The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-10-08
Fashion Notes.


BEADED Surah is imported for trim
ming.
ALaERINE scarfs are novelties for
sashes.
VERY long cloaks will be worn again
this winter.
RED lace wells are worn by few &C.
centric ladies.
CHUDDAH, or shawl-cloth, is imported
for winter costumes.
New dull shades of color are copied
from antique porcelain.
PEKIN velvet and tiger plush are found
among the new trimming materials.
ALL-wooL Jersey webbing is found
among late importations OF dress mate
rails.
Box-PLEATED balayeuse h0unces are
more fashionable than knife-pleated
ones.
JAPANESE embroidery in cOlOrs is used
for trimming new white camel's-hair
dresses.
ALL sorts of pelerines, fichus, shoulder
capes, round capes and mantles are worn
rs street wraps.
WHITE satin, white nuns yelling and
lace make n lovely combination for
bridesmaids dresses.
RED, heliotrope, and shades of ecru
and old gold are the favorite colors OF
the plush Innings Of cloaks.
HANDKERcHIEFs now display ruffied
borders below q novel border of scollops
worked with flame color. There is great
variety of design i'll the stitched borders,
and one of the newest initiates ribbon
stitched on 30 skillfully that it deceives
the eye completely.
The Havelock suit with Havelock
mantle is one of the prettiest costumes
imported for the approaching cold sea-
son. 1t is shown in prune, navy blue,
seal brown, olive, coachmau's drab and
gendarme blue cloth, with satin of the
same color for trimming and either red
or blue Surah or satin for Innings.
SHORT sashes, wide and made of
double material or lined with a color,
are now much used in New York, usually
accompanying plain round waists. The
ends are gathered closely and finished
with jet ball or a satin spike. These
sashes may be worn around the waist
and knotted loosely, with hanging ends
on the left side, or tied in an immense
bow or placed on the back of the skirt,
to conceal some joining in the drapery,
or the sash may be fastened in the belt,
and the ends left hanging straight down
the back.
| ASIDE from the Grecian style of hair
dressing, coiffeurs still continue to be
elaborate. Usually the front hair is ~
ranged into number of bandeaux and
rouleux, while the back hair is looped in
thick plaits. Short, bunchy curls are
worn by young ladies'. They are held ut
the back by coil of loosely braided
hair twisted around them, or by Jew
elled ornament Of some description.
Many ladies have exchanged the stiff
regular puffs for graceful loops of waved
hair which they coil in sort of coronet
around the crown Of the head.
Miss ANNE LOUISE CARY is having
some new gowns madein Paris. Among
them is princess wrapper of light-blue
cashmere, finished around the lower edge
in prints, trimmed with silver braid.
Below the points is anticipating COW
cred with Valenciennes, and above them
quilting of the same lace. A purple
morning dress, made with skirt and
half-ftting sack, is also trimmed with
silver braid and is Quite as pretty rs the
wrapper. A brown walking suit, n short
dinner dress OF two shades of blue, are
among the other gowns which the singer
is to have for herself, and not for the
dear public, for which her finest gar
ments are designed.