Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13
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NOTES.
Beaver NUTS are again in vogue for
misses.
Cloth boots faced and foxed with kid
are again worn.
Boots are again fashionahly laced at
the side as well as up the instcp.
Jackets of real and imitation Persian
lamb come among other novelties in
wraps.
Ribbons are much used for bonnet
strings, and ribbons were never more
varied and pretty than this season.
New water-proofs come in velvet-Gn-
ished surfaces and various colors, and in
imitation of mixtures and fine checks.
Plain skirts are not the invariable rule.
Many fashionable women cling to the
classic lines of the long, draped overskirt.
Fur fringe made Of real or imitation
tails OF the same animal whose fur trims
or forms the wrap is feature in this
fails wraps.
Partisan women are trimming their
high hats at the back instead of in front
as we do in America, but the trimming is
so arranged as to fall over The top and
reach the front of the crown.
Moliere shoes of glazed kid are fire.
quently seen for outdoor wear both here
and on the other side, but with the in
creasing cold high boots will, of course,
be dc rigueur.
Some of the new silk-embroidcred cloth
crown and center pieces are so elegant
aud rich in coloring that they are used
upon the most expensive reception and
opera bonnets of satin and velvet
Draped tabliers and TUNES are still
worn by fashionable women when the
frock is made of supple and plastic
fabrics, but, MS a rule, the new goods are
so heavy as to make plain skirts with no
draping or looping to speak of a necessity
and the rule.
Cuffs, collars, belts and ribbons are
fastened with handsome new clasps,
buckles, rings and arrows, in gold, silver,
bronze, enamel and pearl, or devices in
fine gold, set with half-preclous jewels,
these connected by hooks or fine chains OF
real gold or silver.
Among the new princess bonnets for
autumn wear are many with rolling brim
across the front, or u rather high coronet
curving to points at each side to be faced
with velvet. These shapes will be liked
by many ladies who found the fiat prin-
cess shape, or nuns cap, unbecoming.
The short sealskn mantle and its imita-
tion in seal plush, trimmed with feather
bands for the early days of autumn, and
with black otter bands and tails far later
In the season, are promised an enduring
popularity until the weather demands
long fur-lined and seal garments of va.
rious forms, which are brought out fol
midwinter wear
India shawl or Persian bordorings to
plain Oriental-lookiug stuffS are among
the handSomest novelties OF the season
In the deep borders at the edges intended
to form the bottom of the skirt all the
new colors are combined with that rare
taste which makes them seem as IL mel.
lowed by time, Just as they appear In q
! lne old India shawl, the designs, OF
course, containing the Oriental couven'
tIonal pattern, mingled with the inevita'
bic palm leaf.
Ladies possessing any sort of de mode
short bodiceS which have been thrown
aside as useless can utilize the same by
cutting away the fronts after the manner
OF the zouaye jacket, or, better still, the
loosc-fronted Russian shape now IN
vogue, and iithng waiStcoat OF some
pretty contrasting color and material into
the seams An addition OF Il row OF
handsome buttons down the center of the
vest will give the discarded bodice quite
a now appearance. The walstcoat should
be cut considerably below the waist-line
and longer than the jacket proper.
In new millinery accessories are very
rich, and beautiful scarfs and ribbons OF
raised velvet. embroidered plush and satin
in tapestry effects, wrought with SIZE AVID
gold threads, which come direct from for
eign looms and command high price by