The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-06
Fashion Notes.
Fringe is again fashionable.

This is emphatically fur winter.
Russian furs are perhaps the most
popular just at present.
Large silver belt buckles are worn with
wide ribbon and velvet belts.
Flower garnitures are again in favor
for low-necked evening gowns.
"The "be-be" waist is the rival of the
directory and the Empire bodices.
The Empire sash is the prominent
feature IN the styles of the moment.
Some of the newest wooden gowns have
deep fur collars and directory revers.
Black lace princess dresses come
among late importations of Paris gowns.
Canadian beaver is a favorits fur.
Blue fox and Siberian fox are also in
high favor.
Flowers are still much worn. In previ.
Gus seasons they have been discarded
much earlier in the winter.
Striped cashmeres, limousines, and
fancy woolens are in vogue and make
up into very effective costumes.
The craze for fancy bamboo baskets
lined with silk and satin is greater now
than before and during the holidays.
In millinery green appears to be quite
as popular as ever and shades for winter
wear are particularly rich and becoming.
Belt, collar and cuffs of shirred ribbon
may be worn with blouse waist, and
make q dressy garment out of a plain
one.
The long veil grows in favor. 1t takes
many new forms, but all are long enough
to completely cover the face and drape
the throat.
Headdresses, or dressy caps and tiny
turbans of game, are again in fashion TO,
dressy toilets at home receptions and
dinner-parties.
Thickly pleated ruches of pink silk,
called chicorees by the French, are made
tojtrim the bottom of the skirts of many
dancing gowns.
Rich brocades, heavy and thick, are
worn with soft pliable fabrics that drape
effectively and modify the severity Of
the directoire models.
Rich brocades, heavy and thick, are
worn with soft pliable fabrics that drape
effectively and modify the severity of
the directoire models.
An authority declares that though
white fur may be worn in the street,
white feather boas there are as inappro-
pirate as a ball costume would be.
The violin gown is made with full
straight shirt, a loose round waist banded
with sling sash of soft folds and the
sleeves are loose puffs to the elbow.
With Empire and directoire styles
Paris has adopted for day wear, the nets,
eauzes, muslins and so on that used to
be held appropriate only to evening
costume.
Corduroy helps to MAKE many of the
more notable winter walking dresses,
and is no end stylish when combined
with dark brown cloth and trimmed
with solid black.
Butterflies of beaded lace now hover
about the hair. They are not so attrac-
tive as the tiny lace caps that now 60
with tea gowns, and are trimmed with
ribbons to match their hue.
A Partisan fancy for Empire evening
gowns is four or five unhemmed skirts
Of tulle, the uppermost one bordered
with fifteen rows of soutache braid,
either gold. silver or copper.
The hair may be high or low at
pleasure. Care must be taken, however,
to have it pronouncedly high or low, as
the middle extreme" is Just now Sc
verely sat upon by Dame Fashion.
Striking toilets for very young
women are made of red cloth or red
India camels hair combined with white
cloth and white bengaline along with
much gold or copper cord and braid.