Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-11-26
LATEST FASHION NOTES.

White vulture feathers are used On opera
hats.
English embroidering stands next to lace
as popular trimming.
The new poke bonnets are very high and
very narrow about the ears. The crowns
are mostly of the Mother Hubbard shape.
Imported toilets are all exceedingly
bogfdnt in effect, and the fashion is quite
displeasing to short, stout women, to whom
it is very unbecoming.
Tartan plaids and Roman stripes are now
shown in cheviot materials, and make very
stylish street.dresses trimmed with plush
of monochrome color.
Real silver, and also new steel buttons
are displayed, cut in facets which sparkle
like diamonds, and look very rich upon
street jackets of velvet or plush.
1t seems to be definitely decided that
russell brown and dark myrtle green are
to be exceedingly fashionable colors for
walking and travelling costumes.
Gold and silver, either in the form of
embroidery or heavy passementerie, are
among the most favored trimmings for ball
dresses. Gold wrought Spanish lace is in
greater demand than ever.
Fringes of the most elegant description
have appeared, and, combined with the
new passementerie bands and beaded gimps,
will prove a strong rival to lace as a gar.
niture for elegant costumes, both for the
house and the promenade.
Leading millinery windows display a
startling hat of scarlet felt, trimmed with
dark red velvet or plush, and the plumage
of brilliant looking tropical bird. This
hat is modelled somewhat after the shape
of the smuggler's" hat worn last season.
A strong attempt is being made to re-
introduce Irish poplins for winter use.
These durable ana elegant fabrics are dyed
in new exquisite shades, in which the ugly
and unbecomiug terra-cotta color, to meet
the exigencies of modern esthetic taste, has
not been omitted.
A costly ornament for the head is in the
shape of Greek cap, made of finest gold
wire netting, and bordered with tiny gold
balls. This ftIet d or is held in place by
diamond headed pins, and is worn with full
lining dress. When the cap is adopted,
| the hair is arranged la Grecqae.
| Among the fall CONNECTIONS" as they
are technically called, are Carrack shoulder
capes made of heavy black satin, which
come quite to the waist, or perhaps tr1he
below it. They are shirred ''Mother Hub.
bard fashion around the neck to depth
of several inches, and each cape is trimmed
with wide band of jetted gimp.
Cords and tassels enter largely into the
| trimming of dressy costumes, and are also
used upon elegant evening toilets. An i'm
ported dress of cream.white satin, lately
shown, had the long court train and Gre.
clan drsperies outlined with heavy cord
of gold and silk threads intertwined. The
shirred vest of the corsage, and portions OF
the oddly-puffed sleeve, were made of pale
gold-colored satin.
a handsome costume of olive green plush
has Marquise jacket with deep killings
around the bottom, lined with antique gold
satin. The gold buttons which fasten it
are quite large and elegantly chased. The
underskirt is trimmed with killings to
match, and the overdress is cut in panels
and lined with gold colored satin, the edges
being bordered with rich embroidery .of
emerald and gold. colored beads.
Pale dark velvets are much used for ball
mantles and opera cloaks, lined with pale
tinted satin, and sometimes with plush
for instance, rich Corday cloak, designed
for the opera, is made of dark green velvet,
with lining of sea-shell pink satin, and
trimmed with wide bands of Russian sable.
Another is of dark wine-colored velvet,
with lining of salmon colored satin and a
third is a dark royal blue velvet, lined
with eal.brown plush and trimmed with a
bordering of silver pointed beaver.
Bodices and girdles of velvet or satin OF
contrasting colors, or those which har-
monte with the shade of the dress, are
very popular with stylish young ladies.
Cut low under the arms, the girdle tapers
off into minute point far below the waist.
They are trimmed with beaded appliques,
| embroidery, or are sometimes hand
painted. Those of plush, however, are
made perfectly plain, and laced front and
back with gold silk cords. The last-men-
| toned models are considered the most ele.
CANT.
Many ladies who have fine figures are
wearing deep pointed waists to which are
shirred plain, fingered skirts. No trim.
ming is used except broad satin ribbon,
which is fastened at the side of the bodice,
carried to the end of the point in front and
tied into bow and long ends, which fall
over the skirt of the dress. The gracefully
draped princess dress is also adopted for
the pliable cashmeres, vigognes, and other
self. adjusting fabrics, which are made to
fit the figure with the closeness of the
cuirass, the fullness beginning just below
the hips and having the effect OF the much
admired Marie Antoinette panier drapery.