Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-28
FASHION NOTES.


The general tendency is toward small!
hats.
1t is said the chignon is coming into
fashion again.
PREDETERMINED hats display elaborate
Sarniturc Of feathers and ribbon.
White nets with designs in silver beads
arc used for young ladies' evening tot
lets.
Fancy gilt buttons are fasl.ionably
worn OH English serge gowns and give
them Il very smart appearance.
The little toquc is, if possible, more
popular than ever, while the capotc still
holds its place among bonncis
Hats and bonnets are decidedly low in
the crown, and in the smaller ones there
is Il marked tendency toward simplicity.
Plain goods arc now generally pre-
fcrred for waterproof cloaks. Chcvron
stripes in two colors are also much liked
a rather snowy novelty is plush striped
in two colors. 1t is usually made up on
the bias, and i'll combination with plain
faillc
Nandykcs are the fashion in leather,
as i'll all other trimmings, and are in
tended 10 he placed ovcrs plaitings Or
ruchings Of softer fabric.
Among the late novelties in silk fab
rics are matclasscs which have brilliant
floral designs, executed in frizc. like
manner on dull reps ground
Lissc and tullc for evening gowns are
cxquisitcly embroidered. Fronts OF lissc
show Empire designs, with shcavcs of
corn i'll gold and yarlands of flowers in
solid colors.
Black tullc and white tuIlc arc used rs
foundations for cmbrodcrics in gold,
gold and silver, gold and steel and gold
aud copper. The latter is the newest COM
bInation, and is very effective.
Satin and brocadc rs dress materials
for ccrcmonious occasions are in decidedly
high fashionable favor. In this way,
mlady can keep ahead OF the hired girl,
the ''s;,!cslady" and the factory damscl
India shawl and camcl's hair trim
ming, in which there is Il ''distinction
with Il difference" is considerably used
this season. and now and then an entire
costume of the expensive goods is seen
on the promenade.
Several novelties in conbed wool dress
fabrics arc now being brought out
Stripes are shown i'll single color, the
striped effect being produced in weaving
Small frisc stripes are also shown, and
also diagonal weavcs, tho latter dis
tinguishcd Ivy great simplicity
Manufacturers are said to he producing
lace goods in ccru or white i'm treat
quantities for next seasons consumption.
1t Is predicted that these laces will take
the place of the black laccs so long worn.
The same colors will be favored for goods
intended TO initiate lace styles
An origina; leather trimming is Of
white kid, the lower part consisting of
fringe of the leather cut in a half-inch
width, and bordcrcd with tambour work
III silver thread. the whole trimming be-
ing worked in subducd tones of silk in
Pompadour floral designs, intcrmixcd
with mothcr-of-pcarl in white and red.
y new waist to be worn with various
skirts is made of velvet (moss green, red
and gray are the colors prcferrcd), and
iastcns on tine shoulder and under the
arm. 1t is opened in heart shape, and
>.
and the same plaits are gathered Just
below the waistlinc with Il gold or steel
buckle.
zouavc and other jaunty jackets arc
now made OF glove kid, worked all over
with Spanish patterns in allovcr designs,
many of them initiating the period of
Moorish art. The kid, which, is some
times of II reddish brown, and sometimes
the natural color of the leather, is we'll
covered with the embroidery, and edged
with metallic drops.
The Directory dress, squire and simple, -
consists of the plain skirt long enough to
touch the ground, sometimes slightly
trailing i'll the back, the full bodice some
times crossed in "A surplicc and fastened
down under Il wide sash Mt the waist,
and sleeves very much pulled out at the
shoulders. but plain and clnging from
thence to the wrists. But great many
notifications are introduced iuto this cx-
trcmc of simplicity.
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