The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-08
FASHIONS F0lBLES.

CAOulUN .
Plush takes precedence of velvet this season.
Some women buy brooches on the ground that
they cost less than ribbons
Wooden overdresses are gracefully draped, and
are usually without trimming.
Dark red plush bodices with broca9e vests
worn with black or coored skirts
Wells are to be worn long enough to cover the
chin and of the color of the bonnet.
Figured and beaded net, laid with little or no
fullness upon silk, will be worn for evening
dresses.
The new frise wool ribbons finished with satin
on the reverse side are used for full bonnet trim
mings with strings to match
The newest jerseys are pointed in front very
short over the hips, and finished with the jaunty
French position in the back. No.
Fur Innings are so heavy that they are now
almost confined to circular cloaks that are chosen
where great warmth is required.
For evening dresses the short apron drapery.
very high on the hips, and a single breadth
draped at the back will be much used.
Bodices of smooth cloth without trimming, in
gray, blue, brown or red, worn with skirts
that are no longer in their pristine freshness
The valuable Russian sables for trimming vel
vet and cloth garments are shown in tail borders
at $50 yard while the Hudson bay sables are
brown are the colors that enter largely into
everything that is designed for garniture, and
for much in dress also.
All we'll prepared borders of fur are now faced
with muslin or silk, so that an amateur can sew
them on by passing the needle through the stiff
facing instead of through the pelt.
A set of furs to be worn with any wrap not
trimmed with fur now consists of small collar
cite with square tabs in front, reaching only
halfway to the waist, and small round muff.
Red in shades both deep and vivid is leading
color which is likely to prevail the autumn and
wiuter through in dress, millinery and in
many wraps for either dressy wear or utility
uses
A blue and red cloth suit for little girl has
kilt skirt The jacket bodice has plated back
and loose fronts. with red belt, trimmed with
rows of blue braid The buttons and belt clasp
are of blue metal.
Pretty breakfast caps are made of cream white
woollen lace. the meshes run through with
black or wine velvet ribbon, with knots and
careless loops Of the same arranged around the
front of the crown.
Immense metal buttons again dispute with
bead and silk cord fastenings for the suffrage of
fashions followers. These buttons are employed
not only on Jackets but in trimming dresses also.
Unless however. of the best quality, the size Of
these buttons tends to vulgarize them.
The necessity of finishing basques in some
way to distinguish them from the Jersey is to
round the ends Of each of the four back forms,
lining them with satin, and to set two larger seal
lops of satin under them. This gives a pretty
effect and has no resemblance either to the
jersey or to the plated basque.
Fashion is in one of her most accommodating
moods this winter, and generously grants her
votaries perfect freedom in selecting from an
almost countless number of styles just the one
considered most becoming to the prospective
wearer, and if no one special style is thought
to be suitable for certain figure, then it is the
artists privilege to combine the approved feat
ures of few or many styles, and to form So
called original fashion.
Ladies possessing any sort Of de mode short
bodlces which have been thrown aside as use
less, can utilize the same by cutting away the
fronts after the manner of the zouave Jacket,
or, better still, the loosefronted Russian shape
now in vogue, and fitting a wastcoat of some
pretty contrasting color and material into the
seams. An addition of a row of handsome but
tons down the center of the vest will give the
discarded bodice quite a new appearance. The
waistcoat should be cut considerably below the
wastline and longer than the jacket proper.
New York Evening Post: A Sweet disorder"
in the arrangement of the hair is not only allow.
able just now about the temples and upon the
crown of the head, but it is considered very
proper and stylish" to allow mum bsrless short
stray zephyr locks to fall carelessly from either
side of the graceful French twist which carries
the most of the hair high to the front and sides
of the head The fashionable young lady thus
coiffured naturally gives the idea to people not
yet instructed In this new art of hair dressing,
that she has either quite forgotten to make her
usual toilet, or has recently encountered gale
The struggling wisps, nevertheless, are noticed
upon every other society" girl one meets just
now. They are fashionable and we know what
fierce violent objections may quickly be crushed
out and overruled by that magical assurance.
Critically, however, the --latest style" in hair
dressing is untidy one but no more so than
the wearing with the most carefully made and
handsome toilet OF a dingy and soiled undressed
kid gloye-a fashion which still obtains with
many best dressed people