The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13
Fashion Notes.

Polish caps with tassels are worn.
Null fichus and scdrfs remain in high
favor.
Imported evening dresses have very
long trains.
The first leading bonnet of the fall
will be the poke.
All very dressy costumes are trimmed
with embroidery.
Both square and round trains are worn
in evening toilet.
Some lu-., small bunnets appear
among late novelties in millinery.
The ''Abbe' is the new hat worn by
ladies returned from abroad.
A trimming much in vogue is black
net embroidered with jet beads.
Fancy feathers show the influence of
the craze for plaided effects.
Plush roses form the favorite garni-
lures of many lo-olv evening t.te-s>;s.
Irish point and church lace trim the
most fashionable null neck scarfs.
Some of the jet and crystal beaded
glass trimmings range from forty to fifty
dollars yard.
The largest and most imposing hat
of the season takes the name of Sarah
Bernhardt.
After the rage for big bonnets has
subsidized, the medium sizes will proba-
bly, be most worn.
| Bonnets, muffs and costumes match
when worn by the most fastidiously
fashionable women.
The Vera is a new hat, named for
the heroine of Ouida's last and wicked
est novel, Moths
Feathers, birds, flowers, laces, bows
of ribbon and bonnet ornaments trim
the new plush muffs.
Jet or colored crystal beads enrich
all the richest trimmings and embroid-
cries on dressy costumes.
Jet, gold, amber, purple, iridescent
and jewel-tinted and crystal beads trim
both bonnets and dresses.
To muffie the throat in several yards
of white or black tulle, a la Sarah Bern
hardt, will be all the fashion.
Plush muffs are flat, and the plush is
arranged in loose, irregular folds, not
tight or smooth around the muff.
Crystal beads in iridescent hues,
white and clear as glass, are used to eX.
cess in trimming evening dresses.
The petals of many of the new artif-
cial flowers are made of soft plush in
most gorgeous and delicate tints.
White plush bonnets, with the
crowns or brims dotted with medium.
sized pearl beads, bid fair to be favor
ties.
Bonnet ornaments, in the form o.
little gilded pigs. spiders, bees anC
beetles, ornament the new plush muffS
The new hats and bonnets take the
names of Zola's heroines: Miette, Ger
vaise, Albine, Clorinda and Helene.
Black and brown beaver plush bon
nets and hats are frequently lined with
amber -colored, yellow, red, blue anC
other pale-tinted plush.
Plush muffs to match hats are trimmed
with coffee stained lace and Furnished
with gold cords, which suspend then
around the neck.
Many of the handsomest wrap.
are trimmed with jet embroideries il
artistic designs, set figures, bands
gimps, cords, tassels, spikes and gal
} looms.
White plush bonnets will take prece
J dence of all others for evening wear
, They will be trimmed with feathers
J flowers, and crystal bead cords ant
tassels.
The plain skirt, plain corsages o
American costumes have not as yet made
|, any impression abroad, but they ar,
much worn in New York.
) The figures on the costliest velvet an(
satin brocades are life-size flowers
magnolias and mammoth roses, witt
tropical fruits in pairs or triplets, thes'
| figures being of velvet, the shading
formed by cut and uncut pile, not b!
difference of color.
} The richest brocades have large fig
! ures and flowers in cut and uncut vel
, vet of the darkest shades of maroon
} navy blue, plum and bronze green ol
grounds of merveilleuse satin, harmon
, lzing in color, not contrasting, such a
; pale rose for maroon flowers, mauv,
! for plum, water blue for navy blue
and tilleul for bronze green.-N. Y. San
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