Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-28
FASHION NOTES.


The honeysuckle is popular design in
silver.
New prisms in silver take more thar
the bright finish with pierced borders.
A pretty turquoise necklace lately
seen was formed of stars and crescents.
New fans are of crepe embroidered
with chrysanthemums and huge pansics.
Pink Is very pretty on a black hat,
black dress, or as lining for black
wrap.
The daintiest brooches for summer
dresses are those which take the form oil
flowers.
A very handsome spoon seen recently
was of gold with handle designed in
open work.
Exceedingly effective are lace pins sci
with stones which form attractive color
combinations.
The dog-fower is an effective design
IN silvcrware when chased ON n bright
finished surface
Back combs are being welcomed once
more, those with deliberately wrought
headings proving the choice.
A charming bracelet is formed of two
strands of gold wire twisted and set al
regular intervals with small diamonds.
Wash silks, white India silks, pontes
and surahs with embroidered polka dots
are used for shirt waists, which are
made this season in every conceivable
fashion.
Kid gloves are staple. Silk and lac,
gloves come and go, but the kid eudures.
Glace mousquetaires are not much in de.
mand, but are to be found in some beau
tiful qualities.
Do not disdain dicss and the little
niceties of the toilet. You may be
very clever woman, perhaps even intel
lectual; but, for all that, you cannot af-
ford to be careless in these matters.
No woman with any sense Of self-rc-
spect should allow, herself to sink. into
dowdy, but, whatever be her trials, vex,
atoms and disappointmeuts, she should
dress as we'll as her position will allow.
= The skirt which is most in vogue Is
the sheath skirt, which is fitted to the
wearer by parts at the top and hangs
plain to the edge of the foundation skirt.
which is then finished with Il cluster of
tiny rutfles.
Lavender, unless Of al exceptionally
pale shade, looks prettcr AMI is more
becoming if edged with black at neck
and wrists. Gray Is softer and more
tender in hue combined with white, or
with gray of n paler shade. y,
The prcttiest trimmings for French
ginghams, batistes and similar fabrics
arc of openwork embroideries, or light,
delicate line laces. Cream -colored Rus
sian applique bands are also used, and
brier-stitcned cotton gimps.
The latest foreign fashion in notc-pa-
per just now is the Louis XIV, in gray
ish-white, scrolled at the top and with
gold edges. and the birch bark, the last
named having notified surface, and be-
ing very pleasant to write Oh. r..
The fiat rather broad sailo. hat, with
its very low crown, is almost universally
becoming, and has achieved this season
an almost unprecedented popularity. The
hat requires little trimming, the simpler
the more in accord with its style.
The rage for gold has brought the gold
ga,ize veil to the fore. Its popularity
should be limited to women who are
young, whose compilations are above re-
p-oach. Chantiliy lace is noted with
tiny gold balls scattered here and there
upon it.
Some very expensive "jcwcllcd" and
other buttons once again appear upon
new bodices and waistcoats Double
fronts button over others, some of them
crossing Gu chale, fastening on the hip,
style quite popular in Bedford cord and
India cashmere tailor costumes.
Among fresh Paris models is a hand
some black striped grenadine with cut
jet flowers in the stripe. 1t is cut eli
princesse, laced behind, and is finished
with demi-fan train. A 6ounce of rich
black lace is round the bottom of the
skirt and the sleeves are high and full.
1t Is not likely that tea gowns will ever
go out OF fashion. They are too com
Portable, too graceful and far too pictur-
eslue to be forsaken, at least until some
garment with simimilar or greater adj
vantages and attractions can be devised.
and that creation has not as vet ap-
peared.
The real summer capcs are the dcep
lace ones made with velvet yokes heavi-
ly studded with jet, steel, gold, or the
very elaborate jewels that are shown in
star shapes. A lace wrap always seems
essentially feminine, and for that reason
the lace cape, or, as the English pcople
call it, "cloak," will have decided
vogue given it. - 80.