Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-01-16

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handles, the quainter and more eccen-
trio the newer style.
Convenient adjuncts to q finished
toilet are collarettes and muffs COM
bined, made Of velvet, lace and silver
fox fur.
For moderate gifts to bridesmaids,
single pearl solitaire earrings and six
pins to match, in little case, are fash
ionable.
The newest driving gloves are of
knitted silk, covered both inside and out
with downy racoon's hair. They are
warmer than fur.
1t is common thing for girls to have
six or seven different pieces of false hair
to wear on the forehead, changing the
style of their faces to suit their bonnets.
Very wide belts are worn even over
plain waistcoats in Paris; they pass
under the jacket in the back, but in
front they are almost as wide as a scarf.
Very delicate flower sprays, intended
to be worn in the hair, are shown by the
milliners, and pretty clusters of mara
bout and ostrich feathers are offered for
women too old to wear flowers.
The very newest overskirts are made
with very large plaits all around, and are
shorter in front than they are at the side
and behind, initiating the tucked-up
drapery of antique statues of huntresses.
Even the waists of evening costumes
are shirred on the shoulders by Paris
dressmakers, who seem this year to make
all gowns look as if they were folded
about the figure rather than fitted to it.
There is no prettier waist for indoor
wear, and none more becoming, than the
white wool jersey, and the girls who
have learned this great truth sigh no
more for the discarded creamy muslins
of the summer.
Quaint dresses are made of dull blue
sateen. The skirts are round, with full
gathered frill at the edge, and are worn
with broad scarfs of coarse twine-colored
canvas worked with dice spots or stars
of bright woods.
One of the latest dresses in London is
novelty in the snaps of suede leather
skirt with polonaise of navy-blue serge.
The waistcoat is of leather, like the pet
ticoat, which can be readily sponged
free of mud or dust.
When a costume of wooden cloth in
which two colors blend has a waistcoat
of the brighter of the two, a very pretty
effect is produced by using a brocade
lowered with tint little more deli
cate than the ground.
Because one wishes to wear fur trim
ming one need not dispense with mill
tary trimming on the front of ones coat,
and in fact the heavy cords of the hussar
jacket produce very pretty effect when
drawn across fur bands.
Very beautiful black evening gowns
have the waist of plain velvet fitted as
precisely as q jersey, and the skirt of EN-
bossed velvet sewed outside the basque
all around, draped slightly on one side
and made very full in the back.
Those ladies who cannot or will not
wear the high couture, with the hair
drawn up from the nape of the neck,
compromise by wearing high or con.
spicuous back combs and side combs
and for evening wear these must be jew
eled.
The latest freak of fashion. according
to Partisan journal, is the bauishment
of the stocking from the feminine ward
robe. Those who have made the subject
a study pronounce stockings to be mo-
only useless, but injurious, from SAM
tary point of view.
Some redingotes are full, with the
skirts gathered in the back, and other
are cut like mans coat-tail from thu
waist down. Were it not for the fancy
velvet of which the cuffs are made Thu
redingote would look like velvet habit
placed over buttoned redingote skirt.
Satin is a better material than brocad
for the quilted Innings of cloaks, as i
does not fray so quickly; but brocade i
very pretty when the lining is left plain
Gray and pearl color are used for thi
purpose almost as much as the brighte
colors, as their delicacy gives an effec
of elegance.
Lace scarfs, caught on the right shout
der under ornaments of any sort, spra
of flowers, q bow of ribbon or knot O
feathers, drawn across the waist and fas
tened on the left hip under another orna
ment, make pretty trimming for eithe
day or evening dress, and are much wor
in London. Elderly women sometime
fasten the scarf on the top of the head
making it serve as aheaddress, and carr
it thence to the shoulder.