The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-09
LADIES' DEPARTMENT,


Black matelasse is much used in
mourning dress.
Sicilienne warmly wadded is chosen
for redingotes.
The hair may be arranged either
high or low, as suits the face.
Heavy ribbed silk is the most elegant
material for wraps for old ladies.
Myrtle, white roses, lilies and lilacs
divide favor with orange blossoms as
bridal flowers.
The adoption of velvet for evening
dress has led to its being used largely
for bridal toilets.
Lace ruches, high in the throat, re-
main the favorite lingerie of ladies with
long, slender necks.
Full and bouffant trimmings, ruches,
shells, and puffs, adorn the bottom of
many fashionable skirts.
Black lace ruches and cascades and
black lace draperies for skirts are much
In favor for elderly ladies.
The most fashionable slippers have
very short toes, and straps high on
the instep, which tie with very broad
ribbon.
Rag-carpet bonnets appear among
the late styles. The plush in this style
of goods is mostly used for the small
bonnets.
The most stylish round hats are tip
tilted over the forehead, the Langtry
and the odd-looking Phrygian cap being
favorites.
Kilt and box-plaited velvet skirts are
worn, although the plain skirt with
heavy ruche at the bottom is more gen.
orally accepted.
Surah satins, with grounds of pale
primrose, brocaded with four-o'- clocks,
are much used for matinees, made up
in Louis XIV. style.
The regular brooch is again in style
In these round pins flowers are initiated
both as regards color and shape, in
tinted gold and enameled metals.
The new shakes of blue, electric, co
bait, royal, brakes neck, sapphire, hus-
sar, gentian, and Presbyterian are all
to be found in gloves and hosiery.
Wide, STRAIGHTFORWARD sailor hats
of plush or velvet, having the crowns
completely covered with short, fluffy
ostrich tips, are very much worn by
young girls in their teens.
The plain waists and sleeves of dresses
which have been so long admired
and universally adopted, have giver
way to immense frills, shirrings an(
puffs.
The rufus which are so generally
worn at present were in fashion in thu
time of Henry III. They were ther
an adjunct to masculine dress; they
now hold their place in lady's ward
robe.
Little girls velvet costumes ar,
made with very full plain skirts gauget
deep over the hips and a blouse waist
These waists are fastened down tn
front with straps and buckles.
Lace jabots are worn around tn
neck and down the front to the bottom
of the bodice. They are caught at tn
neck with diamond pin, and to tn
left is clustered huge corsage boquet
Pale women of small stature, if the
do not wish to appear absurd, shoul
avoid flashing diamonds and wea
pearls, turquoise, opals, green chalct
dony, amethysts or even amber, any G
which as ornaments will be found ia
more becoming.
A very pretty walking dress is mad
of dark green repped goods of sol
, WOOL The skirts are ottached to
Jersey bodice, the front of which
, braided in military style in raised d,
} sign, which is broad just below tn
: throat and then narrowing gradual
: until it reaches point just below tn
waist. Here it meets with wide d
. sign in the braiding, which extend
| from hip to hip. The effect is very b
5 coming to slender figures. The bodi'
l buttons down the back. The clos
s sleeves are braided nearly to the elbo,
@ The skirt is edged with wide ruch
q above which are broad, upright DO
v plaits long enough to reach to the sea
r of twill, which is draped just beneat
q the braiding above described.
Royal Cradles.
/ The lately-born infanta of Spai
y Mary Theresa Ysabel, sleeps, wax