The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
Fa Shion Notes,


Only black crocheted buttons are
used.
Twisted wire bracelets are again in
vogue.
Cloth is favorite material for day
dresses.
Large silver waist buckets are fancy
of the hour.
Parisiennes are again wearing long
pendant earrings.
India cashmere in white or some light
tint is favorite cloth.
Velvet by the yard is IA good substitute
for galloons and appliques.
Garnitures for bodice trimmings take
the form of Figaro jacket.
Polonaises of black wool are often
worn with colored silk skirts.
Embroideries and braided garnitures
were never in greater demand.
Separate motifs are preferred to passe.
menteries for handsome toilets.
A very pretty boa IS made of soft
green tinted fiat ostrich feathers.
The newest bordered fabrics admit of
some novel features in simple gowns.
AIutfs and boa of contrasting fur are
worn with sealskin cloaks this season.
Even bady's cloaks have wool lining,
and pure wool instead of cotton wad-
ding.
Cloth walking costumes are decorated
81 of f1a 10
cloth.
Yellow is experiencing revival of
popularity, but mostly in the pale
shades.
Broche goods and damask material
are popular for elegant gowns for cere-
monial occasions.
Jet trimmings are more popular than
ever, and are worn in every variety OF
new and elaborate patterns.
Pale almond-colored brocade, made
up in conjunction with 9olden-brown
velvet, is late French fancy.
A tasty cloak is of white and gold
brocade. lined with pink plush and
adorned with pink marabout bands.
Black furs are much used on wraps.
cloaks, jackets, and redipgotes of Roman
red, moss green, terra Gotta, or reseda.
Dinner gowns are made in various
fashions, with low jackets and sleeves,
with V-shaped bodicrs and with the
classic draperies.
Quilting is being largely introduced
into childreu's garments, especially the
old-fashioned patterns, such as the dia-
moud medical wool.
The fancy for green extends to dinner
/ costumes, many of the handsomest being
of that color, or combining green with
copper red, Venetian pink, old roses OF
black.
The richest black costumes are made
of brocaded silk, in combination with
faille peau de sole, or plain velvet. The
plain material is always used for the
lower skirt.
The large, square knee buckles of the
olden time are utilized as belt buckles
by Young ladies who are so fortunnte as
to gain possession of those ornaments of
their ancestors.
The taste for strong contrasts is car.
ried out in fur as in other trimmings,
black furs being used on colored cloths
and brocaces, while light colored furs
are used on black.
A rather dainty wrap is of blue and
gold brecatelle on a pale gray satin
ground. It is lined with pale blue
blush and has gray feather bands
powdered with gold.
Short wraps are made as dressy as pos
sible with embrolderies and passemte.
ries of jet. silk cord, metal, lace. ribbon
fringes, aud "motlfs" or agraffes, gilt
tering with rain friuges.
In spite of the oft-repeated assertion
that long cloaks alone will be worn by
fashionable women, there arc innumer-
able short wraps in velvet, bengaline,
cloth, broche, and plush to be seen on
fashionable tEoroughfares.
Of white dress fabrics there is no end.
Brocades, plain or striped velvets,
watered silks, bengaline, Ottoman silk,
faille, Irish poplip, embossed satin, and
Henrietta cloth are obtainable in white
and make up very effectively.
The great advantage of the popular
color, Russian blue, is that it is equally
becoming to women of light or dark
complexion. The shade appears in
broadcloth, 'fsille, cashmere, camel's'
hair, vigogne, velvet, tricot,. fancy SILK
and velvet combinations, woolen armure,