The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-01-23
The NORTHWESTERN STANDARD: JANUARY 2s 1885
FASHION NOTES.

FASHION NOTES.
Fur is worn on every thing.
This is emphatically . velvet season.
Even morning wrappers are trimmed
with fur. III
Cuffs as well as linen collars are again
fashionable. 3 .s.
y Small plush wraps will be worn again
in the spring.
Corsages will be shirred on the
shoulders in the spring.
Round waists and belts d la Josephine
are BY no means QUITO fashion.
& Feather and lace fans are the pretti-t
est for ballroom and opera use. U
Plain black silk, faille and gros grain,
is again in favor for entire suits.
a novel fancy in mems wear is velvet
bindings on dressy day suits.
Ball dresses are loaded with flowers,
natural and artificial, this season.
The catogan couture is in high favor
in Paris, but not in New FORK as yet.
Old-fashioned round boas, very long
and large, are coming in vogue again.
Men $ shoes, to be fashionable, must
be pointed at the toe and low in the
heel.
China gauze broche, with small fig
ures, comes among other ball dress
novelty fabrics.
Imitation straw hats, made of braids
of plated felt, are among late millinery
novelties.
Open work Scotch plaids are to be.
worn in the spring, cut into lengths for
trimming plain stufs.
Tuile dresses, with satin bodices Of
the same color, will be the preferred
ball dresses of the season.
Seal and dark seal-brown plush wraps
are all the rage, and are worn in spit
of the warm weather.
Silk crepe, spangled with gold and
silver tinsel, is shown for ball dress
draperies and entire skirts.
When ball dresses are cut low, in
heart shape, in the neck in front, they
are cut still lower in the same form in
the back.
Filtration fans, with lace wings for
the butterflies in the pictures painted
thereon, are not new, but they are
pretty and novel.
A novel kind Of ornament for the
hair is band Of velvet set with West
Indian beetles in colored gold, alternat-
ing with gold sevuins.
Ball dresses are slightly trained for
married women, but de rigueur short,
round and full for young ladies and en-
thuSlaStlc dancers.
One Of the novel fancies Of this sea-
son in Paris is the wearing Of straw
hats, but then they are heavily lined
with felt cloth or velvet.
Russian coats with very high collars,
i'll the back Of the neck especially, are
worn with. these high toques, orna-
mented with shaving brush pompons.
The pelerine is SO much admired for
its use and beauty that it is seen in
greatest variety Of furs and imitation
astrakhan.
White plush is growing popular for
wedding gowns, says a French fashion
paper, but, it adds, this fabric is only
suitable for the princess train.
The lace muff has visible use at
last. The bouquet of real flowers is at
tached to it by a clasp pin. This muff
is essentially for calling and afternoon
receptions.
The fur toques are SO charmingly be-
coming to young girls that they are be-
ing very generally adopted. Those of
sealskin with soft crowns of red broad
cloth are very fashionable.
Lace vests are both very pretty and
very effective for house wear with al
most any toilet. They should be very
full at the neck and long enough to fall
in a full puff at the waist line.
Lace forms such an important part
of the toilet this season that one lace
dress at least seems to be required in
the wardrobe, and If this be black or
white it may yet be very inexpensive by
having for the underdress some bright
silk which has passed its first youth.
Printed or piIked founces are seen on
some charming Paris costumes OF lace,
and have certain harmony with the
costume. Maurnesques and darned net
are two laces much used.
Grants Demeanor ON Horseback.
In January, 1862, went to Cairo.
The place was a slough without limits,
and the human elements that wiggled
in the mud hole were a bad lot. The
regiments were mostly Of newly enlisted
men, discipline had no existence, whis-
" supplied the place Of water and |