Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-12-02
LADIES' DEPARTMENT.


Langtry bonnets, gloves and slippers
are the rage.
Roman striped silks are used for full
dress occasions.
Gilt and amber beads border new
French hats and bonnets.
Arabesques of Satouchc are the lead
ing jacket and wrap garnitures.
Fancy feathers of every description
are the rage for millinery use.
Telegraph, huzzar, electric and royal
are four very popular shades of blue.
Royal cardinal jackets are very
fashionably worn over black skirts Of
silk, satin, or cashmere.
Scarlet cloth, with eider-down woven
in it, is light and comfortable fabric
for winter underskirts.
Round and oval-shaped brooches are
imported now that every lady is sup
piled with long, slender lace-pins.
White felt poke bonnets trimmed
with white uncut velvet, white feathers
and some gilt braid, are worn by young
ladies.
Ruby, very dark plum color, and
golden brown are the shades most in
vogue for velvet costumes for the
promenade
The coming of the Jersey Lily" has
largely increased the sale in America
of the Jersey bodice, whose popularity
she long ago inaugurated in London.
The Oriental cloakings most fashion
able this winter are of mixed silk and
worsted in fine camels-hair shawl de-
signs and of rich and subdued coloring.
The leg of-mutton sleeves have not
proved successful, but the close coat
sleees are now slightly cushioned at
the top to lift them above the arm
hole.
Copper-colored silk and velvet COM
bination dresses are among the most
stylish of the season. Embroidery on
velvet and multi-colored beaded gimps
are the trimmings.
Plaids of every description-Roman,
Tartan, Oriental and Swiss--in- every
shape and size-are worn for skirts,
with over-jackets Of velvet or plush In
monochrome color.
Recently, decoration for towels and
napkins has taken this form : The
threads are drawn out at regular inter-
walls, and then design is worked in
the interstices in colored threads either
in herring-bone, button-hole, or chain
stitch, or by simply overcasting.
A new stitch is in use which is a
sort of combination of feather and
cross-stitch, and is very effective upon
canvass. This consists in working
stitches of varying length into and be-
tween each other, in every alternate
one the thread being passed under the
needle in such a way as to produce a
chain-stitch.
Ribbon forms quite an important
feature in needle-work to-day. Raised
effects are produced by gathering rib
bon about an inch wide at intervals
and then forming it into the shape of
bud or flower and laying it with few
invisible stitches in the center of a
round of plush or velvet. Very pretty
scarps for the piano are made in or
binary muslin, with such raised work
in ribbon carried out at the ends.
4 Fashionable shoemaker - wsmcn's
Feet.
"The feet of Americans are, as a
rule, of smaller and lighter build than
the feet of Englishmen, and have moro
arch and higher insteps. worked in
the best London shops before coming
to this country, and I know there are
plenty of big feet among the English
aristocracy. The feet of the American
ladies are smaller than those of Eng
lish ladies, but the American ladies
are apt to distort their feet in a way
that English ladies do not. Now, by
rights the last on which shoe Is made
ought to be three sizes larger than the
foot. There are four sizes 20 an inch,
SO that would give three-quarters Of
an inch room to the foot. An English
woman will take such measurement,
but if you make shoes in that way for
American ladies you will have them
left on your hands. You cannot make
the shoe more than from size and a
half to two sizes above the exact length
of the foot. Anything can get my
foot in can wear they say, and SO we
give plenty of width between heel and