Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-12-06
FOR THE LADIES.
ALL ABoUr rHE FASHIONS.

Interesting ssssip- The Hish-Csfsass Eve
nina wr.ps-Fsrs. Fss~ Slippers Robes
Rags. &C.
Harpey's Basar, In It's current issue,
saws The high corssges for fuil.dress
toilettes have pointed front, with sofs
draperv on the basque back, or else the
trained breadths--of which there are
three or four--are gathered up In most
bouffant fashion and attached over the
end Of the back. The low, narrow "
shaped opening in the front OF the neck
filled with tulie either folded or gather
ed, is most stylish for these, but as this
Is not becoming to all, the square ana
round necks are still used, with or
without q high and narrow wired
collar across the back of the neck,
or else filed in with tulle guimpe.
Trains match the basque in MATERIAL
and are of great length and fitness,
their width being sometimes increased
by gored breadths on the side that are
let in halfway down the skirt. The
low vest (set in below the open neck OF
the waist and the front breadths are OF
the same material, but different from
the train and basque. Fronts may be
Of beaded lace, or that with gold threads,
or else there may be three brocaded
breadths gathered at the top under q
sash or paniers, and falling straight to
the foot, except where 1t is caught up
in the left side seam to show satin OF
another color beneath arranged in bro
ken pleats or gathered puffs; the foot
is also Of this satin. The
train sometimes has its side breadths
continued across the hips and front
in paniers. All trains flow straight
down the tournure, but may be made
very bouffant Just below the waist-line.
A brown-satin basque and bouffant
train, with bright buttercup yellow satin
1t the foot, has three breadths Of rich
brocade of cream ground with pale-blue
figures drapiDg the front, while the
scarf crossing it above may be of yellow
satin like that at the foot, or for
blonde it may be pale-blue, with blue
olastron in the corsage. Trains are
ined with crinoline, and pleated
lounces of lace and muslin are inside,
10 that it is no longer necessary to
wear a trained petticoat. The cushion
hustle and steels are also sup
,lied in trains. For plain rich tot
cites of black velvet, satin, or silk, the
basque has a triangular opening at the
,eck, filled in with white tulle up to
he jetted dog-collar a bunch Of bright
yellow or coquelicot red oStrich-tips is
placed at the waist line in front. The
black gauze-fan has a large bow of
;atin ribbon and ostrich-tips to match
hose of the dress. White repped or
,rocaded satins are fashionable for high
oasques and trains, with striped velvet
tests and front breadths, green and red
being in favor for alternating stripes
With white. Bright-red Bengaline, with
,ream white lace fronts wrought with
,old, and gold passementeries are also
elegant. The beaded passementeries
.re used on new dresses, and also to
-urbish up old ones.
EVENING WRAPS.
Plush is the fashionable fabric for the
IoDg evening cloaks that cover the
wearer from head to foot. Fawn-color
and pale-gray plush cloaks are new,
while those Of cream white or ruby are
as popular as they were last year. Gilt
ornaments, light fur and
feather borders are the trimmings.
Rich large-fgured brocades are used
also for these long cloaks and for
shorter nantes. White or pink basket
cloths with feather borders and gay
satin Innings are far less expensive
wraps. Red cloth with red-plush lining
is an English choice for opera cloaks,
and novelty is the ladies' silk opera
hat, with springs to flatten it like a
mans crush hat.
FANS.
Gauze fans, white, red, or black, are
in great favor, with painted decorations
or trimmed with satin bow and ostrich
tips. The outspread feather fans are
beautiful and costly, being made Of
three long curled ostrich plumes, or
which rest some marabout and heron
feathers, with perhaps a bird or rosette
of ribbon. The handle is Of tortoise
shell.
GLOVES, SLIPPERS, ETC.
Light tan. colored undressed kid gloves
are still used with dresses of any color
with white or with black dresses, but
there is an effort to revive white glove:
and to introduce pearl colors again
All long gloves are worn less wrinkled
than formerly and are not so long, ex
tending just above the elbows, ever
though the sleeves are very short.
Black slippers and black stockings
are still worn with light dresses, bu
not as formerly to the exclusion o
white ones and of those colored to mattel
the dress or its trimmings.
FURs.
The use of furs as trimmings and a.
wraps was never so general as at pre-
sent, and the variety increases as thu
season advances. For instance, at ;
recent fashionable wedding the brides
maids dresses Of white brocaded satir
had deep band Of Russian sable OF
the skirt, a sable fichu was passed higt
around the neck and crossed to the lef
of the bodice, and their small bon
nets Of white velvet had a border
Of the rich fur on the brim and a
the end of the crown. Sable anC
mink bands are now the first choice
in brown furs, and natural beaver
is tastefully used as a roll or binding
if still lighter-brown fur is desired, thu
natural lynx, with long fleece, is Sc
lected, and is especially liked for rict
wraps for the carriage and for evening
cloaks. Black marten, also called
Alaska sable, is perhaps more used thi:
season than any other fur, and is found
alike on costumes for the house anc
street, on rich morning wrappers of In
dia cashmere or chuddah cloth, on i'm
ported evening dresses of pink or o
white satin, and on all kinds of wraps
whether Of fur, plush, velvet, or cloth
Another novelty is the combination