Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-16
FASHION NOTES.
Muffs are to be larger next winter.

Muffs are to be larger next winter.
Plush, with an exceedingly long pile, il
at present the principal material in French
millinery.
Plum-colored handkerchief suits with
pheasant brown borders are counted very
stylish.
Some of the collars now worn by small
girls are so deep that they ought to be
called capes.
An attractive tea cloth recently made is
OF white crash with the signs of the zodiac
In red and blue cotton.
There is no trimming inside the new
French bonnets, the soft, feecy plush be-
ing sufficiently becoming.
Mahogany picture frames, with a balus-
trade on top for articles of bric-a-brac, are
one of the latest novelties.
Plain pushes can now be bought at two
dollars yard and velvet at even less, and
both in every imaginable color.
The Paterson handkerchief silks. which
cost S25 piece, are tasty" and as quiet
as handkerchief silks can well be.
Snapdragon is suggested as a good name
for a winter costume in which are combined
flame and champagne reds.
At recent English wedding the thirteen
bridesmaids wore mob caps. pulled sleeves,
long mittens and paste buckles.
The colors of many of the plaid dresses
are very dark, giving the goods the effect
of black irrldescent glass, with its violet
and green reflections.
Wrappers are now made of thin, trans
parent material over bright color, and
are trimmed with triple cascades OF Mech
lin lace ornamented with bows.
The Breton lace which is studded with
small flowers and finished in points is
called heurette. The lace which has cord
like threads drawn through it is called ver-
micelli.
Cashmere shawls have Of late been scarce
and unusually high priced Cd account OF
tax on them. As this tax has now been
abolished, it is to be hoped that the indus
try, so beloved of ladies, will revive.
Among shoe ornaments for autumn there
are buckles beautifully enriched with or
namental chasing and encrusting, one ia
vorite design having the form of a star.
Woodcuts in the London Queen of some
deliberately trimmed dressing jackets and
night gowns are enough to make the plain
people, as Mr.. Lincoln called them, wonder
at the present extravaganza of women.
The London Truth prophesies that the
next example of frugality in dress mate
rails will be sacking or crumbcloth, or
garden mating, as there does not seem to
be much else left after cheese cloth and
kitchen toweliing.
A woman, recently married, appeared at
the Cincinnati Exposition last week IN
such Z" fiowery" gown that the visitors to
the horticultural department supposed her
to be one of the objects on exhibition, and
inquired whether she had been awarded q
prize.
The shopping woman who asks clerks for
patterns is unhappy this year. Who can
ask for pattern of brocade when the de-
sign covers space a foot square, or of a
handkerchief stuff of which no two square
inches are alike, or of Madras plaid Sc
| large that it seems to have neither begin.
ming nor end
The Havelock suit with Havelock mantle
J is one of the prettiest costumes imported
for the approaching cold season. 1t is
shown in prune, navy blue, seal brown,
olive, coachman's drab and gendarme blue
cloth, with satin of the same color fol
trimming, and either red OF blue Surah OIL
satin for Innings.
Handkerchiefs now display ruffied Dor
ders below a novel border of scollop;
worked with fame color. There is great
variety of design IN the stitched borders
and one of the newest initiates a ribbon
stitched on so skillfully that it deceive.
the eye completely.
Says the Cincinnati Gazette with truth
fulness BE it short or long, round OIL
trained, the skirt is scant and clinging
There are few things more amatearish in
modern dressmaking than skirt that
mal.ss Won wish to whirl the wearer around
h' a lovely cheese her skirt
M0ald lsi.oon out into.