Sharp County record., 1879-11-13
FASHION NOTES.

novelties III IIlAo AAiN'
-Fayorite designs for buttons are
griffons, dragons, and sphinXeS.
Bead embroidered cOrsages Will be
much worn for evening toilet.
Flower garnitureS are more worn on
evening and reception toilets than ever
-Scarfs of white India muslin, with
fine dots, and edged with point d'eSprlt,
are worn around the neck in the street,
tied close in the throat with animmense
bow.
-Fleece-lined pique wrappers enable
the wearer, though an invalid, to dress
in white in her room always, and yet be
warm as in midsummer when in lawn
and muslin alone.
Ribbon strings are wider, but the
most fashionable bonnetS have immense
" wide, cylindric silk strings, generally
trimmed at the bottom with Breton or
point desprit lace plaitingS.
1t is the very acme of fashion and
taste to wear silk dresses, either white,
tinted. or colored, decorated with artistic
designs of flowers and foliage, bees,
beetles, and butterflies in water cOlors.
Infants slippers are of white, blue
and rose-colored kid, fastened with a
sandal strap around the ankle by a but
ton-hole and white porcelain button.
Little shoes come in the same cOlorS for
short cloaks.
The Brighton and Derby felt hats
are for ordinary street wear for girls
and by all ladies who are still young
enough. Their severe style of trim
ming-a band, and small wing at one
side-renders them q fitting accompani-
ment to the walking suits described
Crash cushions are fashionable both
in drawing rooms and boudoirs just
now. Some have a circular japanese
design on one corner only; others are
made of light green and other delicate
shades of Bolton sheeting, with a spray
of Japonica across them or hops or
white narcissus.
-Four bouquets are worn on the most
fashionable evening dresSes-a small
one on the right side of the neck, one a
little larger at the left hand corner of
the open square corsage, the third, still
larger, at the foot of the front breadth
of the skirt just above the tlOunces, and
the fourth, the largest of all, low behind
on the train.
Some of the especially fashionable
colors are: niniche, new cherry
red; vieux rouge, a deep blackish red;
canaque and casserole, copper colorS;
Rembrandt, a very dark blue green;
Admiral blue, a dark shade, named IN
honor of SIR Joseph; douanier, a mill
tary or Napoleonic blue; autruche, the
natural color of the ostrich pivoine,
peony; and feuter, or felt color.
Scarf ties of Indian muslin, folded
double, are gathered at each end with
some three or four runnings, almost like
a tassel, the lace at the extreme ends
being gathered closely together. Bows
of lace and India or crepe muslin, about
four inches across, are made in the but
terfy shape. Another favorite style is
a bow of the muslin, with a cascade OF
lace coming six or seven inches below;
while others have twisted end OF mus
lin, in one side knotted, and cascade
of lace on the other. One of the newest
things for converting an ordinary dress
into demi-toilet is an outstanding ruff OF
lace, with narrow ribbon round it, tied
in a how in front. The lace is then
brought down as double drapery to
the waist on one side, while on the other
is the cascade of lace, headed by ribbon
and HSse plating.
The pocket-handkerchief for nice
use is of fine linen lawn with hem
stitching to match that of the linen
cravat or neck-tie. Sometimes there is
an inch-wide border of the drawnwork
above the hem all around the square,
while others have triangular bits OF this
intricate work in each corner. Palmer
handkerchiefs for morning have a half
inch hem stitched, or else they are
colored in some odd design and quaint
combination of colors on some a plated
frill edged with scallops of needle-work
is the trimming. Breton lace and in
sertion are used on more dressy hand
kerchiefs. The lace, an inch and half
wide, is sewed on the edge plainly, with
the only fullness, which is at the cor
ners, laid in small fiat plaits instead OF
being gathered; one or two rows OF
Breton insertion are then let into tbe
lawn with space Of an inch between.
Very soft handkerchiefs for servive are
made of silk and linen spun together;
they cost 60 cents each, and are creamy
white, with a hem-stitched hem.
House dresses and evening robes
make up in elaborate garniture for all
plainness of trimming observable in
regular walking costumes. Dress trim
mings and buttons come in great varie-
tv. Passementerie gimps and fringes
glitter with jet, some of the most ex-
pensive passementeries showing sur
face of Jet to the exclusion of any other
material. Manv-colored beads, produc-