Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-04-27
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Cater tops are much worn by ladies.
Spring jackets are quite short and
single-breasted.
Gloves with heavily stitched back are
no longer in favor.
The last notion in gloves is to use the
rein-deer's skin for them.
The pointed effect is aimed at in
nearly all elaborate wraps.
Jewels and flowers in the hair are the
fashion at all evening entertainments.
White woollen toilets made in semi
classic styles are exceedingly fashion
able.
This may be called a ribbon season,
so profuse Is the use of ribbon for dec
Grafton.
Crushed strawberry is a color that is
designed to be as popular as it was two
years ago.
Tiny silver cases holding a dozen
strips of court plaster make pretty gifts
for intended travellers.
Black and green are among the ac-
knowledged colors of the future, both
for dress and millinery uses.
New fans are studded with silver and
have nineteen ribs. down each of which
runs a ribbon, ending IN a bow.
The last use of the popular moonstone
Is to set it in flower brooches, differen-
tiated by a backing of vari-colored foil.
For the coming season most cotton
dresses viii be made of one material,
and not in combinations of plain and
figured.
Round waists and shirred basques
are the features on the new suits made
Of embroidered muslins for the coming
seasons.
A Chicago woman can shop all the
afternoon on fifty cents, and her tour
Will include at least twenty stores and
baZaars.
A butterfly brooch Of silver fligree
has a diamond head, emerald eyes,
ruby body and wing dots of opal and
mOOnstOne.
The new engagement ring in vogue
IN Paris Is a revival of the old Nor
mandy betrothal ring-in the shape Of
two hearts.
Another wedding novelty is the max
ing the bridesmaids gowns of soft,
creamery white velveteens and trim
ming them with fur
Gradually we are returning to larger
shapes IN hats, and low crowns and
broad brims are once again distinguish
ing features in millinery.
Straw hats appear in two colors, as
brim of ecru, with a crown of dark
green, and are trimmed with shot
ribbon in the same tints.
Mrs c. H. Moore of Philadelphia
wears the most costly diamonds of all
the society women of the Quaker city.
Her jewels are said to be worth about
$50, 600.
Velvet viii again be used for collars,
cuffs, revers, and half girdles of wash
dEesses-nOtably sateens-while MORE
Is preferred for the new and expensive
ginghams.
"Wistaria" is the name of new
color which is a shade between crushed
strawberry and violet. Rosy heliotrOpe
would best convey the idea of its par
ticular tint.
For evening dress nothing can be
prettier than those fashioned of crepa-
line. This material resembles Grape,
but it is far softer, and really more
dainty ana clinging.
A woman at Albany, Ga, wanted a
new set false teeth, and hadn't money
to pay for it. She went around among
the business men of the place with a
subscription paper and succeeded in
raising the required sum.
Many sleeves are full to the elbow
and then finely plated to form a deep.
close cuff Basque fronts are frequent
~ shirred on the shoulders, drawn to
the waist and then laid in fine plaits to
the point or disappear under a pointed
girdle, which is favorite decoration
coming from the side seams.
In natty spring and summer fashions
a host of details are borrowed from
gentlemen's dress. There are narrow
and flowing cravats, both plain and col
ored; plated shirt fronts, tiny ieweled
studs, scarf pins and linked buttons for
throat and sleeves, with a close high
corsage.
Jackets for the present season, and to
be worn on cool days throughout the
summer, are being made of extra fine
pilot cloth, ladies' cloth and English
diagonals. These jackets come IN all
the dark rich cOlors of the season. a
new tint between sang de bnuf and
terra Gotta being among the very IA
vOrite shades.
Among pretty bits of jeweIry from
Partisan is a brooch in the shape of a
golden Cupid, with diamond ring.
perched on a jeweled branch of pearls
and diamonds. Another idea, less
pretty, but quite as odd, is a reproduc-
tion OF medieval gargoyle IN the