The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-10-16

Fashion Notes.
q Bonnets of cloth, felt and velvet are
made to match dresses.
Small shoulder capes of fur will be
worn again this winter.
Both embroidered and plain linen
standing collars are extensively worn.
Beaded fronts for black silk dresses
are seen again in new and elegant de-
signs.
The Directoire styles with large
revers are used for basques of rich
dresses.
Green is the prevailing color in i'm
ported bonnets for the winter.
Galloon, velvet bands and wings
thrust in velvet loops are the trim
mings for felt hats.
Uncut or Ottoman velvet is the fab
ric chosen this season for many ele
giant wedding dresses.
White China Grape makes suitable
wedding dress for bride who is wear
ing mourning.
Braid, feathers and fur trimmings
are the most popular with cloth and
cashmere jackets.
Velvet ribbon loops and bunch Of
feathers directly in front are almost
the only trimmings seen on round hats.
Jackets and mantles of the dress
material are worn with cloth and with
velvet dresses, but not with silk or
satin.
A new lace is called the "Marquise.'
1t is designed to rival the Escurial of
last year, and is both snowy and dur
able.
When the train is made full and
bouffant, the drapery is now very high
on the tournure, like the draping of
short suits.
Very young brides, who consider
velvet too heavy and elderly-looking,
prefer white satin, or else very lus-
trous Ottoman repped silk.
The best seal fur is short, thick,
close and not marred by stroking. The
Alaska skins arc considered the most
durable, but the more delicate Shetland
seal is the finest.
A dark myrtle velvet hat has its
brim arched, not sharply pointed, and
partly covered inside near the face with
a cluster of fine piping folds of bril-
liant coquelicot red velvet.
A novelty in velvet round hats is to
have the top of the crown quite soft,
as if to indent it with pleasure, and to
cover the sides of the crown with
gathered velvet forming two puffs all
around it.
Widows on the occasion of their
second marriage usually wear white
satin with the figures wrought in the
threads of silver on white and gold
brocades, instead of the pearl-colored
satins formerly worn.
The richest imported dinner dresses
are in princesse shape in the back,
having the waist and train in con-
tinuous breadths, while the front CT
the waist is basque. and the front of
the skirt is without drapery.
Chuddah is a fine India woollen
goods that is woven in zigzag lines or
stripes; the word, however, really
means shawl, and is the name given
small India shawls Of pale blue, dark
red, gray, or the fashionable cream
white.
The soft India" silks, both English
and American, will be much used this
winter for evening costumes, especially
in combination with velvet. Moth
ing drapes so well, and they are not
costly.
Little mantles of lace made up over
the costliest materials, or Of the won.
derfully beautiful brocaded stuffs, arc
to be worn under the large nantes
which one is supposed to throw of
when one enters friends parlor.
Some of the new cloth nantes are
almost covered with braiding. The
borders are very small figures set close
together, and the braid of which these
are made is cut off and fringed out, in.
stead of being sewed out of sight some.
where.
A cluster of ostrich tips on one side
of the top and knot Of the materia
on the other constitute the sole trim
ming of many of the pretty bonnets
made to wear with costumes. This
trimming must not be massed on one
side, under the penalty of making the
bonnet look like relic of the past.
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