The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1890-03-29
FuReELows OF FASHION.

FUReEtoWS OF FASHION.
yssssnabls Suggestions Relating to the
Adornmsns Of Lovely Women.
Most wool dresses have mutton leg
sleeves and high standing collar.
Plain bodices, princesse dresses and
polonaises are all in high favor.
Jacket waists and corsages with ex-
tremely elaborate fronts remain with
US.
Ribbon trimmings are much sought
after and are put on in an infinity OF
ways.
Steel gray is the favorite alpaca;
though it is pleasantly varied by black
shot with pale gray.
Petticoats of white embroidery and
batiste will soon give way TO colored
silk, lined with flannel
Dresses of camers hair and velvet
have the draperies Of the camers hair
and the skirt OF velvet.
The '.Artilleuer" coat, with jacket
fronts revealing vest, is an extremely
natty little basque waist.
Very few foot plaitings are used on
skirts. Borders. bands of ribbon in
velvet and facings are the rage.
Old pink and brown form an attrac-
tive combination lightened with gold
passementerie or embroidery.
Sprays Of guelder roses tied with
white satin ribbons are jauntily ar
ranged in the left side of many new
bonnets.
Mouffion, lynx, beaver and skunk
supplement seal-skin, Russian sable
and real astrakan in popular favor.
Wide circular collars nearly cover
ing the shoulders. vary the monoton-
Gus yoke that has for so long been In
fashion.
The first dark dresses are trimmed
with biasly cut velvet, velvot ribbon,
feathers, furs. passementerie and braid
ing.
Striped silk petticoats, with an ad-
justment Of colors to correspond with
any nationality, forms . fad for fall
and winter.
For bonnets and bonnet trimmings,
for wraps aud for parts of dresses,
shot velvets. both figured and plain.
will be in order.
Many elegant new walking dresses
are made with the skirt longer by two
inches in the back and embellished
with silk embroidery.
Irregular reps--some of them as
heavy as knitting needle, and others
very slight--are features on some OF
the dressy autumn silks.
The most attractive jackets are OF
cream in white cloth. either with
waistcoat In revers trimmed with tin.
sci or silver passementerie.
An exquisite toilet is OF pink in blue
Irish poplin, with crosswise waistcoat
and white rsvers. The jacket and
sleeves are likewise trimmed with
white.
The adoption of redingotes and polo.
naises Is so nearly universal as to al.
most exclude jackets and nantes.
There are few novelties noticeable in
the former.
Very few buttons are sssS upon
dresses or NANTES. the fancy being for
invisible fasteniugs. Occasionally a
few large buttons enhance the effect OF
. redingote.
Old Greek methods of hairdressine
are revived to accompany the empire
gown; ergo. the diadem is once more
let out Of the limbs of the past. 1t is
usually of gold set with tiny stones
diamonds, sapphires and rubies.
Black velvet, used in connection with
the new Partisan plaids, lis very stylish.
Entire sleeves buttoning to the shoulder
on the inside OF the arm are made OF
the velvet and finished with a short
pouf ore paulette Of the plaid.
Only dress skirts of very heavy
fabric require steels; and the limit is
fixed at two short ones. Pad bustles
are entirely eliminated, and the skirt
hangs perfectly straight in back, being
also entirely plain in front and at the
sides.
Low, fiat hats and bonnets constitute
an absolute millinerie rule, and fortu-
nately they suit most faces. The trim
mings are so gracefully disposed, and
are OF themselves so exquisite In color
and texture. that it is possible to order
IN ideal "love" with every little effort.
Cloak. Suit and Ladies' Wear Re:
view.
Faults Of Many Mothers.