Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-04-10
FASHION NOTES.

FASHION NOTES.
Surah slips will be worn under French
organdie gowns.
Velvet accessories appear on many of
the spring jackets.
Colored lingerie is not so fashionable
as it was q little while ago.
Fringes of double twisted fine silk
cord and cordounet are much used.
Piece velvet continues its now long
for a fashion and prosperous reign.
B!ued steel passcmcnterie in, open pat
tern is effectively used in millinery.
The half-long jackets revived this sea-
son arc becoming only to tall figures.
Polka dots of all sizes are as popular
now as when first introduced years ago.
Black silks having single or triple
hair-lines of one or three colors arc
spoken of.
Fringes having lengthy knots above of
silk cord and long mohair cord fringcd
below arc much used.
Wide, corsclet like girdlcs are fcatur cs
of the newest cloth dresses, many of
which are in princess style.
Fine twisted curly silk cord, fringed
below, tho cord being fastened above
to o small ball, arc much used as fringcs.
Insertions of lace set the entire length
of black silk dress sleeves on the inside
of the arm are novel and dressy in effect.
Fringes are in good demand in dull
and half-dull as we'll as in pearl effects,
the latter finding the largest cousump-
ton.
Cord fringcs of knotted cord with
cord knots and cord bells which end
in four or five inches long are pear
shaped.
Among the favorites arc dull fringcs in
curlcd cord and cordonnet, also Gordon
net fringes with inserted double twisted
silk cord.
Large sleeves arc no longer the shape
less affairs they were. They arc less
voluminous md as carefully fitted as o
coat sleeve.
Green is promised for summer wear
in light, rather faded shades, though it
seems dead now in oil silk as well as
wooden fabrics.
London and Partisan drcssmakcrs arc
facing street skirts to the depth of
half yard with fine kid, to protect
them from wear.
Bernhardt arrived in reddish crepe
de Chine, which seems nm odd travelling
dress, but also attests the popularity of
crcpes of all kinds.
A good silk dress may be made to do
service for both day and evening wear
if two bodices are provided, one high
and the other low-nccked.
The waists of last years gowns arc
improved by having high cluster of
orange tips set on each shoulder, or they
may be heightened by pulls of tulle that
form short sleeves.
For handsome silk dresses the new
brocaded rcgence, which comes in black
and all day aud evening shades, is &C.
lected. 1t is soft, does not crush, wears
well, and is rich in effect.
Pearl fringcs are made of large, round,
ground pearls, alternating with dull balls,
there being two rows of each. Dull
fringes have bars, dull balls and border
of ovals covered with braid.
A novelty is fringe of short, narrow
organize braid with border of wooden
balls covered over with silk. Grelot
balls are attached to short organize
braid, the grelot ball being fairly largo
ground pearl.
There is no gainsaying the fact that
woolens have great future, and this
comes from the fact that the most artis-
tic confcctioners of female dress are now
able to make almost any woman look
well in cloth costume.
The galloons with colored stones are
used for Stunrt collars. Gold GALLONS,
flower and leaf designs in fine gold
thread, in combination with colored silk
thread, adorned with all sorts of colored
stones, are frequently seen.
For dress passemcnterics gold braid
crossed with fine colored chenille cord is
novelty. Steel braid ia adorned with
small steel pearls, and black pearl gal
looms show Cross stripes of amber beads
which have in the center opal beads.
Chinchilla, squirrel and rabbit each
make useful furs for the little people.
Regular shoulder capes are prepared for
even the smallest children, but tho fiat
colinrette, sometimes crossed in the Rua-
sian style, is prettier. Ribbons the
color of the fur tie the little collars.
The sealslsin is now made so soft and
pliable that it is ruffled and plated like
q dress fabric. Shoulder capes have one
or more narrow rufles set on below O
yoke that is often fancifully embroid-