The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-11-30
IN FASHIONS GLASS.

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The Styles of the Hour ItemIzed for the
Benefit OF Lady Readers.
Strings of ribbon and lace are FREE
quently seen even on large hats in Paris.
Braiding is so popular that it is seen,
even on checked cheviots and tartans.
Directoire styles are yielding to those
of the Empire and Restoration periods.
Elaboration. producing the effect of
simplicity is the motif of the autumnal
toilet.
Eiffel takes the place this fall that
green did last in popular and fashion
able favor. ~ ... ... .a -
Starched white linen collars and cuffs
are reappearing, but they are very I'M
becoming.
The Minerva is fur cape with high
shoulders, that is bound to be fash
ionable favorite.
Some of the newest imported jackets
have large bishop sleeves gathered to a
wide cuff.
The older the woman the smaller the
bonnet, is the first rule in the grammar
of millinery this fall.
The high-in-the-back Medici collar of
fur is seen on some of the newest Car
rick or ''four-in-hand" capes.
The most fashionable small hat is the
French turban, low and round in the
crown, or slightly arched in front.
White Thibet goat skins, with long,
silky hairs, are the favorite fur Innings
Of opera and dressy carriage cloaks.
t Gold and silver braids, cords, and
threads are frequently mixed in the
same pattern of embroidery or gimp.
The little capote bonnet, brimless and
st,ingless, is the first choice of the
woman who thanks God" that she
never wanted to vote"
Soma of the Paris fashion writer's
predict the revival of old-fashioned
large wells, completely covering the
face and sometimes reaching to the
waist line.
A beautiful dusky tint of violet shad'
ing to blue is called Yeur Dagmar, after
the color of the eyes of the Empress OF
Austria, formerly the Princess Dagmar.
New dinner gowns are not a symphony
in shades of one color this fall, but a
harmony showing combination of bou-
quet colors in contrasting but compli-
mentary tints.
The black Astrakan bands that border
many cloth gowns of Eiffel red, bleu de
Danube, and other colors are generally
headed with many rows of gold braid, OF
one row of inch-wide gold braid.
Ladies who have for years been sigh.
ing over their collections of expensive
ostrich tips and long plumes lying by
useless will rejoice in the opportunities
given by the fashions to reproduce them
this winter. They are worn to excess
on dressy picturesque carriage and
walking hats.
Some of the handsomest street dresses
are of black cloth, fine and supple as
French kid, with palm-leaf embroideries
in dead gold on each side of the
pleated skirt and tho same figure re-
peated in smaller size on the collar,
waistcoat, cuffs and revers, and pocket
straps, when there are any of the habit
basque.
''Great kings and queens are the
makers of manners" So said King
Henry V. of England and so thinks the
Queen of Spain. She is the first Queen
\ of that country to allow smoking at a
court dinner. She gives the permission
by calling for cigar herself, lighting
it, and bidding the company to follow
her example.
A blunder made by very good fash
ion writer for out-of-town newspapers
is in describing bonnets, hats and
gowns of ''Eiifel blue" Eiffel is always
one or another shade of that brick OF
terra Gotta red which made the Eiffel
Tower of the Paris Exposition so con
spicuous, and so pleasing. The Paris
ians call that color "Eitfel" not blue
for eiffel is red, as a matter of course.
An admirable novelty in fur is tn
Medici, kind of collar, cape and fichu
combined, with two collars, one fasten
ing at the throat, the other higher than
the inside collar and rising high in the
back, but opening in a V in the front
The Medici has short ends reaching in a
point to the waist in front like plas'
iron waistcoat, but sometimes continued
in gradually widening stole to the
hem of the skirt.-N. Y. Sun,