Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-16
Fashion Items.


Corded satin Is the newest material 70,
bridal toilets. ~
Flower garnitures for ball and wedding
dresses are more in demand than ever
this season.
Wide collarettes and turn over cuffs of
venetian lace are much worn with din
ner and reception costumes.
Rufis, fraises and ruches for the neck
are very high, very full and very elabo-
rately adorned with pearls or Jets.
half ctntures of narrow satin ribbon
are worn with Grecian house-robes, the
long loops and ends to these reaching
nearly to the foot of the skirt in front.
Paris made gduts have crest or mono
gram worked in delicately shaded silks
on the upper part, near the top of the
glove. The design is then outlined in fine
beads of pearl, amber or gold.
Lace boas made of painted lace are
worn with full evening dress, fastened
several inches below the chin with
knot of ribbons matching the leading
color In the tinted lace, and again lust
below the belt, with long ends falling
over the skirt
White d EcOsse, or white Ottoman silk.
trimmed with which duchesse lace ruffies'
headed by broad bands of white ostrich
feather trimming, is a popular dancing
dress worn by debutantes this season.
White swans down is also employed az
a garniture for dresses of white surah OF
tulle, the pure heecy trimming having
most beautiful effect in the evening.
Two styles now predominant in the
stylish and useful tailor-made costumes
One, killed skirt, with Hungarian tunic
jacket, and bright-colored waistcoat of the
launtiest description; the other reproduc
ing the old French polonaise, buttonine
down the front over plsinly-made skirt
of velvet or plush. The buttons used
are always very handsome, the most ex.
pensive being the Louis XIV. and Louis
XIV. buttons, severally called after the
mOnarchs whose profiled imagesthey bear.
Some peculiar blendings of color are
in favor Just now, but they are to be
used with great care, and a combination
OF hues which would appear to advan
tage at reception or party would be
most glaring and Outre On the promenade.
Dark green and very pale blue, deer
ruby and sea-shell-pink, oak brown and
garnet myrtle green, gold, and pale
mauve, peacock blue, olive, and dark
cardinal are among the most noticeable
combinations, shot silks, satins, and vel
vets being made use of in these odd mix.
lures Of c0lOrS
A stylish costume for a little girl of
six or eight years is made of golden
fawn-coiored cashmere. The skirt is
box-piaited all the way down in hollow
plaits, finished around the bottom with q
five-inch band of ruby plush. Down
the front of the bodice Is set a finely
shirred French under-blouse, made of the
gray cashmere. Oyer this falls Babet
jacket of the plush. The overdress is
arranged n pdlier in front with scarf
draping in the back; this is made of the
cashmere, bOrdered with four-inch bands
of the ruby plush. This pretty suit is
also made of tweed or of shepherds
plaid for school dress, with bias bands.
blouse, cuffs and shoulder cape of dark
cardinal serge.
The ornaments used upon the fancy
muffs carried this winter are uncommon.
ly varied and odd, parrots, winter ber-
ries, huge buckles and kittens heads
being quite commonly seen. A serpent
may be emblematic of wisdom, but it is
certainly a very ugly representative of
that excellent quality. Not long since a
richly-dressed lady, bearing no resem-
blance whatever to the goddess Minerva,
walked down Fourteenth street, carrying
green plush muff, upon the upper side
of which nestled life-size water-snake.
The horrible object was duly provided
with fangs and eyes, and had apparently
coiled itself around bunch of dark
green ivy leaves. The effect was realistic
enough to give anybody a creeping SEN
sation who beheld the sight.-N Y. Even
ing Post.