The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-26
FASHION NOTES.
street Wraps, Furs, Bonnets and Trim
mings for the Season,

Street Wraps, Furs, Bonnets and Trim
mings for the Season.
MOODS on street wraps are popular in
Faris just now.
Bonnet strings are correctly worn
two and one-half or three inches wide.
Fur shoulder capes are to be worn,
but probably are not so fashionable as
last winter.
In bonnetS where velvet and fur are
combined the fur must match the color
of the velvet.
Bonnets of velvet, with fur or seal
plush or astrakhan plush brims, are
beng brought out tor midwinter wear.
For morning out-of-door wear, on all
SORTS OF occasions, wooden frocks Of
English make and appearance takepre-
eedence of all others.
Bonnet strings should be only five
elglhths or three-quarters of a yard long,
and aed in a bow under the chin or u
little on one side.
Little girls wear a great deal of brown
and red this season, but no matter what
the color of their frocks, their stock
ings, to be correct, must be black
Tam O'Shanter caps for little girls
are trimmed with jabot of cloth,
velvet, or ribbon placed erect on the
band and crown of the hat, directly in
'front.' A small steel, silver or jet orna-
s1ent adds to the dressy effect.
The most popular midwinter wrap for
sissti,Ns bids fair to be the ulster, new
market or overcoat of seal or seal plush,
cut to resemble a mans overcoat, but
with no effort to make it look mascu-
line or strong minded
Sealskin, more worn than ever, is
only enhanced in popular favor by the
number of seal plush wraps, which imi-
tate it to perfection, but, Of course, lack
the warmth and lightness combined 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 manufact-
,urers, who have, by the beauty and
excellence of their productions in mil
linery stuffs, kept back the price of the
foreign goods.
English homespuns, Irish friezes and
barney cloths, kerseys, and Scotch che
viots are used almost to the exclusion
of all other wooden stuffs for street
Utility and informal visiting suits, and
with such suits q Jacket of the same or
of some heavy cloaking cloth is the
proper wrap. If the weather is very
cold fur stole and muf may be worn
over the jacket and a channels jody
underneath.
Fine feather bands composed of os-
trioh tilaments for the centers, and sea
gulls, eagle neck or cocks haclllc feath-
ers curled for the outer edges, trim
many handsome carriage wraps of OF.
tomd2e orapaud cloth, drap de tantaSie,
velvet broche embroidered with tinsel
and silk, and cuchemire du Thibet OF
changeable colors, and sometimes those
wonderful French fabrics in changea-
bic effects, broche with fine cashmere
b eads.
Fancy mufs of fur, velvet, plush,
broche, silk, and satin in combination,
and trimmed with lace, beads, motifs,
pendants, ribbon, feathers, and tinsel
embroidery, come in all sorts of ode
and artistic forms, resembling reticules
pouches, fans, anmonaires, Oriental
capes, medallions, lozenges, and moons,
full, gibbous, and crescent. They are,
as a rule, suspended around the neck
with fancy ribbons that match the colors
and materials of the muff. ~ Y San.