Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-11-27
WINTER FASHIONS.
New gray gloves are blue tinted,

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New recticules are square and fiat.
Hand painted lace is late novelty.
Plain velvet cloaks will again be worn.
Colored street wraps are again fashion
able.
Undressed kid gloves retain their popu-
larity.
Large and small bonnets are equally
fashionable.
Chemisettes and inside kerchiefs are
again in vogue.
Many walking costumes are made with
a jacket bodice.
Fichus Of all sizes and in every imagin-
able shape are worn.
Tiger and leopard velvets are handsome
trimming novelties.
Large rosettes of Breton and point
d'esprit laces are worn.
There is no absolute rule about any de-
tail of the toilet this season.
Flowers are as much used for garnitures
Of evening dresses as ever.
Cream.colored silk net, polka dotted and
washable is sold for neck scdrts.
Both very light colored and very dark
costumes for street wear are in vogue.
Two or three bands of narrow ribbon
are worn with the Greek coil at present.
Opera cloaks of white toile sangIier
(boar's cloth) bid fair to be very fashion
able.
Striped velvets are not so popular for
parts Of costumes as those with n set
figure.
Lambrequin paniers and tabiers must
be very ample and carefully draped to
look well.
The corsage bouquet of the passing
moment is one or several large red lure
satin roses.
White felt and plush hats and bonnets
continue to be favorite opera and theater
chapeaux.
As many fabrics and accessories now
enter into bennett as into the most elabo-
rate dresses
The tendency of the couture at the
moment is towards classic simplicity and
old Greek ideas.
Medium and dark shades OF kid gloves
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many seasons past.
The large direCtoire bow of Breton or
point desprit lace is the neatest Partisan
fancy in neck wear.
Singapore silk is the new name for a
soft silk in rich cashmere Colors and de-
signs, used for millinery purposes.
Corsages opening low in front, in shawl
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are fashionable for women of all ages.
Lambrequin drapery with paniers and
tablier combined, is the favorite arrange
ment for Parlsian toilets OF ceremony.
Spencers of colored velvet with lace
elbow sleeves, will be worn with white
skirts for evening dress by young ladies.
Some foreign fashion journals say that
dresses with but one skirt will certainly
be worn this Winter in heavy materials.
Ture satin is the new name for that
soft, changeable, twilled, yet lustrous
fabric, known sometimes as satin de
Lyons.
A novelty in evening dress fabrics is
white tOile sanglier, or bears cloth, a
heavy all-wool material, dotted in raised
line points.
White mOWtOuRe, soft lambs wool
cloth, is used for dressy or evening or re-
ceptlon jackets for young girls, with Or
iental trimmings.
Pale dauphin gray and mastic shades of
chinchilla and beaver cloth, plain and
ribbed, are again used for jackets, dol
mans, yisiteS and sacques.
New kid gloves show deep garnet or
ruby shades, seal brown, navy blue, blue
gray, olive, invisible green, and all the
mastic and old gold tones OF color.
The crowns of some plush bonnets
seem to be composed entirely of jet beads,
the embroidery actually covering COM
pletely the lace on which the design is
wrought.