The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-08-05
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Corsage bouquets are very large.
Coiffures grow higher and higher.

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Coiffures grow higher and higher.
White piquc has been revived again.
English tweed is used for travelling
dresses
Beltcd waists are in great favor for
summer dresses.
White pongce dresses arc trimmed
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 arc seen trimmed
with black mohair and silver braid.
Soft satins in bayaderc stripes around
the skirt arc used with plain surah for
the ovcrdrcss.
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
accomplished, but not beautiful, II they
would escapc marital troubles.
Fashions in dress arc more various and
individualized in Washington than in
my 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
it's outline.
Sashcs of moirc, surah and all sorts Of
soft, crapy, silkcn and WOODEN stutts arc
in high favor, and are worn In almost
every style preferred.
It 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.
Childrcn's washing dresses are made
chiefly of cambria and zephyr, as these
two materials are better adapted for
washing than the finer goods.
Straw bonncts are trimmed with scarfs
of soft, light silk about eight inches in
width, in Indian or Persian designs,
deem plaids and old tapestry patterns
with or without gold.
Some statisticians says there are 2,473
female surgeons in this country, and is
led to remark that matrimony is not
sufficiently deadly for some women.
Such incfTablc mcanncss!
Dorothy Dene is the name of a 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 rcd flannel
Jackets for seaside wear.
Mrs. Ellen Foster, q strong minded
temperance and woman's reform adv"-
cate, is senior partner Of the Dubuque
law firm of Foster g. Foster. MIR. Eos
ter, the junior partner. is her husband.
The beaded grenadinc basque and
front brcadths arc preferred to the
velvet-tigured grenadines of last year for
black dresses, and these dresses usually
have a mantle of the same to 60 with
them.
Printed cambrics and plain and white
zephvrs and lawns make scrviccablc
morning dresses, while for afternoons
cambrics and muslins in light %colors, and
printed with pretty designs Of flowers,
arc much worn.
Baby waists gathered on to yokes and
belts at the waist line, worn with full
gathered or plated skirts, which may
be tucked and trimmed with cmbroid-
cry, but not flounced, arc 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 Jokes must be OF
the material Of the dress and not white
to initiate childrcn'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 Saraccns,
among whom the orange blossom was
regarded as q symbol Of a prosperous
marriage, q 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.