The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-12-15
Fashion Notes.

FaShiOn Notes.
The newest wool dresses have tucked
skirts.
Silver fox fur is the favorite for velvet
opera cloaks.
Fine handkerchiefs are bordered with
rich chantilly lace.
Gendarmes' blue, under different
name, is again becoming popular.
Some of the new lace pins are in de-
Egns of three or four-leaved clOvers.
The fashionable hats for young girls
are either felt, velvet or silk beaver.
Nuns gray kid sandals with pale lilac
silk stockings are pretty for house wear
Short walls are worn again; they are
OF black lace with small figures i'm them.
Velvet bands worn around the throat
are ornamented with n diamond cres-
cent.
Velvet trimmings of all kinds and
widths will be used abundantly this
wiuter.
1t is now no ,orger fashionable to
omit the sleeve eptrely from the even
ing corsage.
Bone buttons are to be had in every
color and shade to match new wool
dress goods.
Fine silk stockings intended for even
ing toilets are pale pink, coral and sal
mon color.
Tartans and gay plaids will be very
much worn for the house, and plain
street costumes.
A great deal of velvet is used in COM
bination with cashmere for school
dresses for misses.
Handsome silk dresses have pointed
velvet yokes, while the dress has Van
dyke pointed trimming
Wooden street costumes are to be the
rage this winter, and combination
dresses viii be the rule.
Worth's latest caprice in the combi-
nation of colors is gray and dark green
and blue, with sapphire.
White or cream leather vests are
worn under the handsomest silk velvet
or plush jackets.
Worth utilzes the brocaded sash rib
bons of the season by making side pan
els and plastrons of them.
Spanish lace with velvet figures comes
by the piece as wide as ordinary silk,
for the front of handsome black silk
dresses.
The choice ruching for the neck and
waists is bias lisse puff; this is very
becoming and is preferred by fashion
able women to lace.
Walking shoes with uppers to match
cloth costumes do not have ready sale;
most ladies of fashion and good taste
think them too conspicuous.
Fur-lined circulars are known as the
Russian and the Princess Louise, both
of which beautiful wraps have large
square sleeves set in some distance be-
low the shoulder.
Ottoman ribbon, doubled. makes q
neat-ftting officers collar. The ends
can be left long enough to tie i'm grace
full bow at the throat, and plaitings of
lace or a ruche of crepe hsse can be
worn inside the collar.
+ A long shaggy trimming for the hand
soonest imported brocaded velvet cloaks
is make of cocque feathers; this is made
in wide bands, and when extending
down the front of one of these hand
some wraps is most effective.
Soft gray felt hats in Alpine shape,
with deep dent in the crown have two
gray birds with their heads placed both
together in front as its only trimming.
These are jaunty and stylish with tailor
made suits of gray cloth.
New baby baskets are of split rattan,
with q perfectly-litting cover. They are
lined with bright-colored satin, which
shows through open wicker-work.
Bows of the same shade as the lining
are used to decorate the outside with.
Fine velveteens are in great demand,
and some of the hanGsomcst street suits
seen this season are of this material. 1t
is also used in combination with the
heavy wool goods, either forming the
trimming or else used as skirt or
basque.
For street wear there is no more
stylish and genteel garment than the
long, straight redingote or pOlonaise.
OF course its elegance depends entirely
upon the perfect fitting of it, but when
this is obtained the various parts OF an
elaborate costume are supplied. These,
when made of cloth. are suitable for all
ordinary occasions, and when made of
the heavy brocades are rs DIR ssy as any
garment worn -Broo&iyH Eagle.