Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-02-06
FASHION NEWS AND NOTES.
Written for The Herald bu Leone.
FASHION NOTES SELECTED.

basket of gold piled full OF pearl eggs.
Feather fans have had high run and
must give way to the new gauze, silk or
satin.
Short dolmans and short circular capes
are made of white plush, trimmed with
swans down.
1t seems as if square necks for dinners
were to resume their sway, and there is
falways a certain distinction in rich
dinner dress made high to the throat.
| Pale pink or blue velvets and pushes
this winter dispute the supremacy with
fabrics of daintier sort in the creation of
gowns for ball and reception wear.
Gray hair should alwaysbe frightened
by pale blue, and black by orange, Grim
son or the scintillating jets which render
many simple toilets work of art.
| Knitted short skirts of deep cardinal
Germantown wool, or those woven in
deep ribs, are edged around the bottom
with four-inch crochet edges in lace-like
designs.
| Passementeriesa rein new form-cords
knotted, like Frenchman's girdle to
motifs, plaques and medallions as intri-
cately wrought as antique faces or medi-
aeval cut work.
! Red velvet wraps are covered with a
net-wook of glittering cut jet, and red
! silk stockinette pelisses are bordered with
black bearskin, and tinted with black
quilted surah.
and throatlet. and drawn through paste
buckles, are pretty with ball dresses, but
not popular In Montreal, since the recent
vaccinations.
| A watering pot, imitation in gilded
basket work, has ferns growing out of it,
looking fresh and healthy, but it will not
be as popular as its companion tool the
| wheelbarrow.
Ladies' studs-or shall they be called
clasps-are now formed by two squares
wholly covered with diamonds, rubies
and sapphires. Precious stones are more
plentiful than ever. e+
Among the promises for spring are
dress fabrics of etamine, with hard twist
ed wool cords about the size of No. s cot
ton, making cross bars about oneeighth
of an inch apart.
An evening dress is of old pink bro
cade, trimmed with pearls and tea roses.
Low pointed bodice of brocade; panels
and pulled sleeves of pink satin. Train
of old pink plush.
A red velvet front, with a red boucle
cloth back, made with sash and a large
puff at the waist, bag front, the jacket
portion bordered with Irish point, is
much worn by children.
| Brown baskets to hold flower pots
were tastefully intertwisted with bright
colored ribbons.
Short necks look best in the bias folds
of etamine or lisse, or silk muslin now in
fashion.
The new corded silks show gigantic
leaves in loose outstanding plush, which
is bright in contrast.
A white satin gown had the fronts en-
tirely covered with tambour embroidery.
the design feathers.
Paris ladies have been spending much
| time shooting larks this season. May
they be COMPOUNDED.
No other adornment offering, the ribs
of ostrich feathers are covered with a
composition like felt.
The ribbed Swiss silk undergarments,
which cling tightly to the figure, have no
rivals in comfort.
Shape and color have less to do with
the new bonnets than the deft arrange
ment of the garniture.
The new elastic silk jackets, richly
braided, are fashionable, as they show
the figure to advantage.
Women who make dress study are
careful in the management of their trains,
never to turn them.
| Astrakan is in the ascendant-it is imi-
| tated in wool and silk, with black and
gray as favorite colors.
Red cloth jackets, though well repre-
sented on the Milldam this week, were
very much covered with fur.
Take any style of hat or bonnet you
like, ladies, and you are in fashion, or
invent style of your own.
Chemises are very narrow, the tops all
lace, the sleeves infinitesimal, the edges
fiounced and braided with lace.
Selvedges are utilized for trimming,
and the material has frequently threads
drawn and worked into the pattern.
Stripes, frieze designs and large flower
ed brocades in self tones are interviewer
with corded and watered silks.
Some of the choicest embroideriesc cover
at least two breadths, and are supple
mented by trimmings for the bodice.
A draymans cap for young folks has
the cap, or Masaniello bag of red, and the
toque brim of white astrakan.
Silver and gold nets, studded with balls
of silver and gold, are worn over pale
colored satins and brocaded silks.
A pretty basket is tamborine covered
with blue cashmere, with feather pomp-
ons standing up about the edge.
An effective ball dress had a white silk
bodice, embroidered with autumn leaves.
worn over full white tulle skirt.
LEONE.
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