The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-10-16
FASHIONABLE KINKS.


Hints Concerning Dress Novelties and So-
ciety Stationery.
Corselet bodices are the rage in Paris,
but only look we'll on fine figures.
=. Crossed bodices are worn with chemi-
settles of Grape disappearing under belts
of embroidery.
Tulle covered silk evening dresses are
| bordered with flowers CT feathers.
Crownless hats have the trimmings
arranged to cover the crown sufficiently
to conceal the top OF the head.
A plain gown is made effective by a
velvet corselet while G fawn-colored
cloth dress, made with corselet bor-
dered with loops of brown braid, needs
no other trimming.
|, Sleeves are too elaborate, and women
with fine round shoulders are tired OF
hiding them under a puff so large that
the shape of the upper part of the arm
is lost and the probabilities are that
| the change to simpler sleeves will be
one of the first important changes Ia
the autumn.
Zouave and Figaro jackets are very
! popular, and they are made so as to be
worn with different dresses, velvet ones,
lined with colored silks, framing the
| arms but not meeting either front or
back, being, most stylish.
Over sixteen years of age boys don
long coats, and from twelve to sixteen
they wear long or knee trousers, and
/ double-breasted sack or Norfolk jackets,
while for wet weather there are leather
leggins to wear with knee brooches.
1t is astonishing to see how popular
the cutaway coat and shirt front have
become, about every fourth woman you
meet wearing the suit. A dark green
cloth coat, with a doable-breasted vest
OF green silk, opens over shirt of the
sheerest null, and often one is forced
10 visit the mems counter for some of
these masculine accessories.
The latest style of visiting cards are
almost square, and should be about . x x
| 81 inches. Tho engraving should be
in the plainest script, without any
fourishes, and upon tie best white
bristol board. The card Mr.. and Mrs
is the largest being about 255sx4 inches
The card of Mrs. is often engraved with
the name of the daughter below it
During young ladys first season her
name is put on her mothers card, and
after this she has separate one. Cards
for younger daughters have tho Chris
tian name, while the eldest has simply
4 Miss Children's names are printed on
very small cards in small script pop
ular dinner card is plain gilt-edged
one with the monogram or crest
stamped in bronse. A collection of the
changing styles OF letter paper, with
various stampines, is most interesting
Gros grain ribbon, fringed at each end,
about five inches long and two wide, run
through celluloid card, hand painted
is in use. When motto is used it Is
often printed on satin. individual taste
! decides the width of LACK borders used
on visiting cards In ENGLAND it is a
custom to send out memorial cards.
The first page contains the words I'm
memoriam," tho second contains the
particulars of death and burial, while
tho third and sometimes tho fourth Is
devoted to a prayer or eulogy. These
are sent out week or ten days atter the
obsequies Invitations to wedding an
niversaries are written or printed on
note sheets, while the dates are some
times distinguished from the rest Ly
gold figures or silver. Cards of wood or
tin are no longer in good taste.-N. Y.
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