The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-01-09
NO. AZ.
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Fashicn Notes.


Cream color is favorite shade for
evening gloves.
The newest chstelaine bags are OF
sealskin, with silver mountings.
The favorite flower this season is the
rose fine flowers are out of fashion.
Handkerchiefs with colored embroider-
ed edges are converted into breakfast
ties.
Stylish coats are made of wool da-
masse with vest and cuffs of silk mate
lasse.
New chatelaine pockets are Of black
morocco, inlaid with red gold. Belt
buckles are made to match.
A yellow gauze dress trimmed with
knots of blue and red was recently made
in Paris and pronounced perfectly
sweet.
Conch shell chains of roses and medal
lions, with amphor@ and scaraboei pen
dants, are used this season, and are In
high favor.
Some of the late imported costumes
are remarkable for their plainness, being
made without founce or ruffle Of any
description.
New white undressed kid gloves are
trimmed with three rows of inch. wide
Valenciennes insertion and knife
plated frlll of lace.
Among the new fashions for house.
hold affairs is the one of having table,
cloths and napkins with colored borders,
embroidered by hand or with the color
woven into the goods.
There is fancy for putting fans Of
plated satin (about as deep as the fan
carried in the hand) at intervals around
the foot instead of founce. 1t is con-
sidered especially stylish to have the
rich fabric of the overskirt reach from
the belt to the foot, where it is fringed,
and these fans are then inserted, either
in the seams or perhaps in the middle
of the breadths as we'll.
Fur-lined and fur-trimmed wraps will
be fashionable. SealsBin sacks will
take the lead in fur garments. These
garments are cut longer than formerly
worn, and are trimmed with band of
black martin, chinchilla, or silver point
ed otter fur. Muffs are smaller and boas
are worn fiat. OF course, all rich furs
will be worn, but sealskin is the ton fur
for the winter of 1S78-79.
News and Notes for Women.
Worth uses thousands of yards of
Breton lace daily.
A woman may wear anything she
pleases nowadays, except a one-button
glove.
A French lady never varies the flower
that she wears for a button-hole bou-
quet.
The Japanese ladies, when attending
the theater, change their dresses be-
tween each act.
During the last century the head
dress of fashionable lady added three
feet to her stature.
Among the favors given at "Ger-
man recently in New York, were gold
scarf pins for gentlemen and bangles for
ladies.
Avoid the extremes of fashion. To
dress mp to its entire demand is to sub
NIT to condition of perpetual self
burlesque.
Owners of pearl jewelry should be
careful to keep it from exposure to
greasy surfaces, as contact Of this kind
destroys its luster.
A medical writer informs ladies that
by too active use of their fans they
check perspiration and produce cutane-
GUS diseases.
A London magistrate lately declared
the outside pockets on ladies' dresses to
be an inducement to thieves. He pro-
nounced them to be foolish and i'm
proper fashion, nor did he pity any one
for losses thus incurred.
A beautiful English woman was walk
ing in the Rue de la Paix, when French
puppy greatly annoyed her by pertina-
ciously dogging her and glaring at her
She turned upon him and said :
Really. I have not sou to give you" )"