The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-09-14
Fashion Notes.
philadelphia News.l


Esthetic shades are out of style.
Black toilets are as much worn as ever.
The short, glace kid glove is thing of the
past.
Sits of rife green, tailor-made, will be
much worn.
zouave jackets are among the coming
styles.
Sleeves have a decided tendency to full
ness at the top.
Flounces pinked out on the ed ges are
again fashionable.
Seal brown suits, tailor finished, are very
fashionable.
Gay and severe styles of dress are equally
fashionable.
The knotted silk handkerchief is as much
used as ever.
Large collars and lace fichus are de rigueur
for full dress.
Fur trimmed pelisses will be worn as the
Velvet, plush and chenille are the leading
dress trimmings.
English jackets and jockey-cap bonnets
will be much worn.
Felt and velvet bonnets will be worn to
the exclusion of plush.
Pointed or tapering crowns for bonnets
are no longer fashionable.
New round hats have stiff, high crowns
and straight or rolling brims.
Pulled sleeves in Queen Mary lyle are
seen upon new French dresses.
Strong contrasts that are in harmony are
the features in winter millinery.
Colors as well as materials contrast in the
combinations of Paris costumes.
A limited amount of gold tinsel appears
In winter millinery and dress effects.
The long Newmarket coat and the New
market bonnet, jockey style, go together.
Heads, wings, breasts and crests of birds
are the favorite ornaments for fall hats.
The size of the tournure appears to be
regulated entirely by the fancy of the wear
er.
Crushed strawberry has lost caste; shot
blue and plum color having taken its place.
Wool batistes in checks and white and
black mixtures will be much worn this fall.
Wool dresses of beef-blood color braided
with black are favorites with London ladies.
Grays, browns and indefinite shades OF
blue or bIue-green bid fair to be very popu-
Elnbroideries on light wool fabrics are
done In The cross-stitches of old-fashfoned
samplers.
The fashion of mingling stripes and
checks IN one 7eAstume prevails, but it is not
admirable.
Ribbons, laces, and natural a>srers are the
ornaments that have taken the place OF lew
elry.
GRAY and brown in various shades are the
favorite colors for the new felt hats and bon
nets.
The Molier waistcoat end the blouse waist
worn under cutaway jackets, are favorite
Fall styles.
Horn and metal buttons covered with a
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dresses.
For travelling and utility suits for Fall
wear checkered and hair-lined flannels will
be much used.
Fancy-headed pins are used in place OF
brooches or lace pins to fasten the collar and
lace jabots at the throat.
Evening dresses entirely Of ecru lace, over
silk or surah of the same shade or else pale
pink, are very fashionable.
The popular colors for evening mitts and
gloves are pale pink, pale blue, flesh color,
mauve, cream and pure white.
A novelty in sideboards is a mahogany
one, with panels of Illuminated leather in
serted on either side of the back.
Mother Hubbard dresses are all the rage
at the moment for young girls in their teens,
but they are belted in at the waist.
The most elegant French dresses, made OF
the richest India, changeable Venetia and
Lyons silks, have blouse bodices and cuta-
way overjackets.
The frames of fine fans are of tortoise
shell, mother of pearl, black carved or brown
polished wood, sometimes vanished and or
namented with small pictures.
Plain linen bands are worn outside the
dress collar, some of them with a fall of lace
three inches wide gathered and set on to the
turned over upper edge.
White and cream colored dresses of Chi
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brown or cherry ribbons, are favorite COS
tunes of the Princess of Wales.
Among new Fall goods are woven tapestry
patterns with borders of antique designs and
in blocks, bars, checks and plads, the fab
ric rough but soft camel's-hair
Pale amber and gold beads, or those OF
pearl and gold, are used to outline silk en-
broideries on Grecian house robes and mat
inees of white albatross cloth or vigogue.
A recent novelty in screens consists in
the insertion of central piece in each pan.
ell of heavy cretonne, with a tapestry design
which is deeply bordered top and bottom by
plush.
In the matter of fancy jewelry the palm
may be awarded to spiders. Jet, sparkling
cut silver and jewelied spiders may be seer
by day and by night, in masses of lace, IL
bonnet strings, in bows.
"Colimacon,'' or 'Snail, /" is the euphoni
Gus Title bestowed upon new Idrlslal DOn'
net in bronze and gold, supposed to bear {
far-fetched resemblance to the animal OF
that name. Snail embroidery has for some
time past been used upon dresses, and snai
ornaments have decorated the crowns anC
brims of Paris-made bonnets.
The London Queen reports departure il
the style of skirts of young ladies' bal
COWS, the hitherto indispensable waterfall
drapery being replaced by skirts of tull'
and net arranged ballet-fashion in founce
of unequal length, which are trimmed will
perpendicular rows of satin ribbon fastened
lightly upon them, producing pretty ant
novel effect.
Letters from Paris say that the capot tie
gagged and protruding like an ancient Qua
ker's bonnet in front, is very popular. 1t i
trimmed with cockade bows of narrow rib
bon in two shades of color, such as pink ant
led, or light and dark blue; narrow strings
bridling the capote over the ears, are tie'
near the LETT ear. The fayorite colors OF tn
season are terra-cotta, old copper ant
crushed straw berry.