Montgomery County sentinel., 1877-12-14
FOR THE LADIES.


Box-toed shoes and slippers are now 'the
thing"
Navy blue is not as popular as it was last
year. Plum color is in favor again especially
with facings of pale blue and of buff Olive
bronze, and moss green also Frightened
with cream-coor and blue.
Outside pockets for ladies' dresses have lost
caste the best dressmakers no longer use them
on elegant dresses and even when the wearer
petitions for at least a receptacle for hand
kerchief the pocket is carefully concealed.
Among The neatest and most useful costumes
worn This winter are suits of lady's cloth of
invisible blue, green, blue-gray, or brown
shades. made Of the light quality known at
some of the leading business houses as Genoa
suitings.
The most popular, as well as the mast ar
tistic fans are those painted on silk or satin.
The style and finish vary with the cost Of the
mounting and the purpose 10 which they are
put. Some ladies paint their own fans and
some have them painted TO match the trim
mings Of their dresses or TO harmonize with
the sentiment of them.
Short round skirts are gradually making
their way into popularity. They are cut quite
narrow and short enough 10 escape the
ground behind, thus relieving the wearer Of
the burden Of lifting long walking skirt out
of the mud and dust. a single scantily
pleated lounce, or else two narrow knife
pleatings, form the plain border around the
edge.
novelty in female dress which is odd, a
quality on which, doubtless, rests it claim to
favor, since ii has no beauty, is a blouse made
of the heaviest kind of cloth and set in yoke.
A belt with large buckle faslens itand down
10 the knees are buttons to match this buckle.
On the whole II suggest carter's frock, and
is as masculine the most strong minded
can desire.
Long, close-6tting sacdnes, with double
breasted fronts, are the popular shape for low
priced clotks. These garments can he bought
in plain, all-wool beaver cloth for 81, and in
nice looking cloth, which is not all wool, and
is. therefore, neither warm nor durable, for
S. SO The rough surfaced cloths are more
expensive than plain beaver and when made
in such sacqnes the prices begin at So. 80.
As wooden materials are so heavy, modisies
are making sham lower skirts Of cambric or
of alapaca for heavy wooden suits, merely
trimming with them hounces of the wool, else
facing them with wooden goods from the knee
down. These sham skirts were formerly oh
jected 10, as they apt TO be displayed when the
overskirt was lifted or blown about. Now The
polonaise or over-dress is made to cling so
closely that it is never lifted. and the expense
and weight of heavy wooden stuffs beneath it
are dispensed with.
There is an especial design for lady is cloth
costumes which has very jaunty appearance
| II consists OF cui-away coat, shaped pre-
cisely like gentleman's morning coat, fasen-
ing by only two or three buttons over n vest
The coat is sloped away below these buttons
to show the vest, and the collar rolls back so
widely that cravat is required else u
gentleman folded scarf. There is one
seam around the waist with pocket wells in it,
and there are flaps and buttons behind. The
over-skirt has invariably a deep kilt-pleating
covering.all the visible part below the over
skirt and giving the effect of kilt skirt.
The 0ukn of Norfnlk G wedding-dav entar