Nevada County picayune., 1890-01-22
IN FASHIONS GLASS.
The Styles of the Hour Itenuzed Tor th
 Benefit of Lady Readers.

The Styles of the Hour Itendzed Tor ths
 Benefit of Lady Readers.
 Strings of ribbon and lace arc Ire ouently 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 or simplicity is the nsotV of the autumnal toilet
 Eifrel takes the place this fall thaS green did last in popular and fashion able favor.
 Starched white linen collars and cuffs are reappeering, but they are very un- becoming.
 The Minerva Is far cape witl' high shoulders, that is borni to be fash- ionable favorite.
 Some of the newest imported jackets have large bishop sleeves gathered to wide cuff.
 The older the woman the smaller tho bonnet. is the first rule in the grammar of millinery this fall.
 The high-in-tho-b Medici collar ot 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 Things of opera and dressy carriage cloaks.
 Gold and silver braids, cords, and threads are frequently mixed in the same pattern of embroidery or gimp.
 The little capote bonnet, brimless and stringloss. is the first choice of tho woman who thanks God that sho "never wanted to vote"
 Some of the Paris fashion writers predict the revival of old-fashioned large veils, completely covering the face and sometimes reaching to the waist line.
 A beautiful dusky tint of violet shad- ing to blue is called Yetr Dagmar, after the color of the eyes of the Empress ot Austria, formerly the Princess Dagmar.
 New dinner gowns are not symphony in shades of one color this Tall, but harmony showing combination of bou- ouet colors in contrasting but compli- mentary tints.
 The black Astrakan bands that border many cloth gowns of Eifel red, 6Seu de Danube, and other colors arc generally headed with many rows of gold braid, or one row of inch-wide gold braid.
 The English club hat is one of the im- ported round hats that will be great favorite. It is of fine cashmere drawn over "blocked" shape, the crown deep and the brim shallow. Its only trimming is broad band of black velvet. It comes in all colors.
 Ladies who have for years been sigh ing over their collections of expensive ostrich tips and long plumeS lying by useless wHl 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 handsonest street dresses are of black cloth fine and supple as French kid, with palmleaf embroideries in dead gold on each side of the pleated skirt and the same figure re- peated in smaller size on the collar, waistcoat cuffs and revers, and pocket straps, when there arc any of the habit basque.
 Great kings and queens arc tho makers of manners So said King Henry V. of England and so thinks the Queen of Spain. She is tho first Queen of that country to allow smoking at 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 a very good fash ion writer for out-of-town newspapers is in describing bonnets, hats and gowns of "Eiffel blue" EiTel is always one or another shade of that brick or terra cotta red which made the Elfel Tower of the Paris Exposition so con- spicuous, and So pleasing. The Paris ians call thas color "Eifel' not blue. for eiffel is rcd as matter of course.
 An admirable novelty in fur is tho Medici, kind of collar. cape and fichu combined, with two collars, one fasten- ing at tho throat, the other higher than the inside collar and rising high in the back, but opening in V in the front, The Medici has short ends reaching in q point to the valet in front like plas- tron waistcoat, but sometimes continued in a gradually widening stole to tho hem of the sbirt.-N. |. Sun,