Sharp County record., 1879-10-30
FASHION NOTES.

Striped hosiery is revived IN new
forms.
-Children's dresses entirely of red
are revived.
False fronts are worn to greater eX-
cess than ever.
Medium sizes only in any kind OF
button are fashionable.
-Variegated bead embroiderieS and
seedlings are again in vogue.
-High-heeled slippers are de r7guem
for dressy home toilets.
Gaps and turbans will be as fash
ionable as ever this season.
Painted bands and tablierS for
| dresses are late Partisan novelties.
More of the front hair is used in
making the bang locks than ever.
The fashion of wearing large Asa
tan bows on the top of the head is on
the increase.
The prettiest fall dress for a child is
of white flannel, OF cashmere with col
ored sashes.
The most fashionable arrangement
of the back hair is narrow, in braids OF
torsades falling on the nape of the neck.
The straight hang across the fore
head is still the most fashionable style or
cut and arrangement for young girls
hair.
Little children, whose hair is not
shingled very short, wear it long and
curled in the back, and banged square
across the forehead and temples.
The large, long looped bow of rib
| bon placed in front on the bottom OF
short tablier or at the junction Of the
paniers grows more and more popular.
Oriental French cashmere is the
name for the new silk and wool dress
goods whose designs resemble the fig
| ures and cOlors of an India cashmere
shawl.
A small rOund-crown Darby felt hat
is the favorite hat this autumn for young
| ladies to wear with wraps like those just
described, and with the dark cloth or
flannel suits that are more in vague than
at any previous season. These suits are
very simply made, and have a tailor-like
finish; indeed, the handsomest are made
by professional tailorS. They kave
close short habit basque, and two skirts
without founces or any trimming save
rows of stitching on the hem, which is
turned up on the edges. The over-skirt
is long and round, though not very full,
and is caught up high on each hip by
plaits, or else a stitched loop of the
cloth. The black buttons are ivory OF
buffalo horn. Green, maroon, and dark
blue are the favorite colors for these
plain suits, that are now preferred to
all others for morning shopping, walk
ing, and especially for travelling.
NEW WOOL GOODS.
The new wool goods are pliable and
of light weight, yet give the effect of
thick, heavy fabrics. For plain cos
tunes made entirely of one fabric there
are cloth-like " suitings," with indis-
tinct threads, lines, and checks of many
colors mingled, and presenting the ef-
feet of self-colored stuffs; in fine wool
and double width, these are $3.50 a
ward. In the same class is the MajOlique
camel's-hair, in two shaded stripes of
dark contrasting colors, such as old gold
with the darkest japanese blue, or with
garnet, green, or brown. There are
various glace-shaded wool goods. Some
are plain grounds; others are matte,
with squarely woven threads; and 9TH
ers are pekins, having very small stripes.
Red shot with green is evidently IA
yorite combination, as it is shown in
changeable fabrics of all qualities.
Plain colored goods, in all the new
shades of blue, garnet, brown, and
green, are imported in Chuddah stripes
of zigzag weaving; in mummy-cloth
surfaces of irregular waved dots and
specks; in small armure figures; in
crinkled Grape cloths, in reps across,
like velours and cotelneS, or else length
wise, as IN Biarritz cloths and in the
heaviest twilled camel's-hair cloth, as
well as those of light quality, like cash
meres. All such goods are double
width, and cost, according to their
weight and fneness, from $3.50 yard
/ TO S0.OU.
Brocaded wool goods of Oriental de-
signs, especially those with palm-leaf
and arabesque patterns, form the largest
part of the importation of fabrics that
are meant to be used in combination
with other goods. The richest of these
have silk woven with them, sometimes
as much as two-thirds of the fabric be-
ing silk, yet the wool is kept on the sur
face. and the effect is as rich as that
seen in camel's-hair shawls. These come
with black grounds nearly covered with
palms, or else the ground may be pale
blue, scarlet, or cream-color, they are
double width, and cost 81 or SS yard.
Other broche goods of similar designs
are woven in single widths, and cost
from S1.25 up, and many are cut off in