Omaha daily bee., 1884-09-13
HONEY FOR THE LADIES.

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| used for dress decorations
Velvet leaves veined and edged with gold
will be used for bonnet trimmings.
Fur or feather borders mixed incongruously
with lace will trim velvet wraps.
Fawn.coored camel's hair cloth will be
much used for travelling and promenade cos
tunes.
Small figures will doubtless be preferred
| for dresses, but for cloakings there are large
| detached flowers.
| Plaids of subdued co!orJ in new combina-
tions are shown in twiled and in ottoman
woods for childrens' dresses.
| Stripes are largely imported and will be
used for parts of dresses Bayadere stripes
are also among the new goods.
A new shade in cloth is called "Gordon-
| blue, and the bright greens are Little Duke"
green, and the cresson g cen already noted.
| Velveteen Is marvel as at present pro-
duced, and will largely supercede velvet for
all the purposes for which the latter is used.
Black braid is used on woolen dresses in
| Gordon. blue cresson and gray shades, but for
the various brown shades, brown of another
| tone is used.
Brooklyn boasts the prettiest girls in two
| cities, but when man goes across the bridge
to take sly glance at them, he is invariably
told they are in New York shopping.
DIR. Hammond tells the women who want
to be beautiful that they must eat mutton.
Somebody now should warn them not to eat
too much, or they will be casting sleeps eyes
at the men.
Bustles will remain large, and the bow
drapery, which consists of wedth of the ma
terial tied in two broad loops and two ends
fastened to the back of the round corsage will
also be worn.
Spanish, Oriental, French, English and
Irish laces in old and new designs and stitches
are used to excess, and only as trimmings and
tinishings but rs entire ovetgarments and cos
TUNES for ladies' missys and children.
In dress trimmings it is considered "chic"
to have the sides of the skirts different A
single broad stripe of trimming may be down
the left side, from belt to foot, while the
right side is covered by a low Greek drapery.
The magpie fashion of wearing mixture of
black and white which has been in such vogue
for two seasons past seems likely to remain
fashionable colorcombination, even long after
the conditions of court-mourning" have been
fulfilled
The Carmen hat with stiff blim and square
crown moderately high, is worn by young
ladies. 1t is of light mushroom brown straw,
trimmed with fine feather tips and an aigrette
OF darker shade. Fine folds of velvet en-
circle the crown.
Rouud waists will be worn with or without
n belt. Some corseges will be round in the
belt, cut off at the waist knoxville the
front may be pointed, or regular basque, or
heightened into polonaise. The effect either
way is stylish.
There will be rage this season for the
small French capote bonnet, made of black
velvet. black satin covered with escurial or
beaded Spanish lace, and not few of fine
French felt In all the new deep, rich shades to
match the costume.
1t doesn't take woman long to dress, says
the Philadelphia Call. This is decidedly for
tunate for the woman. Otherwise, consider.
ing the lengt of time ii takes her to undress
sweet creature would have to retire at p. m.
and get up at noon in order to get any sleep
at eli.
There is a fancy to put all the trimming on
one part OF the costume, and leave the rest
plain. For instance, brown wool dress will
have red or blue bands of graduated width
woven around it, and this contrast will not be
seen on the basque or drapery
A frantic trimming for parasols is chenille.
Black satin parasols have deep lace ruftles
around the borders Sometimes second
piece of lace is taken up over the outside and
sometimes the lace is arranged in sections
around the border.
Linen collars are still high and tight around
tic heCk' l hs CuHS correspond. Many OF
these are of colored linen, Young girls in
cline much to dog collars of ribbon, tied in
front and fastened by two or four gold pins
with heads of tiny flowers or insects.
Ficbus are n much worn as ever. The
large Marie Antoinette fchu il reserved for
indoor wear. 1t is covered with lace rutfiss,
made over double piece of tulle or gauze,
and cut bias and rounded 1t becomes mar.
row on the ends Around the border is also
n lace rutfie. These tchus are white or black
The latest outcropping of fancy in costly
fans is in GIecian aud Pompeiian designs in
Pompeiian and Turkish coorings The kid
fans 30 ornnmented are exceedingly handsome.
They are mounted ON sticks of plain or carved
mother'of'pearl, embellrhed with gold or
silver tracary. and command from 800 to
$l25 each.
Russian vests are among the latest novel.
ties. They are tight.ftting, plated like an
ordinary plastron, and taken in around the
belt under deep sash of plain or plated silk.
The pastrons are generally of wooden goods to
match the dress. Sometimes the sashes Greof
colored Grape. This vest will replace the tai.
lor vest so much worn last summer, and will
be seen under all open jackets. The "bloase
moujick," also Russian style, consists of u
kind of polonaise, very tight,ht in the
back and rather loose in front, where it bat.
| tons all tho way down. Over the front of abe
l waist is u plastron, which is shrred on the up
| per part, and has on either sida piece of vel
| vet On each piece of velvet are twenty-six
small pearl buttons aud thirteen buttonholeS.
| Thirteen small buttons are on the waist, to
| which the bu' tonholes on the velvet are fast.
/ ene1. The plnstrOn forms a mart of the front