Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-30
Interesting Fashion Hints.

Interesting Fashion Hints.
Feathers are all the rage.
Chinchilla is favorite fur this season
Feather fans are elegant for ball cos
tunes.
Feather fringes are worn on all ball |
dresses.
There is frenzy for red among the |
ladies.
Corsages, close fitting, are now worn
over the hips.
Moorish women wear engagement |
rings in the nose.
Polka dotted neckties are the rage
with young ladies.
Lead-white is the fashionable color
if it can be 80 called.
Fashionable ladies never use oils or
pomades on their hair.
Twilled flannel costumes are much
worn for midwinter.
For full evening toilet the hair should
be deliberately arranged.
1t is Partisan fashion freak TO- wom-
en- to put half opened fan In their hair,
instead of high comb.
In France, Just now, it is the fashion
for brides to be accompanied to the alter
by two tiny pages instead Of brides
maids.
Two sofas are no longer used in the
parlor; corner lounge upholstered in
different material takes the place Of one
of them.
For evening, silk stripes are preferred
to brocades. Inch-wide stripes of MORE
alternating with satin are the most ele-
giant.
The latest freak of fashion is cellu
loid watch case, aud these are very
unique and pretty. They are finished at
the edges with narrow gold band, and
the handle and winder are also of gold.
Pink is again almost royal favorite,
shade and its special effectiveness with
black, brown and dark green.
Charming new styles of handkerchiefs
show colored embroidery, with Valenci-
ennes lace borders. Fancy bordered
handkerchiefs of an immense variety are
now offered in our stores at low prices.
Slippers and bands across the instep,
or ornamented with jewels, steel, or gold
or silver buckles, and sometimes with a
small bouquet of flowers, are to DE worn
de rigeur with full evening or bali toll
cts.
Embroidery of all kinds is worn, and
the height of elegance is to have the
embroidery worked directly on the dress
itself; but this is very costly, and when
the bands of embroidery are neatly ap-
pliqued the effect is almost the same.
An American lady recently bought the
costliest braid or ''switch" of hair that
was ever made in Paris. It was COM
posed of hair yard and quarter in
length, SLOW white, and was exceedingly
soft and glossy. Its price was $500.
, Flowers Fl aoure largely in the ornamen
tatiOn of ball dresses. A necklace oil
dropping flowers, foliage or grasses are
, worn with armlets of the same. These
, serve admirably to conceal a thin neck
/ and apparently shorten long arm.
The favorite dress bonnet for young
ladies and young matrOns is Of maroon
velvet with gold and garnet bead edges
and trimmings of garnet ribbon and featb
> ers, and dash of pale blue or rose colol
; in an ostrich tip on one part of the same
! Chenille embroidery in brilliant shades
q is very beautiful; but the most beautiful
is the silk embroidery on tulle, represent
ing garlands of flowers in their natura
shades. Embroidered plaques are placed
f down the dresses, and are very effective
8 Among the materials used for the ele
e giant costumes now designed by Fashion
u landmarks it is observed that the ligh
gauzes which little while since wer,
o considered so essential for evening dresses
a are now somewhat In the background
h Prevailing shapes require fabrics witt
IS more body, andithey are, if possible, NOR
y rich and varied than ever.
It Perfect cascades of ribbon are used Of
ten placed down the dress-sometime
It two or three rows on the front, add some
y times the ribbon is ruched or placed il
coquilles all round the bottom of the trail
and up the sides. The very finest rit
t bons are employed, with the two sides il
j.. different shades or else delicately shaded
t. from the darkest to the lightest, or flow
y cred ON one side and plain on the other
ID It is now considered necessary that til
ls buttons should match the many material
ss and styles of the suits. For this pu1pos
numberless different kinds of buttons an
continually made. The most popula
styles are the Pomrelan, the Louis XIV
N the Egyptian and the Byzantine. Stee
n ivory, mother of pearl, ceramic buttons
ID surrounded by pearls, and elegant button
'e in imitation of diamonds, ami Rhin
is debbles are all in use.