The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-11
FASHION NOTES

Plush is used for trimming hats.
Street dresses are To be worn quite
short.
Fringes are very fashionable this
season.
Velvet is in great demand for dress
trimmings.
New muffs for this winter are made
of feathers.
Few felt hats are to be worn. Vel
vet or silk are preferred.
Long cloaks or dolmans are the ia
vorite wraps this season.
Turbans made entirely OF feathers
are very fashionable.
Conch-shell jewelry is exceedingly
pretty and fashionable.
New lace scarfs are of cardinal red
cO]ored cashmere lace.
The dress skirts are made even more
scant than last season.
Red flannel balmorals, trimmed with
black velvet. are in vogue.
Only little lace, which must be
very fine, is used on dress hats.
the favorites this season.
All polonaises are made very long,
showing but little of the dress skirt.
The new shades of green, brown,
and blue in dress goods are almost
black.
listers will be as much worn this
season as last, both by gentlemen and
boys.
Broad belts, with large silver, steel,
OF jet buckles still continue in favor.
White ivory ornaments are very
pretty and much in demand in the
place of jewelry.
Low-crowned hats, with quite broad
brims, are the favorite ones this fall
for children.
The loopings in overskirts and polo
naises are made very low in the back
or on the sides.
Three-cornered silk handkerchiefs,
edged with lace, are shown for wear
ing around the neck.I
Filagree gold and silver necklaces
will take the place of the heavy gold
link chains for full dress.
Many of the long streamers worn on
hats are caught together at the ends by
all ornamental pin.
Linen collars and cuffs, to be worn
with walking dresses, are edged with
| blue, red. or black.
Mother Goose is one Of the names
given to the high-crowded hats. Why
not Mother Hubbard also?
The hair is worn low on the neck, in
square-meshed silk nets, the nets
matching in color either the hair or
dress.
Shetland wool hoods are to be worn
by children this winter instead of the
usual white Swiss and Valenciennes
lace ones.
Magnolia is the name given to d new
shade of green. 1t is very pale: being
almost a yellow, with I. scarcely per-
ceptible tinge of green.
BasQues and overskirts are cut SO
that you can scarcely tell where the
| basQues end or the OverSkirts COM
mence; but polonaises are the most
fashionable.
Hats have either two long stream
ers, without any loops, or are made to
present close cutoff appearance in
the back. No short ends or loops are
| used:
Little girls cloaks are made as long
as the dresses in front. The backs are
not cut quite so long, but a side pleat-
ing is put in to make them the same
length. A sash is tied across the top
of the pleating, A plain round collar
finishes the neck.
There is a new patent skirt LITTER
which is excellent. 1t consists OF
short chain, which at one end has
hook, by which it is caught in the belt;
at the other end there is catch which
opens, and looks like a pair Of twee-
zers. The skirt of the dress is gath
cred up and caught in this.
Some very pretty dolroans, for eve
nings, of light blue, pink and cardinal
red cashmere are shown The fronts
are cut quite long, with pockets sewed
on the outside. The wraps are lined
with silk AID edged with ball fringe,
matching in color the cashmere. They
are fastened at the neck with long
ribbon bows and ends.
Three-cornered silk neckerchlefs, in
all colors, edged with laces, are very
fashionable. Some are made of white
lawn edged with Maltese, Valencien-
mes. or Malines. They are also made
of China Grape, either white. black,
cardinal, cream, or navy blue. Valen-
ciennes is used on the cardinal kerr
chiefs, Smyrna, or blue ends and
black guipure or Cantilly on black
ends.
In the forty years that the Mer-