The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11
FASHION NOTES FOR WOMEN.

]
Dull shades In all colors are as much
worn as those more brilliant.
A shoulder cape and muff of ostrich
I feathers is q novelty this season.
Two kinds Of metal braid combined
with black or brown make charming
effect
Brown and black are very stylish in
season.
Fox otter or brown marten is used to
trim white coats for infants and small
children.
Green leather of light shade is very
fashionable for pocket books and other
small articles.
Plush of durable weave is that which
is called woolen plush. 1t is used for
outer garments.
Fur toques are very stylish, also tur-
bans, and have natty plume or two
quils on the side.
Black is combined with every color
under the sun this season aud is equally
stylish with either.
Hamburgs of fine pattern are very
stylish trimming for gowns of cashmere
or other soft woolens.
White fox and crinkled Chinese lamb
skin borders are used upon white cloaks
worn by the little ones.
Beautiful jewels in quaint designs are
very fashionable, but only those which
are desired or desirable.
Old English silverware Is being repro
duced in large quantities and is quite as
desirable as the genuine.
The tournure is certainly growing
smaller, and back draperies are diminish
ing in volume to correspond.
Gray astrakhan, chinchilla, otter and
spotted leopard skins are used as trim
mings upon children's wraps
Small crocheted buttons, either black
or matching the color of the gown, are
the rule upon cloth costumes.
Borders of black or brown bear are
fashionable trimmings for large cloaks,
and are both durable and snowy.
Fur borders are fashionable upon up
right edges of skirt draperies. but are sell
dom arranged TO cross the figure
Vests and plastron of the old gold OF
oxydized silver are very stylish in trim
ming both black and colored waists.
The ostrich trimming is seen on some
elegant velvet jackets and wraps, and is
a rich and appropriate garniture on this
fabric.
The most attractive skirts for slen-
der figure are full in effect, many breaths
being used but no decided drapery of
any kind.
Byzantine bands are beautiful on soft
white dresses of soft silk or null, and
will prove one of the most attractive
trimmings.
Tea gowns are to be more generally
worn this season than usual, as they are
tending more to the picturesque than
ever before.
Russian peasant costumes are to be the
'chic" things for young ladies who will
preside over the Russian samovar at .
o'clocks the coming winter.
Black and white, always an elegant and
attractive combination, was never more
stylish than at the present time. 1t is
in all sorts of plaids and stripes.
Long garments have trimming only
down the front and back opening, no
garments except the short wraps having
any trimming around the bottom
A fancy for waistcoats of various kinds
Is growing to be more marked and bro
caded satins are the latest and most ad-
mired of fabrics for this purpose.
To be really elegantly attired a woman
must have some of the grace intended by
nature; that is, she must not crowd up
her shoulders and distort her figure.
Buttons are in every degree of beauty
and eXpensiveness, and are used as an or
nament as well as to fasten the garment.
Twelve dollars dozen is the cost of some
of them.
1t is not the olive branch, but the crab
apple branch that is much esteemed for
decorative purposes this season. One sees
it on all sorts and conditions of ornamen-
tai and fancy work.
Russian aprons, heavily embroidered
on the bottom, finished by hem over
which is the double hem stitch, is one of
the pretty things which young girls will
rejoice in this season.
White lambs wool, soft and fleecy, is
seen in some attractive muffs and boaS for
young lodies. Its futfiness is very be-
coming to youthful faces, and it will not
according to the present mode be so con-
spicuous.
Tailor made garments of thick cloth
have a clumsy effect which is not very
desirable, but none the less are to be
stylish the coming winter as bromlcloth
is too thin when unaccompanied by fur
shoulder cape.
An outre but stylish headgear is made
Of a piece of the thick felt stuff like
double faced Canton flannel that house
keepers use on their dressing tables under
the damask cloth. 1t has a silky sort of
surface, but is wholly cotton. 1t is soft
and thick, crushes up in gentle, com
Portable way, and comes TOR hats in Grim
son, green, and terra Gotta.