The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01
Fashion Gossip.

Clair de lune beads ornament sleeves fol
black silk dresses.
Cards procaiming the birth of son OF
daughter are very fashionable
Ladies now wear the hair in large braided
loops lew on the nape OF the neck.
BoraN is the fashionable cleanser for
clothing, and is also used as a toilet article
Name cards, used at dinner parties, are
deliberately designed and cost enc dollar
apiece.
The waterfalls are growing larger. How
much eredulity do they give us credit for,
anyhow.
The novelty for overdresses is called
French cord, resembling the corduroy worn
by gentlemen.
High heels and dainty feet give iaunty
air, and provide the chiropodist with plenty
of occupation.
Ladies who have any regard for the
figures should never do anything in a 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
yard and insert a 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 Observation-Disclosures.
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 from
thirty TO thirty-iour inches in length, and
cut so as to fit the figure more closely than
last seasons. Seal skin hats in the Gains
borough shape are popular, and round hats
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, and
the materials are genuine tortoise shell,
French " shell, amber, ivory, silver, and
gold, all deliberately carved and elegantly
finished.
Scarf pins for gentlemen are favorites in
the world of dress, so far as jewery is con-
sidered. The modes are numerous. A NUM-
Der of the designs are emblematical. There
are devices representing pleasure scenes of
all sorts. Art and science are pleasingly
portrayed, and the ingenious limitations of
natural objects are remarkably surprising.
"Beaver" shawls are pretty and comfort
able. They come in all sorts of colors; the
designs are various; they are two yards
square, and cost from eight to eighteen dol
dollars Uxmnitzer shawls are far more
durable than cheap cashmeres. The figures
are from forty-iive to four hundred dollars.
This make of shawl is quite perfect, and is Il
favorite with fashionables.
Fans, which are just now an article much
in demand for theater or concert wear, have
natural pearl sticks and salm top edged
with marabout thickly strewn with Gecks Of
color; the fan is white or black some of
the less dressy fans have Russia leather
sticks or cherry wood, tipped with silver,
and the tops are painted the chatelaines for
these, in silver represent fans with chains.
The walking boot of the season is made of
Met kid for the uppers, Indian goat foxing,
and, in addition to the heavy single SOLE
another sole is put on with brass nails
They are styled "clumps," and are intended
to be worn by those ladies who do not care
to don rubber shoes every time the streets
are slushy or muddy. An attempt has been
made to revive pointed toes, but our ladies
refuse to follow this Chinese fashion.
Cloaks, made of French silk, siciliene and
plain and figured poplln, lined with ermine
gray and white squirrel, and furs of the like
character are being worn exclusively.
Dolmans which are now cut with flowing
sleeves and made nearly long enough to
reach to the bottom of the dress, and fur
lined silk cardinals, appear in both Partisan
and original designs, and are meeting with
marked appreciation and success.