The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-12-19
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Scalskin is all the rage in Paris.
Beaver is the ruling fur for young
girls.
Long wraps with high shoulders are
all the rage.
Astrakhan cloth is much used for
children's garments.
Velvet grows more and more in favor
as the winter advances.
A Newburgh IN. W woman received
81, 900 for broken rib.
More and more hideous grow hats and
bonnets as the season advances.
Old oak is the latest craze for the fur.
niture and wood finishing of the house.
Very young ladies fastcn their bonnet
strings on the left side by a hook and
loop without tying them at all.
The buttons worn on wastcoats arc
almost invariably very small, but whether
round or flat, they arc always very costly.
Flat fur trimming have an especially
pretty effect on overslSirts made With
many deep points at the back and
sides.
Very fine gold braid is laid between
the strips of ribbed velvet, forming
bands which are used to trim both coats
and skirts.
Ribbon embroidery executed on bands
of cloth is now used for trimming cos
tunes. 1t is mingled with gold braid
in very small quantities.
Mrs A. r. Stewart has contracted a
habit Of being weighed every Saturday
afternoon, giving the man who operates
the scales five dollar note.
The women of Turkey wear trowsers
on ordinary occasions, but when they
attend balls they wear dresses fashioned
in the latest Partisan styles.
The latest freak for female head gear
in New York is called the pen-wiper
bonnet. 1t has huge rosette, stimu-
lating pen-wiper, on the top.
Feather fur, as the feather bands oil
this season are called, trims many dressy
WRAPS and costumes, and is worn as
stoles and collars around the neck.
Uncut velvet is the prcttiest of all rib
bons for making bows, producing soft
effects beside which, plain velvet and
even plush seem heavy and sombre.
The Princess of Wales and the Prn.
cess Christian have adopted the new boas
of dark fur, which settles the question
o! their becoming fashionable in Eng.
land.
Childrcn's plush garments are cut and
fitted like frock in the back, gathered
slightly in front and fastened with a
clasp or with tongues. The lining usu-
ally forms strong contrast with the out
side.
Hat and bonnet trimmings are clus-
tered in front in sngularly defiant,
aggressive style, which, with the terrier
like bangs worn by most women, gives
ferecious expression even to the mildcst
face.
Black is the ground color in nearly all
the newest stockings 1t may be dotted
or striped, or plaided with white OF
color, but it is there in all, except some
very fine stockings in soft color which
have lace stripes in the same tint.
Dog collars are made of everything,
from crapeto fur, orto five rows of pearl.
for evening wear. They are fastened by 8
bow or by jeweled clasp, or, when fur
is used, by a knot of the galloon, which
SENS to bind the fur on its lower
edge.
me degradation of women in London
is astonishing. Seven thousand of the
1900 arrests made in the great city fol
drunkenness during this year were OF
women. Often there are more women
tLan men before the police magistrates
on this charge.
The Fanchon bonnet is worn in sheer
desperation by many women who cannot
and will not accept the ugly peak
brimmed "cow jumped over the moon >
bonnet that the milliners and manufac-
turcrs seem determined to force on the
feminine world this winter
A new method Of fastening the strings of