Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-27
Fashion Notes.

Skirts grow palmer and fuller.
Moliere fronts are seen only on house
dresses.
Pendant or drop buttons fasten many
bOdices.
Dress bodices are cut to produce square
shoulders.
Plush will be very fashionable again
this winter.
Stringless bonnets are worn by youthful
women only.
Braid is again In fashion, but for cloth
dresses only.
Beaded crowns are placed over those OF
satin or velvet.
Large rosary beads are used in dress
characterization.
Children will wear great deal Of navy
blue combined with scarlet.
Sleeves with a sagging puff at or above
the elbow are coming in vogue.
Full belted waists grow in favor for
wash dresses, both white and cOlored.
Large fiat buttons are the style for
street Jackets, Newmarkets and long ul-
sters.
Braid of medium width, edged with
pOmpoms, is Used for trimming wooden
costumes.
Many overskirts are slashed only on
one side, but the slash extends all the way
to the waist.
Wooden fabrics, with embroidered or
gold woven borders, are made up in visit
ing costumes.
Madras striped silk is used for panels,
vests and cuffs for costumes or dark silk
or of fine wool.
Waistcoats, which arc feature in fall
frocks, are narrow and frequently in
point at the waist line.
Another season Of lace is predicted and
indicated by the first importations of
dresses, hats and bOnnets.
A seal brown velvet toque is tastefully
trimmed with cluster OF loops of wide
brocade, cream-colored ribbon and fancy
bird.
Wooden stuffs are more in favor than
silk or velvet ones for bOnnets and hats,
as we'll as for the frocks with which they
are worn.
The English walking jacket and the
Newmarket coat are brought again this
fall, and In more severely plain styles
than ever.
Lace pocket handkerchiofs being only
en- reggie for state occasions, are made into
pretty iabots or bows, aud are worn with
demi-toilettes.
POlOnaises Of velvet or velveteen will be
worn over skirts OF rough wooden stuffs,
with bourette, boucle, Astrakan, frize,
and other borders.
Golden brown plush cuffs. collars and
waistcoate are seen on some very jaunty
white Jersey jackets, gilt buttons adding
TO the dressy effect.
The basque is still the bodice most
favored by dressmakers, but IL IL made
very short and simple, with or without
waistcoat, at pleasure.
White crepe lisse Tuchings and pOmpa-
dour fronts are studded closely with small
pearl beads, and this forms dress acces-
sorry to an evening toilet.
Sasbes OF broad white watered ribbons
are worn with white toilets. They are
tied ut the back or side and fall In long
loops and ends over the skirt.
The Gilda basque IL open ia front, clos
ing with one button just below the bust,
then cut away, showing q pointed vest
trimmed with braid matching the skirt.
Simulated drapery upon oyerskirts il
frequently attained by cutting the lower
edge irregulaily. This manner Of arrange
ment when cleverly done gives the exact
effect OF draplng.
Tho detached dog collar OF velvet 20 be
worn With any dress 10 made very high |
this fall, and trimmed with handsome /
Irish crochet or old Florentlne cut WORK /
falling over u at the top.
Beaded network brims are worn with 1
velvet crowns as well as with beaded |
ones. They are not so wide as those /
worn during the summer, aud are edged .
with cut beads Of large size.
Old-fashiOned black face scarfs are now /
worked over with gold thread, bright /
hued silks or luminous beads, and |
arranged as plastrOus on the fronts or \
bOdices. and 10 form "A drspery on the left |
side OF the skirt
The oyerskirts OF many cloth dresses |
are made long front and back, l0opd very /
high on one side and slashed % the waist /
line on the other. showing the rich bOr- /
dered, bOucle, Byzantine figured, plush, 1
Astrakan striped or braided underskirt.
The princess polOnaise, which, when en- /
train becomes the princess robe, ~ re-
yiVed, opening over n petticOat front OF .
fancy brOcade. The robe Is tor rich silks I
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