Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-12-20
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
Drcsslike Gioaks--Bunchings- Toileties--
srranging the neutrality-suspicious.
December Notes.

NEW YORK, December 18th, 1888
The complexion taken on by newly
imported cloaks gives broad hint of the
way we are travelling. A way of putting
and punching. Dresses are pulled and
punched, and cloaks to be worn over
them must tahe character therefrom.
Many are fitted in to the waist, appar-
emily to show off Increasing cornplica-
tons below, while skirt-like plaitings
and combinations, rot only of material
but colors, render these new garments
dress-like in the extreme. In dresses
the chosen field for bunchings and puff
ings is the upper half of the skirt, and
here such fantastic tricks are played as
might put the Heather Chinee to the
blush. For slender bellies seasenable
refuge, but for the plump causing nor
rid complications. punching in the first
degree is an affair of magnitude. The
catching up of four or five breadths of
train in single or double pouf at the
back is feature, yet train is by no
means necessary for bunch. Far from
it, and numerous short costumes show
pufflngs on the upper half of skirts that
to say the least result in curiosities of
contour. Our sole consolation Is that
adoption Of these styles is not obligatory
| Even the sober-minded however are be-
ginning to wonder if their drapery stands
out enough in the back, and call in bus
ties to their aid; the newest and best in
vention being the Novelty Flexible bus
tie, which is the most graceful of its
kind and one that does not get out of
shape.
Ordinary mortals at the Opera must
roast that the half-clad fashionable may
be comfortable. There especially ole
sees lovely brocaded columns, where
white or delicate colors vie with red or
Haunting yellow. Beauty when Invested
of them shows occasionally bare Shout
ders, while bare arms or arms covered
only by kid are common sights. Flow
ers are extremely popular, from glow
ing bouquet of dozen or more roses to
delicate spray of bud, while in the man
ner of wearing there is an equal liberty;
some being set high on the shoulder,
others at the waist, at the throat, or else
where. Heads are in equal diversity.
The high 6oifute is gaining on the low.
but the low is still in high vogue; and
shows not the least sign of going
Yet the high is not very high, character
lied rather by moderation; small coil,
few putfings, etc, set well back from
the forehead, while two or three occa-
sional curls may dangle. Only occa-
sional, however, and always short. In
frontpieces very Tower of Babel divers
ity reigns. Bellies peep forth like Skye
terriers. or calmly gaze from serpentine
surroundings of croeUe occur locks; the
bushiest of bushes stand upright over the
foreheads of Others, While few strag-
Cling frizzes may form sole ddotn-
ment On moist day one's own hair
may be bound down by an invisible net,
or if one has bought front piece of gen.
uine curled hair, she may fling it to the
breeze, assured it would curl all the
tighter. At the opera one notices in
jewelry that the lace pin is as Babel-like
in design as the front piece, and used as
the front piece, and used with an equal
lack of rule. 1t catches the lace which
covers Dowager's otherwise bare neck;
with the facility holds in position
her granddaughter shoulder-knot or
draws together the folds of one thou
sand dollar shawl. Brooches, though
net popular, are placed with the same
at0nd0A; while the medallion of yore can
be utilized if provided with a pin.
Bracelets jingle over long gloves and
gloves are as long as ever. No more
can be said, since reaching to the Shout
der they can get no higher. But one
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arm, and though one must have GER
tain stretch of kid, ten or twelve but |
ton length, yet beyond that, sufficient
sufficient expanse is visible to show what |
might have been but for that wrinkled |
mousquetaire, contrasting lily with a
delicate toilet and rounded arm.
DECEMBER NOTES.
Lace trimmed scarfs of white or pale |
colored silk muslin are thrown over the |
head when leaving the opera. Square,
full tichus have bands covered with lace |
and straps of very narrow ribbon tied
across the front. Christmas and New |
Year Cards are in as great vogue as ever
and form fine displays in book store win
dows. Broadway from Fourteenth
Street to the eliminating point of Lord
and Taylor's famous bow window at
Twentieth, is blaze of holiday light and
beauty. Nine. Judics costume of Nom
pareil velveteen has a basque with
pointed plastron of broche; the front of
the skirt also of broche velveteen with
panier plaits crossing the sides and join
ing full train caught in puff at the
ton Lucy CARTER.