The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-12-26
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.


All brown furs are in high favor
Large corsage bouquets are not worn
so much as formerly.
Chenille trimmings are in favor both
for bonnets and dresses.
Porphyry is new shade of red be-
tween brick and garnet.
! Instruction in sewing has been intro
duccd in the Philadelphia public schools.
Mr.. Burnand, the editor of London
Punch, has eleven unmarried daughters.
Black satin petticoats, quilted and
plain, are still worn in place of white
skirts.
Small ostrich tips are more fashionable
than flowers for evening wear in the
! couture.
The newest skirts are perfectly plain,
falling in straight lines from the waist
to the hem.
Little girls evening dresses are beauti-
fully trimmed with silver braid and
swans down.
Wooden velvet is used to trim the felt
hats that are meant to endure every sort
of bad weather.
The majority of ball dresses for debut
antes are of tulle over satin. Some are
made of crepe.
Bows of ribbon appear on many of the
dresses, and there is a great deal that is
new in ribbons.
BOnnets are worn with trained dresses
at New York full-dress receptions and
church weddings.
All velvet dresses for evening wear are
made of two kinds of the same color, a
brocaded and plain velvet.
Flat stiff feathers, upon which birds
and insects are painted, are used by
some of the French milliners.
An old lady of eighty-six years, living
in Lewis county, Washington Territory,
cast her maiden vote at the last cleo
ton.
Half-fedgcd ducklings take the place
Of the half-hedged chickens used last
season for paper weights and similar
ornaments
There is an effort to revive the use of
old Chantilly lace, and new patterns are
shown, designed for trimmings for wraps
and bonnets.
Massachusetts has a rival in the num-
Der Of manageable women. Paraguay
has only 30, 900 men to 27O, 900 women,
n veritable woman's kingdom.
Natural beaver fur is the trimming
most used for handsome Newmarket
coats 1t is placed on the neck and
sleeves and down the front.
There are I ,403 dust women in Eng
land and Wales who spend their lives in
raking over dust-heaps for what gain they
may find. And they like the work.
The New York hairdrcssers think that
curls, or rather trcsses of hair cured at
the end and falling on the shoulder. are
to be worn this season, and also fringes
of light curls falling in the neck.
There is decided tendency to prcfe
gros grain in satin in dresses. This il
especially marked in black. The silks
chosen are those with surface like Irish
poplin-soft and yet with thick cords.
Canarics are the newest birds used to
ornament ladies dresses. They are
mounted on twisted wires and either
pei ched on the shoulder or so arranged
as to seem to hold folds of lace oeether.
Among newly imported jerseys is one
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white silk and white crystal beads.
With the addition of some lace it would
make the pretticst of waists for q bridal
costume.
Said Mrs. Ingalls, at woman's council
in Kansas City: woman is silent
power in the land" One who reads the
daily papers thoroughly is bound to come
across some valuable information where
least he expects it.
Marabout feather trimming continues
in favor for dresses and NANTES, and has
been so improved in the making that it
will not rub off the foundation and will
stand rain. 1t is now made up on very
wide foundation of muslin, marked out
in inches, and can be torn down to any
width required, and is to be had in all
colors. Ostrich feather and cock feather
trimming are worn, but not so much.
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