Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05
FASHIONS NEWEST FANcIEs.

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A new cloaking stuff is checked
Lyons satin.
Fichus of lace and muslin of all
sizes are worn.
Flounces at the bottom of dresses
arc made to flare.
Squirrel continues to be the popular
fur lining.
Painted side satchels are the latest
novelties in this line.
A large rose, with satin petals, is
the newest corsage flower.
There is a rage for flowers made of
shot silk, satin and velvet.
Young ladies wear short round
skirts at all dancing parties.
Very little trimming is seer on the
most fashionable Derby hats.
Polka dotted silk, net in cream
color shades, is sold for neck scarfs.
Favorite designs for buttons are
griffons, dragons and sphinxes.
Bead embroidered corsages will be
much worn for evening toilet.
New French warps are as often
lined with soft satin quilting as silk
fur.
Children no longer wear light
color,d fabrics except for evening
dress.
Deep basques and square pockets
appear ON the new casaquin jackets.
Scotch sd" plaids are as popular
Tor young girls and children as ever.
Jackets Of different color and ma
terial from the dress are again in
vogue.
Recticules of satin Or of the dress
trimmings are now made to match
suits.
Flower %garnitures are more worn
On evening and reception toilets than
ever.
Front bangs and long tails of false
hair are sold for little girls and misses.
Dresses are worn at pleasure with a
deep or a demi train, or none at all.
Lambrequin panniers are the fash
ionable form Of this drapery at the
moment.
Grecian chinchilla is a new clipped
fur destinud to great popularity this
winter.
Dress draperies and corsages are as
varied in fashion this fall as bonnets
md hats.
Dresses with but one skirt of heavy
material will be worn during the
coming winter.
The newest fancy for trains is to
gauge or shirT them just at the point
Of the lap
Garnet of the deepest shade is a
favorite color for dinner and after
noon reception dresses.
The Directoire and the I~ncroyable,
two very large lace throat bows, are
the rage in Paris.
Jackets have rolling shawl shaped
collars that car be worn very high or
low, to suit the weather.
When beaded corsages are worn the
sle2ves and skirt draperies are decor
ated in a like manner.
Very large rosettes Of Breton lace
or point d'esprit are seen among new
|cOulccJlOub LOT neck wear.
White toile sanglier, or boar's
cloth, is a fine but substantial Atwood
fabric, dotted in raised pin-points.
Perfectly plain skirts, devoid of
LOUNGES, %rufiles, or any trimming. are
frequently c c in Fifth avenue.
Jackets of mastic colored or Dau-
phin gray cloaking cloths are worn by
little girls with very dark dresses.
Young girls in Paris wear their hair
in waves all over the head with a knot
Of loosely coiled hair in the back.
New dat, square side pockets in silk,
velvet, satin, and also of leather, ap-
pear among noyeltiea of the season.
New silk fans have cashmere de-
signs and %colors, with the white ivory
sticks painted by hand in colors to
match.
Some Of the jauntiest jackets are
made Of heavy matte or basket cloth,
IN lntermixture Of grave and bright
The change in the coiffeur of Par
isian women is decided; Greek styles
and classic ideas rule the coifFeur or
coiifeuse at present
The new neck scarfs of cream color
ed, polka dotted silk net require no
hens. They are knOtted in the throat
in an incroyablc bow.
A large silk cord passing several
times around the hat and fastened
under a feather rosette, trims some of
the nobbiest felt Derbys.
The latest high novelty for evening
toilet is a composite eostume OF white
toile sangliey aud white chudda cloth,
with no trimming but white satin
ribbons.
Scarls of white Iadia muslin, with
ine dots, and edged with point les
prit, arc wOr around the neck in the
street, tied close in the throat with an
immense bow.
Fleece-lined piquc wrapneys enable
the wearer, though an invalid, to dress
in white in heF room always, and yet
be as warm as IN midsummer when in
lawn aud muslin alone.
The quilted satin Innings of dol
mans aud yisites for street wear is
black when the wrap is black, but for
evening or carriage wear, red ana old
gold satin Innings are frequently seen.
The Danish people have sent as a
wedding present to the Princess Thy
"a; Duchess Of Cumberland, a beauti-
ful oak bookcase, fourteen feet long
and eighteen feet high, IN the Gothic
style, richly oGnamented with sculp-
lures OF the old Danish authors and
poets. 1t is filled with six hundred
volumes Of Danish literature, sys and