The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-12-04
Latest Fashions.

a foot in length.
Fall leaves lend a thoughtful effect TO
some Of the new carpet designs.'
AT some stylish English weddings you
see as many as ten bridesmaids.
The India cashmere effects seen in
the new combination materials are very
dull and ugly, and are not likely TO OBJ.
tain much favor.
Corsage bouquets Of two or three
kinds Of flowers in a large cluster are
now furnished by the modiste with al
most all street costumes.
Black cGmels'. hair wraps are short,
and have e closed pulled sleeves in
serted in the clinging sides. Checked
gold and black silk lining is much used
on these graceful NANTES.
Scarf sashes across the front breadtha
as low as the knee are used on short
suits. They are much used on plated
front breadths, and begin on the left side
quite high, extending ~diagonally to the
left below the knee, where they end in
a great bow.
New muslin and lace fchus are held
by gold rings like the scarf rings used
by gentlemen. Lord Stanley %scarfs, and
others of wide fat folds precisely like
those worn by gentlemen, are made Of
satin or of brocade to match the trim.
ming on ladies' dresses.
New point d'esprit laces for oravat
bows omit the points or dots altogether
and are merely the plain Breton net
button-holed in saw-tooth notches and
laid in fine knife plaits. Other patterns
have the dots in rows crossing the lace
from the selvsge to the worked edge.
New sashes for evening dresses are
imported in very gay brocaded flowers
on white or tinted grounds. They are
eight or ten inches wide, importers
bring with these narrower ribbons Of
trimming width, in the same design, fol
making bows on other parts OF the
dress.
The large bows Of directoire costumes
are seen on many dresses. Sometimes
this bow fastens the turned.over collar
at the throat, while below is an open
square with a guimpe or shirred filling
Of lace, muslin, jet.beaded black net oil
of satin. There is then a second bow
below the open space, and this is usual
~ at the left corner.
The new cloth costumes, says Har.
per's Bazaar, have masculine styles pc.
culiar to themselves. These are skirted
coats, double or single breasted, and
perhaps the Tailien overskirt drapery
caught up high on one hip, and hanging
straight elsewhere. This drapery il
sewed in the belt with the silk lower
skirt, and conceals all the silk not al.
ready hidden by two or three straight
bands Of the cloth, covered With ten OF
twelve rows of stitching, sewed on
straight around without the slightest
fullness. The border hounce, even OF
most modest proportions, is not o SC
stylish as an edging Of velvet two OF
three inches wide, laid in box plaits and
sewed on beneath tue skirt braid. The
loveliest blue-grays, gendarme blue,
plum and garnet shades are selected for
cloth dresses, and these are rivaled by
plaid cloths that are not in tartan clan
plaids, but in fancy bars and %colors; thus
gray has large bars formed Of threads of
red, and blue is barred with gold. The
stitching is OF the gay color in many par
allel rows, forming a border three or four
inches wide. Great wooden buttons, or
else painted Japanese metal buttons, are
used on such dresses, and there is al
ways a cravat, made like those sold for
gentlemen, chosen in corresponding
%colors.