Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-26
Fashion Notes.

Wide collarettes and turnover cuffs Of
Venetian lace are much worn with dinner
and reception costumes.
Dressy slippers to be worn with black
silk stockings are of plain black satin with
handsome, square jet buckles.
Rufus, fraises and ruches for the neck
are very high, very full, and very elabor-
ately adorned with pearls or jet.
Novelties in dress buttons are odd de-
signs in carved wood, bronze, jet or sill
yer: representing grotesque heads OF anil
mails.
Printed null Of the gayest colors is
made up in Dolly Warden caps, with lace
borders, and worn by young matrons in
the early half Of the day.
Basques of plain materials are worn
with skirts of fancy wool plaid of the dull
est cOlors, called Madras plaids, instead Of
the toe gay Scotch tartans.
Half cintures of narrow ribbon are worn
with Grecian house robes, the long loops
and ends to these reaching nearly to the
foot Of the skirt in front.
Round corsages and pointed waists worn
by young ladies for full dress nave the
neck cut very low either in the shape or
Pompadour square and filled IN with
lace.
Bright ribbons an inch wide trim the
dancing dresses of young ladies. Rows
OF SILK pOmpons are used as a border
around the edge of handsome silk evening
dresses.
India null and nuns. yelling have lost
FAVOR Tor ball dresses. Broche gauZe,
tulle and Ottoman silk with lace flounces
are worn by debutantes; white and pink
are the chosen colOrs.
Dress buttons for dark cloths initiate
hammered metals; hammered silver but
tons are on gray cloth and velvet pelisses;
hammered bronze on brown cloth; ham
mered gold on green and blue.
When jeweled ornaments are worn in
the hair they should be irregularly placed,
one being on the right of front, and the
other low at the left side of the head, just
back OF the ear, resting closely against
the small knot of hair
Lace bows made of pointed 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 just below the
belt, with long ends falling over the skirt.
Dark velvet costumes are elegantly
trimmed with fur-Otter, beaver, sealskin,
or Russian hare, chinchilla or lynx. Bon
nets and mutfs to be worn with these sea-
sQnable dresses are trimmed to cores
pond with fur to match that on the cos
tune.
POlanaises have increased in popularity,
and are made of the richest fabrics, with
but little drapery. Some Of the new de-
signs have vests shaped on them, and
apron drapery with bOuffant back; these
garments must be close fitting to be
stylish.
Embroidery and drawn work are the
fashionable ornaments for pOckethand-
kerchiefs; those of sheer linen have a
white daisy embroidered ON each corner
of the blue or rose-cOlored hem; others
with white hens are marked by a large
initial Of daises wrought in color.
Black lace fichus are large squares of
polka dotted net folded three-cornered
like shawl, with frill of dotted lace.
They are fastened low on the breast by
bow of satin ribbon Of two or three gay
colors mixed together, such as straw
berry with dull green, shrimp with olive,
pale blue with chocolate brown, and gold
with green and rose color.
DemOreSt for February says the new
tweeds are fine. If the cOlors are well
managed the large checks are the best. A
beautiful one has a ground of very dark
myrtle green, the check being in dark red,
with narrow line of amber, edged with
the merest tint of pale green. This was
made with an eeru waistcoat, and the
wearer looked fanoiful in the extreme.
Pretty fans are made of soft feathers in
every color. Some fans are simply edged
with feathers, and the latter are occa-
sionally tipped with color. One with
gray and rose-colored sticks placed alter
nately is edged with gray feathers tipped
with rose color. The prettiest fans are
quaint, old-fashioned round or oval ones,
with small lOOking-glass in the center,
and the rest all soft feathers. Hung by q
chain or ribbon from the waist these are
graceful in themselves and in their posi-
ton,