The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-09-26
GLOVES.

dark costumes with which they are to be
worn. Forty different shades OF darkest
hues are displayed, including the new
black blue, bottle green.olive, invisible
brown, slate and plum colors. Good
taste as well as style prescribes gloves OF
simplest fashion, utterly without orna-
ment, made with long wrists fastened by
three or four steel buttons, and depending
| for beauty On their fine color and perfect
fit. Embroidery Is only seen In the short
gloves fastened by one or two buttons, 70
(which ladies OF conservative tastes still
cling. The gloves for general use Win
various dresses are autumn leaf colors Nof
every hue Of the forest, also the blue gray
slate color, olive and plum: A novelty
to wear with semi-dress black suits at
church, visiting, and the theatre Is palest
blue gloves; for the same purpose blush
lavender, Nile green, with more blue than
the gosling color, and buff are also re-
tanned. For iall dress are chalk and
creamy white, pearl, and the palest gas
light pink. nd .f.,a /.
Undressed kid gloves are brought. out
In darker slate grays and olive browns.
Substantial gloves for fall and winter
are made Of English caliskin, with double
stitched seams, and the deep fisring San
dripgham cuff, prettily scalloped like the
petals of tulip, and ornamented with
feather stitching; price from % 90 to
So pair. There are also calf.skin gloves
warmly lined with plush, yet not clumsy,
for chiidren's and school girls use. Be-
ginning with children's No. ! sizes, and
charging to ladies' sizes, they cost from
So upward; these are all in dark colors,
and supply the want Of warm black gloves
Tor mourning. For iall and early winter
arc heavy lisle.silk gloves made with regu
lar seams like Balbriggan stocking.
For equestriennes are doeskin gloves,
white, buff, lawn and brown, double
stitched, with the pretty Sandringham
cuff. Others have q good gauntlet that
the hand passes through, and dolnotneed
buttoning. soft fine gloves all woo, andI
Tor French manufacture, are long. wristed
and snugly fitted like kid gloves by four
seams in the fingers.
HINTS TO DREssMAKRRs.
A revers collar in front, with box.
plated ruff behind, Is stylish way Of I'm.
ishing the neck, of basques, and INDUCES
at once both the prevalent caprices for the
ruff and : the, gentleman's coat collar.
Bssaues now have the wide English back
formed Of four broad pieces OF the same
width at the waist, and the waist is not
defined by buttons. Two cords on the
edge Of basques are far more stylish than
any finish OF lace or fringe, though the lat.
ter is sometimes placed on the back, while
the fronts are plainly corded. Instead OF
full postillion plaits plain lappets are
sewed in the seams, or else the square
Jockey basque is laid in plaits that are
pressed fatty, and held down by two
lengthwise rows OF buttons. Sleeveless
jackets, especially those Of black or dark
colored velvet, will be again fashionable,
and are already worn with grenadine and
silk dresses, accompanied by sashes Of vel.
vet. These velvet basques are tight.tit-
ting, and are more ornamented than the
simple ones worn last year. They are
sometimes merely scslloped and needle.
worked around the rarmholes and basque
edge, and velvet ruff is invariably added;
others are, rich, with Jet. GALLON,
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fancy still Is TO border them with band
|of ostrich ieathefs;l some are gay with
colored embroidery. The new blue steel
beads are mingled with Jet fringes for
trimming black silks and velvets. A black
velvet revers collar, with velvet ruff, lined
with corded siIk, Is sold for wearing with
various dresses; price S25. The silk or
wooden ruff Is now as universal for finish.
ing the neck OF dresses as bias bands have
been hitherto. Instead Of lining this ruff
with color, 1t is best 10 have 1t entirely
of the color OF the dress, and wear Inside
a silk ruff Of any, color that may be be-
coming, and still another ruff inside this OF
white muslin, lace, or crepe lisse.
FRENCH AND ENGLISH cALIcosuITs
Beautiful suits for morning, either for
house orTstreet, are made Of the new dark
calicoes. Those with black grounds
frightened by shell or star Of yellow, or
else dark blue with stripes or lightning.
struck lines OF white, make up most sty.
lishly., They have the double reasted
rcdingote, belted, with two rows Of smoked
pearl buttons down the front, and sin-
gle skirt with two Tapped, gathered foun-
ces.-Haper's Bdzar.