Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-04-30
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Surahs remain in fashion.
Moire stripes are again seen.

Surahs remain in fashion.
Moire stripes are again seen.
Silver braid is used on street costumes.
White handkerchiefs are the preferred
tort.
Delicate Madras silk is used for dra-
perry.
Over 1900 women are compositors in
Paris.
A popular finish in gold jewelry is heavy
chasing.
Orange is to be the leading color Of the
coming season abroad.
Black hosiery continues to be the cor
icct style for the street.
The bridal dress of the Princess Eula-
lie of Spain cost $50, 900.
A diamond may be too deep for bril-
iancy as well as too shallow.
Beaded grenadines with cashmere eff
feet have fruit or floral designs.
Vests of bugles have high collars and
have small jabots of lace at the side.
Bead necklaces are in demand, worn
over velvet OF the same color as the
beads
Light, wooden materials are being
made up in tailormale dresses for tle
;eashore.
Draperies are long or short in front,
out in the back they are long and vol
lminOu3.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart and Mrs. Mark
Hopkins are said to be the richest women
the world
The women students of the University
If Michigan have organized for muscular
l,velopment.
Cashmere, navy blue, cardinal and
,rown Spanish guipure is much EN- ,,loyed
or drapery a1d trimming.
The fashion of wearing beads, dog col
ars and velvet neck ribbons close up
lbout the throat continues.
Beads are used in greater profus:oa
han ever and rival in their tlnts the
.ems of "Ormuz and the Ind"
Skirts are with or without panels, are
plain, ilt.plaited or edged with narrow
9ounces or with narrow bias folds.
A woman in Walton County, Ca, has
| rolling pin that has been in constant
Ise for 170 years, and is still as good as
lew.
The girls in the public schools of
Brooklyn are compelled to commit to
memory the Constitution Of the United
States
Americans who return from abroad at
firm that the only handsome women
seen in London society now are of Amer
lean birth.
There are American China silks, with
dainty colorings in solid grounds, with
exquisite, flowers and artistic figures In
Subdued tones of bright hues.
Valepciennes, Chantilly and gulpure
laces are so skillfully produced by the
loom that scarcely any one but an expert
ran distinguish the real from the imita-
lion. =.
Shoulder capes of netted six and beads
corresponding in color to the silk, have
high collars and are edged with deep
points bordered with rosary beads of the
same tint.
There is woman in Corning, N. Y,
who weighs over 400 pounds and
measures sixty-three inches around thc
waist, and thirty inches across the
shoulders.
Black grenadines with beaded designs
woven into them are to be among the
most ele CANT of the new fabrics, and for
summer wear the beading when woven
in has the great advantage of being dur
able.
At the recent marriage at Vienna of the
daughter of the grand duke of Tuscany,
to the brother of the queen regent OF
Spain, the principal ladies in attendan G
wore dress trains from thirteen to nlne-
teen feet long.
A cambric dress for it'll child has
the round bodice plated with revers of
embroidery. The SKIRT of wide embroid-
cry is shirred on the bodice. A cluster
of floops and ends of ribbon is arranged
on the right side of the waist.
In certain Austrian town thirty fe-
male printers were introduced. The ty-
biographical society adopted novel way
of securing them. 1t took two or three
years to do it, but it was accomplished
at last by the girls becoming the wives
of the printers.
In Paris it is quite the thing to trim
wool and cloth dresses with these beadc
garnitures; but as yet we have not used
them for such purposes. The com NJ
season will, however, see handsom
worsted materials trimmed with fan, J
beads in all c. lors.
A pretty variation of the wearing o
ribbon about the neck is to run RIB )I
quarter of an inch wide, or even mar
rover. around the throat and passing the
ends through two horizontal button hol' 8
in high linen collar, and tying
them in diminutive bow at the front OF
the neck.
There is wide range of styles for the
coming season, and practically there is nc
law as to The arrangement of bodice
skirt or drapery. There is tendency t'
combine two or more distinctive styles o.
bodice, thus making a variety from which
each gentlewoman may choose according
to her personal taste.
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