The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-10-29
FOR H FAIR SEX.
Fashion Notes.

are nearly an inch thick.
Japanese green is blue, being odd, like
everything else in Japan.
Boots made from the same cloth as
light suits are out of fashion.
Partisan mothers fasten false tressest to
their children's comb and hats.
White and black pointed d'esprit lace
is mingled in bonnet trimmings.
Plastron waistcoats without revers are
rs fashionable as real waistcoats.
The ulster is as popular as ever for
travelling and rough weather wear.
Ties of chenille fringe with a melted
heading are worn with black bonnets.
Cashmere colors in beaded passemen-
teries are among the trimming novelties.
Sicillenne trimmed with Ottoman
yelburs makes the most stylish dress
wrap.
Diagonal and basket-woven cloaking
fabrics are used for jackets, sacques and
coats. .
Sacoues, coats and jackets are demi
toilet or plain wraps of the incoming
season.
A new yicuna cloth is changeable, be-
ing woven of bronze and sapphire
shades.
Laces, with orange flower fringes, are
the fashionable garnitures for brides
dresses.
Handsome black cashmere costumes
for general wear appear among Imported
garments.
The buttons worn with the Cashmere
trimmings are brilliant in color but not
very large.
CHEAP cashmere shawls are cut up into
trimming for some of the new camel's
hair wraps.
Quantities of Melted silk jet beaded
trimmings are used on the dressiest dol
mar visites.
Beaded braid is used on very plain
wraps as we'll az on those that are more
pretentious.
Mummy cloth wrappers are made IN
Vatican styles and trimmed with Ham
burg edging.
Shoulder knots of ribbon increase in
apparent height, and are fashionable at
the moment.
Ribbons in millinery are to he much
wider this winter than those used thus
far this season.
Mantles with a double cape in the
back and q single one in front are shown
for winter wear.
India null edged with dotted net is
used to make bows to wear at the throat
and in the hair.
The waistcoat is frequently made as a
separate garment to be worn under the
basque or jacket.
Humming birds in countless numbers
are seen among the fancy feathers Tor
hats and bonnets.
Bands of merle plumage are used both
on black hats and on the gendarme blue
felts and beavers.
The most fashionable handkerchiefs
for neck wear are in rich Persian colors
in palm leaf design.
The panier mantle is one of the newest
designs in wraps, and is made of the
handsomcst materials.
Dotted Brussels net, when the work is
done by hand on bands of insertion or
edging, is called point d'esprit.
Black silk and black cashmere con-
tinue to be the popular materials for COS
tunes for the masses Of women.
Cylindric bonnet strings of silk or
satin are made very wide and trimmed
around the open ends with lace plait-
ings.
Wedding dresses are made with high
corsages, surplice and draperies, and
long coat sleeves, with flower shoulder
knots.
Fall calicoes appear in Oriental, cash
mere and Persian designs, with colors
similar to the silk and wool novelty mix
lures.
Small fchus of point d'esprit net
edged with the pleated lace are used
either for the neck, or else as strings for
q bonnet.
Plastron iabots of silk or satin ribbon
lace, and muslin are made long enough
to simulate and take the place of the
waistcoat.
Birds, or parts of birds, are f,lvorite
trimmings for new hats and hornets.
Sometimes as many Us twelve hummlng
birds are seen on n hat.
Shaded silks are much used for fashion
able embroidery. They are requisite TOR
their beautiful effect in forming lands
capes, portraits and flowers.
Worth has n fancy for emitting the
middle seam in the back of an outside
garment. The effect is not good, unless
the wearer Of the cloak has a very slen-
der figure.
A new lace, that comes in both black
and white, is'called "point d'esprit" and
bids fair to be q formidable rival to the
Breton lace. 1t will be much used in
millinery.
Full as bad as the eccentric fashion OF
wearing long black gloves with light
dresses is the later one, inaugurated IN
France, of course, o fwearing white boots
with dark dresses.
Neckerchiefs of India muslin are worn
both in the house and in the street.
Silk kerchiefs have their centers covered
with palm leaves, in Persian colors, and
their borders plain.
The most fashionable neckerchief is q
plain square of India muslin with a wide
hem. tied carelessly around the neck. 1t
is worn with plain dark toilets both in
doors and in the Street.
Corduroy or plain velvet skirts, with
overdresses, panier drapcries, and jack
cts of plain camels hair, make very
handsome street walking suits, especially
when in shades of gray.
A costume stylishly made Of any mate:
rial and after the fashion Of any period
&c f,shionablp and in rood taste at the
present moment. Ladies never had so
wide a range in dressing as they have
now. .a
The cheap calicos for autumn are much
like those worn in summer. Almost all
arc figured and some have borders.
They are made with full waists gathered
into a belt, short skirts, and coquettish
overskirts.
The prevalent styles of buttons for
dress trimmings, in Paris. are large and
fiat, of chased silver, or bell shaped IN
cut steel, and both of ancient designs:
Frequently, on IA simple dress of wool
the buttons cost three or four times as
much as the dress.
To wear in the street are scarfs OF
white India muslin with oin dots that
are scarcely more than white specks
woven in them. The edges are trimmed
with point d'csprit lace. They are Wort
close around the neck, tied in front IN a
mammoth bow.
Three materials, Terry cloth. velvet
and satin. are used in the composition OF
some of the dressiesr wraps for street
wear, while three kinds oftrimmings, Jet