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NEW YORK FASHIONS.
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ODera Costumes December Notes.
spondence Daily Globe.
New YopK. Dec. 9Th. 1888.

NEW YORK, Dec. 9th, 1888.
A properly pulled bslIe is curious
subject of speculation. Those puffings
commence at the waist and for about half
the length of the skirt ply such fantas-
tic tr cks as might make the angels weep.
Not the heathen Chinee could invent
greater number or more varied. They
sweep from back to front or from front TO
back; they are caught up; they. are
caught down; they are horizontal; they
are perpendicular; again they stand out
on the hips like huge bologna sausages or
in suspended plaits hang like upper skirts
on either side. all this is mighty ref
uge for those to whom nature has been
niggardly, but what if some too plump
daughter of Eve should thus Iavishly be
superadded to? The last named disaster
does sometimes happen with result too
dIreful for narration. The sole comfort 1
know of in regard to puffings is that
Fashions command is not ''you must"
but "you may" One is not oblige to rig
oneself up in the above absurdities but
may really so far as the sides of ones
dress go, be puritanically PLAIN. Yet we
are beginning to abhor plainness at the
back. The bouffant reigns; horizontal
foot or two behind is thought nothing of
while even the sober minded look over
their shoulders enquiringly and wonder if
their dresses do not puff out at least
little. To that just below the waist one
often must call in the aid of the hustle
and here we have the Novelty Flexible :;
the most graceful of the kind and one that
does not get out Of shape. Much is
learned from
HOLIDAY TOILETTES
since they give the key note to what will
rule in the future. The very full trains
which are notable feature, afford oppor-
tunity for punching that is too good to be
lost and one may imagine the effect where
four or five breadths of wide or five or six
of narrow goods are caught in double
puff. The remainder flows in plain full
ness and usually the basque is of similar
material while the brocade comes in for
the petticoat front and vest Entire
dresses Of velvet have an elegance of their
own and here Nine. Judic's costume of
garnet nonpareil velveteen will be of in
terest. The basque pointed back and
front and sloping away over the hips
with pointed plastron of the broche. The
front of the skirt also of broche velveteen
cut in points ovec three silk plgjtings;
panier plaits crossing the sides and JOIN
ing full train caught in puff at the
| top. The use of satin IN many Of the new
toilettes will prove comforting fact to
economical ladies' who look regretfulIy on
one cherished satin and fear that it ''must
GO" As yet, it need not go, but in buying
one does we'll to give silk the preferen ce
and here We find an admirable choice, the
Tapissier grease proof silks running from
| two to five dollars per yard or the Queen,
from one dollar to two and half. The
| dye of these silks is put through especial
process which extracts all greasy sub
stance and renders the material soft and
| durable. Let US note in ending that
| bouffancy is replacing the pull back styles.
| The pull back is not gone but Indications
| show time coming when it must go.
Wilt be replaced by hoop skirts? That is
a question of the day.
HIGH Low
Jack as he plies the game of fortune hunt
ing, betakes himself to the opera. There
especially do moneyed beauties array
themselves and there especially does our
friend Jack alike with ourselves, behold
styles of hairdressing both high and low.
The high having made considerable pro-
gress since last winter; the low still hold
ing out and likely to do so for some time.
Yet in general, the high is not 80 very
high as fashion books would make us be-
lieve. And withal, modest in outline;
coil; two or three small twistings
set far from the forehead
yet not low down. From these two or
three short curls are sometimes pendant
while the low styles are still quite low and
small. Fluffy fronts whether by purchase
| or inheritance are in endless variety; the
fufiest extremely fluffy; the least fluffy
scarce at all fluffy but rather some
modest, wary outlines bound down upon
the brow. CroeUe occur locks come in as q
change and also as change, the time hon
ored bang. But it is the little girl who has
she monopoly of the bang and it were as
hard to find young lady of the future
without bang as to discover four leaved
clover.
ONES CoRsAGE
is as much on exhibition at the opera as
ones head and therefore great pains are
taken that something shall be exhibited.
From few delicate buds or tender spray
up to huge bouquets set with the glare of
crimson and yellow roses, flowers give
brilliancy to the academy or make head
| way against the tomb-like forlornness of
the new Metropolitan Opera house where
slowed away in cells but partially lit, our
fashionables look out on ONO another and
wonder what the matter can be. Missions
voice reverberates and jewels flash but
nothing can relieve the monotony of pig
con holes on pigeon holes where the audi
ence is packed with the sole idea of pack
ing so many in such space. Jewels flash.
Solitaire earrings of diamonds, sapphires
or pearls; lace pins rather than brooches
and in the manner of wearing, an avoid
ance of form atty; the greater the abandon,
| the better. And so the lace pin catches
shoulder knot of ribbon for the young
beauty or draw together the Spanish
lace which covers some Dowager's other
wise bare neck. Yet if brooches proper
do not please, it is customary TO have pins
attached to the medallions or pendants
that were so fashionable some years ago
Hanging from chains, they give a stamp
of old fashionnesS but stuck here or there
after the style of lace pin, they renew
their youth and become serviceabIe as
ever. The opera of course gives opportu-
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