The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-02-07
Fashion Notes.
Balayeuses are DE REGEuER.

Chenille embroidery is in high favor.
Seaweed is the garniture for tulle
dresses.
There is a new diagonal, soft, heavy
serge.
Bonnets are smaller, and hats larger
than ever.
Orange color is the fancy of the mo-
ment in Paris.
Epaullettes of flowers are the novelty
of the moment.
Trimmings of dresses are too intri-
cate to be described.
Broderic. antique with a corded
ground is a popular trimming.
Metallic ribbons are to be used for
trimming of ball dresses.
Silk, satin, velvet and lace pockets are
still worn for evening dresses.
The square Richelieu collar is just
imported.
Kilt skirts are worn by ladies, girls,
and small boys.
Ladies' leather belts are studded with
steel nail-heads.
Druggists soda-water. counters are
called ladies' bars.
The newest design for brocaded silks
represent small fans.
Moss green with sky blue is the styl-
ish combination o fcolors.
Chinchilla is the fashionable fur,
and, strange to say, it is not COSTLY.
Satin and velvet are favorite combi-
nations in trimming materials.
Colored sets used for trimmings are
cut both in faucet and flat-dresses.
Necklaces oflace with dropping pen
dants and pretty on well-shaped necks.
Arabesque patterns in braiding and
embroidery are the favorites ofthe hour.
Young ladies have their dancing
dresses made with very short pointed
trains.
B%uttercups and Marshal Neil roses
are in demand for evening dress trim
mings.
Kioto ware is being sold to eager and
unwary purchasers as valuable Satsu-
ma.
Beaded trimmings cover evening
dresses, making them lock as if studded
with jewels.
Some of the new bonncts and hats
have double brims. Others have split
brims.
Long lace mittens, black, white, and
colored, arc to be worn for full evening
yellow, orange, and brown tints are
used to a great extent in ball dresses
this season.
Empress dresses are superseding the
princess style-in the natural line of
promotion.
Wells o fblack and tuile are something
new, covered with small gold flies or
Brazilian bugs.
The latest and most expensive tray
cling bags are made of Japanese stamp
ed leather.
The new bows ofribbon worn on the
left side OF The waist are called Chate-
bows.
Princess dresses arranged in costly
are sparingly trimmed. The
plain mode is preferred.
Among the new ornaments in silver
and gold filagree are large CAD flies
with jes els fer eyes.
Bastles are no longer worn. Three
flounces on the back breadths of under
skirts take their place.
The newest picture frames are of
d~ark-colored velvet, with shirred satin
of delicate shades set in.
Long Louis Quatorze waistcoats,
simulated in brocade, satin or damasse
appear on evening dresses.
One of The coming fashions is rib
bons seemingly woven of metal-yel-
low and red, silver, steel and bronze.
In coiffures the hair is worn less high
upon the head, but .aere is just as pluch
false chevalure needed as ever.
Plastron and pulled fronts, extend
ing from the throat to the bottom of the
are very much worn for evening
Bright ribbon and lace convert a
plain black dress into suitable toilet
for the theatre or for unceremonieus
evening parties.
Evening dresses are given an antique
appearance by short, high-puffed
sleeves, or Medici frills, in the armhole
and around the neck.
Crimped crepe lisse frills are formed
into cuffs to be worn outside the sleeve
instead of inside; deep collars of the
same go with the cuffs.
1t is said that elderly ladies are going
to wear evening robes of white silk and
made up very plain but p~rofusely
trimmed with lace.
Among the new goods is found duvet,
or down cloth, a material made of the
feathers of fowls, extremely light,
warm, plant, and i~mpervious to rain
or snow.
A new version of the Fourreau is
''the Cardinal robe," an elegant dinner
dress made of scarlet faille, and trim
med with scarlet velvet fringes and
passementeries.
An elegant novelty is feather ribbon.
The centre is wreath of flowers on a
light ground. On either side a border
of soft .unraveled silk form a feather
like fringe.
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