The Newtown bee., 1880-11-17
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
lFashiOn Fancies.

Bonnet strings are yard long.
 Striped cheviots are very popular. Sealskin remains the fashionable fur.
 Light cloths and serges are much worn.
 Chrysanthemums are among fashion able flowers. Pilgrim suits appear among late inn portations.
 Mousquetaire gloves grow in fashion able favor.
 Beaded stockinet for Jerseys is a late importation. | Speckled wooden stuffs are among novelty dress goods. Blue-b black and drab-green Scotch plaids are again in vogue. l Baby elephant jewelry is taking tue | place of little pig ornaments. Violet satin merveilleuse plays an im- portant part in dress effects.
 Seal cloaks and seal dolmans will be worn as well as seal sacks. Some of the polonaises for young girls are buttoned down the back.
 Old blue ana white ware continue to take high rank in artistic china. Com binations Of plush and sa in are as popular for bonnets as for costumes. Quantities of bead and gold thread embroidered slaces appear among late importations. The entire long tablier of dresses are frequently formed of embroidered velvet cut work.
 White materials of every description including white plush, will be used for entire costumes.
 Many dressy hats for young girls are trimmed only with cord and tassels and fluffy silk pompon.
 Independent velvet bodices, made Jersey fashion, are worn over dresses of other material and color.
 Broad linen collars and turn over cuffs, similar to those worn by children, are fashionable for young ladies.
 Round waists, which were started in America, have been taken up and Frenchified by Parisian modistes.
 Purely fanciful plaids are fashionable for ladies' costumes. The historic tar l tans are more in use for children's suits.
 Coachmen'si capes of silver-pointed beaver, with mutf and deep cuffs to match, will be much in vogue the com ing season.
 Mutfs match the bonnet, and arc | trimmed with ecru lace, wide ribbOn bows, and ornaments of gold, silver, steel and jet.
 Wool and silk mixed goods in silk squares and streaks of an undetinable gas-like hue or 8 soft wool sober cOlol are much worn. Handsome Turkish sashes of Suraf silk, with gathered ends finished witt long heavy silk tassels, are sold in every shade of color.
 Plaid we vet in rich dull tints is useC in handsome walking suits for younG ladies. combined with Surah silk ol duchess satin.
 Mairons wear their yard-long, soft wide bonnet strings tied under the chin young ladies wear them in long loopeC bow low on the back hair.
 Armure and serge dresses In tiny plaiCs are fashionable in very dark ol neutral tints, which are generally frightened by touches of scarlet ol gold.
 Light-colored, rough h-surfaced cloth are preferred for jackets, but warmth o effect is given by having the collars cuffs, and pockets of fur or of seal -browl plush.
 Instead of the old-time silk loops a ring covered with silk in buttonhol, stitch is now used in places on the dres to be fastened without showing tn means.
 Sea-lion and dahlia shades of purpl and maroon tinged with crimson ap pear in the latest importations of ss tin! de Lyons, damasses, and silk and woo mixtures
 Some of Wortn's handsomest cos tunes are trimmed with two bards o fur around the skirt, with only 8 mar row plaited balayeuse f1ounce below tn bottom band of fur.
 Dressy aprons of satin and moire an tique, trimmedswith one pocket of lace o fringed passementerie and trimming to match at the bottom, will be worl with .dressy home toilets.
 Among new hat trimmings are heav cords of softly-twisted chenille, wit tulip-like ends, and chenille scarf drawn to 8 point and terminating il heavy tassels at each end.
 Sharp contrasts are avoided in tn different materials used in composing handsome costume, but the shade, effects are produced by the difference i, sheen of velvet or plush and satin O silk. Worth makes sash bow of 8 whol width of soft Surah (three-fourths of yard wide) tied in two loops and tw short ends finished with fringe, am places it on the left side just on tn waist line. Fichus of fine white net are as popu lar as those of null were during tn summer. They have an applique trim ming of moss work in branching pat terms for borders, or else they ar trimmed with the Alencon laces.
 The introduction of lace ruffs wit morning costumes for the street is blessing to most girls who found tha colors seen by candle light did not seer the same by day, when the color wa , softened by rows and rows of white lac l at ninht and pxnnspd tn the daUlioht i