The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-01-11

Things Dear to Woman's Heart-F From
Top to Toe.
MORE silk is being much worn again
Silver cloth slippers and pearl silk hose
are worn for dancing.
What is known as velvet calfsis popular
for ladies' hand bags and purses.
Chatelaines. with their taking little
pendants, continue to be liked.
Jackets of black cloth trimmed with
brown fur and vice versa are very pretty.
Brown cloth jackets having embroid-
cred fawn and tan sleeves are striking.
Memorandum and calendar pads hav-
ing clock in one corner are useful limo
yations.
The Spanish mantilla has been revived
for evening wear.
Silk tights and Beau BrummeI trousers
are superseding divided skirts with the
ultra fashionable women
When tartan stockings were intro
duced short time ago they were vetoed
by well dressed women on account OF
their loudness. Now they will probably
be worn with the tartan Shoes
Travelling peasant cloakS OF brown CT
blue plaids are stylish.
Elder down chamber wrappers and
bath robes are luxurious
Medici collars of Ut are worn with any
house gown
Shoulder capes of plush aud fine astra,
khan cloth are stylish
Ribbon, velvet and feather coilarettes
for street. wear are very becoming.
Black pompons for trimming red Span
ish toques give coquettish look.
Collars aud muffs of blue fox are worn
with dressy costumes.
Black corsets with pink or gray point,
have come greatly into favor.
Newly decorated bedrooms have been
hung with chintz after the English
model
The Cleopatra belt is novelty made OF
gold embroidery studded with. colored
stones.
Ermine fur opera capes lined with bro.
cade and sufficiently long 10 reach around
the hips are very handsome.
Pink crepe and mousSeline de sole ball
gowns trimmed with PINK flowers and
black ostrich tips are beautiful evening
gowns.
The craze for necklaces has brought
into use for them white violets and
chrysanthemums. These Mower neck
laces are of course reserved tor evening
dress. They are worn in dog collar
fashion, and the girl with the short, fat
neck is warned 60 use discretion and
avoid them. She had far better stick &c
the pearl or small gold bead necklace,
which Is always becoming TO her.
Card cases are very elegant this season.
Alligator, rattlesuake and lizard skins in
delicate shades are used in making these
cases. which are finished with corners OF
gold or silver in fine chased designs.
Sometimes several little gold flowers
massed together form the ornamentation.
Again there appears simple scroll work
on one corner.
Seamless boaices, while admirable for
slight women, should not be worn by full
figures. as their tendency IL toward max
ing the figure look broader. Where there
is suggestion OF sf0utness all the seams
of darts and side forms should be retain:
ell. as they break the apparent size,eand
an extra side form is sometimes pns in to
keep these seams at even distauees-
So changed has the Directoire or En-
pire style become that but little remains
save the name. For instance, Nalois
sleeves are frequently added TO these
costumes, which, while effective, are
scarcely adapted to this particular mode.
However, fashionable people acc ept
nowadays most cheerfuily all kinds OF
make up provided they come from the
hands OF a hrst-ciass modiste ana suit the
position and personal appearance OF the
Wearer.
Those fortunate enough TO have inner.
tied black or white lace sh4wls fronl their
mothers or grananothers can turn them
TO good advantage in the present style OF
cllueiuG skirt dropery. The firapery ol
the shawl Is cn&Uged somewhat and Is ar
ranged 10 partly cover the front OF the
bodice as well As the skirt, BY REVERSING
the three-oordere shawl. aud putstno
ths loWex point, AIiRhtly gathered at the