The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-11-25
FOR THE LADIES.
Fashions Fancies Out.D
Costumes.
New York Evening Post !


come between. There is wide choice. and
the shapes differ quite a. much as do The
skins. Some women like to show trim
waist. IL they have the luck 10 possess n
and these wear capes reaching inst below
the shoulders. with a pair of very long fur
cuts reaching nearly TO the elbow. for adj.
ditional warmth and as a fitting accomnani-
ment. Other capes come TO the waist.
some reach below tit is purely mat
ter OF individual choice. Earlier i'm
the season it was thought proba-
BILE that capes with shouder-pieces
let in to simulate the high pointed sleeve.
now so fashionable, would alone find favor.
but this has not proved the case, for though
MANY are so cut they are decidedly In the
minority. A lady recently walked down
| Fourteenth street, i'm this city, wearing an
exceptionally high-shouldered cape. the
points nearly reaching to her ears. Around
her throat was a high Medici collar OF fur.
and upon her head she wore an Alsatian
hat OF the same fur, the conicaI crown I'M
usually tall and sharply pointed. and de-
void OF trimming save two stiff feathers
standing upright on each side the crown.
A more gr0tesque object II would be- i'm
possible to imagine. Shoulder capeS pro-
per, however, are becoming TO everybody
except short. stout women. ard these a
shaggy pelerine viii transform into tub
like dwarf giantess.
The chill winds from the north has ne
ceSsitated the DOMINIC OF comfortable cold
weather attire, and II Is well Just now to
have complete new out door costume
| from head TO foot made OF some liyht WOOL
len material, which may be worn far into
| tho RNinfar sDai, b,,o l. -
upon the promenade, and the bright warm
colors are far more suitable ana becoming,
albeit there is Just now a tendency toward
the grayS and fawns in their many tones
aud semi-tOnes. There are exhibited this
| season an almost endless variety OF brilliant
and bright fabric. from which 10 choose
fabrics not only soft to the touch. finely
woven, novel i'm design and stylish i'm elect.
but so wonderfully low in price also as
to make it the easiest matter i'm the
world for the most moderately circum-
Stanced people 10 present Just as good
an appearance as their rich neighbors-
provided they can make their own dresses.
| The purchasing Of a dress nOw-a-days is
only the small beginning OF great and
serious end. Buying dress pattern is one
! thing; having it made and trimmed is quite
ilUliiils IT. W ~ lHNltilIfil W lUt hfllfl ll~l
summer by IA gay society girl, who laugh
| ingly held up pale violet muslin. for
which she had paid for the material alone
just ST. but the bill her dressmaker sent in
| for a very " Frencby Choking costume
she certainty made from the airy muslin
was as follows: Lace to trim dress, Sl2;
making OF same, Sl4. No wonder the girl
or woman OF limited means who has the
| .s;ff Of .ln.ifr,,fpor
| turing her own costumes, and often her
own trimmings, can afford to dress in
manner rs stylish and elegant as that OF the
wives and daughters OF our merchant
princes and money kings.
The small, close-titting capOte Of velvet,
plush, or drawn satin, so dear to the hearts
OF all French women, is too becoming and
| too elegant bonnet not To be retained in
| the first ranks OF fashion. Ii is shape
suitable for the most elaborate toilet a. for
the most simple-for the theatre as for
church or for travelling wear. But these
bonnets, though small, should be large
enough to fit the head gracefully and com.
| fOrtably. When too little their elegance
and good effect are completely DESTROYED,
as they make the head and face look dis
proportiOnately large. For larger bOnnets.
| ld>lliOll II dEilil llhN UdbhMdiu, anu
the raised fronts OF the Restoration and
Louis Philippe times are being worn. The
square crowns are OF medium height. and
some OF the open, raised brms permit OF
trimming underneath them, these being
bouillOnnes " OF SATIN or velvet, or some
times punches OF soft feathers at one side,
and a long plume under the front, up-
parently resting on the hair. This garni-
ture OF feathers on a delicate opera-bonnet
is wonderfully becoming.
Pointed trimmings OF all kinds are meet
ing with marked favor, and many silk, vel
vet, and satin plastrons, reyers, panels,
and walstcoats for GETAWAY bodces are
now in the course OF preparation 10 wear
combined with elegant eyening-dresses OF
contrasting material Young ladies who
have taste for it are busily engaged in
printing sprays OF tiny flowers upon yards
and yards OF three-inch satin ribbons,
these to be caught up in loops, and 10
droop in long ends amid the folds Of the
skirt drapery. For dancing and fancy
dress wide sasheS are decorated to CORE
spond. \ more delicate and still more
beautiful work is that OF painting lace,
bit Of artistic occupation requiring tie
incest care, the truest eye to the blending
daintiest and deftest OF fingers.
Gray, there is no doubt, will continue to
be the fashionable color this winter.
Gray-tender. melancholy, severe, Quaker.
silver. dove, nun's-gray, in all tones and
shades. from the somewhat dlngy tint very
appropriately called "I.ondon smoke" to
the pretty blush gray christened by the
French people "pschutt." Every day
20 n1I inf nj
name to the list OF grays. Crepuscule"
said TO be the last shade, though, no doubt,
while this fact is being chrOnicled some
enterprising chemist or manufacturer l.
mixing a little more :" smoke color aud
little less blue i'm his dye, and is looking
through his French dictionary to find an
other name to call it by. Everybody just
now, that the skies are sIlllen and sad and
the weather chilly, is wearing gray walk
ing-garb OF some sort, thus adding 10 the
neutrality of things in general, instead OF
mitigating the prevailing drabneSs peeu-
liar TO the late autumn season by DOMINIC
the brightest OF colors. Among other gray
tnts is a very ugly one about the color OF
zinc. This most unbecOming, most TRY
ing" OF shades is, for some reason past
finding ont, the one chosen by brides in
general for either wedding or travelling
dress. Nobody short OF Venus can put
on zine-colored dress aud expect TO look
pretty In Ii.
Pink will be fashionable again this win
ter, and for an opera dinner was made re-
Gently basque OF pink silk plush, exqui-
sitely soft and delicate, over skirt OF she'll
pink merveilleuX. The square bodice was
outlined with pink feathers, and interiorly
with standing ruflle OF fine Mechlin lace.
A necklace OF pink-tpped shells with re-
versible wire setting was worn with this
dress, and gloves TO the shoulder.
Rose balls are in favor this winter among
some society circles. They are composed