The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22
Fashion GOSsip.

Clair de 1une beads ornament sleeves for
black silk dresses.
Cards procIaiming the birth of a son or
daughter are very fashionable
Ladies now wear the hair in large braided
loops low on the nape of the neck.
Borax is the fashionable cleanser for
clothing, and is also used as toilet article.
Name cards, used at dinner parties, are
elaborately designed and cost one dollar
apiece.
The waterfalls are growing larger. How
much credulity do they give us credit for,
anyhow.
French cord, resembling the corduroy worn
by gentlemen.
High heels and dainty feet give jaunty
air, and provide the chiropodist with plenty
of occupation.
Ladies who have any regard for the
figures should never do anything in hurry.
Haste makes waist.
The most stylish Black Hills gentlemen
wear red flannel collars with big white
button for necktie.
Warm pettieoats for ordinary winter wear
are of gray felt, trimmed with rows of black
| braid two inches wide.
Coronet bonnets are again in favor, the
coronet is very high in the middle and very
| plain and close at the sides.
Lace cuffs, that reach half way up to the
| elbow outside the sleeves, are displayed in
great variety among late importations.
If the back of train skirt "hoops,"
slash it up from the edge about quarter OF
| a yard and insert pointed gore. Our
| fashion editor has never known this remedy
to fail.
| Large lace collars, like those worn in
olden times, are again coming into fashion,
as though Young ladies had suddenly be.
come their own great-grand-mothers.
Sandals with high French heels are very
pretty for house wear. There are many
fashions, all being exceedingly snowy
This style of feet covering displays well the
hose.
Seal skin sacques this season are IRON
thirty to thirty-four inches in length, anC
cut so as to fit the figure more closely thar
last seasons. Seal skin hats in the Gains
borough shape are popular, and round hat
and turbans will also be worn.
There are several lovely ideas in the new
styles and designs displayed in dress combs
The antique models are most in vogue, AM
the materials are genuine tortoise shell
"French" shell, amber, ivory, silver, ant
gold, all elaborately carved and elegant.
: finished.
Scarf pins for gentlemen are favorites il
the world of dress, so far as jewelry is con
sidered. The modes are numerous. A mum
Der of the designs are emb1ematical. Their
are devices representing pleasure scenes o
all sorts. Art and science are pleasingl
| portrayed, and the ingenious limitations o
natural objects are remarkably surprising.
!, "Beaver" shawls are pretty and comfort
able They come in all sorts of colors tn
designs are various; they are two yard
square, and cost from eight to eighteen do
dollars "Uxmnitzer" shawls are far NOR
durable than cheap cashmeres. The figure
are from forty-ive to four hundred dollars
This make of shawl is quite perfect, and is
favorite with fashionables.
Fans, which are just now an article muc
} in demand for theater or concert wear, hav
: natural pearl sticks and salm top edge
with marabout thickly strewn with fecks {
I color; the fan is white or black; some
the less dressy fans have Russia leatht
sticks or cherry wood, tipped with silve
l and the tops are painted the chatelaines ft
these, in silver, represent fans with chain
The walking boot of the season is made
Y Met kid for the uppers, Indian goat foxin
$ and, in addition to the heavy single sol
v another sole is put on with brass nail
They are styled clumps," and are intende
to be worn by those ladies who do not ca
!, to don rubber shoes every time the stree
e are slushy or muddy. An attempt has bee
u made to revive pointed toes, but our ladi
It refuse to follow this Chinese fashion.
is Cloaks, made of French silk, siciliene al
is plain and figured poplln, lined with ermil
- gray and white squirrel, and furs of the lii
:: character are being worn exclusivel
Is Dolmans, which are now cut with fowil
D sleeves and made nearly long enough
t. reach to the bottom of the dress, and fl
l. lined silk cardinals, appear in both Parisi
a marked appreciation and success.