The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

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English tweed is used for travelling
dresses.
Velvet stripped limousine are used for
summer wear.
Belted waists are in great favor for
summer dresses.
with silver braiding.
Jcwelry is worn more now than be-
fore for many years.
The queen chain is now almost unani-
mously adopted by ladies.
The contrast of biscuit-color and
moss green is very fashionable.
Black mohair dresses are seen trimmed
with black mohair and silver braid.
Soft satins in bayaderc stripes around
the skirt are used with plain surah for
the overdress.
The darning stitch, though less grace
full than many others, is still used in art
embroidery.
Nine. Nilsson says she is never tired
of hearing herself sing, but that others
sometimes tire her.
A philosopher says: Girls should be
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would escape marital troubles.
Fashions in dress are more various and
individualized in Washington than in
any fashionable city in the world.
Princess Beatrice is two inches taller
than the queen, with a form so perfect
that it is said art can add no beauty to
its outline.
Sashes of MORE, surah and all sorts of
soft, crapy, silkcn and wooden stuifs are
IN high favor, and are worn in almost
every style preferred.
1t has been said that Philadelphia
women don't stop growing until they
reach the age of thirty. At that age
they begin to grow old.
Childrens washing dresses are made
chiefly of cambria and zephyr, as these
two materials are better adapted for
washing than the finer goods.
Colored and white lawn collars plat
ed and soft laundcted, not still with
starch, are taking the place of white
linen bands for travelling and morning
wear.
Straw bonnets are trimmed with scarfs
of soft, light silk about eight inches in
width, in Indian or Persian designs,
deep plaids and old tapestry patterns
with or without gold.
Some statisticans says there are ., 473
female surgeons in this country, and is
led to remark that matrimony is not
sufficiently deadly for some women.
Such incffabc mcanncss.
Dorothy Dene is the name of new
London beauty who promises to become
a rival of Mary Anderson and Mrs Lang
try. She is said to be very beautiful,
though still quite young.
The latest fancy in bead ornamental
ton is to put pendant strands of copper
or lead beads or porcelain limitations of
the same on red serge and red flannel
jackets for seaside wear.
Mrs. Ellen Foster, strong minded
temperance and woman's reform advo-
cate, is senior partner of the Dubuque
law firm of Foster e. Foster. Mr.. Eos
ter, the junior partner, is her husband.
The beaded grenadine basque and
front breadths are preferred to the
vclvet-tigured grenadines of last year for
black dresses and these dresses usually
have mantle of the same to 90 with
them.
Printed cambrics and plain and white
1ephyrs and lawns make serviceable
morning dresses, while for afternoons
cambrics and muslinS in light colors, and
printed with pretty designs of flowers,
are much worn.
Baby waists gathered on to yokes and
belts at the waist line, worn with full
gathered or plated skirts, which may
bc tucked and trimmed with embroid-
cry, but not tlounced, are the features of
little girls dresses.
Clutch treating is the fashion at
Washington. Ladies and gentlemen buy
their own theatre tickets and pay their
own car fare, or if it be a question of
picnics the ladies furnish the solid and
the gentlemen the liquid refreshments.
Yoke waists will be used for Young
ladies dresses, but the yokes must be of
the material of the dress and not white
to initiate children's guimpes; the style
is too infantile for young women who
are supposed to have reached the age of
discretion.
The custom of brides wearing orange
blossoms was derived from the Saracens,
among whom the orange blossom was
regarded as a symbol of prosperous
marriage, a circumstance which is partly
to be accounted for by the fact that in
the East the orange tree bears ripe fruit
and blossoms at the same time.
Here is a stunning get up" in which
well-known actress appeared on the
race course at Longchamps, France: A
crimson velvet bonnet representing a
saddle, tied under her chin by strings
tipped with steel stirrups. With this
the lady wore cherry colored jacket,
fastened about the waist by a horseshoe.
Her skirt was embroidered with horse
shoes, while, to complete the costume,
her hair was dressed over a silver bit SO
as to fall down her back like horses
tail.
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