Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-02-19
Fashion Fancies.

Coruuroy Is the fashionable material
for child's dress.
The magnolia has found its way into
the brocade patterns.
Ostrich bands are the only feather
trimmings that wear well.
Turbans matching their ulsters make
pretty school hats for little girls.
A yard and quarter of satin is all
that is needed to trim cashmere gown.
Bracelets of fewer buds are the new
est thing for fastening the long glove
wrists.
A sickle in which four leaved clover
is caught is the design of enc of the new
lace pins.
Lace pins. looking like branches of
holly with bright berries, are pretty and
reasonable.
Cashmere colors are more sparingly
used, and chiefly as relief to plain vel
vets and cloths.
The New York girls have adopted the
Partisan fashion of wearing India scarfs
for extra wraps.
Caps and jackets of colored velvet,
trimmed with gold or silver braid, are
worn by young girls.
to line dresses of cream barege, is almost
as light and firm as silk.
Coat basques are made gay Mt a very
small expense, by adding skirts, cuffs,
and collar of cashmere.
A new style of bonnet. gradually COM
ing into use in New York, is small and
close, and almost like Golf.
A.great deal of figured and stamped
velveteen is used inexpensivey with
satin and silk in street Costumes.
The birds used for dress trimmings
are very natural looking. even the beaks
and claws being perfectly initiated.
Madam Sin-Fu. Gen, the wife of the
Chinese minister at Berlin, is the first
Chinese lady who has ever been in
Prussia.
The latest boots for ladies have broad
projecting sole. and button on the out
side ofthe foot instead of over the instep,
as formerly.
skirts made up in wide box-plaits have
masses of roses set on each plait by way
OF trimming.
Plush turbans, with deep bands of fur
sewed around the edge, and having
chenille tassels falling mt the back, are
pretty and tasteful.
Silk tassels of cream, or blue, or red
silk, are used as ornaments for chill
dren's caps, and sometimes constitute
their sole trimming.
Some turban bonnets are covered
with folds of soft silk with raveled
edges. and have bands of white velvet
placed around the edge.
Little yellow chrysanthemums and
clusters of rose geranium leaves have
taken the place of the daisy bouquet
that was worn in summer.
Bronze turkey feathers are used in
soCse of the new feather bonnets, rs well
as the more aristocratic plumage of the
golden and purple pheasant.
Sapphires of many colors are COM
bined in one ring by New York jewell
ers. They are cut in the same way as
| diamonds and mounted high.
Wide ribbons with dark borders and
chintz or palms in the center. are used
with striking effect with delicately
tinted muslins and satins for evening
dress.
The new fur-lined circulars are made
with deep collar of fur instead of the
hood of last winter. and all trihe
| shorter, to enable them to be worn with
| the short costumes.
Butterfly bows may be made either
of India muslin, edged with Languedoc.
Valenciennes, or Duchess lace. or of
black China Grape, bordered with hand
painted black lace.
Gray, brown, olive and blue French
cashmere. wrought all over with polka
| fsI. tsrRx. fsaI f,,s.
combination with satin or velvet in
pretty house dresses.
Red and yellow, the Spanish oolors,
are in high favor in Paris. and so arc
Spanish mantillas, which are worn in
ways that would convulse the gravest
of senoras with laughter.
The Tallien overskirt, which opens
on the left side almost to the waist, and
has n deep border OF silk or figured
goods, is worn with an undeTskirt OF
alternate plaitings of plain and figured
goods.
The gowns which have the skirt
straight and full Mt the back. and the
front breadth gored, or sbirred. or
| quilted, or embroidered, or painted by
hand, are intended to initiate the Queen
i Anne style.
Visiting costumes Of plain velvet have
appeared this season. They are lined
with satin, and little ivory lace Is
worn at the throat, and If one wishes TO
be showily dressed, an ivory feather Is
| placed on the bonnet.
Garnet and pink are the leading COM
bination Of colors for evening dress. No
shades are more inviting In assistance
TO the complexion. A great deal of
filmy white lace on gauze dc sole is In
dispensablc with such costumes for
young ladies.
It is ayerred By dealers that ladies
who own fine diamonds purchase and
wear numbers Of paste stones in hand
some settings, to encnance the splendoT
OF their display. The white topaz, found