The Globe-republican., 1890-01-15
IN FASHIONS REALM,
what Ladies Of Good Taste Will wcaS
During the Winter Season.

what Ladies Of Good Taste Will Wa,
During the Winter Season.
Black will be much worn. Furs and
feathers will be abundantly used TO,
trimming. the former for cloth costumes
and the latter for silks and yelyets.
Plain velvet will be lavishly used, and
the rule of buttons is over. Sleeves will
be made either tight or plain or puffed.
according to the taste of the wearer.
The fashionable colors at present are
pampas green, emerald green. bison
brown and the shade known as prune de
monsieur
The Josephine gown is an excellent
mooel 1or home dresses of soft wool fab
rlcs' camefs hair, chuddah or crepon.
1t Is made over fitted silk slip, slightly
wnaieboned, and its breadths are contin-
uous from neck to foot. The bodice is
fastened behind by hooks and eyes and
Is shaped by many fine lengthwise tucks
taken above the waist line and extend
Ing up to the neck in the back. The
fullness in front is gathered at the top
In three puffs that have insertion be-
tween done in silk or herring bone or
other simple design, and the neck has a
standing frill at the top tapered by a
single seam, and there are insertions at
the waist. The skirt has three empire
frills at the foot, biased. gathered and
overlapping with puff as heading.
A visiting dress, or for guest at re-
ceptions. or for theater parties, has as
its special feature the Eiffel Tower
stripes in the skirt, coming up in high
points in front and again on the sides.
A seam is directly down the middle of
the front of the skirt to shape the
stripes properly, and the whole skirt is
sewed permanently to the waist, making
a convenient dress all in one piece.
The upper part of the front Of the cor
sage represents black guimpe covered
with black cord, knotted in large meshes,
and this is continued in a point in
the back. The striped fabric is attached
to this guimpe with a standing frill,
and is drawn down from pleats on the
shoulders to belt of black cord passe-
menterie. The back has pleated side
forms in princesse lengths, and its
foundation skirt has single very
short steel and a slight pad just be-
low the waist line to prevent the
heavy skirt from falling against the
wearer.
A pretty dress for young women to
wear when assisting to receive at an
afternoon tea or general reception is
OF pale blue peau de sole with sleeves and
founced panel of black net wrought
with white daisies and green stems and
foliage. The skirt has five blue breadths
with the front drawn up in Greek
apron. disclosing on the left four seal
Hoped fiounces of the net, each headed
with black beading, through which
seven rows of the narrowest blue velvet
ribbon are drawn. The high waist,
laced behind, is round and full in front
and plain and pointed in the back. The
full front of the waist shows no darts
and is made of a single breadth that is
slit open V-shaped below the throat,
laid in three plaits on each shoulder and
then drawn down to the waist in six
plaits that pass under belt. Black
net fills the v at the top and the collar,
and Wristbands are of black beading,
with blue ribbon drawn through. each
ribbon tied in bow. Seven bows of
the velvet ribbon, one on each shoulder,
are tied in long loops like those on the
collar and wrist.-Albany Journal.