The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-24
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

of style this winter.
Chenille again plays conspicuous
part in dress trimmings.
New bonnets are characterized by
pointed crowns and fronts.
This winter black tule will be used
extensively for ball dresses.
Young misses are wearing their hair
flowing loose down the back
The Princess of Wales designs the
styles of her children's dresses.
Bronze slippers and old gold stock
ings are popular for house wear.
Female telegraph operators in Germany
receive $24O year, with no vacation.
Roman silks in unique patterns are
among the new high priced dress goods.
Bonnet garniture is fashionably worn,
massed at the top instead of on one side.
Plumes, fancy feathers and adjustable
front pieces are preferred trimmings in
millinery.
No class of dress goods exhibits this
season larger number of novelties than
do wool fabrics.
Thirty thousand women are said to be
engaged in the manufacture of artificial
flowers in Paris.
Woolen dress fabrics give the impress
sion of great weight and general shay
giness of surface.
Tucks are used to trim the fronts of
skirts with which the old-fashioned cur
tain drapery is formed.
The st. Louis Post Dispatch says tobac-
CO chewing is becoming a habit with
many women in that city.
In one of the mountain counties of
Kentucky woman has held the office of
justice of the peace without legal author
ity for the last ten years.
Long side plaits are seen on many
dresses. The plaits are usually confined
to one side while the other is plain or is
ornamented by bows of satin ribbon.
Among the novelties are Italian aprons
made of silk or linen, with bands of lace
insertion and edging and Greek aprons
OF satin or surah, richly decorated with
embroidery.
Black silk frocks are made up by Lon
don dressmakers with three founces, all
pointed, and all edged with lace, plain,
round waist, full in front and a silk
pointed girdle.
American escurial brocades are a nov
city. They have the designs outlined
with white cords as in escuriai laces.
The figures look like lace applied to q
lengthwisc repped fabric.
Cording in vermicelli patterns covers
the entire crown of many of the dark
felt hats which are intended to accom-.
pany cloth suits. They look especially
well when the costume is braided.
Little wells of colored illusion are still
worn over the face, reaching to the end
of the nose. When placed over bonnets
and hats they are drawn up in the back
and tucked underneath the brim.
A simple but pretty trimming for {
basque consists of two rows of ribbon
velvet coming over the shoulders, form
ing point in the back and outlining {
vest in the front, ending in tabs below
the waist.
Among the richest imported fabric
for bonnets is the gold embroidered
camel's hair, made as stiff as metal will
threads of gold. 1t costs $40 yard
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can be made out of one yard
The lily pattern in brocade is pro
duced in white and in pink. The from
and sides of a dress of this material ar
draped off with white or pink satin EN-
broidered with lilies in pearl, white anC
pink chenille and gold thread.
A new and beautiful material TO
wraps is shown for the first time. 1t ia
matte ground with a combination o
raised plush and uncut velvet figures il
all colors and Bengalines in all conceiv
able shades and especially rich in design
Again fashion has unwittingly favoret
economy, and last years felts if soft AM
pliable, can be made extremely stylisI
by means of few bold plaits and folds
till the original shape is lost entirely
+ Gilt braid combined with the velvet
very popular for trimming,
The lucky woman who can wea
wooden gloves without roughening thei
hands now find very good long wriste
gloves quite nice enough to wear unde
a null for twenty-five cents. Even tn
longest jersey wristed taffeta gloves cos
but eighty three cents, and the shorteS
may be bought for fifty.
A popin dress seen recently wa
cream white, made en- princesse, wit
boutfant black drapery; front trimmed
with ruflles of Oriental lace, Jabots @
satin ribbon down either side Of tn
ruffling; bodice square, bordered wit
lace and sleeves to tho elbow. TIL
sheen of the poplin was snSdued by tn
lace, and large cluster of crush pin
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