Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-02-16
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Fashion Notes.

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| Decollete dresses have knot of ribbon
almost at the shoulder, and the long
gloves nearly meet it.
Corsets are undergoing change. They
are made shorter in the waist and allow
more room for the hips.
of geranium red nuns yelling, with silk
aounces and guipure embroidery.
Among the new combinations OF colors
are Minerva blue and tobacco brown,
violet and gray or tilleul, ecru and plum.
Bands of velvet called armlets are worn
outside of the sleeves near the top. and
fastened with an ornamental clasp.
The newest slippers for brides are made
of gros grain silk, some of them having
the toe embroidered in small white silk
flowers.
New English felt hats have wide scarf
of changeable silk around the crown, with
the ends pointed and stamped with antique
| figures.
For matron a black velvet bodice,
richly embroidered or beaded. with skirt
and tunic of black satin trimmed to cor
respond, is very handsome.
A PLAIN skirt can be renovated by sur
rounding it with band of ribbon velvet
nine to twelve inches wide, leaving be-
tween each band space the same width.
Black lace dresses look well on brunettes,
made up of thread or gilded net, in COM
bination with black satin and pale yellow
velvet, garnitured with yellow roses.
Marabou feather bands are used to dec
crate dresses and mantles. The new va
rieties are durable and will stand rain. 1t
is now made upon very wide founda-
ton of muslin. marked out in inches, and
can be torn down to any width.
Brides 60 to the altar with the left hand
uncovered The glove is carried in the
right hand with the bouquet of loose, long
stemmed white roses and foliage. Brides
maids carry floral fans or baskets, swung
from their left arm by broad satin RIB
bons.
Among modern toilet inventions are
strips of fine felt, highly perfumed. which
are intended to be worn inside the dress
bodice, Its presence is supposed to obvi-
ate some of the unpleasant effects
which dancing sometimes brings about.
The odor is that of frangipani-a perfume
which many people detest.
An economical fashion has recently
come from France, of having movable
waistcoats and cuffs, One is of navy blue
velvet closely covered with slanting rows
of silver braid; another is of white cloth
edged with gold cord. and the last is of
plain coquelicot of velvet.
Toilets of white and gold are another
French fancy. An exquisite dress in this
combination is cream white satin figured
with little gold birds and butterflies. The
bodice and train are of brocade. and the
sheeny panels, which are laid in plaits,
are lined with pale gold satin. From be
meath these panels are brought wide scarfs
of duchesse lace outlined with threads of
gold. These tasten together with a Jew
eled clasp. the ends falling over the mag
nifcent tablier of gold satin, completely
yelled by wide Aounces Of duchess lace.
Plaids have quite an important field
just now. Not the gay. parti-colored
monstrosties which reigned few years
ago, but quiet unobtrusive squares for
which one has respect, even while re-
jecting them for personal wear. They
are generally made up in kilt skirts with
the plaids running bias. and vest of
some plain color IL inserted in the cor
sage, giving it quite stylish air.
Trimmed with black velvet ribbon, thev
make pretty and serviceable costume.
Wooden goods follow the fashion of
silks and velvets. One of the newest fab
RIGS has raised figures like velvet. but with
the threads uncut, upon plain surface.
These goods are very heavy and more APP
propriate for street than house wear
Family traced brooche figures are some
times seen. but oftenest and most popular
of all are those of velvet. Small blocks,
diamonds, cubes, geometrical figures of
all sorts are woven in velvet upon the
richest wooden goods, making them as
desirable as the silks from which they are
copied for the palmer materials, cancels
hair. cashmere, drap d. etc Ottoman cloth,
vigogne, have as usual their place among
goods for satisfactory every day wear.
Jewelry is not now worn in the street by
any woman, young or old, who knows
how to dress. Even the lace and the lace
pin have disappeared from the throat, a
collar stud being the only ornament WISH
BILE. Even the watch chain has been re-
duced to minute proportions, and hardly
suggests that watch is concealed in the
inner recesses OF the vest or jacket pocket.
The only jewelry allowed is the silver
which copies the antique in its oxydized
and antique designs. and this only looks
well with the smoke gray dress and the
new cloudy materials which absorb the
quaint bits of carved and hammered met
ais as if they formed a natural part of
them.
Green is very fashionable in Paris this
season. Among the many shades of this
color now in use is blush green, which
can be combined with many other hues,
such as red. garnet and gold. Fawn, gray
and all neutral tints, including various
blues, are used, but green and violet have
this preference over all others. A shade
of purple plum is the favorite among those
best liked. Many old shades are called
by new names, such as vet cresson,
(watercress green.) a kind of moss green,
ashes of rose, and pretty pinkish violet
formerly called heilotrope. The color
called lie de rim, or wine dregs, is now
: bacchante," and chamois and putty and
Suede.
In the window of fashionable New
York modiste is dress which has at.
tracted very favorable comment. The
bodice is of watercress-green velvet, Dor.
dered with pearls over white India
L. Il AL.