Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-17
Fashion Notoa.


Bonnets will be smaller next season.
Hand painted dresses aro novelties in
Paris.
Chantilly net is to DO much used for
dinner dresses.
Steel is tho very effective and popular
metal used for trimming.
Lyons silks for evening and reception
dresses arc in Oriental designs.
Accordion pleating is decidedly the
fashion for tho fronts of dresses.
Tho "Iittlo Empire" is tho name given
to n new dress of Fronch design.
The genuine mutton log sloovc is ono
OF tho features of new spring gowns.
Some of tho new silks for summer arc
in the most gorgeous tartan patterns.
The silk mullor of tho season Is white.
with figures worked in lightly in black.
Flowers used on evening costumes are
now sct under tho laco or illusion over
,rcss.
Pink and black is combination Of
color that will be fashionable for summer
toilets.
Black butterflies nrc never found In
nature, but they will DO found conspicu
Gus on scmc Of tho bonnots this spring
Waists Of blue, roso or crenm silk,
made worry full with plcatcd falling col
lars, arc very stylish for wear with black
lace or net skirts.
Roscttcs of narrow ribbon. combining
two or three colors, will appear upon
tho spring millinery. Parisionncs call
them comet rosettos.
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white India silk, nude up with short
full waist, pulled slooves, and rovers and
snsh of violet velvet.
For evening dresses cream color rc.
tains its old popularity, although it has IL
powerful rival in tho dead white colors,
blanc pur and blanc lys.
Tho most fanciful of now lowell cnscs
is heart shaped, with golden clasps, and
u cover of embossed leather, studded
hero and there with gems.
Ribbons, flowers, feathers and lace aro
the trimmings for next season's bonnets
Tho latter will DO extensively used, both
in tho piece and MS odgings.
Gowns of cashmere or other spring
woolcns sometimes have gathered vests,
pulled inside sleeves, sashcs and front
brcadths Of changcnblc silks.
Gowns for coming social events, now
in the hands of tho drcssmakers, cast
shadows Of n return to sixteenth cen
fury styles in tho near future.
F. Washing silks, also called silk cheviots,
arc shown for spring and summer wear,
and will be used not only for blouses,
but for entire costumes ms wcll.
In summer combination costumes the
plain stuff usually makes IL foundation
skirt with the figured in full one very
slightly draped at one side above it.
A new detail borrowed from tho En-.
pirc period is trimming of gold lace
about the top of low corsagc. The
lace is wired at intervals to keep it erect.
Very pale buff, deep yellow and about
half of the twenty greens are the stylish
colors for ginghams. Black sashcs of
wide, rich ribbon will be worn with
them.
Plain basqucs or round waists have
dircctoiro rcvers of embroidery SGT up
on their fronts or else deep Vandykc
collar with two points before and three
behind.
Marguerite gauntlets is tho name of
tho very deep close cults reaching almost
W tnc oiDoW. lHcy arc Innuo oil velvet
or of any material to match tho trimming
of the dress.
Greek frocks, made to wear over mus.
lin or lace waista and button on both
shoulder seams and under the arm, arc
truly classic. They arc very pretty on
tall and slender girls.
Though the violet is Just now the day
flower par excellence, white or pale
blossoms arc preferred for night wear,
and nothing surpasses q gardenia, with
setting of its own green leaves.
One of the now summer satcens shows
acknowledged game. 1t is suggested
that chess pattern with difficult
problem or two would be an excellent
thing for seaside or mountain wear.
"Chcck in one move" would be sug-
gcstive pattern to wear when unde.ir-
able suitors were around.
A Railway Accident Causes n Panic.
On the road connecting Tcheran. Per