Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-01-27
FASHION WRINKLES

| THE NEW sLEEvEs-rHE TWEED NOVELTIES
| RECONsTRUCTING DRESSES - MANTLES AND
| sACQuEs. ETC.
| Louis QUINzE shoe buckles are now used in
Paris to fasten collars as we'll as belts
THE sleeve is now made prominent feature
| OF the dress by such mOdistes as Worth and
| Pingat.
THE Persian cloaks introduced last year are
sold this season for half the price they brought
then They did not prove popular.
THE newest turbans Of folded cloth or velvet
are without brims. the folds reaching down to
the hair. and are without trimming.
MONTE CLOTH scarfs for bureaus are made at
tractive by having strips Of colOred ribbon en-
bro.dered with floss placed across the ends.
! CHANDELIERS are now said to be out of
| fashion, and it is expected that light will be
| thrown from the corners of the room from
| bracket fixtures.
| MANY handsome pelisses long coats and loose
cloaks have merely q band of fur or Of feathers
around the neck and down the front. leaving
| the lower edge untrimmcd.
BLACK satin does not lose its prestige, as was
predicted it would in the early part of the
| season. The best quality makes the lOveliest of
| UiCSSVS ioi utI anu evening wear.
RATTAN fOotstoos are novelty for parlors.
| They are much the shape of Inverted workbas-
kets and are decorated with dark satin ribbons
| ana BOWS to match the color of the furniture
| ADELIcATE dress of pale green tule, over the
same tint IN satin, is trimmed with water lilies.
| Dark red roses are worn with the new pale
| green.and fine tipped black shoes, over silk hose
| to match.
\ 10 On v-nuinr Of
colored satin and China Grape, with steel and
silk fringes and embroideries. which looks in an
| Illuminated room like moving mass of small
| electric lights.
| CHENILLE is among the seasons fashionable
trimmings and figures largely in fringes mingled
| with gold and gold beads. Meetings. Of chenille
/ are worn as Overskirts in white with pearl beads
and in all cOlOrs.
| FLOrNCED MUSLIN PETTICOATs with trains are
made for full dress, dinner and evening toilets,
as well as with separate trains which can be
worn with different skirts. Boufant costumes
are fast superseding the clingng scanty skirts
| OF the present.
| To WEAR with dresses which have officers
collars there are bronze, gold and sve r
| brooches. in Egyptian and ANTIQUE designs.
| The two side pieces are in the same conceits
and they are secured the one to the other by
hOOkand-eye.
RECENTLY decoration for towels and napkins
| has taken this form: The threads are drawn out
at regular intervals. and then a design is worked
In the lnterstices in cOlOred threads either in
herringbOne, buttOnhOle or chain stitch, or by
simply Oyercasting.
AMONG the new materials for spring are the
Tweed novelties, with solid grounds and checked
surfaces. One piece shows a ground of olive
another in bronze. with check in rich red and
tbnr in Ina hoe
dinal gold and pale blue.
The ORIANA COSTUME, one of DemOrest's
models for February, is very elegant for combi-
nations of silk. satin or Ottoman, with plush.
velvet or velveteen. This is particularly appro-
pirate for spring wear as the jacket supplies
the place of a heavier wrap.
MANTLEs are, like bOnnets, either immense or
quite small rounded in front, loOped up at the
back. covered with passementere and ribbons
dlgnified pesses-lOng visites wrapping up the
1gure entirely, with rich lining and over
loaded with ornaments of all sorts.
BLACK stockings are most in favor at present,
IN wool. cotton and satin alike; terra Gotta
shades are next in favor. Ladies who wear
silk stockings all the year choose those of raw
silk woven In ribs for street wear In the winter
Black and red are the preferred cOlors.
NECKLACES and lockcts are entirely out of
except on full dress occasions is the silver col
larette, high and close. like a dog collar. For
full dress there is the merest thread of q gold
chain, with ianciful pendant or an artistic
cameo.
SATIN RIBBON of three or four shades of
strawberry red, or terra Gotta or blue and red
together, or perhaps green with red, is formed
into a thick clustered bow with the ends
notched in saw teeth, and is worn high on the
left side Of the dress waist instead Of bouquet
Of flowers.
PLAQUES OF HAMMERED METAL are mounted
on deep-tOned velvets. and then framed with
narrow headings OF ebOnized work. The most
popular designs are Moorish or Arabesque.
Those who are in the secret of such things as
| sert that Moorish designs are to be universally
adopted in decorations
In reconstructing dresses some change must
| be made in the length and width of the skirt
| back to allow for the panier hustle, which takes
up two or three inches. and therefore II the
skirt is left as it was cut last spring. even all
| round. the extension would make it appear con-
s1derably shorter In the extreme back than in
the front.
GREEN with red remains one Of the most
popular contrasts for house toilets, and is seen
in very dark green ottoman silk. with the vest
front of skirt and facings of dull red brocade.
either of satin or of velvet while for full dress
occasions there are dresses of the palest leaf
green brocade, with rose pink ottoman silk and
white lace trimmings.
SLEEVES are prettily and inexpensivey fin
ished at the wrist by having the upper half
slashed twice and leaving the lower seams open
also. thus making two battlemented squares.
The white lace worn at the wrists must be gath
cred inside into two very full fris, one deeper
than the other. and the upper one pulled out
through the slashes.
SEAL SAcoUEs are more than ever popular.
and are less in size and shape, in the latter in
stance following the waist a little more closely.
The seal is of all furs the very last to bear III
| treatment. and people who buy them for eco
nomical reasons have cause to find that they