en the gowns for different
occasions and over-dressing at all times, women lose all the
advantages of contrast in style. If lace and silk are worn
indiscriminately, what is there left for the full dress function?

Walking Dress.

This should be plain--tailor-made is the best--walking length, and of
good material. "Fussy" styles should not be chosen for street wear,
and the hat or bonnet should be rather plain and harmonize with the
gown.

Carriage Dress.

There is much more latitude for display permitted by the carriage
dress. Rich materials, elegant wraps, costly furs, are all allowable
here.

Coaching parties, too, have grown to be occasions for most gorgeous
costuming. Every hue of the rainbow is to be seen as the lofty
tally-ho rolls past, until, so great has become the license of color
and richness of material, that the "four hundred" are calling a halt,
and soberer tints are beginning to mark this amusement.

Do not wear too many fluttering ribbons, especially if occupying that
coveted position--the box seat. It does not add to the skill and
accuracy of the driver at a critical moment to have a fluttering
ribbon cut like a whip-lash across his eyes.

Dress for Lent.

This should be the sort of gown most appropriate and becoming to the
attitude of repentance. The gowns, of course, are simple, quiet
affairs. Symphonies in gray, poems in black and white, must, says one
writer, "reflect in their construction as well as color the soberness
of the event which they will grace. A train is always admissible for
the Lenten robe--that is, if it is for house wear. Otherwise the skirt
must be short--quite short enough, indeed, to give one's churchwomen a
glimpse of a dainty gray or black walking boot."

Any of the heliotrope, mauve or pansy shades, also, are appropriate
expressions of the sorrow of the fashionable woman, thus giving a
color scheme capable of the most exquisite effects. White cashmere is
well suited for the house; and very little draperies, but long,
straight lines, give the sought-after effect, and thus the dainty
chrysalis rests during the forty days that precede the unfolding of
the gorgeous wings of the Easter butterfly.

Dress for Riding.

The riding-habit should be made of broadcloth or some other suitable
cloth. The skirt should be weighted by sewing shot in the lower edge
of the left-hand breadths. Equestrian tights should be worn. The habit
is sometimes worn over another dress-s