Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-12-16
FASHION WRINKLES.
NEW KID BONNETS-THROAT Bows-usE OF
PLusH-FUR CAPEs - HANDSOME WALKING
DRESSEs-wlNTER DECORATIONS

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DREssEs-wlNTER DECORATIONS.
! MOST effective decoration Is made by the
use of scarlet japonica in combination with
green moss
VERY pretty whisk-broom baskets are made
In fishers Irvine, then gilded and trimmed
| with q ruching of colored ribbons
LILIES are out Of favor. They are no longer
in demand for the cOrsage. and are only used
In large set pieces, set pieces especially ordered
| for entertainments.
| PRIM ruffs are much worn. They are very
| high. and are fastened behind The received
! one is high enough for the dmplcd chin to rest
| upon.
TERRA-CoTTA bas-reefs showing studies Of
German peasants, noticeaby in the Child world,
are well brought out by being placed against
backgrounds of deep red or brown plush.
| NEW way to arrange ones initials on hand
kerchiefs is perpendcularly. after the Japanese
style. rather pretty effect is obtained, and
besides. novelty is always attractive.
THERE is no Happy medium in the fashionable
fan 1t is either extremely large or extremely
small. In the latter case it is usually of tor
| toise-shell. point lace amber.
HIGHLY FURNISHED brass trays are placed on
the library or boudor table. and are repositories
| for paper-knves, wax, and all the wonderful
etcetera used for reading or writing.
Doc collars of inch-wde black velvet are
again seem tiny buckle or a wee rosette is
used to hide the fastening. which is most secure
when small safety pin is used.
Plush is very much used now for everything
to combine with other materials for costumes
and even for pelisses and deni-pelisses. as we'll
as Tor vatican garments fringed with chenille.
| VERY dark tan-cOored uniressed kid gloves
are worn in the street with any costume. They
have loose wrists, and are as long as the gloves
fastened by twelve buttons.
SOME people will again wear combinations OF
blue and scarlet, brown and scarlet and green
and scarlet. The bright color is usually intro
duced in the sash: buttons, collar ami cuffs.
GRESADINE po!onaises, deliberately trimmed
with lace and ribbon. will be worn for full dress
over petticoats Of MORE. silk or velvet. The
faint shades of green. lavender and pink viii be
popular.
Tiny capOtes OF red currants cherries or
leaves will be liked during the winter for even
ing wear. The only garniturc is the broad rib
! bon used for the strings. which may match or
contrast. as desired.
AN exquisite nght-dress is made of white
foulard silk, trimmed with Spanish lace and
white satin flots. 1t is dream of beauty and
naturally makes one wonder what beauty will
dream of in it.
and are draped across the trent in many wrin-
kles and tied in a large bow with long ends at
the back. They are specially pretty with kilt
| Skirt and Jersey waist.
PRETTY lambrequlns are made of gray linen
for dinng-rOOm mantels and are decorated
with devices suited to the room; for instance a
cup and saucer. knife and fork antique bottles
and pitchers put Oh in outline embroidery are
| much used.
New stitch not unlike that 80 long known
as darnng stitch is used now for backgrounds
Designs are worked in long stitch upon Japanese
silk canvas. and the filling in the new stitch
gives an appearance of half relief to the work
when finished.
VERY small veil of white tulle is worn over
the fluffy front hair with small velvet bOnnets.
This veil does not always cover the forehead,
and is not a mask veil. but rather takes the
place of the invisible net formerly used to keep
the front hair smooth
SCRAP baskets are decorated with hangings of
crimson or deep brown plush which is inaid
with satin and vandyke. Each point is specially
ornamented with tassel of different colors,
| while the handles are covered with shaded rib
bOns.
PILLOW SLAMS are now made, if they are
used at all OtsquaTes OF linen with lace Insertions
The latest style is to make them of four hem
| stitched handkerchiefs. joining them together
lace cdglng.
BEAUTIFUL effects are obtained by the use of
colored ribbons upon white satin ground.
This Is in reality the very newest form of art
needlewOrk, and gives scope for great deal of
| individual taste. Cot quilts and cushion covers
are decorated in this way with much effect.
FROM the continued fancy for Mother Hub
bard designs it would seem as though the old
lady was the goddess of fashion herself. judy
ing by her treatment of her animal friend she
must have been kindly old dame and a desir-
able acquaintance.
THE newest throat bow is of colored China
Grape shirred in TIE center. and after the ends
are doubled in funnel-shape they are edged
with wide white lace either the darned Orien-
| tai lace or the Spanish with crescent or leaf
pattern. and this gives double trill of lace on
each end Of the bow.
SATIN RIBBON of three or four shades of straw
berry red or of terra Gotta, or blue and red to-
gether, or perhaps green with red, is formed
into a thicky clustered bow with the ends
notched in saw-teeth, and is worn high on the
| lett side OF the dress waist instead of bouquet
OF flowers.
AN authority says that English ladies prefer
the shorter dOlmans while fair Americans can
not have them too long. That is certainly true,
and most of the rich fur garments and those of
other materials trimmed with fur this winter
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the dress skirt.
DEMoREsr for January (now out) says that
the prettiest designs for quaint d'oyles are of
German origin. and are much preferred now to
those which were so long popular of Greenaway
figures. Some OF them are little grOtesQue:
for example. small boy holds dish which con-
tains fish as large as himself.
FUR capes are fashionable this winter and
sometimes they are large enough to reach below
the waist Seal paletots are more fashionable
than long jackets, but really brocades sicili-
ennes, Ottoman, plush and other fabrics, trim
med with fur, are more popular than the entire
garments of fur.
THE fronts of dresses are not only beaded in
fine JET but also In beads Of all colors and shades,
and with these embroidered apron fronts Pom
padour corssges and trains are worn. Plain
velvet and broche velvet are very popular, as is
also English velveteens. Skirts of the latter are
worn with satin cOrsages.
A WALKING SUIT recently brought to WASH
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