The Osceola times., 1882-12-16
FASHION NOTES.
Upright ruffs of lace and net show off
fair and slender necks to advantage.


fair and slender necks to advantage.
Oriental cloth of as many colors as JOS
eph's coat is the richest fabric for man
ties and cloaks.
Bretonne jackets of white cloth are
trimmed with colored silk embroidery
and hanging sequires.
Silver bracelets have very narrow
ring around the wrist. from which hang
old coins of gold and silver.
India camels hair borders, like those
used on India shawls, are fashionable
trimmings for dark dresses.
Black velvet corselets, shaped very
much like French corsets, are worn over
white cashmere or nuns cloth dresses.
Dark red cloth costumes are braided
with black soutache, set on in relief, in
designs representing punches of grapes.
Appliques of velvet on cloth dresses
take the form of discs of graduated sizes
in three or four rows on the skirt and
overdress.
Pocket-handkerchief for children have
a printed border of designs copying Kate
Greenaway's pictures of quaint little folks
at play.
Two bias folds of white crimped and
Grape are arranged inside the standing
collar and close cuff of Partisan dresses of
dark k-colored silk and velvet.
Poppy-red is in fashion for cloth and
cashmere dresses, and imported blue
cashmere dresses are trimmed with bands
of fpoppy-colored velvet.
Antique heads Of bronze OF dull silver,
cocks of coppert tinted silver, and dia-
mond designs of Rhine brilliants are the
clasps for winter wraps.
IIussar-blue cloth dresses are made
with plain skirt bordered with velvet,
above which is military braid, and a
plain redingote with braided wheels
down the front and pleated fullness be-
hind.
Tablers Of lace covered with colored
silk needlework, satin cords, colored
beads and the new embroidery made of
ribbons, are used on satin and corded
silk trained dresses for dinners and re-
ceptions..
Rich brocades, or corded silk with
plush or velvet spots of large size, will
not lose favor this winter They will be
used for the skirt or overdress, in combi-
nation with plain material, but not for
an entire dress.
New dresses are more clinging to the
figure than they have been for years.
Skirts are cut to give a full appearance,
and the pulled drapery is very large, as
it is mounted on cushion of hair sewn
TO the skirt lining
Gay house dresses for young ladies'
have the waist, sleeves and skirt of blue
and red stripped cashmere, with corset
bodice, deep cuffs and bunched-up-over-
skirt of red cashmere, scalloped on the
edges and bound with blue braid.
The taste for braiding assures the pre-
valence of cloth and flannel costumes.
Tailors protest against all such trimming,
but it relieves the plainness ofcloth suits,
and is desirable provided it is not too
heavy for comfort.
The floral panier is new garniture for
evening dresses. 1t begins at the point
of the dress waist. is festooned across each
hip and falls in two long vines on the
back of the skirt. The entire panier is
mounted ON net, and is made of roses,
lilies and leaves.
Handsome black costumes have long
redingotc terry velvet with heavy reps,
and plain skirt trimmed with two mar
row hounces of Spanish lace. When the
redingote is designed to hang open from
the waist, the skirt front is covered with
narrower flounces of lace.
| Tasteful Dresses of black and white
shepherds checked wool have the skirt
trimmed with wide flounce that is Dor
dered with three rows of black velvet rib
bon, and lavense overskirt turned up
widely with velvet on the revers. The
plain round basque is black Jersey wool
fastened by brandebourges and edged
with walt-ofTroy blocks bound with
white braid