Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-10-07
FASHION NOTES.

abated.
A new device in silver pencil cases is
a tree stump.
1t is said that miniature paintings SET
as brooches are in high favor.
Entire costumes of vivid red are threat.
ened, but will be restricted to theater use.
Bands of kid, embroidered with fine
gold and steel beads, are seen among the
new trimmings.
| Black velvet ribbon is in favor again,
and will be used extensively on both
gowns and hats.
| Among recent productions in belt
buckles comes heart.shsped device
formed of twisted silver wire.
Feather trimmings will be used in
every imaginable way, especially mar
about feathers and uncurled ostrich
plumage.
Open work gold embroidery and velvet
are used in the composition OF the Vene-
tisn toquet. one Of the prettiest millinery
novelties of the incoming season.
Birds and parts of birds, heads, wings,
quilts, ostrich tip, aigrettes, and all
manner Of fancy feathers were never
used so profusely as now. Scarcely hat
or bonnet is exhibited without some kind
of feather.
Among the new shades that will be
popular are the mulberry, greenish-
gray, heliotrope and amethyst. Black
and white will be fashionable for evening
wear. Gray and white have had their
day in combination, but brown in all
shades will be much worn.
| Black faille franchise has held its own
/ fox 70 sill Sc g.
by still heavier repped silk. more lus-
form cord.like stripe, yet smooth on
the surface. It is of excellent quality,
said to wear we'll, and is called regsnce
silk.
All bouices are made round, with jas
enough eloDgation on the hips to be able
to span belt around and little below
the waist Belts of all kinds are worn,
and great taste and show Can be dis
played in the choice of buckles. Happy
is the lady now who has antique ones.
Olive and French grey camel's-hair
fabrics make stylish and elegant travel
ing-dresses, with Ursuline cloaks to
match, these covering the wearer from
throat to skirt-hem, and having a deep
collar, nuns sleeves, and heavy friar's
girdle tied loosely at the waist.
Tie collarless bodice now in vogue for
home wear has created demand for
neck ornaments, and jewellers are dis
playing exquisite little neck chains, with
daisy or mignonstte pendants, enameled
in natural colors; also gold beads and
necklaces of all kinds.
The stately directoire redingotes are
more fashionable than ever this autumn.
They are fitted very closely to The figure,
and the French models ars garments of
simple elegance. The skirts at the back
are either box.paited or fall in soft,
straight folds. They are made of cloth
of every description, OF velvet, striped
silk, and fancy mixtures in silk and wool
Silk dresses of last year are piettily re.
modelled by adding sleeves and JACKIE
fronts of velvet or the round plated COL
lar, cuffs and frills of lace ON the point.
Then put the skirt over the basque and
add sash. Jacket fronts of Irish
guipure lace are also added to last
seasons gowns, ard lace may be used
with lavish hand upon all parts of the
gown.
Pretty shoulder capes of cloth, velvet,
land silk and lace, with picturesque vel
vet round hats or toques of cloth or felt,
will be worn en- suite with walking cos
tunes until heavy wraps are necessary
Some of these capes have long scarf ends
and the trimmings are either of braiding,
paesementerie in arches or points or
feather bands.
China silks, either plain or in one of
the many patterns to be had, will be
preferred to surah for the light evening
dresses OF debutantes and misses. Bro
cades, however, take the lead in figured
silks, either as all over figures or in deep
borderings on one side only, and in point
of elegance and adaptability to the pre-.
vsiling models are not likely to be dis
placed by any other fabric.
jet garnitures have again assumed
certain popularity, and designs in leaves,
| bands, and other effects are strung on
wires and trim velvet or lace theater
bonnets. Jet bands about an inch wide
are used to edge bonnsts and narrower
bands are chosen for hats. Black gal
looms, passementeries, lace and furs are
employed to trina dresses of vivid colors.
and black IN one form or another will
form an important adjunct of nearly all
gowns and hats.
The newest novelty for evening wear
is the sequin net. The eastern coin is
initiated by bone counter, and these are
strung together with silk on a piece OF
net twenty-ssven inches wide. Then it
is arranged on the front of skirt to
form petticoat. OF course gold-colored
sequins are the most popular, but they
are made in all shades; when the wearer
moves there is a great rustling and
rattling. But then rustling and rattling
are not objected to.
For couple of years or so feminine
attire has been steadily advancing toward
a point where noiselessness should not
be its least conspicuous feature. Starch
was 6rst retired then the old-time silks
that "stood alone" and "rustled" gave
place to silks that "cling," but do it in
discreet silence; any fabric that had a
tendency to manifest itself by sound was
elected bodily from my lady's wardrobe;
rhe noiseless sandal of the Greek and
Turk was adopted for the house, and it
really looked as if the noveliats who
portray nineteenth century society would
have to omit henceforth these fond and
frequent allusions to the "frou-frou" of
the heroine's skirts, for the skirts that
frou-froued were no longer figuring in
fashionable society.
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