Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-11-11
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Fashion Notes.

Fasnton Notes.
Plaids are in high favor.
Polish caps with tassels are worn.
Buttons are more artistic than ever.
The dolman visite is the favorite wrap.
Null fichus and scarfs remain In high
favor.
Flannel balmorals take the place of
felt skirts.
Imported evening dresses have very
long trains.
All very dressy costumes are trimmed
with embroidery.
Both square and round trains are
worn in evening toilet.
Some very small bonnets appear
among late novelties in millinery.
A trimming much in vogue is black
net embroidered with jet beads.
Irish point and church lace trim the
most fashionable null neck scarfs.
Velveteen, farmers satin and flannel
skirts bid fair to supersede felt ones.
Rough and shaggy cloaking cloths are
in demand for jackets and sacks.
Sets of buttons are sold with each but
ton bearing different artistic design.
Tortoise shell combs, both in the am-
Der and dark shades, always remain in
vogue.
Short dresses are made up in the rich
est materials for reception and visiting
toilets.
Tourist and Hermit are the names
he two principal varieties of hoods worn
on jackets.
One of the French gowns, imported for
some millionaire's wife, is embroidered
with little fans.
The pinkish drab color, on which the
designs of Egyptian ribbon are printed,
is called Egypt.
Muslin alfhandkerchiefs, fastened
by butterfly bows or rosettes, are used
for breakfast caps.
After the rage for big bonnets has
subsided, the medium size will prob
ably be most worn.
Fancy combs, headed with balls OF
gold, coral, steel or crystal, to initiate
diamonds, are worn.
Bonnets, muffs and costumes match
when worn by the most fastidiously
fashionable women.
Jet or colored crystal beads enrich all
the richest trimmings and embroideries
on dressy costumes.
Vatican buttons are composed OF COL
ored stones, interspersed with small cir
cular pieces of steel.
Bead embroidery is used to cover the
seams of brocades, and to hide the small
defects in joining it.
The besrskin plush is as good an imi
tation of fur rs the sealskin. but it is only
used for trimmings.
A four-leaved clover in shaded pear
embossed on n gold surface is the design
OF some new buttons.
Among novelties are sashes to match
the costume, tipped at the ends with
spikes, tassels or balls.
Crystal beads in iridescent hues, white
and clear as glass, are used to excess in
trimming evening dresses.
Jet, gold, amber, purple, irldescent
and jewel-tinted and crystal beads trim
both bonnets and dresses.
To mufHe the throat in several yards
of white or black tulle, Ia Sarah Bern
hardt, will be all the fashion.
White plush bonnets, with the crowns
or brims dotted with medium-sized pearl
beads, bid fair to be favorites.
Plush muffs are fiat, and the plush is
arranged in loose, irregular folds, not
tight or smooth around the muff.
The petals of many of the new arti-
fetal towers are made OF soft plush in
most gorgeous and delicate tints.
The beaded braid" trimming made
of cord, wound with tinsel or fine metal,
is substituted for bead trimming.
The ribbon decoration which appears
on paper hangings and furniture is re-
vived from the seventeenth century.
Gilded flexible stems appear on some
OF the very few artificial flowers that
are used by the milliners this season.
Bonnet ornaments, in the form of
little gilded pigs, spiders, bees and
beetles, ornament the new plush muffs.
Plush muffs to match hats are trimmed
with coffee-stained lace and furnished
with gold cords, which suspend them
around the neck.
Black and brown beaver plush bon.
nets and hats are frequently lined with
amber-colored yellow, red, blue and
other pale-tinted plush.
The plain skirt, plain corsages of
American costumes have not rs yet made
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