Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-05
Fashion Notes,

Stripes and plaids are equally popular
Yellow is a favorIte color for elegant
neglige toilets.
Girls under ID wear their frocks with.
| out overskirts.
Fur polerines and round capes reach to
| the waist line.
| Cardinal and dark navy blue is still a
very fashionable combination.
Hand painted coal scuttles have made
| their appearance in New York.
The round waist, with belt, is a feature
| of some new French costumes.
| Hoods are sometimes added to the backs
| of expensive matinees and tea gowns.
All fashionable skirts are Ornamented
with panels of one kind of material or
| another.
Feather stitching is employed for trim
| ming all sorts of dresses, whether of fan.
mel or satin.
Mourning handkerchief are of white
batiste, covered with small black figures
or black lace.
The front breadtbs of many ball gowns
are worked in satin to match the colors of
the costumes.
Jeweled dog collars are still gaining
favor, and torn an effective part of an
evening toilet.
Several tiny combs of cut. riveted Jet
are tucked here and there in the coitfures
of ladies' with abundant hair.
B0as are decidedly the fashionable fur
trimming for the neck, long, fluffy fur
being the prettiest for these.
The dearest little "tea aprons" are
made of cream white canvas embroidered
and trimmed with pic0t ribbon.
Collars of dresses are someti mes trimm-
ed TO resemble necklace, with embroid-
cry and drops of jet or old silver.
The sides of many draperies are orna-
mented with large crocheted or worked
girdles, covered with cut jet beads.
English and Spanish turbans, made en-
tirely Of plumage, the crowns covered
with fine feathers, are once more popular.
Swiss belts, pointed back and front, are
made in network of jet intermixed with
heavy balls. This is an old fashion re-
ylved.
Underskirts of stripped. barred, plaided,
bayadere and figured stuffs are worn with
all the other parts OF the dress of plain
stuff.
Some military-looking epaulets reach
from the collar TO the shoulder points and
have hanging fringe that falls over the
sleeves.
Cachemeres of fine quality are largely
used for dressy toilets. Lace, embroidery,
passeme nteries aud ribbons are used as
decoration.
New China silk handkerchiefs have
hemstitcbed borders done with colored
silks. A small, quaint figure of Japanese
design is wrought In one corner.
Plain and striped eider-down wrappers
are made in close princesse shape, and
are decorated with velvet collars and
cuffs and ribbon bows down the front.
Neapoltan jackets OF red stockinette,
braided in black, are much favored for
house wear. Basques of.cream colored
pilot cloth are also popular for the same
uses.
Nearly all the Dodices upon evening
gowns have either open fronts over deli
cate white lace waistcoats, or plastrons
With revers beyond, made TO simulate
vest.
The most fashionable colors in Paris
are dark navy blue and cardinal CON-
bined for day, heliotrope and brick, and
seroent green and old violet for evening
wear.
Vests, plastrons, separate waistcoats,
plated shoulders, the surplice front
iapped to the left side and revers OF all
kinds are seen on the newest French
dresses.
Basques OF velvet are once more fash
ionabie. Many otherwise serviceable
costumes, with hslf-worn corsages, may
be made as good as new by the addition
OF these basques.
Bodices must be trimmed; II the omni-
present plastron is not desired, plain
line OF braid, an inch and half in width,
should be placed on either side OF the but
tons and Duttonholes.
A big picture OF Colgate's New soep
will be 10 this paper next Wednesday.