St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-01-31
FASHION NOTES.

designs, into which much tinselis woven.
Gilt champagne baskets are used to
hold the bouquets placed beside dinner
plates.
-Books-marks of Russia and English
leather are pretty for library editions OF
choice books.
-Horseshoes of grey lichens and the
hrjuht berries of the bittersWeet decorate
parlor walls.
The new striped tea rose, American
Banner, is worth its weight in gold, on
account OF it's rarity.
Two peace-pipes and match tied
together with blue ribbon, were among
the presents at recent wedding.
Among the designs for China dec
Grafton is a Cupid standing on wet
grasses and brushing the dust from
daisy.
Mrs. Plimpton has on exhibition in
Cincinnati vases of red clay, decorated
with wreaths of flowers and leaves IN
white clay.
The fastest hanging hat-racks are
in the shape of an immense horseshoe,
and are of ebony, with huge steel nails
to form the hooks.
Beautiful curtains have bands OF
chintz stitched upon them, and the de-
sion carried to the foundation material
in embroidery.
Wooden collars and cuffs have ap-
peared in England. They are bound
with red ribbon and decorated with
group of painted flowers.
Photograph albums are now made
with the successive pages fitted for
promenade pictures, cabinet pictures and
groups OF two cards and Il vignette.
Bottles representing the busts of
famous men are novelties for holding
perfumeries. Shakespeare, Goethe and
Schiller are favorable subjects.
At a recent dinner given by a New
York gentleman, each guest was pre-
sented with menu card SO artistically
elaborate that the cost Of each was
500.
Cream white porcelain buttons are
considered stylish. They are hand
painted, each with a different device,
such as a bird, a bee, butterfly, a
flower, etc. s#f& '*&
The new Vienna thermometers
come mounted in all sorts of odd ways.
Some brace themselves against silver
KEYS, others curve around a horseshoe,
Among the new designs for table
covers is a pattern of wild white Gle
mats and barberries, changing wood
bine, brambles, wild grapes and milk
weed pods, no leaf or flower being re-
peated.
Rustic nut baskets are of silver, col
orcd to look like hammered copper, and
decorated with the bronzed leaves of
the blackberry vine. A little bronze
squirrel is perched on one. side of the
basket. I 80
FASHIONS IN DRESS.
Dresses for the street are made short
enough to show the boot, pulled back
so as to have all the fullness in the rear.
The back is made a little shorter than
either sides or front, SO that the en-
broidery of the underskirt and lace of
the balayeuse become slightly percepti-
bic with each movement of the step.
Overskirts, either very long or very
short, are worn. When the overskirt is
long, it is made very long, so as to
drape; the middle is shirred, of the
width of about a quarter of a yard, the
front pulled back, and the back looped
the entire length of the skirt. But
very narrow band of the skirt shows in
front, trimmed with very small founces
of knife blade plaitings. Another grace
full dress is made with narrow knife
blade plaitings up the front, with the
overskirt coming down long on both
sides, shirred and draped in the sides
and back. These models, with the
cuirass waist, are worn without the
tournure. The old-fashioned shirring
across the shoulders of the waist, leav-
ing a fmlness down the front to be
shirred again across the waist, finds fa-
vor with narrow-chested ladies, who
wish to correct that defect. The sleeves
are still made very tight. Gloye-ftting
sleeves are made for dresses of every
decription. They are rather short,
so as TO expose the wrist
very high in the neck, and neckties,
still above the neckband is essentially
an American fashion, perhaps with the
exception of Sarah Bernhardt, who sup
plies the lack of neck with force ruches.
frills, laces, flowers and bows. Much
lace is worn about the neck, however,
but in not such a choking manner.
Very large bows-not ties-of Swiss
dotted net with lace at both ends, are
very fashionable. Worth, the dress
maker king, has decreed that paniers
and bustles would be the lawful style of
dress for this fall and winter. Already
some forerunners of fashion have rein
troduced the hustle this summer, but
have done SO only in fear and trembling,
for nothing looks more eccentric than a
protuberance of that kind if the eye has
not educated the mind to thinking it
natural by seeing every body else with
it. The skirts of the panier dresses are
made with three or four box-plaited
tlounces, over which is looped a width
of the goods of about two yards in
length, making narrow cascade of the
puffings in the back. Over the founces
and cascade, below short cuirass or
vest, Louis XIV, are placed short pam
iers, trimmed with lace or fringe, fulled,
beginning in front with shirring or bow
of ribbon, draped and rounded off at the
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