Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-24
Fashion Notes.
Chantilly lace is in high favor.

Gobelln blue is again very popular.
Plain Grape is used in Paris for dresses.
White is pretty for house dresses all
the year around.
large brimmcd hats arc features of
spring millinery.
Froggcd jackets for spring wear are
extremely English.
Entire ribbon dresses have appeared.
They arc made with an alternate stripc
of net or lace.
The turban is slightly altered. The
crown is lower, the brim narrower, and
the trimming less elaborate
Green is again to tho front in greater
variety than even. Most of the new
tints are delicate and beautiful.
Combinations of green with certain
shades Of blue, brown, rose and Venetian
red are 10 be seen in Paris gowns aud
millinery.
Most OF the new brocades are wrought
upon striped ground of various weayes,
the patterns being rich arabcsquc and
floral designs.
The more dressy cloth gowns are
made OF cloths Of two contrasting oolors
or OF cloth combined with heavy rcpped
silk or bengalinc.
Notwithstanding the constant appear
ancc of new figured and floral patterns.
dotted Swiss muslin holds its own for n
variety OF purposes.
Some of the new brocades have IL sim
pie traccry of silk threads, having some
what tho elect OF outline work, on an
armurc or satin ground.
There is no change in Clio :es to note.
The range of street colors include black,
four shades of gray, one shade of "putty"
color and twelve tan shades.
Small aprons are much the fashion.
Null lace, silk and stuff are all used for
them, but the handsomest are of good
black silk with rich bead ornaments.
A hem with band of velvet or three
or four rows of ribbon above it is the
usual finish for tho straight fronts of
cashmere, challi or India silk dresses.
Now that buttons ale SO pronounced
n feature of the dress, an authority sue.
gcsts shat it will save trouble to buy
them first and match tints and tones to
them.
Though silk underwear has certain
temporary vogue, with really refined
women nothing will ever take the place
of sheer cambria and the finest of fine
linen.
Silk and wool costumes are exhibited
with plain wool skirts and long Grccian
overdresscs finished with n very deep
hem, and with cloth jackets to match
the skirt.
Low bodices of evening dresses are to
be seen in variety of forms. Some are
cut en- cGur, some in ova. shape, some
square, and large number in the pre-
vailing V shape.
Green with tan, turquoise with amber.
old rose with pale green, lily leaf with
biscuit and peach with amethyst are
among the combinations of daring
London costumer.
Heavy black satin, embroidered upon
one selvage with lotus leaves Of gold or
copper color, is combined with plain
black to make The handsomest OF
matronly dinner gowns.
Rows of feather stitching, narrow rib.
bon OF braid set above the hem, arc the
only trimmings now admissible on the
frocks OF small children. Frills, loops.
puffings and so on arc happily pro.
scribcd.
The hustle has gone, and,designcis Of
new wraps and jackets are having con.
siderable trouble in accustoming them.
selves TO the new state of affairs
Nantes will now have to be shaped so
that no terracing at the back will be
required,