The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Pale mauvc is one of the fashionable
colors.
Wooden lace is seen in all colors and
widths.
Gainsborough hats are much worn
abroad.
Jackets of varied shapes and styles are
fashionable.
Braid is again in fashion, but for
cloth dresses only.
Braid and fancy GALLONS are in high
favor for dress trimmings.
Capes, fcus and short mantles will all
be worn for early fall wraps.
Children will wear a great deal Of
navy blue combined with scarlet.
Girls employed in the watch factory
at Waterbury, Conn, get $3.50 day.
The eldest daughter of novelist How
ellis is developing great talent fc liter
allure.
Orchids and narcissus of precious
stones are some of the novelties in
brooches.
Mules, elephants and horses richly
caparisoned are the passing fancy for
lace pms.
Lace and MORE are admirably com
bined in dressy frocbs visiting and cerc
monious occasions.
Serpiliere and shlmah are canvas ma
terials with narrow plush stripes in u
variety of combinations.
Wollen stuIs are more in favor than
silk or velvet ones for bonnets and hats,
as well as for the frocks with which they
arc worn.
Miss Blanche Williams, of Brantford,
Canada, is the first coored girl ever ad-
mitted to the privileges of the university
of Toronto.
The basque is still the bodice most
favored by dressmakers, but its made
very short and simple, with or without
a waistcoat, at pleasure.
Polonaises of velvet or vclvetccn will
be worn over skirts of rough wooden
stulIs, with bourrettc, boucle, Astrak-
han, frize, and other borders,
Scotch pebble jewelry is again in
fashion; this time the stones are set in
sections flush with the surface, giving a
finish of varicolored marquetry.
Straight, graduated, raised, sunken,
! boucle, bourrette, broche, zigzag waved,
and mixed combination, stripes are all
seen on both wool and silk fabrics this
fall.
French women have completely mas.
tered the science of the laundry, and the
hem stitched lace edged ruflles are con-
stantv washed. When linen collars and
I ", .,
! broidered or printed in colors, and are
far better suited to French than to Eng
lish women.
Gray, although far less fashionable n
color than last season, is not discarded,
and in many shades of granite and steel
gray it is not only fashionable, but re-
served for very rich toilets, owing partly
to the superb passementeries and beaded
ornaments and embroiderics that are SO
very handsome in shades Of gray.
In many ways now France is losing its
sovereign sway in the realm of dress.
American women come to Paris. look
around and make up their minds as "a
what is best there, and buy in England.
/ French women themselves are extensive
| patrons of the English tailors who come
to Paris, but they do not recognize Brit.
ish skill in other departments of dress,
unless it be materials, which they some,
times buy in England.
If you want really useful washing
dress, not always in the washtub, choose
dark blue linen; you can make it very
simply at home, with kits or box plais
from the waist, a short drapery in front,
and full, plain train piece at the back,
and buckle at the waist. One granc
secret, it would seem to be, of dress il
trimncss With general pervading
ncatness in every detail there is Otter
better style than with rich materials.