The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-31
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Fashion Notes.

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Mexican filigree .jewelry is the coming
| rage.
The last novelty in fringe is made OF
pack-thread.
Carefully-made flies are worn as ear
rings and pins.
Linen serge slippers are cool for home
wear in hot weather.
Dressmakers say that alpaca will be
much worn this fall.
Feathers prevail wherever they can
be used with propriety.
The yoke waists have been superseded
in Paris by the fan waist.
Silk nets are more popular than ever,
especially for young ladies.
The costumes of grenadine over silk
are usually made with polonaise.
Cover a Japanese fan with bit of
pretty silk and it is quite "chick."
High colored stockings are the rage
still, and especially for young misses.
A new sort of goods, Glace Mar
guerete, of silk and wool, is much worn
Linen costumes much embroidered are
worn for morning dress in the country
A profusion of knife-plaited ruflles
weighs down the new cheese cloth
gowns.
Dresses are worn much shorter in the
streets abroad than they are in this
country.
The flower that lady wears at her
throat should give the keynote of color
in her dress.
Dresses of the same material rs those
worn by their mothers are made I'D for
young girls.
Ribbons with spotted stripes are the
latest importation, and take the fancy OF
nearly all the ladies.
Imitation pearl beads are coming into
fashion this fall, and large importations
from Italy will be made.
Tides made of pink and blue silesia
and bordered with lace are considered
quite the thing just now.
Pointed waists, both back and front,
are being revived, but are far from being
becoming style for the figure.
Barege dresses for young girls are
trimmed with cascades of Breton lace,
with loops of ribbon in each fold.
Imitation Lisle thread gloves, costing
but ten cents per pair, are just as hand
some as the real, which cost ten times as
much.
Some walking suits have long waist
extending nearly to the knee in front
These can be worn without any outside
wrap.
Sewing beads on black lace would be
II profitable amusement for idle hours.
Beaded lace is to be fashio. .lable in
the winter.
Paris idea is to wear flesh colorcd
stockings under open worked ones.
Preposterous as this is, it is fashionable
on the boulevards.
Velvet is more used for trimming now
than at the beginning of the summer,
but it is placed on cotton materials Is
rather than on woolens.
A new hat called the Princess Louise
has made its appearance in London and
New York. Ii is of delicate straw and
turned up one side and back.
To Mend St0ckings.
A lady, who finds in the practice of
the homely art that she brings comfort
to her family, gives these suggestions as
to stocking-mending:
Given dozen pairs of woolen ribbed
socks. Select from them the two or
three pairs most worn: cut away the
heels and toes, and lay by the better
parts for use in mending-well, yes, for
patches.
From the best hose retained to be re-
paired, cut out the worn heel, and from
the patches cut new heel precisely like
the old one.
First sew the bottom of the heel, then
sew it into the place made vacant. Use
soft cotton, or else the fine, soft mend
ing yarn, which comes, of all colors, on
spoOls.
Sew the raw edges lover and over
about as close as a nice overcast; so that
when the new heel is worn out, you
have only to pull the thread and insert
another.
The thread must not be so tight but
that the seam will flatten and become
imperceptible to the foot. To sew in
such a heel will require about one
minute.
If the toe is worn, so that the new
darns seem to take from the old, and the
rent is made worse, cut it off so far from
the instep as it is thin.
From the top of the sock put aside,
cut a new toe like the old. Sew across
the end, and then around the foot, OBJ
serving to make the seam, as before,
flat and soft.
When again worn out, repeat the pro-
cess, till the entire dozen, like the fabled
ducks, have eaten one another up.