Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-09
Fashion Notes.

Beaded wooden costumes are supplant-
ing braided ones.
Corduroy and homespun are combined
| for children's frOcks.
Diagonal cheviots with Turkish stripes
/ are novelties for costumes.
/ Evening gloves come In eight, twelve
and sixteen button lengths.
/ Gold and coral beads are used for trim.
/ ming Turkish or figaro jackets.
Boots are again fashionably laced al
! the side as well as up the instep.
Cloth boots TO match the costume, faced
| and foxed with kid, are again worn.
Jackets of real and imitation Persian
lamb come among other novelties in
wraps.
Dark red plush bodices with brocade
vests are worn with black or colored
skirts.
Woolen overdresses are gracefully
| draped, and are usually without trim
ming.
Wells are to be worn long enough TO
cover the chin, and are the color of the
bonnet.
Bronze, violet, corinth brown, copper
and plum are the colors most desired in
velvet or plush.
Figured and beaded net laid with little
or no fullness upon silk will be worn for
evening dresses.
Sleeves are long and close, as rule,
yet a few are shown with putfs at the
shoulders and elbows.
Some new dress skirts are quantity
trimmed with velvet ribbons, put on spiral
fashion round the skirt.
Seal plush cloaks are worn by chill
dren over 6 years of age. Younger chill
0ren wear COlOTed Dlusl.
Plain wool surahs, with flowers in
brighter tones than the ground, are used
for oyerdresses and drapery.
The "Judic" fur visite is OF sealskin
with square tabs in front. 1t is bOrdered
with black marten, tall fringe finishing
the tabs
For evening dresses the short apron
drapery, very high on the hips, and a sin
gle breadth draped at the back will be
much used.
Fur fringes made of real or imitation
tails Of the same animal whose fur trims
or forms the wrap is a feature in this
talPs wrap.
Many of the new wooden materials have
bands of embroidery, which are used for
| trimming the skirt and outlining the
plated vest.
Fans of ostrich feathers, from which
amber handles, are exhibited as "some-
thing entirely new"
Bodices Of smooth cloth without trim
ming in gray, blue, brown or red are worn
with skirts that are no longer in their
pristine freshness.
When the Princess dress is worn the
bodice is plain, mostly In the cuirass
shape, but sometimes open in front over a
narrow peaked vest.
Persian net and edgings are among the
new laces. They come in wool and the
Angora styles, and in the colOrs of Per-
sian shawls or scarfs.
Skirts have little more fullness than
last season, and are quite generally
gathered into the belts, although some
are in heavy box-plaits at the sides and
| backs.
Braid f1Ounces and fronts are shown.
! They are made of half-inch wide braids
| iuterlaced and showing octagOnal meshes.
| Some Of these flOunces are made over
| bright cOlOrs ana are very snowy.
Walking skirts are as long as possible
| without touching the ground. A few
| demi-trains are seen on ordinary dresses,
| but the best taste does not commend
them, neither do the best-dressed ladies
| wear them.
! Sashes will be worn with all materials,
/ and are imported to match most of the
| new fabrics whether Of wool or silk. La
! dies who are skilful in embroidery make
their own sasbes from any of the wool
/ dress materials, simply getting them
! stamped and working them IN regular en-
/ br0idery or KensingtOn stitch.
The short sealskin mantle and its imi-
! tation in seal plush. trimmed with feather
/ bands for the early days Of autumn, and
with black otter bands and tails for later
/ in the season, are promised an enduring
/ popularity until the weather demands
! long fur-lined and seal garments of vari-
Gus forms which are brought out for mid.
winter wear.
| For dressy use, the beaded fronts or
/ plastrons are very pretty and tasteful.
! They have a dog-collar and square front,
! or long Vest-like points, some OF them
! having but one point that passes 70 the
| left side and fastens to the dress below
the waist. They come in let, dull mourn
/ ing beads, and in plOmb, or lead, beads.
! They are particularly elegant over black
silk or satin dresses.
A great change has quietly taken place
in hair dressing fashions. Fashionable
ladies, tired of high styles, are gradually
wearing the catOgan braid or wavy curls
/ low on the neck. worn by the London and
! Partisan ladies' last winter. The Puritan
style of hair-cuttlng, close all over the
head, and shaped IN saucer bangs on the
forehead, which WAS quite q favorlte with
sporting ladies. has been eagerly adopted
by our pretty shop girls perhaps because
it saves time. This sty lie is not worn any
more in Europe, and the sooner it is DIS
! countenanced here, the better for the
looks Of our fair country women. Front
cOtfures are worn in pompadOur style.
The back hair. for daily wear, Is dressed
in catOgau braid about two inches from
nape Of the neck, looped up, and figure
! eight made Of waVy tresses on the crown
close 10 the front curls. Loop shell pins
/ are essential TO dress the hair in loops.
For evening wear, the bair is dressed
| In fluffy curls M front; POmpaIour STYLE
/ and the back hair in waYy loops, not TOO
large, hut long, ending IN two or three
! graceful wavy curls falling on the neck
! Fancy pins in gold and silver, studded
| with brilllants or rhine stones are mucb
| in vogue for ornaments. Feather pufTs
! for matrons and flowers for young ladies'.
! Front cOiifures connected with a catacon
/ braid or waVy curls are being introduced
/ 10 'fOrlOrn damsels. with shorn locks,
/ who are anxious 10 recover their fashion,
/ able appearance. GRAY hair Il more FASH
/ iouable than ever. Ladies' who have only
/ a sprinkllng OF gray have front cninures
and chiEnons made quite gray and have
/ them dressed In The latest style.