The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-02-06
FOR TIE FAIR SEX.
Fashion Notes.

are worn lower in the back.
Braids or short curls down the back
are worn with dressy evening coiffures.
Small bouffant draperies or paniers
are arranged back OF the waistcoat on
all dressy Partisan toilets.
Oriental silks, Persian and Egyptian
silks, satins, velvets, brocades and cor
duroys are all used for waistcoats.
Very small figures, checks and stripes
on white grounds, are the features in
the new spring calicoes and percales.
"Pekin," the name given to velvets,
silks, and woolens having alternate dull
and lustrous stripes, is all the rage at
Paris.
A double cape of heavy silk chenille,
with tinsel thread twisted in the same,
is the latest novelty for the neck in
place OF scarf.
The long waistcoats worn with dressy
toilets are separate garments, and may
be worn with several different kinds OF
coats and skirts.
White satin dresses of creamy or
leaden tint are worn by elderly ladies
| for full dress, with full trimmings of
creamy old point laces.
Birds of paradise, butterflies, and in
sects of all sorts in the form of gold
figures and Impegan feather ornaments
are worn in the hair for full dress.
The belted Josephine corsage, the
corset basque, and the corsage with
long points back and front are all worn
for evening. toilets with low, square
necks.
For street wear, under all circum-
stances, very simple dress, although
it be little shabby, it is preferable to
one more elaborately draped and
trimmed that has lost its freshness.
All morning toilets for the street
should be short and very dark or black.
The materials may be vigogne, cash
mere, camel's hair, and all woolen
goods, but the trimmings may be of
silk.
The fancy of the moment in short
costumes in skirt and jacket of seal
brown cloth, the wrap also of the sarie
in English coat shape, trimmed with a
collar, revers, cuffs and pocket straps of
fur seal.
The newest hats for young girls in
their teens are of felt, nigh crowned,
with square tops, trimmed with three
rows of inch-wide ribbon in bands
placed quite far apart around the crown.
The brims roll in Derby shape. Other
felt hats have scarf of brown or navy
blue satin with white polka dots.
Cravat bows have superseded the
cravats that pass around the neck; il
the latter are used, they are placed in
| a;I 40 - l.,
neat collar of the dress, and only the
cravat bow is seen. White muslin
cravat bows are preferred for plair
suits in the morning and for dressy af
ternoon wear. When colored cravat
are chosen, they are folded like gen
tlemen's scarfs to ft in the revers col
lar of coat. or else they are as marrow
as the lawn neck. ties worn in full dress
the latter are made of foulard, and EN-
broidered on each end.
News and Notes for w omen.
Gerster, the opera singer, has $500
week. Minnie Hauk has 5000.
Anew York jeweler exhibits Chimes
empress robe, broidered in gold.
A New York lady has nineteen cats
collected with reference to their delicat
shades and tones of color.
Professor Billroth, of Vienna, ha
founded a society for the education G
nurses for wounded soldiers.
In the retail dry goods stores of Berli
only young girls are employed benin
the counters to display and sell goods
After long and severe examination
Vienuese lady has been admitted by til
university of Zurich to the degree c
doctor OF philosophy.
Bouquets of dried flowers and grasse
are sold in England for interior decort
,, ton, just as they are in America. Th
flowers are dried in warm sand.
! A Florida woman recently choppe
: off the head of great eagle that ha
a become entangled in honeysuckle vir
n while trying to kill her chickens.
= At an English wedding, which too
!, place not long ago, the bridesmaid
d wore three bands of silver braid aroun
+ their heads, with lily at the side.
!. A key was all the present that Ne
It York bride received from the brid
u groom's parents, but it opened the dot
e OF splendid house, and the young lac
did not complain.
Opera scarfs three yards long ar
more than half a yard wide are no
r popular in Paris for winding around IL
y hair and throat. The newest ope
J, cloaks, enveloping the whole perso
:, are of thick, soft camel's hair, with
u hood.
u = The following extract is from an a
~ count of the recent visit of the Marqu
= of Lorne and the Princess Louise
20 Niagara Falls: The ladies all appear,
z at dinner in full dress. Her royal hig
% % ness wore black silk dress, with cou
=, - train, the only trimming being crap
/, Upon her neck was necklace of Whit
y y jet beads, three strands, and diamol
i ! cut. Her hair was arranged in pla
- bands, with jet ornaments, and 81
% looked lovely. The other ladies we
20 20 also in court costumes, and the gent
~ men were in full dress.