The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-02
LADIES DEPARTMENT.
Fashion Notes.

Trimmings and draperies, edged with
chenille, produce a rich effect.
Blouse waists for children and young
girls never go entirely out of fashion.
Bonnet crowns completely shingled
with small feathers will be much worn.
Broad bands in Roman gilt with
centre ornaments are used for the front
Of turbans.
Fairy floss and pompadour wool are
the most popular materials for opera
hoods and evening fascinators.
Long French redingotes for street
wear are made of stockinet, or Jersey
webbing, and trimed with wide bands
of fur
The French are combining drab and
bottle-green, and with bright accesso-
ries these shades make very attractive
costumes.
The picturesque quaintness of chill
dren's dresses, so popular during the
summer and fall, is still more empha-
sized this winter.
The newest turbans of folded cloth
or velvet are without brims, the folds
reaching down to the hair, and are
without trimming.
The blouse waistcoat in colored
Surah on costumes of velvit and OF
toman silk is favorite and beautiful
style for little girls.
A silk handkerchief, close around
the throat, inside the wrap, is the
proper neckwear with a sealskin jacket,
or fur-lined garment.
Brocaded flounces, with the figures
of velvet raised on repped silk, are the
elegant trimmings for the fronts OF
trained dresses of silk or velvet.
Black is the fashionable color for
stockings, both for ladies and children,
and black slippers and stockings are
worn for full dress, whatever the color
of the toilet.
Wooden embroideries, executed with
fine English crewels, initiate Decca
shawl work, but are much finer. The
oldest have picturesque resemblances to
animals here and there among the
arabesque patterns.
Small ostrich tips of pale colors are
worn by matrons in full evening or
dinner toilette this season, a costly
jewel ornament holding the quilts in
place. A great deal of rich white lace
is worn.
Floral buckles are used to catch up
the folds of the drapery of evening
dresses. These buckles are large and
square, and are made Of cardboard COW
cred with silk; small flowers are then
sewed thickly upon them.
Gold tinsel lace trims pulled white
tulle skirts of ball dresses. The puffs
of lace arranged alternately form the
skirt over its silk lining. The pointed
waist is Of gold-colored satin edged at
the neck and sleeves with lace.
Some stylish boots of tan-colored
brocaded velvet have foXings of bronze
kid. Nearly all dress fabrics are con-
sidered suitable for the tops of but
toned boots, and each dress has its own
pair of shoes where the coat is not an
objection.
The most fashionable belts worn
with house dresses are quite narrow,
and have long, slender buckles of ham,
mered silver, or else of steel overlaid
with a delicate vine of tinted metals.
Buckles of Guadamacile leather are
worn upon the ribbed silk betting which
comes with Paris dresses.
For general wear, button boots con-
tinue to be made of French kid, and
have either foXings of enamelcd leather
or they are of the one material through
out For wet weather there are strong
walking boots of pebble goat with
white sole distinguishing the English
make, and red showing American man
ufacture.
Artificial Eyebrows Sewed TO the skin.
AT certain factory Il number of
young women were working at small
tables, each table covered with little
instruments and things, the like of
which l had never seen before. At one