The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
Fashion Notes.

Astrachan is again a ~favorite trim
ming.
Wool ball fringe is used on cloth
mantles.
Corduroy jackets are much worn by
young girls.
Colored Spanish lace is worn on WOOL
en- costumes in Paris and London.
Pelerines, or capes of small size, but
with long tab-like ends, are found among
wraps.
Very large caleche-like bonnets and
very small ones are both ~fashionably
worn in Paris.
White batiste collars, hemstitched, are
allowed after the first three months Of
deep mourning.
Velveteen skirts are worn with wool
overdresses and basques, and velvet
skirts with silk dresses.
Turkish beads Of greenish gold color
are used for embroidery on black and
dark green laces or lace nets.
Wooden dress fabrics embroidered with
tinsel and with frise palm leaves, and
also with silk cord, are novelties.
Spanish girdles of iridescent beads is
another of the pretty ornaments for
black house dresses or dinner costumes.
Sealskin borders are much used upon
the new tailor suits of dark green and
golden brown cheviots for winter wear.
Bands of velvet styled armlets are
worn outside of the sleeves, near the
top, and fastened with an ornamental
clasp.
Waistcoats of velvet are a feature on
jersey jackets, and when seen are in
variably accompanied by velvet collars
and cuffs.
Dressy slippers of black and bronze
kid are made to wear with. black silk
stockings, and have jetted medallions
for ornaments.
Tailor-made cloth redingotes have
double breasted fronts and deep cuffs
and standing collars of fur or elaborate
ly braided collars and cuffs.
The new evening dresses are many of
them made of faille Franchise and
trimmed with a profusion of lace, crys'
tai, pearl or iridescent beads.
New costumes are for the most part
made in combination of two or more
fabrics, as a frise strip with plain goods
or a striped plush with plain plush.
Immense vases filled with bouquets Of
Towering shrubs, such as laburnams,
cherry blossoms, mauve and white lilacs,
are to adorn drawing room corners.
The season has developed among
others, these new combination of colors:
Minerva blue and tobacco brown; violet
and gray or tilleul, and ecru and plum.
Ribbons of fanciful weaves and de-
signs are used to excess as dress trim
mings, no. only as bows. loops, and
fots, but laid fiat like GALLON or wide
braid.
Silk and wooden jersey stockinet hats
are novelties. They are made over a felt
shape, but being much dearer than felt
and not "dressy," they will probably not
be very popular.
For mourning, in all silk fabrics, the
preference IS given 10 Cne sllk-Warp crepe
cloth, armure, Panama and Radimar
silks, all of which, when trimmed with
crepe, are appropriately worn in deep as
we'll as second mourning.
Feathers constitute the preferred trim.
ming in millinery and the consequence
is a superabundance of ali sorts of fancy
plumage, as well as birds and birds
heads and wings. There is also a reyl-
val of ostrich tips and plumes.
As q novelty in cheap laces is a pretty
variety for garnishing simple home toll
cts. 1t is a soft, creamy shade, and has
a cotton net foundation exactly similar
to the foundation of the oriental laccs.
The threads, however, are of wool or
yak, and lend a weight and richness
which cotton never gives. This lace is
said to laundry remarkably well.