Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-17
THE FASHIONS.
100 Notes and Hints in Making up a
Fashionable Toilet.

Fashionable Toilet.
| Jersey waists are much worn
| Beading is still in favor for evening
| dress.
The rage for yellow has not yet run its
| course.
All dancing dresses are, de riguer, short
| all round.
Roman striped silks are used for full dress
| occasions.
The favorite corsage flower is the small
yellow aster.
Guilt and amber beads border new French
hats and bonnets.
The simplest linen collars are worn with
velvet street costumes
The decree is positive that short skirts
will be worn in the street.
VeIvets bid fair to be more used for bon
net trimmings than plush.
Black wool dresses remain the favorites of
American women for ordinary wear.
The fashionable furs are bear, beaver,
astrachan, and fox, especially silver fox
For the house short dresses are most in
favor, but femi and full trains are allowa-
BILE.
Soutache embroidery is the correct trim
ming for black cashmere and drap d'ete
dresses.
Fleece-lined silk gloves are more suitable
for wear with a muff or fur-lined circular
than kids.
Tubular braids are effectively mingled
with fiat soutache in embroideries on dresses
and wraps.
Gould soutache and gilt buttons appear
to be the favorite trimmings for dressy blue
flannel suits.
Crochet buttons never go out of fashion,
but fancy metal and composition buttons
are in high favor.
Buckles of silver, gold, jet, bronze and
peaol are used to ornament bonnets, hats,
dresses and slippers.
Ball dresses of yelling, white and tinted,
are as much in favor now as they were in
the summer and fall
Ladies who go to balls in long and trained
dresses announce by their toilet that they do
not intend to dance.
Some of the new redingotes have small
shoulder capes that are caught up grace
fully on the left shoulder
Stylish round felt hats have narrow brims
with high Alpine crowns; this shape is most
becoming to round full faces.
Ruby, very dark plum color and golden
brown are the shades most in vogue for vel
vel costumes for the promenade.
Drap d'ete and Henrietta cloth are used
for handsome and dressy suits, out of
mourning as well as in mourning.
Mufs must be small, but they may be
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rial as the dress with which they are worn
White underskirts are completely super
seeded nowadays by colored flannel bal
morals and petticoats of colored quilted
satin.
Six or eight crushed roses of different
shades of red, half cover black or red bon
nets. The same varied shades are seen in
clusters of ostrich feathers.
Pink feathers on brown bonnets, green
plumage on red bonnets, and silver powder
ed black ostrich tips on black bonnets, are
the stylish contrasts in millinery.
Velvet skirts will be worn under bodices
in different styles of all the suitable mate
rails; rich silk skirts, too, will be worn with
these handsome upper garments.
Handsome opera cloaks are made of Otto
man silks. matelasse figured silk, brocaded
velvet, or plain plush and velvet. Some of
these wraps have pointed hoods, and others
round ones.
The fashionable hats worn by young
ladies are pulled cloth or velvet toques, and
with these the Langtry couture with fluffy
front hair and low small Greek knot behind
is appropriate.
quaint freak of fashion Is to fasten vel
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bow of ribbon. Bullion or guilt soutache
trims these velvet collars, and figured lace
frill edges them at the top.
Boas are entirely out of fashion; small
Byron collars of fur are worn instead. The
stole of fur passing around the neck and
straight down each side of the front gar
ment is stilish with pelisses.
The most fashionable jet bonnets are
those formed of row upon row of jet beads
of the same size, finely cut, and as large as
lady's finger. Those in fanciful designs
of jetted lace are longer stylish.
Black monkey skins with long hair, nat
ural brown beaver of light shade dark
sealskin and the long feecy black fox are
the fashionable material for the closely
fitted pelerine caps worn by young ladies.
The handsomest velvet costumes have
plain velvet for the basque, the front and
black draperies of the skirt, and the sleeves,
while the side panels covering the whole
side breadths are of the richest brocaded
velvet.
A favorite hat is the Obespierre, which
has high pointed crown, with wide brim,
np-turned on one side, on which is placed q
tuft of feather tips, and a wide band encir-
cles crown, with clasp in front as large as
waist clasp.
One authurity says that colored stockings
for the day, white silk for the evenings, with
colored shoes to match the dress, while for
home receptions it is en- regle for the host
ess to wear black satin boots or slippers,
with black silk stockings.
Lace ties worn around the throat are now
sometimes fastened on the left side by a
small cluster of satin ribbon loops. Lace
armlets, fastened by small, fancy buckle,
are worn above the elbow, with the very
short sleeves of ball dresses.
Evening dresses for young ladies are
made with short skirt OF creamy white
brocaded satin with Pompadour figures,
and pointed waist and panniers of white
nuns cloth, trimmed with bands of the bro
cade and white Barcelona lace.
Cashmere remains the proper material for
costumes intended to do double duty as
utility suits and demi-toilets. Such cos
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