Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-17

lace as popular trimming.
The Mousquetaire or Bernhardt glove
takes precedence of all others.
Many Of the handsomest midwinter
wraps are lined throughout with plush.
Feather bands will be worn Ms dress
trimmings as well as on hats and
bonnets.
A New York house has introduced the
fashion of making dress waists with the
seams sewn like those of kid gloves.
Tho favorite decoration at present for
the throat is a necklace of amber or real
coral beads, both of which are in great
request.
The new poke bonnets are very high
and very narrow about the ears. The
crowns are mostly of the Mother Hub
bard shape.
Last years suTtouts may be turned
into polonaises by putting q plait into
the back of the skirt, and addinRpuff d
nfnpefleS 10 the hiue.
Imported toiletsa are exceedingly bout
fant in effect, and the fashion is qnite
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 but
tons are displayed, cut in facets which
sparkle like diamonds, and look very
rich upon street jackets Of velvet or
plush.
Satin, moire and brocaded velvet are
comprised in the handsomest bridal
dresses. Orange flowers and lilies Of
the valley mingle together in the hand
soonest bridal parures.
The embroidered pongee gowns OF
last summer were so pretty that they
are initiated in surah. The skirts have
three deep founces, all bordered with
embroidery, and the scarf drapcry and
little sh oulder capes are finished in the
same way.
Many of the new round hats, and
few Of the mitigated poke.bonnets, have
a fall of Spanish lace at tho edge just
deep enough TO shade the eyes. This
drapery is very becoming TO most faces,
and as the fashion gains ground and the
width OF the lace grows a triae deeper,
wells will be quite superseded.
For boys tho court valet costume il
the style. 1t is a square coat fitted in
the back, high in Che neck, and fastened
with small buttons of cut steel down the
front to the waistline. where IL is slanted
off TO the back, showing comparatively
long waistcoas, with pockets and cut
steel buttons. The plain sleeves are
trimmed with similar buttons.
Intensely bright colors are seen
among all the late importati5ns, and
some of the new combination are quite
alarming. III this fancy goes on un-
checked, an audience Of fashionable
ladies in church or concert will resem.
bic huge bed OF Dutch tulips, and the
similarity will be heightened by tho
newly developed taste for strips Of every
possible hue.
The high.peaked crowns of some Of
the latest imported hats sre covered
with towering feathers. not soft curling
tips, but great hearso.like plume1,
sometimes fvo or six in number.
Another French fancy is to cover the
crowns with 4 solid yelling of glittering
jet or irideseent beads, which in the
sunlis bit or gaslight have very bril-.
liant effect.
Checked and striped wooden goods,
seTges, vigognes, cheviot cloth and
limousine arc the most fashionable ma
terials for autumn walking costumes,
which are invariably made with short
round skirts, either laid in very broad,
fiat box plaits from belt TO toe, or with
threc straight fiounces pu. on Ia hol-
low plata. In the latter case vide
scarf is draped over the skirt and knot
ted loosely, low on tho left side.
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