Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-10
Fashion Notes.

The most stylish now spring mantlos
arc lined with watered silk.
Silk null promises to be a favorito
material for .ate spring aud summer
dresses.
Many summer costumes will be made
up in pink and bla k--a favorite com.
bination for that season.
a novelty in ribbons is tho now ,cpped
ribbon with edges of gauze. 1t is very
pretty and makes up well.
Mourning mantles are big capcs of
fine, dull, black wool. They have deep
bands OF Grape down the front.
A now round silver hand glass has a
silver tennis girl by way of handle and u
tennis scene etched on the back.
Wraps, mantles and pe'crincs will all
he very small, and late fashions show
them in immense variety of style
Some very handsome bonnets of recent
manufacture are made wholly of velvet
flowers in soft and delicate shades.
New cloth robes for spring wear arc
orntmented with woven embroidery in n
single metal, as gold, silver, or steel.
Borders of woven embroidery in q
single metal, rs gold, silver, steel, orna
ment many of the nee cloth robes fol
spring.
Tho most stylish new silver has plair
FURNISHED surface, with tho suspicion oil
etching or chasing in narrow band about
the top.
Paris greatly favors tho big ''comet'
rosette OF very narrow ribbon in several
colors as punishment for its spring
bonncts.
Light summer vo,ts will have fivo
buttons and a collar when cut single.
breasted. When double, but four buttons
must be worn.
Bog-wood or dull Jet is the only proper
deep mourning jewellery, but cut ct
black onyx and Grape stone may bc used
after few mouths
Spring hats have wide brims and low
square crowns, though there will be many
styles and shapes. They will differ IL
degree more than in kind.
Black will remain the leading colo,
for headgear, with green next and brown,
lead.gray, dull blue, old rose and COP,
per shades about equal rs thirds.
In straw bonnets Milan braids arc
likely to be most worn, but Tuscan,
NeapOlitan and lace braids will bo more
in favor than for several years past.
Cloths IN old rose, reed green, blue.
gray and fawn color. are being undo III
rs gowns for the buds and blossoms oil
passage, now sojourning in the South.
The long gloves which accompany
short slceved evening gowns arc les:
wrinklcd on the arm than formerly, and
the wcarer has variety of shades OF tan,
gray and cream color to choose from.
The front OF novel dress bodice was
made of n large silk handkerchief, will
gold embroidered corners. 1t was fast
encd under the arms and knotted ucros.
the bust, the corner being turned down
ward.
The combination of green and black
has become somewhat tiresome IL is &C
common, and many ladies have substi
tuted blue, of the same vivid tone rs tho
green, to combine effectively with III.
sable hue.
Full toreador vests of silk muslin arc
worn with cashmere dresses. They have
n jabot of knife plating down the mid
die, and similar plating is attached t.
the high Standing collars and worn
turned down.
Tho English nainsooli3 and wool chal-
lis have soft quality and arc delicatel,
tinted, but the new American slammed
China silks and cheap challis have failed
to catch tho well-modulated tones o,
color, graceful designs and fine texture
common to the imported material.
Ginghams opened the spring season
with flourish. Many city shop windows
arc piled high with bolts of stripes and
plaids in every shade. Some of these will
make charming house and street dress,
dignillcd by touch OF velvet, or oven
better, madeup with extreme simplicity.
A pink silk gown finished recently fol
pretty young woman, just out, was
trimmed about the top of the bodice and
down broad side-pancl of tho skirt
with curling delicate green ostrich
plunics. Long feathers decorated tho
waist, while short overlapping tips were
used upon the skirt.