The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-13
FashiSn Notes
Amber jewelry is revied.

Amber jewelry is revied.
Pleated waists are fashionable.
Arabesque galloons are very fashion,
able.
Plush is used for collars and cuffs of
cloaks.
A new color in artificial flowers is
French pink.
Ribbons with fringed edges are COM
ing in vogue.
Satin ribbon is very fashionable for
bonnet trimming.
Silk and feather boas are among this
seasons novelties.
Double breasted sacks and cutaway
coats are both worn.
Bonnet strings are fashionable for
even very young ladies.
In spite of all that is said against high
heels, they are still worn.
Yellow kolinsky, a dyed sable, is seen
among the novelties in furs.
Egyptian types fer jewelry and fancy
articles is fashion of the passing mo-
moment.
Cocks plumes and cocks feather
ruches are favorite trimmings for felt
hats.
Gut steel buckles on velvet bows are
used on Louis XIV. and Louis XVI.
slippers.
Princess dresses and princess polo
naises take the lead as fashionable gar
ments.
Bonnets are more fashionable than
hats for young ladies as well as for
matrons.
Black silk and black velvet continues
to be the favorite combination costume
ofsAmerican women.
Moonlight pearl beads and variegated
pearl beads take the place of moonlight
Jet for evening toilet.
Among novelties are earrings OF silve-
enamelled with small shells, pearl ex-
uding from each shell.
A new lace for flannel skirts is knitted
in a variety of patterns of Saxony yarn
the color of the skirt.
Four or five bows are used on each
slipper, fastening high on the instep by
means of kid or elastic straps.
Light cashmeres in the evening colors
are combined with gros grain silks OF
the same shade for evening dresses.
Stanley neckties and standing collars
are affected by fashionable young ladies
with the waistcoat and jacket.
Uncut figured velvet having white
ground, with the figures in colored de
signs, is exquisite for ladies' waistcoats.
Grecian bodices and yolk waists, with
gathered or pleated backs and fronts,
are among the late imported dresses.
Fur and feather tippets, with long
tabs down the front, in the style OF the
Nictorines of thirty years ago, are COM
ing in vogue.
Large Russian collars and cuffs of far
and lapels of fur on the pockets, are the
only trimmings seen on some of the mos
fashionable cloaks.
Among boudoir novelties are elegan'
work boxes with slanting sides, suspend
ed upon crossed ebony sticks, so tha
they must always maintain an uprigh
position.
The most fashionable way of arrang
ing the hair is braid fastened low il
the neck, running upon the head, tn
fastening on the crown hidden by two O
three puffs, or comb.
Gold threads in all the .ints of tn
rainbow are used for embroideries o.
evening costumes and opera bonnets b.
those who object TO the weight of moon
light and variegated beads.
The passementeries and braid trim
mings, which come especially for cloaks
are of such elegant designs and richnes
Of material as to give the effect of LAWS
costliness to the plainest shaped gal
ments.
Among fashionable trimmings ar
pleats, gatherings, shirrings, galloons
ribbed beiges or corduroys, variegate
bean, silk and chenille fringes, sill
variegated gold, silk and beaded en-
broidery, feather bands, bands of ful
velvet and brocade.
Habit basques of velvet, shaped vel
much like a gentleman's swallow-taile
coat, with the masculine effect modifie
by a profusion of bows, pleatings an
other trimmings, are worn over princes
trained skirts, or skirts and tunics
faille.