The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-10-20
For The LADIES.


COLLARS are still high at the back.
DMAsK silks are revived this season.
LARGE buttons adorn Direc.olr1 gar
ments.
WALIFLowER shades are liked for mil
hnery.
APRICOT is favorite shade for evening
dresses.
THE latest fancy is for ornaments in
the form of a cat.
Cur steel trimmings are stylish for
black silk costumes.
than they have been.
HANDLED cups for bonbons are exqui
sitely clear aud dainty.
FLARING shell shaped bowls are lovely
receptacles for flowers.
ToQuEs made entirely of pheasant
feathers are very fashionable.
WHITE Irish poplin is used abroad for
bridal gowns, combined with white
MORE.
MINIATURE pins and brooches of flow
ers are used with the new turned-over
collars.
A NOVEL bit of crystal is a double
vase, which may be used for oil and
vinegar.
IMITATION Genoese lace is made into
deep collars and cuffs, ana is very pretty
worn over black.
BLACK LACE over white lace makes a
handsome evening toilet when diamond
ornaments are added.
PoPLINs, in a quiet shade Of mauve,
silver-gray, or warm brown, will be
worn in DIrectoire STYLES.
CoAT SLEEVES are still used for thick
fabrics, but are fuller at the top and
have very elaborate cuffs.
JACKETS continue TO be made tight
fitting back and front, and are most
stylish without trimming.
ECCLESIASTICAL silks are shown this
season in rich designs, woven hitherto
only for priestly garments.
BRAID is largely used for embroidery
and some dresses are covered with a
mass of flashing gold and silver.
GREEN, especially in the gray, reseda
and rush shades, is the favorite color for
handsome visiting costumes of rich silk.
BELTS and chatelaine bags are made
of embossed feathers Of different shades
and mounted in real silver, deliberately
chased.
DRESS waists are most elaborateIv
| trimmed, few fabrics being thought too
heavy to be shirred or arranged in pulls
or folds.
WHEN steels are used in foundation
skirts they are now placed quite low and
are not tied across near SO tightly as
formerly.
RATUEE short coat sleeves with a
small puff of some contrasting material
at the wrist will be much used for win
ter dresses.
AMONG new goods are French poplins
that can scarcely be distinguished from
the solt-ribbed bengaliues and other
corded silks.
WHITE muslin with black spots,
trimmed with black chantilly and a
white MORE sash, is approved for
evening wear.
lUMBLERs have given way to gOblets,
and the favored share o. these are big
and funnel like, and are often engraved
with monograms or pretty vines.
BLAcf, corded silk dresses are trimmed
with silk cord passementerie, rare and
expensive jet gallOons in lattice-work
patterns, or narrow MORE ribbons.
But few dull silver buttons are worn.
and then only with Directoire coats and
gowns. On dress waists, where buttons
show. either small crocAeted ones. or
those made of the gown material, are
used.
SOME of the fine goods promised this
season are striped, plaided aud uncut
velvets, terry velvet, and velveis with
alternate wide and narrow stripes en-
broideled in floral designs in natural
colors.
FINGER and bonbon bowls come in a
| large variety of shapes, but most of
them are low and round. Some Of
them are engraved in seaweedish de-
signs, or in ribbon like bands, and otn-
ers are plain, with handles twined with
flowers or birds perched thereon in
| clear glass.
one OF the new trimmings for the
bodice is called a CoTselet, and is made
of small, IridesCent beads and fine gold
soutache braid. The braid is made to
follow an architectural pattern which is
filed IN by beads. In shape the corse-
let resembles a peasant waist, fitting
close and having straps over the Shout
derS.
One gown Ill Directoire style is made
OF navy serge, and has floral design.
embroidered in fine gold thread on the
revers of the coat bodice and skirt, as
well as on the pocket flaps, cuffs. etc.
\ white serge vest, with narrow inser-
ton OF white MORE sci down the center.
edged by close row of tiny gold mess
buttons on each side, produces a novel
and not unpleasing effect.