The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-29
Fashion Notes.

or gOld.-C0SselTS Magazine.
Notes.
All sorts of bead ornamentation are
fashionable.
Skirts show a little more fulness
than last year.
The bead decoration continues with.
out abatement.
Undraped, pleated or gathered skirts
grow more and more in favor.
Teeth of antediluvian animals are
being utilized for cloak clasps.
The graceful draped skirt dies
slowly. but it is certainly doomed.
Jackets of all kinds are exceedingly
fashionable. both for home and street
wear.
Patent leather shoes, cut low, are in
style for house wear, and call for black
silk stockings.
A simple throat bow, without ends,
is the proper finish for the short bon
net strings of the season.
Undressed kid gloves, with heavily
stitched hacks and four buttons, are
fashionable for street wear.
Rough Goth mantles to match suits
are TO- trimmed with black fur and
tail fringes on the tabs in front.
Raw silk stockings with white feet
are in demand now, being warmer
than the spun silk and Lisle thread
nose.
College caps in plush or velvet are
not likely to be popular, as they do not
suit the female face, the hair or the
fringe.
Some one has said that silks are less
worn than formerly, but the record of
sales at our leading stores proves to
the contrary.
Fancy jackets, including the short
Elton, zouave. Russian and other
shapes, remain popular to wear with
house dresses.
Irish cloaks are not being generally
adopted. in England, and will rroba-
bly, be used only at night for carriage
wraps and the like.
Buttons are not much used On
dresses; some are so large hat one
must resort to the old hook-and-eye
methods for fastening dresses.
The most popular midwinter wrap
for ladies bids fair t o be the ulster,
newmarket, or overcoat of seal or seal
plush cut to resemble a mans over
coat, but with no effort to make it
look masculine or strong minded.
The linseys. that Scotch fabric so
much valued for it's wearing quality,
have again made their welcome ap-
pearance in this country. For chill
dren's snits the linsey is unsurpassed,
for it not only wears like iron, but it
will wash perfectly.
A'string of pearls around the neck
is the only ornament worn by young
girls for full dress. They may be real
If n is so fortunate, but Oriental
pearls are worn to a great extent.
The only care to be observed in wear
ing imitation pearls is not to wear too
many.
Sealskin, more worn than ever, is
only enhanced in popular favor by the
number of seal plush wraps, which
initiate it to perfection. but. Of course,
lack the warmth and lightness csm-
bined in sealskin, and which insures
its lasting popularity.
The variety in trimming materials,
inexpensive, but effective and tasteful
when well chosen, is due to the pluck
and enterprise Of American manufac-
turers, who have, by the beauty and
excellence of their productions in mil
inery stuffs, kept back the price Of the
foreign goods.
Black spun silk stockings are fin
ished with %unbleached soles, and hand
some fine walking styles have balbrig-
gan feet and black silk tops.
Pretty stripes are seen in moss
green and rose-pink, black and red,
blue and cardinal. Vertical stripes of
brilliant colors are divided by a
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