National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-12-27
FEMININE FANCIES.
How tho Fair Sex Should Dress to Make
Themselves Attractive and Adhere to the
Dictates OF Fashion.

How tho Fair Sex Should Dress to Make
Themselves Attractive and Adhere to the
Dictates OF Fashion.
Square court trains are revived.
Wine color is q favorite for dinner dresses,
Gloye-kid waistcoats are among the novel;
ties.
Bands of fur and feathers trim many winter
bonnets.
Ribbons are restored to favor for hat and
bonnet trimmings.
Red and gray mako an admirable mid
winter combination
The Jersey corset cover bids fair to replace
those OF cotton and linen.
Lace Is much used on the brim of peaked
tonnets that have velvet crowns.
Handsome velvet flowers are being used In
place of feathers on some OF the newest bon
nets.
Velvet and cloth aic braided together to
form tho bonnets worn with tailor-made
suits.
The new shot feathers are used to trim
evening costumes Of changeable and broCade
silk.
For children and misses the peaked brim
bonnets and Henri Deux felt hats are the
iavorite styles.
Gloves of pale golden brown, ecru and tan
are still worn with costumes OF every descrip-
ton and cOlors.
Velvet exotics, superbly shaded, are the
ception bonnets.
A new, delicate shade Of green, too soft to be
called watercress, Is named either Metternlch
or Chartreuse, rs one chooses.
The more, English, looking hats have stifl
velvet or galloOn lands around the crown and
a cockade velvet bow IN front.
Jet and black ribbon are the favorlte trim
ming for the very little wraps worn with
wooden suits, no matter what may be their
| color.
Winter jackets are straight in front and
much cut up In the back. They are of light
wadded cloth, trimmed with scalskin or Astra'
| khan.
Very wide belts arc worn even over plain
! waistcoats in Paris. They pass under the
! jacket in the back, but in frontthey arc almost
| as wide as scarf.
The capote has grown so much larger and
| the poke has decreased so much that the care
less observer does not find II easy to distinguish
| between the two species.
Small diamond, pearl and gold and silver
pins, In novel devices, both floral, mnClfll, and
! grotesque, are thrust about In the laces of ja
| bots and frllls on dressy corsages.
worth's most stylish wraps this season have
| q jc rsey effect In the waist portion, and the
| long skirts, though ample, are drapod To cling
TO the figure aud produce II slender effect.
Among the fashionable colors for evening
dresses yellow Is especially noted in various
shades OF orange, the red orange, like the
| tnts in blood orange, being used for velvet
| trains.
GaCo kid gloves have resumed their pre-.
| ccdence over undrcsscd kids, and Cluse.hut-
| toned gloves, so say our Oracles Of fashion,
are soon entirely to suporsede mousquetairGs
Very delicate flower sprays, intended to be
| worn IN the hair, are shown by the milliners
| and pretty clusters of murubOut and ostrich
| feathers are offered for women too Old to wear
| flowers
| The very newest oveTskirts are made with
| very large plalts all around, and are shorter in
| front than they are ut the side and behind,
initiating the tucked.up drapery Of antique
statues OF huntresses,
Even the waists of evening costumes are
shirred on the shoulders by Paris dressmakers,
who seem this year TO make all gowns look Us
if they were folded about the figure rather
than fitted to II,