Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-10-15
miscellaneous.
Fashion Notes.

Plain black silk will be worn.
Fichus of all colors are in vogue.
Lace shawls, square and pointed. are
utilized as drapery.
When flowers are worn they are placed
in the belt.
Horseshoes and merry thoughts are in
high favor in jewelry.
Ribbons with velvet and plush stripes
and with fringes are popular.
Serges are finer and softer than ever
before, and are highly favored by English
women.
The newest style is to have the bodice
of the plain fabric, and use the figured
for trimming and on the skirt.
Plaids and stripes continue in favor,
stripes being in the ascendant. They will
be worn under plain overdresses.
Algerian ribbon, which is woven of light
wool with colored stripes, is used for
trimming dresses because it falls in grace.
full loops.
The current rumor is that bustles are
decreasing in size still, all the latest
foreign plates show the dress held out as
though by shelf at the back.
Velvet, plush. embroidered cloth and
felt are the materials for the new bonnets,
Both plain and embroidered velvets are
used. and some striped velvets are shown.
Buckles, clasps, slides and hooks IN
gold, silver, steel, bronze, enamel. pearl,
amber and jet are used with tree hand
this autumn both for dress and millinery
purposes.
Cloth position basques made double
breasted and edged with braid in tailor
fashion. are used by many instead of jer-
seys. as an extra waist to wear with va.
rious skirts.
The small underskirts are made OF
white, light blue or pink crepe de chine,
small hounce, then wide one, both
edged with wide lace. These skirts are
made very short, indeed.
Lace ruchings are finished by two rows
of the lace hanging about three yards
long from the neck and caught in at the
waist belt; they are simple and stylish
for youthful ladies'.
In the latest thing in ladies' fine hose a
handsome snake protrudes its fiery tongue
and glittering eye at the instep. while the
reptiles body winds round the upper part
of the stocking.
Dainty neckerchiets for ladies are OF
| finest muslin, some embroidered in field
flowers, others in gold and silver threads.
Sheaves of wheat and grapes. ETC., are
the novel designs.
A headgear for an elderly lady is of
black French lace, festooned round half
moon violet silk centre, embroidered in
irridescent beads, and fastened with black
and pearl-headed pins.
Plush and velvet are to be worn during
the coming season. Velvets are striped,
Illuminated. figured, embroidered, and in
corduroy effects as well as plain. Seal
plush is in great demand.
Charming Limerick embroidered under
skirts are novelty just imported, and the
white roses and lily patterns show to ad-
vantage beneath an open morning robe of
fine rose colored cashmere.
jerseys are again imported tor autumn
wear. and are cut with as many seams as a
tailor basque. They are quite short and
pointed in front, still shorter on the hips,
and have narrow square position pleat.
ing behind.
There are some very pretty home
dresses for young ladies' wear, made oil
dark cashmere. which have for trimming
| three or four rows of worsted lace inser-
| ton let in on the skirt above the hem
at equal distances but not extending above
the knees.
This is to be checkered season in the
matter of wooden fabrics, judging by
the endless lines and grades of plated and
| blocked patterns which strew the counters
and adorn the shop windows of "exclu-
sive" importers.
Grasshoppers and ants are the latest
| fancy for brooches Some lace pins are
simply black enamel ant. carrying its
egg, a single pearl, by Its antennn. The
effect is singularly realistic, the industrious
insect being just life size.
Bourettes. friezes all rough, shaggy eff
fects, appear among the new styles One
harmony in bronze and brown has long
silky locks, not unlike those of a SKYE
TERROR, interviewer with its surface. An
other novelty is moutonne. the name aptly
suggesting the curled, feecy effect.
The great novelty in trimming is beads
made from cocoanut shells. highly polished
in black, gold, olive, bronze-in fact, all
colors. They are of exceedingly light
weight and are exquisite in effect. They
are used like jet for embroidery and pen
dants, and are particularly charming when
introduced as strands or tips in chenille
fringe.