The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-11-21
FASHIONS FANCIEs.

Bands of velvet worn around the throat
are ornamented with diamoud crescent, a
locket or some bit of Jewelry in 'front.'
Fur trimmings are put on in various ways;
for instance.a velvet skirt or cloak may have
a very wide fur border around the foot as its
only garniture, while cloth skirts have three
or four narrower rows of Astrakhan across
the front and side breadths, and wider row
around the whole skirt.
Sealskin jackets in the jersey style, but
quite short and untrimmed, are more popu-
lar with young ladies than the long sealskin
sacque OF former years.
In black laces the hand-run silk Spanish
lace is much liked for fichus, scarfs to drape
as vests and as trimming laces, but the
Escurial lace with the design outlined with
a cord is the favorite.
Very few of the new costumes are made
entirely of one material. Combination is
the order of the day. Brocade and velvet,
broche and cashmere, cashmere and velvet,
vicugna and brocade, are all combined.
Plaid suits in dark colors are made into
tailor dresses and finished with collars, cuffs,
and narrow vests of velvet fastened by gold
coin buttons. Belts of velvet or alligator's
leather may be worn with these dresses.
Brocaded velvet wraps threaten to become
so common that ladies' of fastidious taste will
prefer plain velveG Chenille, though a beau
tiful, is frail garniture and has already been
brought out in such large quantities by cheap
manufacturers that borders of fine undyed
furs Will be the most elegant trimmings for
velvet cloaks.
Sealskin remains the fashionable choice
for fur garments, and is shown in greater
variety of shapes than at any previous sea-
son, comprising close jackets, loose sacques,
capes, long casaques, redingotes, ulsters, dol
man cloaks, visites, chasubles, turbans, polo
caps. and muffs High shouldered effects are
given to many of the new seal garments, and
there is tendency to make them closer fit
ting around the waist and fuller below the
waist line.
Velvet dresses are made by New York tail
ors which are as plain in cut and finish as
the dresses they make CT cloth. Russian
sables are the costly trimmings of the wrap
OF these dresses, which are intended for the
winter promenade. A border OF sable trims
tie bottom of the Newmarket coat and ex-
tends in double rows up the front. Cuffs
aid reverse collar of sable finish the coat
A tiny muT of velvet trimmed with sable
tails, or of sable, accompanies such dress
eS.
Scarfs Of black Escurial Spanish lace are
draped across the front of dresses that have
been worn, and serve to freshen them. Puff
fed velvet vests, with cuffs and standing col
lars, may be used for the same purpose. 1t
is a fancy of the hour to use dark velvet next
to the throat to bring out the delicate flesh
tints. A frill of soft Mechlin or Malines lace
finishes the lower edge of these collars,
and fall of lace like that worn by cour-
tiers of the reign of Louis XVI. is added in
front.
A specimen of cashmere cloth, very fine in
quality, is in clouded plaid of old-fashioned
faded colorings, yellows, green's, drabs, and
blues predominating, and fine serge clio tn
in Havana brown and myrtle green is stud
ded with designs in cut blush. Plain and
figured velvets are much used as trimming
for WOODEN dresses in the new colors, either
forming entire skirts or as fiat bands edging
the short paniers or the polonaise. Bands of
plain velvet are often embroidered with
scroll patterns or floral designs, in light
shades of silk in the same or contrasting col
ors.
Something odd and useful is the bison
CLOTH which is light, warm, rough surfaced
material in all the fashionable shades and
colors, shot with darker threads, such as
moss green with navy blue or crimson, drab,
with blue or golden brown. garnet with
green and yellow, and bronze with red and
blue Another cloth OF the finest wool comes
in all the new smoke tints OF red.bronze,
green, blue and gray, we'll as various
tones of crimson and Borueaux. Complete
suits are not now made in goods with large
and revers.
The muff en- suite with the bonnet has
been revived, and very elegant outfits of
bonnet and muff to match are offered for in
spection in our researches of current millin-
cry developments. Dainty conceits are
made of velvet in the satchel reticule
fashion, lined with white satin, or with satin
of some contrasting color. with frills OF lace at
the ends, and trimmed with bow of velvet
ribbon, imprisoning one, two or three stuffed
birds. Or, instead of the birds, the trimming
of the muff consists of tuft of ostrich-tips,
or a boquet of velvet flowers, and fur and
feather bordering garnisheS this fanciful
hand gear.
Sleeves are quite small at the wrists and
have q very small stiff cuff that is turned
back ward and is made of velvet, satin, or
brocade in combination dresses. Cloth dresses
are close at the wrist without cuffs, and with
one, or at most two, buttons and button
holes in the outer seam. Cashmere sleeves
are rounded and slightly open up the outside
seam, with full frill of creamy Oriental lace.
or else narrow cuff of linen. Laces for the
neck are worn as frills. as fchus, and in col
lars that point low in front almost like
vest. The favorite finish is to continue the
creamy lace friil down the front partly or all
the way to the end of the basque.
Furs are always the handsomest of winter
trimmings, and the fortunate possessor of
good furs need not follow the prevailing
craze for marabout. Its wear, like that of
ziblinette, is by no means satisfactory, and
though comparatively inexpensive, the me-
cessity for frequent renewal materially in
creases the original cost of the mantle or
dress of which marabout is the adjunct.
Nevertheless. motives of economy do not
deter people from wearing a great deal of
marabout trimming. 1t is certainly very
light and fleecy looking and always becom-
ing, and is very pretty for trimming house
dresses Marabout is dyed most of the new
delicate tints, as well as in the deep artistic
shades of green, olive, brown, ruby and blue
For boy of or 10 years of age dark
green suit is handsome Jacket, with sailor
collar, is cut to the figure and has three
seams in the back. The front is buttoned
its whole length, and the collar and cuffs are
trimmed with three rows of gold braid; the
buttons are gilt. and on the left side above
the breast gilt anchor is suspended by q
pale green ribbon. The jersey vest is bor-
dered with braid in the neck and at the low
err edge 1t is fastened in the back and
adorned in front, where il is exposed by the
low neck of jacket with gold star. Close
fitting pants are drawn in below the knee by
garter OF gold braid. Green stockings
and cap trimmed with gold braid TO match
suit.
William Mather, who is IN this country
under commission from the British gov