops displayed outside of a Broadway store yesterday and that im hour or two later before she had recovered from tho shock of seeing hoop skirt again she saw a woman wearing one It was a lull fledged hoop skirt with hoops all the way round and a great big hoop at the bottom bot-tom Later that same woman saw a dress ready mado for sale in one of the shops that bad a great reed run round the bottom ot the skirt to hold It out in grand balloon fash ion The shock of the discovery and tho I fear that another season might compel her to go swinging around In one of these hoop skirt structures so affected the woman that It drove her homowith a nervous headache b Upon relating her experience to a friend sne was told that the discovery was not a q e new ono that hoop skirts were being offered of-fered for Gale at all of the stores and that tho dressmakers were now beginning to put reeds around tho bottoms of the skirts Thus it is that fashion first reveals itself to common mortals in glimpses leaving it for a time with its healing balm to soften the harshness or changes that at first glance seem unendurable but to which one becomes be-comes habituated after days and days and days cJ p S c4w I h K Ivulcu SILtLL IT BE1 As a reward for having penetrated darkest dark-est Africa Mr Stanley has had a sash named after him and it has received tho stamp of popular approval It is worn with tennis suits in place of tho tennis belt It is worn with cambrics and muslin and chal lie dresses It Is worn with cheviots and silks It is worn with everything In every store you go whether it bo in Eighth avenue or upon Broadway very near the door upon a long counter you will find box after box of these Stanley sashes They are made of surab and are when hooked about the waist about half a yard long that is the ends hang down half a yard at tho side for the Stanley sash is always hooked on one side and always hangs perfectly per-fectly straight without loop or tie It is made of the full width of surah and is so fashioned over crinoline that it forms a girdle at the front and back and is narrow on either hip Tho ends are fringed As it has been said these are worn in every style and variety of make und material 1ti jf1h 4bz I fW4 iLVSik V THE SCOTTISH iSSIE OF SEW TOItK An odd example of this was seen a few days ago at a fashionable Sixth avenue dressmakers Upon the dummy or Maria m one corner of tho fitting room awaiting the customer who was coming to try it on was a beautiful suit of very light jrey ladys cloth The waist was a round one and the skirt as scanty as the size for whom it was made would permit and thereupon there-upon this really elegant dress uniting the waist and skirt was a navy bluo Stanley sash hooked at the side and falling down straight and plain to the length of about half yard just as thousands of other sashes hang every day upon plainer suits Those who do not wear tho Stanley sash wear the Victor belt which is just the same as the Stanley except that It is girdle shaped only in front being narrow in the back and having no dangling ends I It is truly with all these belt demarka lions and waist discriminators a year for slender women and stout people who cannot can-not call attention to their waists by tying sashes around them would do well to undergo un-dergo some course of treatment for the re duction of superfluous avoirdupois for indications in-dications point to the fact that sashes and belts and girdles will be more popular than ever all next fall and winter |