Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-10-28
Fashion Notes.


ed colors.
Pompon fringes appear among
trimming novelties.
Plain kilt and box pleated skirts
appear among other styles.
Hammered gilt beads edge the
brims of many stylish bonnets.
Most of the velvet and plush bon
nets are small or of medium size.
Marabout feather bands trim many
handsome cloaks and costumes.
Grape frills around the necks and
sleeves of dresses are late novelty.
Bonnets frequently have the crown
of one color, the brim OF another.
Ficelle gray and electric blue is an
admired combination for millinery.
Ruby red velvet forms the dressiest
sacques for little people of either sex.
The newest shade OF gray blue
takes the name of night-of-France
blue.
Plush ribbons with ottoman repped
backs appear on many dressy bon
nets.
Plush and velvet Scotch caps will
be much worn 10y children and school
girls.
An eccentric fancy edges the brims
of dark velvet bonnets with clear
amber beads.
Strawberry red in several shades
makes an admired combination for
evening dress.
House wrappers and morning neg
iigees take the form of Japanese aud
Turkish robes
Plaids are worn by women who af
feet English styles; they are not
generalll becoming.
The wearing of red and green to-
gether is revived, but both e0lors
must be in subdued tones.
Pompadour designs and stripes ap.
pear In the new evening silks intend,
ed for the dressiest toilets.
Raspberry-and-cream color rivals
strawberry as a popular color fol
millinery and evening dress.
Full lace jabots, reaching from the
neck to the point of the bodice, will
be worn with dressy indoor costumes
Blue and red cloth Delisses, with
shoulder capes, are the fayorite wraps
for little people, both boys and girls.
The bouffant tournure draperiesas
now worn give all women very un-
symmetrical aud even ludicrous fig
ures.
Flax gray wool dresses, worn with
NO Ia mini friy mr. a., q l..
fancy introduced by Sarah Bern
hardt.
The latest fancy for neck lingerie
IS to unite several cOlors in the rib /
bon bows that mingle with the laces
at the throat.
Every lady should have a plush
jacket in black, seal brown, or some
other color which will harmonic
with any kind Of skirt,
The fancy work of the moment is
the crOtcheting Of lcele-cOlOred
Irvine or unbleached cotton into col
lars and cuffs for dresses.
Dressy cloth suits are tailor finish
ed, and then made effective with
handsome soutache embroideries and
"a b4oblN NiOLCiINb buCbOliN
Ficelle lace is more worn on the
other side than in New York. There
it is combined with all kinds of laces,
black, white, and cOlored.
Plaids of all kinds, sombre, gay,
and aesthetic colOrs, are worn for
skirts with jackets of solid-colored
plush, silk, cloth, or novelty goods.
Small boys are given white pique
suits for the warm days of fall, over
which is worn red cloth sacque and
red feZ or Tam o. Shanter cap.
1t is not unusual to see a Delhi or
Camel'S hair shawl utilized as part of
the underskirt of a dressy carriage
costume This is a Partisan fancy.
Satin piping, put on as soutache
embroidery, or in passe- menterie
braids, appears on some of the hand
soonest imported dresses at the Co
operative Dress Association.
Celine Montaland, upon her depar-
ture for Russia from Paris, was clad
in black velvet and ficelle gray satin;
thereupon black velvet and gray sat
in cOnfeCtiOns have become q caprice
of hundreds Of Parisians.
Velours ottoman is the novelty for
brides dresses, its repped texture
forming either the entire dress, or
else the train and side robes or pan
iers, looped backed from a satin bead
embroidered or brocaded front
breadth.