The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1884-04-16
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Grey-brown is a popular shade in
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Grey-brown is a popular shade in
spring ~velvets.
A woman has boon elected president
of the Indiana Beekeepcrs association.
Pearls are rapidly taking the place of
diamonds as the most fashionable gem.
Bill Arp says that a woman wants
everybody's children whipped but her
own.
Thirty thousand women in Paris make
q living by the production of artificial
flowers.
The new ~satecns, with q crescent and
star design on grounds of various colors,
are destined to great popularity.
Gcndarmc blue Is so becoming that
English women have revived it, and
arc toning it down with brown mara
bout.
The fashionable grenadines initiate es-
curial lace very we'll, and also the laces
in which the pattern is outlined in gold
thread.
Miss Julia, daughter of the late Stone
wall Jackson, is conspicuous as an Amer
lean belle in the best French and English
society.
In a class of sixty-four graduated from
the Philadelphia Dental college recently
there were four ladies, three of them
from Germany.
Montreal girls dressed for the street in
winter carry from twenty to twenty-five
pounds of clothing. They shrink to half
the street size when dressed for a ball,
however.
The fashionable bonnets arc chiefly
composed of plain velvet ornamented
with nondescript plumagc or clusters OF
shaded feathers. Many arc made OF
terry velvet.
Cashmere is worn under white lace this
year as silk has been hitherto. 1t has
neither the glitter nor the rustic of silk,
| but it has more warmth than is desirable
for a lace dress.
A cascade of chenille around the neck
and down the fronts of the corsage IS
worn becomingly by slender figures: and
is particularly stylish for elegant tea
gowns of surah, satin or cashmere.
The new wooden stuffs which initiate
cross-stitch embroidery in soft colors are
painfully fantastic, with their birds and
| branches, and wonderful will be the cos
tunes which the sentimental will evolve
from them.
Lace vests are the fashionable garni-
turc for high corsages of full-drcss toll
cts, and elbow sleeves of the lace already
made up in good shape are imported to
match the vest in round point, point ap-
pliquc, and duchcsse lace.
There are to be plaid costumes this sum
mcr, it is threatened, and they are to be
made up in the ugliest way with the
heavy bars of the plaid encircling
waist, sleeves and skirt, only the draper
les and the hcavily-puffcd sash being cut
bias.
A dress of black embossed velvet on a
cardinal ground has the back of the skirt
laid IN great panels like pleats, and the
front in a deep square apron. The basque
has IL pointed gilet of red velvet with an
officers collar of the same, under a fold
inc collar of the embossed velvet.
Black satin aprons sometimes have a
large sunflower embroidered upon them
in gold thread or jet: others have braces
to bibs, like ono of black satin finished
with small plated %lounccs, each edged
with gold braids. TT this is attached a
pointed sidc-picce, meeting at the back
| and tied round the skirt with Il bow OF
ribbon.
Feathers have in a measure taken the
place of flowers for trimming evening
dresses. A large high cluster o. three
curling plumes is placed on the left
shoulder of the low corsage. and lthe
drapery on the skirt is adorned with
| even fuller punches of feathers. For the
high couture a small aigrette is put in the
midst of a small round flat piece made
| of the down of birds.
Despite the closcncss with which artl'
fetal flowers resemble natural blossoms,
fashion IN England some time ago de-
creed that ladies should adorn their
| dresses as we'll as their walls with natural
flowers. Now artificial flowers are again
in vogue in London, but those which
fashion favors initiate the fragrance as
we'll as the appearance Of natural flow
ers. Even the clovc-like perfume of the
carnation has been closely initiated by
the chemists.