The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-31
FASHION NOTES. :

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Stylish table-covers are in Turkish
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
bright berries of the bittersweet decorate
parlor walls.
The new striped tea rose, American
Banner, is worth its weight in gold, on
account of its 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 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. ref a
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. us ie1s.iI
Beautiful curtains have bands of
chintz stitched upon them, and the de.
sign carried to the foundation material
in embroidery.
Wooden collars and cuffs have APP
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, cabinetpictures and
groups of two cards and vignette.
Bottles representing the busts Of
famous men are novelties for holding
pcrfumeries. Shakespeare, Goethe and
Schiller are favorable subjects. = ~ !
| AT recent dinner given by New
York gentleman, each guest was pre-
scented with menu card SO artistically
elaborate that the cost of each was
| 500. 81
Cream white porcelain buttons are
con- idered stylish. They are hand
painted, each with different device,
such as bird, bee, butterfly,
flower, etc.
The new Vienna thermometers
come mounted in all sorts of odd ways.
Some brace themselves against silver
KEYS, others curve around horseshoe,
others are imbedded in the side of vases.
Among the new designs for table
covers is pattern of wild white Gle
mats and barberries, changing wood
4 n Il nd
weed pods, no leaf or flower being re-
peated.
Rustic nut baskets are of silver, col
ored 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.
! FASHIONS IN DRESS.
Dresses for the street are made short
i enough to show the boot, pulled back
so as to have all the fullness in the rear.
! he back is made little shorter than
either sides or front, so that the em-
broidery of the underskirt and lace of
the balayeuse become slightly percepti-
BILE 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 quarter of yard, the
front pulled back, and the back looped
the entire length of the skirt. But q
very narrow band of the skirt shows in
front, trimmed with very small fiounces
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, 1eay-
ing fullness down the front to be
shirred again across the waist, finds ia
vor with narrow-chested ladies, who
wish to correct that defect. The sleeves
are still made very tight. Glove fitting
sleeves are made for dresses of every
decription- They are rather short,
so as to expose the wrist
and parte bonheurs. Dresses
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 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 fail 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 ii
natural by seeing every body else with
it. The skirts Of the panier dresses are
made with three or four box-plaited
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