Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-11-14
VOTES O.V' E.ESHEO.Y'.

Smooth hair is once more the fashion.
The styles point to great zeal of fer
and plumage trimming this winter.
Young boys and girls up 10 ten wear
blouse suits OF dark blue flannel, with deep
sailor collar, trimmed with empress blue
merino, put on with white star braid.
Brilliant colors are now considered bad
taste in baby wagons. Only the soltcst
colors and most innocent while surround
well bred babies.
Long redingotes are popular, but the
newest fashion returns the short polonaise
to equal favor. Present styles favor econ
omy. So much less material is used that
last years garments can be easily re-mod-
elled.
The new color predicted TO sweep ev.
erything before ii this winter is described
as looking like spoiled preserves. Anoth-
er oracle allirms that blue is to be the royal
color, in twenty different shades, from ciel
TO enter.
The passion for beads and bead Trim
ming has come back with full force, and
they will appear on all fabrics.
The ruff appears on everything, in ev-
cry width, and every form of plating.
They are plated in close box plaits, side
plaits, double box plaits, and all kinds Of
plaits, in short.
Goods of this year have rougher sur
faces than last seasons, hairiness and SEEM
Ing coarseness being deemed essential.
-Sacques, slashed and half-ftting as of
old, though rather long and with large
winglike sleeves generally having a coat
sleeve insde), are made in various light
cloths both in dark and light colors. These
are much embroidered by machine and by
hand, and bravely decked with beads.
Blue or rose-colored silk is sometimes
used for lining the shell trimming of black
silk dresses, while dark silk suits have lin
ings of lighter shades of the same color.
Many bonnets dispense with strings.
The only distinguishing feature is now the
face trimming, which bonnets have and
hats do not.
Bows of black velvet mixed with light
colored China Grape are used for the throat,
with smaller ones for the hair.
Shaded feathers are more fashionable
than any other kind, four shades being
sometimes seen in one tip.
Very dark blue promises to take the
lead as the msot fashionable color for win
ter walking bonnets, and for that matter
nearly all the new dark shades have a sug-
gestion of blue about them which is who'll
ly unaccountable.
There are more than two dozen shades
of blue, from the Napoleon or indigo shade
to the faintest and most exquisite tints of
sky blue.
Among the most convenient and at
tractive single garments Of a lady's ward
robe are sleeveless jackets, covering all
sorts of defects, and freshenng an old dress
wonderfully. When fashion and economy
join hands for an instant, let not the oppor-
tunity slip. The jackets are of velvet, silk,
crepe de chine, foulard for evening wear,
and Of cashmere or. flannel for morning.
They are made with perfectly plain square
postillion backs and tab fronts; with plait-
cd ianciful backs and pointed fronts; or
with simple round basques, minus all trim
ming save a single cord A very dainty
Jacket of lavender silk Is trimmed with
fine cluny lace following the edge of the
plated basque behind, in donbe row up