The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-12-22
NEW YORK FASHIONS.

DREssLIKE CLoAKs - BuEcHlHas - OPERA
neutrality-suspicious. THE HAIR-JEw-
ELERY- GL0vEs-DECEMBER NOTES.
The complexion taken on by newly i'm
ported closks given broad hint Of the
way We are travelling. A way Of putting
and punching. Dresses are pulled and
punched, and closks to be worn over them
must take character therefrom. Many are
fitted in to the waist, apparently to show
of increasing complications below, while
sklrt-lke platngs and com binations, not
only Of material but coors, render these
new garments dress-like in the extreme
10 dresses the chosen field for bunchings
and pufhngs 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 seasonable refuge, but
for the plump horrid complications.
Bunching in the first degree 10 an affair of
magnitude. The catching up of four or
five bre.dths 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
pufiogs on the upper half Of skirts that to
say the least result in curosties Of contour.
Our sole consolation is that the adoption of
these styles is not obligatory. Even the
sobeI-minded however are beginning to
wonder II the drapery stands out enough
in the back, and call in bustes to their
aid the newest and best invention being
the Novelty Flexible hustle, which ia the
most graceful Of Ito kind and one that does
not get out OF shape.
Ordinary mortals
AT THE OPERA
must roast tina. the half clad fashionable
may be comfortable. There especially one
sees lovely brocsded dolmans, where white
or delicate colors vie with red or Haunting
yellow. Beauty when Invested of them
shows occasionally bare shoulders, while
bare arms or arms covered only by kid are
common sights. Flowers are extremely
populsr, from a glowing bouquet of q
dozen or more roses to a delicate spray or
bud, while in the manner of wearing there
is an equal liberty; some being set high on
the shoulder, other at the waist, at the
throat or elsewhere Heads are in equal di-
versity. The high couture 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, characterized
rather by moderation small coil, few
puffiugs, etc, Get we'll back from the fore
head, while two or three occasional curls
may dsngle. Only occasional, however,
and always short. In
| FRONT PIECES
a very Tower of Babel diversity reigns.
Bellies peep forth like Skye terriers, OF
calmy gaze from serpentne surroundings Of
groove occur locks; the bushiest of bushes
stand upright over the toreheads OF others,
while few struggling frizzes may form a
sole adornmeut. On moist day ones own
hair may be bound down by an invisible
net, or if one has bought front piece of
genuine curlsd hair, she may fling it to the
breeze, assured it will curl all the tighter.
At the opera one notices in jswslry that the
lace pin 10 as Babellike in design as the
front piece, and used with an equsl lack of
rule. 1t catches the lace which covers a
Dowsger's otherwise bare neck; with the
same facility holds In position her grand.
daughters shoulder knot or draws together
the folds Of q thousand dollar shawl.
Brooches, though not popular, are placed
with the same abandon, while the medal.
lion Of yore can be utilized il provided with
a pin. Bracelets jingle over long gloves
and gloves are a. long as ever. No more
can be said, since reaching to the shoulder
they can 90 no higher. But one sees de.
termination to show . pretty arm. and
though one must have certain stretch of
kid, ten or twelve button length, yet be-
yond that, sufficient expanse is visible to
show what might have been but tor that
wrinkled mousquetaire, contrasting lily
with q delicate toilette or . rounded arm.
DECEMBER NOTES.
Lace trimmed scsrfs of white or pale col