The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-11-26
POUR E DANES.

POUR LES DANES.
Fur felt hats are very elegant.
May bugs are worn this season.
The fashionable muff is quite small.
Suits are much trimmed in aprol
shape.
Jet ornaments are beautiful on blacl
hair.
Gold embroidered lace is among fresl
extravagances.
Quillings of different kinds are mucl
used as trimmings.
B~runettes are wearing ties and neck
erchiefs of bright %buttercup yellow.
Colored chenille fringes, finished witt
cashmere beads, are among new trim
mings for costly dresses.
1t is predicted that plain velyetcl oaks
such as were worn fifteen years ago, are
to be fashionable during the winter.
The richest toilets are of black satin
and silk, profusely decorated with jet
embroIderies, fringes and basement
cries.
A novelty in fur is the ''clipped sill
very hair, something like chinchilla, al
though not so fine a fur and less per-
ishable.
All sorts of crawling things, lizards,
spiders, beetles, frogs and caterpillars,
as well as serpents, are reproduced in
jewelry.
A new style of dress pocket is cut in
squ%arecornered shape and attached to
the edge of the basque, where it hangs
like a bag.
The turban is likely to succeed the
Derby as a street hat. The latter has
become so common that its early death
is predicted.
A coquettish addition to a set of furs
is a bag to be worn at the side. When
the suit is fur-trimmed a fur belt may
be added also.
The zouave jacket reappears in vel
vet, heavily braided or embroidered
with gold, and in satin richly ornament
ed with iridescent beads.
Broche borders are very stylish on
linen collars and cuffs. The handker-
chef border often matches the borders
OF the collar and cuffs.
There is quite a mania for silk en-
broidery on lace, or very thin organdy,
and the effect is soft, rich and becom-
ing to almost every complexion.
Engagement bracelets are sometimes
substituted for rings. They fasten with
a golden paddock and the lover wears
the key at his watch-chain.
The Merveilleuse bows are new; they
are made in imitation Alencon and Me-
chin laces, and form a soft, dressy and
becoming finish to the front of a dress.
White is much worn by young ladies
in the evening. Cream and ivory white
are much used. The materials are
faille, cachemire, light cloth and mus
lin.
The favorite stone of the season is
the ruby, of which the best jewelers.
can hardly iGd enough to satisfy the de-
mand, and the garnet is also in high
favor.
Short waists are predicted as among
coming styles. In that case the ''slim
slip of a GIRL" who has reigned so long,
will retire in favor of her more plump
sister.
An easy way of remodeling last win
ter's dark dresses is to trim them with
bonds and scarfs of brocade, and if the
dress is of silk to add a bodice of bro
cade also.
Fifteen years before the revolution
the wife of Washington kept sixteen
spinning wheels running, and saw the
fabrics made in her WI house, under
her direction.
The Baroness Burdett-C outts receiv-
ed her immense fortune of 81, 800, 600
from the Duchess of st. Adams, who
was once an actress at n salary of 80
shillings a week.
Broad bead laces and bead embroid-
cries are used for side trimmings upon
dresses, separating the back from the
front, or for the back of mantles or the
front of bodices.
Grape wells for deep mourning are
edged with a border of lusterless silk
mode, half a yard deep at the bottom
and a band of the same, three inches
wide, on the sides.
Pretty little blacklist chatelain pock-
cts are painted on the upper side with a
single flower or a bouquet of roses, lilies
of-the-valley, forget-me-nots, or any
other favorite flower.
Miss Braddon, the well-known novel;
list, was the only representative of fem
inine literature on the English recep-
ton committee at the recent congress
of authors in London.
The ex-Empress Eugene has just
purchased. for a country seat, the cas-