Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1884-12-06
fASAIun NEWS AND NOTES.
WriHen for The Herald By "Leone."
n NEW AND LEADING coLoRs.

IN NEW AND LEADING coLoRs.
The latest and handsomest colors that
take y readily and keep in the ascend
ant is. the new winter grey-hkea gull &
wing. = Bronze the green that looks
sheeny.-like ducks plumage, and q
red mahogany. -.
Fancy silks are going out. they say
but soft Indian silks. plain and printed.
are worn. Marveilleux has cheapened
and has been to great degree suppressed
ed by sitter goods that is not of such a
clinging nature, and that is introduced
to us by the name of 8 Drap detoile. -
Rhadamese is still fashionable. All silk
and satin dresses are now made of two
materials. or two kinds of the same.
plain and figured.
The so-called stocking webbed bodices
are among the useful things of modern
days. They are made with wristbands
and varied kinds of basques. in black,
blue, cream, and red. Out of-door jack
cts are made of the same material, trim
med with feathers or Astrachan. or
braided. These bodices are really Slew
less jackets. and the material is very
nearly akin to Jersey cloth. and fits so
well that it gives general satisfaction.
LOCAL STYLES
are slow about developing.
Thanksgiving day seen the advent of a
few new hats. We have so long worn
the regulation little bonnet and the aver
age size hat that it requires considerable
courage to don one of the giant hats.
that in shape looks more like an invert-
ed crock with little rim to it. than any
thing else under the sun. But they look
very pretty. if little odd and have one
merit to commend them for wear in cold
weather-they protect the forehead as
the bonnets and set backs,H hats did
not.
With regard to new dresses we are
rather unjustly judged. Gentlemen say
that as soon as woman has got a new
dress. she straightway puts it o: and
runs down street to show it. As rule
this is not correct charge. Women do
not feel lat home y in a new dress and
there is always the awful uncertainty of
its never having been tested and the fear
of the unfamiliar drapery getting un-
hinged some place, and hanging awry.
Then, there is the consciousness that all
the other women are criticising it and
the wearer for in a town the size of
with the street attire of every other wo-
man; and new dress is subjected to
much the same criticism as the new
scholar y is at school. Hence | have
heard very many ladies say that they al
ways wore new dress down town in
the evening or at night, until it seemed
as an old one to them, before they ven
tured to display it to the public in day
light. With the advent of Xmas, | ex-
pect we shall all blossom out at once
with new dresses and holiday attire, so
that no one will feel lonesome in a brand
new suit.
HOME CHAT.
People say that because Mrs. Wander
bilt knits Mr.. Vanderbilt's stockings,
there is to be stocking knitting craze
all over the country. But it has been
the fashion for some years for ladies to
knit silk stockings for the gentlemen of
their families and the old craze of the
buttonless shirt and undarned store sock
is not yet obsolete.
1t is recorded against Lieut.. Greedy
that he spent years in the Arctic regions
without bringing Mrs. Greedy home a
sealskin sacque.
Among Miss Astor's jewels is neck
lace of four rows of pink pearls. knots of
rubies and sapphires separating the
pearls at every tenth pearl.
1t is said that Japanese women have
never seen and do not know the use of
pins. If the Japanese small boy is afflic-
ted with like ignorance, what source
of fun he is deprived of.
The lizard is design On new holiday
goods. 1t is unpleasant and creepy look
ing.
Pearls with an invisible setting are
used for ladies' collar studs
Pretty lamp shades are made in the
form of flowers of gigantic size. The
French imported shades are made of
cloth like any artificial flowers, while
those of home manufacture are of tissue
paper. Dahlias and roses are the favor
lite flowers.