The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-01-08

Fur bands are used to trim flannel cos
tunes.
Artificial bands are not in high favor at the
moment.
Red is worn with frenzy with every article
of the toilet
Lead white is to take the place of ivory
and cream white.
Ball shoes and stockings are made of the
color of the dress.
PanIers are worn; so are corsages close fit
ting over the hips.
Marabout feather fringes and ruches are to
be worn on ball dresses.
for the midwinter season.
The couture for morning and street toilet
Is low on the nape of the neck.
For full evening toilet the hair must be
arranged high and very deliberately.
Marabout feather fans are seen matching
the marabout feather fringes for ball dresses.
The fashion of walking through quadrille
Or the lanciers is to be abandoned for actual
dancing.
Montague locks about the forehead and
temples are still much worn by fashionable
young women.
Waistcoats figure on all kinds of toilets,
from the robe de chambre to the dinner
and bail dress.
The couture is very elaborate for full dress
and evening toilet, but severely plain for
street wear by fashionable women.
Ball dresses are to be worn short, and
dancing steps are to be used in quadrilles
aud lanciers as well as in round dances.
Shawl shaped collars are new items con-
nected with cloak making. In size they are
made to suit the shoulders and figure of the
wearer.
The polonaise is by no means discarded,
though the adoption of the short dress has
somewhat interfered with its popularity for
the street. With demi-trained skirts, it is
altogether pretty and stylish.
Slippers and bands across the instep, or or
namented with jewels steel, or gold or silver
buckles. and sometimes with small bouquet
of flowers are to be worn de rigeur with full
evening or ball toilets.
Dark materials are often relieved with a
small quantity of gold or of bright colored
silk. Piaids are still fashionable, but not
bright ones their colors are Blended one
into the other, in the same way Is stripes.
Fine white cashmeres. and all wool de-
LANES, fashionably called India mousselines,
make some of the handsomest toilets worn
by young ladies this winter; they are soft
and creamy in color, and are almost univers-
ally becoming.
Clusters of ribbons are again employed at
the back of the neck, and loops of the same
are placed inside and drawn through button
holes on the fronts of basques, etc. The
width of the ribbon is not over half an inch,
aud the fashion shows one or two shades of
ribbon.
Morning dresses are of two styles, all in
one piece, and divided into a skirt and
jacket If made with vatican pleats is an
elegant robe de chambre. If the skirt and
jacket are preferred, the latter is always
very much trimmed and is very graceful
and snowy.
Buttons form one of the most important
trimmings OF both dresses and street gar
ments, and both medium sized fiat ones and
the small bullet shapes are used. Metal but
tons, colored glass ones IN garnet, blue and
other shades are used, as also crochet, horn,
pearl and nickel. Gilt buttons are very pop
ular for plaid costumes.
The newest fringe for trimming csoaks and
dresses of rlch silks SATIN or velvet is called
sealskin fringe, and is made of very fine che
mile strands, hanging straight, without a
heading The effect is soft and rich, espe-
cially in black and old gold shades. Other
chenille fringes are mixed with beads and
with silk; the chenille is in clusters, and the
silk is netted as a heading in the meshes.