The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-02-03
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
All About Dresses, Gloves, Fans, Feather
and Other Novelties.

All About Dresses, Gloves, Fans, Featiieri
. and Other Novelties.
A lavish use is made of ribbons in the
trimming of dressy costumes for in.
doors. Entire fronts of skirts are some
times covered with loops and ends,
while long loops and ends float
in shoulder knots. Vests are in
keeping with the front breadths just
mentioned; jabots, neck bands, collar.
cites or rosettes are set on corsages.
while on skirts we see the same styles
of trimming appear in support Of
drapery. or set anywhere that may har
monte.
Black gloves are worn with dressy
toilets of black and white, but are not so
tasteful as white gloves which are seen
: to some extent yet not nearly as much
SO as tan shades from light to medium.
The fancy chenille dotting (Which in
goods for dressing wear is very great)
extends to gloves and we observe speci.
mems where chenille dottings cover the
upper portion of the glove-that is, the
long expanse of kid now thought neces.
sary when the sleeve is short. Apart
from few novelties, however, the long
mosquetaire of smooth kid is most
worn.
Stylish fans are of oblong shape and
composed chiefly of the softest down
with rim of stiff feathers or ostrich
tips on the outer edge Artificial flow.
ers are imbedded in the down with pc.
culiar effect. One of pale green shows
an ivy handle; others have handles OF
mother-of-pearl or tortoise shell.
Ostrich tips are in great favor as an
ornament for the hair, and not unfre.
quently combine with knot of ribbon
on the shoulder. Minnie Hauk. in her
recent success as Manon, wore three pale
pink tips in powdered hair, and they
were extremely becoming. Her dress
was pale pink underskirf, covered with
white lace in front and trimmed with
festoons and pink ribbon rosettes below.
Overdress of pale blue and black bro.
cade, with low corsage laced in front
Shoulder knot of pink ribbon; black vel.
vet bows on the skirt; a pink rosebud on
one side of the corsage; prolonged
spray of pink roses as finish to the
overdress on one side Of the skirt. AL.
together an extremely fanciful yet very
pretty dress-notable, too, as the one
worn when she was recalled twenty
times at Prague.
Skirts of delicate or bright colored
satin are brought out to be worn under
dressy indoor costumes. Some of
black satin being shown for rich, black
toilets. Great attention, indeed, is paid
this winter to colored skirtings, and we
have them of many grades; not a few,
furnished with hustle, pad, steels and
tapes. Less costly skirts are of farm
ers' satin, ladies' cloth, flannel, or
chiefly felt, for which no substitute
has been found. Charningly light
skirts are quilted with eiderdown half
way up, but these again are far from
cheap.
Quite small girls, say from five
years upward, are wearing dresses
made of coarse suit goods, such as
were thought suitable only for adults.
White dresses are not now seen on
children over the age Of infancy, and
pale cashmere is only worn on some
state occasion. Heavy yelling or tlan-
mel are most used for the little ones,
but cashmere is always q standby and
suitable in anything but black.
The fieece-lined Jersey has poised very
successfully, because the wearing of this
comfortable garment in winter is real
desideratum, while on the same order
we note the introduction and immediate
popularity of corsets, having sides which
'give'' with the wearer's movements.
Rubber elastics are not used, so that
they do not readily wear.
No greater contrast is possible than
the sight afforded by elderly New York
women and their attire. Haggard faces
look out of keeping with costly ear.
rings, glittering jewels in their hair and
furbelows on toilets. Cosmetics are
freely used but do not accomplish the
desired task, and one debates inwardly
whether puffiness be not better. We
have both styles, both equally prevalent,
and one recalls as pleasant dream the
well rounded physiognomy of some ma
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