Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-06-27
FASHION NOTES.

Very short gloves, two buttons, arc
fashionable in Paris.
a gray Chcviot makes the best travel
ing dress for early summer.
The newest fancy tartans show large
checks thrown over small ones.
The patterns of the costlicst woacn
dress material arc reproduced in cotton.
Bo,liccs different from the skirt will
be more widely worn this summer than
ever before.
Combinations of wool and silk are
again seen, and they arc made mp in
some very Odd and striking ways.
The new parasols are made rather ilat
with nine ribs nineteen inches deep and
pincnto stick with top to match.
Pale Parma violet with much blue in
it is likely To be II much favored sha,lc in
cashmcrcs AMI solid-colorcd clalics
The plain skirt of IL cloth gown re-
Gently noted was bordcrcd with II design
in piece velvet, resembling tiger claws.
a newer combination than plaid with
velvet, is plaid with II relief of plain
cloth which matches color prctlomina-
ting in the plaid.
Among the choicest India silks now
shown are those with violet grounds,
or with long stemmcd violcts scattered
upon black grounds.
Dual dress is the English for the di-
vitcd skirt which touring Indies, athletes
and pcdcstricnncs are wearing abroad to
the exclusion Df untlnrllSi ris
Jacket fronts made to fall open over II
folded vest, which in turn has an inner
vest of another fabric, ARE distinguish
ing feature of the new French gowns
Fnshionablcs in their tight-ftting
skirts and voluminous sleeves have top
heavy Appearance that ia by no means
comfortable for the solicitous critic to
look at.
In ginghams and chambrays the plaids
and checks and bowed effects are carried
out rs in wool materials. In other words,
n l5-ccnt gingham may be replica of Il
50 English camel cloth.
Jewllry is very extensively worn this
SEASON, even girls are allowed to wear
diamond earrings. Bracelets arc in plain,
massive gold, usually in links; brooches
exhibit rich artistic work.
Violcts are the flowers in the newest
bonncts. A wreath of Russian violcts,
set between two twists of brown velvet
and tied together at the back with IL
standing bow of velvet, is effective.
With the tailor-madc suit of check
cloth, the Marscilles waistcoat, the cut
away jacket, the standing collar, the sill,
scarf and pin and derby hat masculine
effect is acquired by the girl of the period
that is far from graceful.
Black lace is used to trim entire dresses
Of black royalc silk. The jacket fronts
of the waist open over II full pointed vest
Of marquise lace, and profusion Of the
same lace is arranged down the sides Of
the skirt in jnbot fashion.
Old rose and fawn color are the favoritc
shades fordc!icatc dresses and waistcoats,
and trimmings of old rose are inserted in
iawn color costumes; while old rose
cloth of subducd tone is made with
green velvet yoke and sleeves.
Importation of Paris gowns arc of
gray, green, violet and very light shades
of suede. The materials are cashmere or
camcrs hair, combined with plain ben
galine, gay plaid silks or striped silk
that is polka dotted or sprinslcd with fine
flowers.
Sleeves are very fanciful, but they ara
all more or less enlarged ut the top by
pnffs, plaitings or slashings Of another
naterial. X reviva! of an old fashion is
to make them of a different fabric to the
rest of the gown. For ball dresses sleeves
are small, and are sometimes replaced by
band OF closc-sct flowers.