The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-12-26
NEW fashions.
News OF Interest to Those Who like to
Dress Well.

Dress Well.
Dressed dolls are cheaper this year.
Dancing dresses are de rigueur short.
Trains must not be worn by dancers.
A novelty in toys is the educational
wagon.
Bonnets grow more and more harrow
ing in ugliness.
Embroidered tulle is the faVorite It's
sue for ball dresses.
Building blocks come in improved
form and at lower prices.
Opossum comes up among the other
American furs THIS winter
Trains are worn at weddings and
church receptions this winter.
JeWeled pins are the fayorite orna-
ment for the hair with evening dress.
Bonnets are worn with trained dress
es at full-dress receptions at church
weddings.
Small ostrich Il ps are more fashion
able than flowers for evening wear in
the couture.
Little girls evening dresses are beau.
tifully trimmed with silver braid and
swans down.
The newest skirts are perfectly plain,
falling in straight lines from the waist
to the hem.
All velvet dresses for evening weal
are made of two kinds of the same col
or, a brocaded and a plain velvet.
Chambery gauzes, French and China
grapes, all play an important part in
the evening toilets, especially for dane
ing parties and balls.
Hats are horribly defiant and unbe-
coming with all the trimmings topping
over the forehead, which is still adorned
with Skye terrier fringes.
The handsomest dresses for brides are
of white silk and white satin duchesse,
with parements of white plush and
trimmings of laces, real Valenciennes,
point de Brussels or Malines.
The leather sachel should never be
carried by a lady save when travelling,
or for morning housekeeping calls on
the baker and butcher. It is an Amer
lean vulgarism to use leather sachels
for street promenade.
Diamonds, instead of orange buds and
blossoms, are the popular wear this
season. The diamonds are worn in the
ears, on the arms, neck and bosom, as
well as in the hair; the orange flowers
loop the lace ruffles.
Those ladies who can not or will not
wear the high couture, with the hair
drawn up from the nape of the neck,
compromise by wearing high or con-
spicuous back combs and side combs,
and for evening wear these must be
feweled.
Corsages of velvet evening dresses
are made high on the shoulders, with
broad straps, but open square or pointed
back and front.
A few very rich long dolman cloaks
of real Persian lambskin, black, of
course, curly and glossy, have made
their appearance on our fashionable
streets. They are bordered with black
fox or black Russian hare, and are sim
ply elegant. No one knows where they
come from.
Carpets covering the entire floor are
no longer fashionable. When the floor
is not Of fine polished wood or hand
somely painted it is covered with good
quality of Chinese mating, which is now
brought out in artistic shades Of red,
blue, yellow and Oriental mixtures,
and covered with rugs, Oriental,
French, or American.
Velvet evening dresses are in all
colors and shades from the palest rose
and sky blue to porphyry and Titan
reds. Napoleon and Marie Louise royal
blue de France and gray blue, but the
favorite colors for evening velvets are
crushed strawberry red and the golden
browns. These last are magnificent
when frightened with gold braid.
The fayorite party or bridesmaid dress
for little girls is the pretty Gretchen
costume, with full round skirt of en-
broidery or lace frills, low necked,
round waist of silk worn over half low
round waist of muslin or high guimpe
trimmed with full ruche around the
neck. and wide sash bow of embroid-
cred muslin in the back, giving bout
FAINT effect
The evening wrap of high ceremony
for the opera or sorti du bal is of rich
velvet or Ntin, in rather light colors
and deliberately embroidered. Such
wraps arg entirely new and very chic
~. /, San.