Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-12
Fashion Notes.

Inc English turDan Is very popular
hat this season
Delicate nuns gray kid sandals are
worn with home toilets, over silk stock
ings of pale lilac, black. or dark red.
Charlotte Corday cloaks of golden
fawn -colOred cashmere. lined with deep
cardinal, are the latest of stylish and
elegant travelling wraps.
Spanish jewelry, showing large leaves
and flowers tinted in their natural col
ors, and studded with tiny diamonds
and pearls, is just now in high vogue.
Nuns gray cashmere or cloth of the
finest quality and golden brown velvet
are Eeautiful combined in walking
dresses and carriage costumes lately
sent over from Paris.
Golden fawn-colored French cash.
mere, trimmed with panels, rcvers,
shoulder-cape, and pockets of dark
Russian green velvet, forms novel and
elegant carriage-dress of WOrth's late
designing.
The newest brocaded ottoman silks
are in designs of fruits and trailing
vines, and the scissors of the dressmak.
ers will make as great havoc with
apples, plums, apricots. hops. nastur-
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last season with the heads of beasts and
birds.
Cachemere pattern bands are quite in
favor, and are likely to be more so a.
the autumn advances. Most of these
imported Indian trimmings. with dress
fabrics en- suite, are of sufficiently high
price to add considerable value to the
possession of a toilet of this kind. These
rich Oriental trimmings are employed
only on dark dresses or those of neu.
trial tint
Rumor reaches America that the most
fashionable ladies of Paris are going
from one extreme to the other in the
matter of the shape of the sleeve, and
that the very close-fittlng style will, in
measure at least, give way 10 full
flowing one. The '.pagoda'' and ian.
ger sleeves are to be worn, as well as
the artistic ''Vandyke" and leg-o'-mut.
ton shapes. Puifed sleeves are to be in
varied styles, and sleeve-distender an6
''arm-improvers" are TO be worn with
sleeves cut close up the shoulder and
puff at the elbow
Where to 90 and what to wear in
great measure hang together, and the
choice of dresses Just now must depend
entirely on the places where the coming
weeks are TO be spent, and the state
of the weather. As regards the latter.
we are told to prepare for the season."
but how we are to do this is question.
when one moment there blows a pene-
trating north wind that chills the very
blood in ones veins, and the next comes
June breeze, calling again for dis.
carded muslins, linen busters and soda
water.
One of the newest of the fashionable
corsages for autumn wear is made of
black velvet, open, over waistcoat of
black satin, heavily embroidered in
black silk floss. 1t faStens at the throat
by knot of black satin ribbon match
ing the vest. The back fits the figure
closely, ending in a position basque,
but IN front it is loose-fitting over the
waistcoat, which is closed BY row OF
small jet buttons set very closely togeth-
er. The sleeve is close and small, with
full puff at the top, and buttoning ur
the back of the arm nearly to the ef
bow. This cOrsage is to be worn over
skirts of any description, particularly
those of silk or brocade.
Autumn nantes of a dressy STYLE are
made either in the visite shape, with sash
drapery in the back, or in modified Hub
bard shape, these lined with deep Vene.
tian red and trimmed with satin and
lace, the favorite material of the wrar
being a fine quality of black vigogne.
These shapes seem likely TO continue in
fashion through the autumn, while the
stylish French redingote is preferable
for fabrics of heavier description. The
black satin pelisse, lined with bright.
colored surah and trimmed with real
spanish lace, shell plaitings. and fiots
of black satin ribbon, or with broad
bands of jet-beaded applique work,
forms an elegant transition from the
light summer wrap to the heavy winter
cloak.-N y Posi-.