The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-01-30
Fashion Notes.
Habit basques grow in favor.
Garrick capes grow in favor.
Green is the color this season.

Garrick capes grow IN favor.
Green is the color this season.
Pleated blouse waists are revived.
The chemise Russo is the coming
waist.
Triple capes of velvet are coming in
vogue.
Striped silks, black and colored, are
revived.
Fur trimmings are very fashionable
this winter.
For evening toilet, the Grecian bodice
is again in vogue.
Pekin brocade is a new, pretty and
quaint dress material.
Long circulars are unbecoming to very
short or stout women.
Fur fringes, with fur tassels at inter.
walls, are late novelties.
Flowers play conspicuous part in
ball and evening toilets.
The fashionable shades of green are
moss, jasper, olive and Russian green.
All shades of blue are fashionable,
from the palest sky blue to dark indigo.
White cluster roses or punches Of vio-
lets are worn by ladies in half mourning.
Elderly ladies' dresses are made nearly
plain, but of rich and heavy materials.
White lace and colored ribbon bows
convert black silk costume into q
dressy evening toilet.
Very short apron overskirts are worn
with the new style of short kilt-pleated
walking dresses.
Snowballs and Marguerites, white,
with black center ore shown among
mourning artificial flowers.
Old-style pelisses are revived. They
are loose, easy fitting straight garments,
lined and edged with fur.
Simulated waistcoats in the front of
pleated basque waists are seen among
imported novelties in dress,,
Maroon velvet is coming in vogue for
bonnets, trimmed with bands of chin
chilla and shaded gray ostrich plumes.
Coiffures for home toilet consist simply
of a small puff of lace and ribbon or
foulard pinned carelessly on the top OF
the head.
All sleeves of morning and day dresses
are made very narrow at the wrist, to
admit of the outside cuff now 80 much
worn.
Water and sky blue cashmere COM
bined with faille of the same shade, is
the fashionable combination for brides
maids dresses.
Deep collars, falling almost to the
point of the shoulder, and deep cuffs
reaching to the elbow, are in high fash.
ion at the moment.
Black fur stoles are trimmed with
black Spanish lace and tied with long
strings of black satin ribbon, faced with
blue, red or gold color.
When princess dresses are worn on
the street they should be looped in the
back, in such O manner rs to draw the
train up as short as the rest of the skirt.
Dressy stoles of white or silver fox
fur, or of swans down, or marabout
feathers, are edged with white Spanish
lace and tied at the throat with white,
pale blue, or rose colored strings.
The latest fancy in round hats for
young ladies is to cover a frame with
camel's hair cloth to match the costume,
and trim the same with satin ribbon
and shaded plumes to form a contrast.
A pretty conceit in the way of a white
felt bonnet has the crown trimmed with
crimson faille; one cream-colored feather
mods forward over the crown, and q
crimson one falls over a cream faille bow
in the back the face trimmings are
crimson moss rosebuds nestled down
among soft tufts of old Malines lace.
At q late fashionable wedding, the
three bridesmaids appeared in cashmere
and faille princess dresses-one pale
rose, the next pale blue, and the third
ivory white cashmere and silk. The
flower wreath and garnitures were re-
spectively tea roses and buds for the
rose-cQlored toilet, blue forget-me-nots
for the blue one, and roses and hous-
tomas, combined with green leaves, for
the white dress.