The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-06
FASHION NOTES.

For day gowns wool is emphatically the
wear-and the DirectOire redingote the IA
vorite design for them.
Powdered hair and painted faces 60 we'll
with the new kind of punched veil that
makes women look like hospital patients.
Black silk robes have come back for re-
ception with rush. and are made up" In
style as magnificent as they must be ex-
pcnsiye.
The slender effect now so much sought in
walking costumes is best attained by wear
ing with them shoulder cape and deep
cuffs of heavy long feeced fur.
Black monkey is used for capes collars,
cuffs, mutfs and bands down the front of
long cloaks, and is, if possible, more sought
after than when first introduced.
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 severely sat upon by
Dame Fashion.
Knife-pleated silk muslin in light and
dark tints, is now sold by the yard to wear
in rundown frills about the neck and
wrists, or to make the big jabot now SO
much feature of afternoon toilet.
The hustle grows smaller by degrees and
beautifully less. With belted bOdices for
evening it is now conspicuOusly absent.
Position basques require the support of a
small cushion. Draped skirts Of elinging
stuff are best held in place by petticoat
fiounced around the bottom and all the way
up the back.
Many fashionable young women still
elect for the Garibaldi blouse, and wear it,
greatly modified, instead of the cashmere
breakfast sacque. Still more dressy house
bodices are of scarlet surah, these designed
to appear loose and easy, and having that
appearance on account of the dropping
fronts. They are however, on fitted lin
ingS, with darts and side forms.
Following a style made very popular by
Miss Mary Anderson in play in which she
is now appearing, many young ladies' are
having their gowns for balls and fancy
dress parties made with perfect shower of
narrow ribbons. which are fastened under
the arms, brought down, one after the
other, an inch and a half apart, and tied
carelesSly in long swinging loops that near
ly cover the upper portion of the skirt. Up
on dainty dancing toilets, scarfs of tulle or
spangled and hand-painted silk boiling
cloth are likewise arranged, but in this in
stance there are only two scarfs, instead OF
six or eight ribbons.
Two art gowns for high-tea wear, ready
for transmission to Washington, are worthy
of description. The first one is an antique
gown copied from an old painting. 1t is in
the shape of flowing princesse robe, and
is made of tea-rose satin brOcaded with
silver and green in raised floral designs.
and petticoat of moss velvet, bOrdered at
the foot with an embroidery OF pink and
silver. Around the waist is a slender girdle
with heavy silver viniagrette attached.
The brocaded satin bodice is cut in an alb
surdly deep V at the back, and moderately
deep one in front, the edges framed with an
embroidered band of green velvet There
is a frill of point lace inside this band.
The second dress is of deep yellow satin
brOcade, figured with large white roses.
The train is lined with sea- green silk. The
brocade is heavy and lustrOus. and the
gown is made in semi-Greek, semi Direc-
satin bodice is set a grimpe of sea-green
silk illusion. The folds Of the Grecian
draperies which fall from the shoulders are
lined to match the train.-New York Even
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