The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-11-24
TIE DAILY Argus.
FASHION NOTES

Some of the latest imported French
polonaises have Louis XIV. waistcoat
and pockets covered with colored silk EN-
broidery.
Jaunty soft English hats, much resem
bling those worn by gentlemen. are {
passing novelty for ultra fashionable youns
ladies.
There is an attempt to restore flowers
to favor as garniture for bonnets instead
OF the feathers that have so long been in
favor
The furore for gros- grain silk has ex-
tended to trimmings ana rash bons:
skirt loopings and bows in 'srepped eff
fects' are now more used than satin
fabrics
1t does not seem to be definitely under
stood that the hustle is not intended to be
worn with the scant skirt, and in conse-
quence. anumber of fearfuly and wonder
fully made young women are seen wad-
ding along the streets
There are only two furs successful in
maintaining their identity in these days of
imitation and sham-the lynx and sable.
Even chinchilla is so c-everly initiated that
it takes an expert to tell the genuine from
the spurious
large white marabout feathers, mounted
with heads and breasts of tiny tropical
birds of brilliant plumsge. The contrast
to the pure ffeecy white of the marabout
and the gorgeous coloring of the mount is
very striking and beautiful.
Princesse dresses in royal blue velvet
are fashionably worn for reception toilets.
They have the Medici collars, FeUers, and
deep cuffs deliberately embroidered blue
jet. Plum colored velvet dresses in the
same style have embroideries worked in
amber and ruby beads.
Velvet this season shares the honor Of
preference, being in greater vogue than
plush for elegant street costo mes. This
fact, however, does not prevent the latter
material from being extensively worn, as a
rush upon the market of plush, and rise
in the fashionable value of velvet, have
greatly lessened the price of plush, which
last year in best qualities was beyond the
limits of the ordinary purse.
The New York Eceaing Post says: Lit
tie capote bonnets, already covered with
velvet and ready for trimming. can now
be bought for sums so small that lady
having any taste or skill in the millinery
line can own a head dress to- match her
several costumes without being in any way
extravaganza. These elegant little bonnets
come in every fashionable shade of color.
and require but little adornment beyond
cluster of satin loeps and two or three os-
trich tips gracefully arranged.
The New York Express and Mat1 of
November 20 says: The latest bonnets
for day receptions and theatres are velvet
and flowers. Fashion, proverbially tickle
goddess. now returns to her forgotten
beauties, and decks with the faint lilies
and fair roses of summer the bonnets
chosen to be worn under the glare of gas
light in mid winter The great loose leav-
ed esthetic flowers are favorites Nastur-
tium's wall flowers. crushed
roses, and wild eglantine
are especially popular for garniture.
The evening bonnet this season is very
small, being scarcely larger than huge
Alsatjan bow, yet this tiny head-gear is as
ornate and exquisite and even more costly
than the great, picturesque pokes which
were worn last summer. The small hat
is dantily made of velvet in crushed
strawberry, shrimp pink, Simla, or cadet
blue 1t is not generally known that this
color is of Indian origin, being an inter
mediate dye used by the natives to render
other colors fast The army blue is found
in Indian goods, while the French blue
tints are never seen. These artistic colors
are seen in the plainly covered crown of
the tiny bonnet, while the brim of the hat
is of fine flowers. A dark red velvet bon
net has a brim of fine white flowers. 4
bonnet of dark sapphire blue has brin OF
pale blue forget me-nots. Some OF the
latest French bonnets, against the folly
and extravaganza of which newspapers
and even pulpits have raved from the days
of the Spectator TIL now, are extremely
plain in their ppearance-innocent bits
of dark crimson velvet with cluster of
wild roses low at one side and strings of
pink crape-but they sell at no less than
$50. Some rich bonnets of dark velvet
have a bow of null heavily embroidered
with white silk in fashy pattern. The
mingIing of silver or gold bullion with
black velvet is seen on bonnets for elderly
ladies, and a cluster of three tips low at
one side, which seems to have been dipped
in gold or siIyer,is pretty addition to such