Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-01-27
WINTER FASHIONS.

is no striking novelty IN the style
for the present season, but the
are elegant and attractive.
| BoNNETs. reg
| possible, the bonnets are SINAI
Ter now than on the first introduc
ton ofwinter styles. A Fashionable
bonnet is no larger than the hand
and cannot be purchased for les
than twenty dollars. A fiuting o
velvet, an edging of lace-if th,
real the more elegant-and spray
Of beautiful flowers, all artistically
arranged, make the fashionable
bonnet of to-day. Velvet bonnets
for ordinary wear, are, perhaps
more worn than other materials
but for opera and evening lighter
materials are the style. A pretty
bonnet for evening is composed Of
puffings of lace with point edging
around it, and real lace, the width
of ribbon, falling over the ribbon
strings; and a cluster of delicate
flowers upon the front completes it.
An elegant black velvet is pulled
over a frame resembling the Fan
chon shape, with narrow lace upon
the front, and wider lace at the
back, which extends down the
strings that are joined in front be-
low the throat by bow. A small
feather turf ornaments the outside,
and a vine Of forget-me-nots crosses
the front The tongue in velvet is
very fashionable for young ladies,
and, except that the velvet is fulled
on, resembles the round hat.
In round hats great variety of
styles are worn, black velvet with
dropping feather being the most
fashionable. White, uncut velvet,
with white plume, is also much
worn.
EVENING DRESSES.
A superb evening dress is of
black lace, with three puffs of the
same around the bottom, and head
ed by fold of cOrn-colored satin.
The skirt is trained, and is to be
worn over a rich silk or satin.
Over this is an upper skirt, pulled
lehgthwise at the side by folds of
satin, the front rounding in form of
an apron, and open at the back, the
edges bound with satin, and joined
by satin bows, the same shade of
the folds. Over the silk waist is
worn q bertha of lace and satin
folds; scarfs of lace, bound with
satin, fall over the back.
A beautiful ball dress is of white
with q wide flounce, the
edge wrought in an exquisite pat
tern around the bottom. Above
this the skirt is formed of altern-
ate puffs and upright plaits joined
by Insertion. A short overskirt is
at the side by rosettes of
lace, and is finished by a row of real
lace edging. There is a fall of the
same lace around the neck and the
short sleeves. 1t is rich and taste
full, and very becoming to a light,
graceful figure. Another style, of
white muslin, is made with long
trained skirt, and half a yard or
more from the bottom narrow up
rights are stitched on, sloping away
at the back the same as the train,
and under these is drawn a rose
colored ribbon. There are two
rows of this upon the skirt, the
sleeves are trimmed in the same
and a bertha described
upon the waist. Another dress
made in the same style had ribbon,
The fashionable shade of blue, drawn
under the slides.
A pretty evening dress, recently
worn by a young lady, is of rich
,ilk-the delicate shade of blue
.he skirt full at the back with long
train, and only the side and front
breadth trimmed. Wide blue silk
fringe is set upon the front in form
Of a rounded apron. The sides
have three rows of satin piping, a
shade darker than the dress, de-
from the belt in form of
obtuse angles to points trife be-
low the fringe on the front, and
each row is finished by satin but
ton. The bodice is buttoned on the
back, and has fringe and satin folds
set on in form of bertha. The
sleeves are open on the back, by
having small circles cut out, and a
satin button is set between the cir
cles, under which white lace is worn
There is a bow and sash ends
trimmed with satin piping, and
the belt is clasped at one side,
where it is ornamented bya cluster
of leaves, made of the material and
bound with satin.
A pretty but modest evening
dress of gray silk has the under
skirt plain, the upper skirt edged
with satin ruching (Which by the
way, is becoming very fashionable
for trimming), and is sloped out at
the sides but quite deep at the
back. The bodice and sleeves are
trimmed with this ruching, rs also
the bows and sash ends at the back.
Striped silks are quite fashionable
this winter, not so much for grand
dress occasions as for home evening
wear, and are usually made tho IN
derskirt of striped silk, with a tu-.
mic of some harmonizing color.
Sometimes waist and sleeves are
made of the plain, and trimmed
with folds of the striped silk. A
very pretty dress of this style has
the skirt of plain wide stripe, a
rich shade of wood brown, and a
stripe of corresponding width,
made up of narrow satin stripes in
colors of purple, green and pink
Over this is worn a tunic of the
same shape as the plain stripe, and
trimmed with satin ruche. An
other dress of shaded stripes has q
waist of the same, and falling over
the back of the skirt are long sash
ends with reOerS. This sash is
formed by a single width of the
silk cut through the center, the ia
side of the lower corners being
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