The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-02-08
FASHION NOTES.
AsHEs of roses is popular color.

ASHES of roses is popular color.
RIBBON filiets are worn In the hair.
McsT winter bonnets are absurdlv
! small.
FAcErED steel ornaments have been
revived.
Hon and low coiffures are equally
fashionable.
SKIRTS continue to be clinging rather
| than ample.
PRESENT styles of dress are almost uni
yersally becoming.
THERE is fancy just now for parting
the hair OF the side.
BLACK velvet and wool goods are COM
bined for dressy black gowns
WHITE tulle strewn with diamond
dust is a Partisan fancy for ball dresses
JET passementerie is used for trim
ming the light cloth vests of dark gowns.
"OYsTER-sHELL white" pure pearly
tint, is much admired for dancing toll
cts.
JERSEYS Of fine quality, draped across
the bust with soft silk ticnus, are much
in vogue.
ALL shoes FOR evening and promenade
wear are made with lower heels than
last season.
BLACK velvet bodices are bordered
| with narrow band OF closely curled os-
trich feathers.
VERY long-waisted dresses in Marie
Stuart style rival the short Empire bod
ice still in vogue.
CoRDING the seams OF bodices with
silk OF a contrasting color is an old fash
ion revived this winter.
SMALL buttons fashioned of the dress
| material are used for the garnItnre of
| the latest tallormade gowns.
LADIES Of fashion III Boston, one of
the local papers relates, now wear at
their afternoon teas Egyptian costumes.
LARGE, so-caiied square visiting cards
are most fashionable for ladies. Gen
tlemen continue to use exceedingly
small cards.
WHITE, pale blue and fawn colored
ladies' cloths are made Nd with black
velvet and gold or silver passamenterie
! for afternoon receptions.
| BLACK toques are worn with dresses
OF any color; even the trimming need
not ACKNOWLEDGEMENT hing the suit
| throughout is out of fashion.
! MAGNIFICENT brocades, having the de-
sign woven in gold thread, are used for
dinner and reception dresses in combi-
nation with velvet or bengaline.
A STYLISH dress worn at recent Ger
man. was Il bright red tulle, the skirt
| caught up Oh one side with black birds
| and blackbird on the left shoulder.
SILVER gray suede kid slippers are fin
| ished with small buckles of steel or
huge pompadour buckles OF antique or
bright silver made by siIyersmiths tor
TINS purpose.
SOME fancy jackets are shown with
double rows of very handsome silver or
bronze battons; others have the effect
of a double vest in front, with reyers or
gailoon bands beyond.
PRINCESSE dresses have the entire
front of a different color and material
from tie back, the dividing line being
the shoulder and under-arm seams,
thence down the foot OF the skirt.
LARGE rosettes of colored velvet are
used for trimming black velvet round
hats. They are made Of velvet cut bias,
doubled, gathered or box-plaited and
otherwise made up in the form OF giant
roses.
TIE daintiest low shoes for evenings
are in quaint old brOcades sometimes
| interviewer with metallic threads. 9th
ers OF silk. satin or undressed kid have
the toe pieces Of embroidery and bead
work III gold, steel or pearl.
FLoEENTINE styles prevail among re-
ception dresses ani tea gowns, and
there are Joan dare hodices, Nandyke
frllls and cuffs, laced Venetian corsages
with half low guimpes of richest laca,
and euirass bodices with high standing
lace trases or softly falling ruffles.
THERE is fancy FOR using lace and fur
together as thinning for dressy cloth
I gowns. The lace is bl ok in guipure de-
signs, and is inserted in diagonal rows
in both skirt front and sleeve pulls
TIE collar, vest and cuffs are of fur, and
there Is band OF the same at the foot
Of the skirt