The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-12-03
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Small bonnets are preferred to large ones
Very rough wool cloths are conspicnou
among the new winter goods.
A polonaise for winter wear will have ,
full waist, to be worn with belt.
Turin slippers Of black satin, with brigh
facings, are worn with white dresses.
Gray and dark green and blue and ambe
are Worth's latest freaks in the combina
ton Of colors.
Delicate nuns' gray kid eandals are worr
with homo toilets over silk stockings Of pale
lilac, black or dark red.
Artificial flowers have disappeared al
garniture for ball dresses, and feather
have largely taken their place.
The newest bags shown in the Paris
shapes are Of immense size, and indicate Q
return Of the reticule Of three generations
ago.
Ottoman ribbon and satin ribbon, with
q pearl edge, are used by the Partisan
dressmakera TO trim cashmeres and nuns
yelling.
Plating the skirt drapery on the waist,
in order to make II look as Greek as pos
sible, Is recent fancy developed by Pa
risian modisies.
Charlotte Corday cloaks OF golden iawn.
colored cashmere, lined with deep cardinal,
are the latest Of stylish and elegant travel
ing wraps.
Figured sash ribbons are plentiful, but
figured bonnet ribbons promise to be pat
ronizsd only by way Of exception 10 the
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ed with circles or lozenges Of velvet or
single leaves.
The newest brocaded Ottoman silks are
in designs Of fruits and trailing vines, and
the scissors OF the dressmakers will make
as great havoc with apples, plume, apricots,
hops, nasturtiums, grapes and the like, as
they did last season with the heads Of
beasts and birds.
One OF the most effective short dresses
for calling is of very rich dark-blue silk,
cut in squares and lined with gray Otto.
man elk, over q box-plaited hounce Of
dark. blue velvet. The habit bodice was Of
silk, with velvet collar lined with Ottoman
and trimmed with very thick and soft
chenille pendant fringe. .
With the revival OF low necks, the in
terest in necklaces has become great.
With trimmings OF irredescent beads, or
Turkish Or Indian embroidery, ordinary
necklaces and even diamonds do not look
well; and more artistic styles Of wrought
silver, co!ored or oxydizsd, and showing
antique forms and cabalistic signs, are pre-.
ferred by women oil taste.
Fur.lined circular cloaks have met with
sudden revival this season, probably be.
cause they have been industriously worked
up; for they are costly and only desirable
as wraps. Fifty and sixty dollars ia the
price asked for good fur-lined circular Of
ottoman ailk, with lining OF dark gray,
well-prepared squirrel that will not shed
it's coat upon wooden dress or any dress.
Cloaks and nantes are shorter than last
year, and arranged with iullness in the
bach, where they are held in by an interior
belt over the tournure. The NANTES have
no sleeves, es the name implies, and the
cloaks, which partake OF the dolman shape,
show nothing at all n " except tendency
toward simpler torms-or, for example,
the paletot, which has already been re.
viyed, and will undoubtedly be one Of the
leading shapes in velvet next year.
Corded Sicilienne is made up into
cheaper cloaks and lined with inferior fur F.;
but this Is not pure silk, and wears gray
and shabby as well as shiny, and is alto
gether very poor purchase. Much better
would 1t be to get warm, furry (inside)
beaver cloth, best quality. Make up 10
| long Hungarian or dolman style, put on
border and collar Of silk plush, and face
sleeves and front with twilled surah. Such
cloak can be made for SIS, and will out.
wear two sicilienne circulars.
The mufis are small and always CORES.
pond to the garment or fur trimming used
| 10 complete the rest OF the costume. Seal,
natural or dyed beaver, and black or gray
fox are the mcst used, and are more fash
ionably employed than those that are made
10 match suits. A cloth suit trimmed with
| fur and muF to match Is an economy that
| Is only an economy when hcme made, and
that does not pay for specializing at the
hands OF high. priced modiste, but such q
suit Is always lady.like, whether fashions
bic or not The fancy muffs, too, have
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