The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-13
FASHION NOTES.
What Is Being Worn by Ladies' Who Keep
Pace With the Latest Styles.

What Is Being Worn by Ladies' Who Keep
Pace with the Latest Styles.
All brown furs are in high favor.
The beefeater hat is again worn in
England.
Fawn is a lovely color in velvet OF
velveteen.
High full shoulders are the rule for
dressy wraps.
A fashionable and beautiful rare fur is
the sea otter.
The long sealskin dolman is the mid
winter wrap.
Porphyry is new shade of red be-
tween brick and garnet
Chenille trimmings are in favor both
for bonnets and dresses.
Hudson Bay sable tails form the bor-
ders of many fine fur wraps.
Very beautiful are the white felt hats
brought out for little children.
The fur-lined circular remains in
favor, but it is not fashionable cloak.
Persian lamb. Astrakhan, aud gray
krimmer are all popular cheap furs.
In lieu of sealskin jackets short
mantles of sealskin will be worn this
season.
Among new lining furs comes a long,
crinkled, white fleecy fur called Chinese.
Muffs are sold to match capes, fichus,
collars, and pelerines of seal or other
furs
Necklets of velvet, satin, metal, and
all sorts of materials are worn by wom-
on, young girls and children.
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are held in at the waist line in the back
by straps of ribbon or elastic.
Children's garments retain the pulled
Molliere front, and bunch of shirring
in the back is added this winter.
There is revival of taste for the deli
cate aesthetic colors, and the newest
jerseys are brought out in these shades
Scarlet flannel will probably be fash
ionable this season in Europe, if not
here, as it is said to be preventive of
cholera.
The fastenings of mantles and cloaks
OF seal are carved antique heads in wood
or stained ivory or fine passementerie.
Capotes and Fanchons without strings
are worn; but, for all that, stringless
bonnet is not in good taste. If one OBJ
jects to strings she should wear hat
Fichus of velvet, silk, satin and lace
Manons" they are called in Paris and
London-are much in favor, being worn
with either low or high necked dresses
A new wooden lace, colored or
ocru, cream and white, run with gold
thread, is one of the latest fancies COM
ing from Paris prior to the outbreak of
the cholera.
The borders of short sealskin mantles
are of mink, with pendant tails, sable
tails, brown marten and plucked
beaver or otter in dark shades of brown.
Paris has been cleaner, sweeter, more
elegant and gayer than ever this fall,
but for all that the terrible cholera has
invaded it. Where will fashionable
Paris 90?
Astrakhan cloth is one of the mid
winter novelties; it is of pure wool, with
rough, curly surface in imitation of
Astrakhan fur. and comes in black,
brown, gray and dark green.
A pretty seal fichu or pelerine
brought out this season reaches like q
scarf mantle almost to the waist line in
the back, and has half-long pointed
fronts, is edged with seal fringe, and
The corsage of dressy evening toilets
is frequently formed entirely of white,
colored, or black bugle beads woven in
the lace foundations so thickly as to
cover the surface and forming hexa-
gop7, squares and other geometric fig
ures on the same.
Those magnificent shot silks with
velvet broche flowers, in cut and uncut
pile, are in favor for the court trains of
chaperons' dresses. They are com
bined with plain shot silks to match the
grounds of the broche, the plain silk
forming all of the toilet save the train,
which is frequently detachable.
An exquisite novelty in bridal dress
worn by Boston bride consisted of a
trained robe of pure white satin, elab-
orately embroidered with fine-cut steel
bead tassels and fringes. These, with
the many diamonds worn, gave the toilet
the appearance of being powdered with
diamonds.
The favorite finish for gentlemen 9
umbrella handles is the knob of black
and yellow called the tigers eye. The
with another it shows tiny crescent or
circle under the surface. 1t is we'll to
know this, as limitations of tiger s-eye
agates are sometimes sold for the real
stone.
The highest novelty in lace window
curtains demands the work of three
nations of Europe to make it. The
batiste, of which the body of the curtain
is made, is manufactured in England.
The handmade lace braids and flowers
must come from Brussels, and the ar
rangement of the same, the designs of
curtains and finish must pass through
French fingers. Y. Sun.