The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-04
FASHION NOTES.

White suede kid gauntlets are worn.
Souvenir scarf pins have hit the popu-
lar fancy.
Black japanese Grape fans are used for
mourning.
Toaues of embroidered cloth are now
fashionable.
Oxford ties of black calf are worn with
house dresses.
Velvets in rosewood shades and mas
turtium tints are imported for fall trim
mings.
Roman cardinal combined with black
forms becoming house robe for a
brunette.
Models from court modistes have ele-
CANT Turkish, Servian and pompadour
borderings.
A circular brooch made of twisted
bands of small diamonds and olivines is
pretty trife.
The trident is new form for lady's
gold hat pin. The prongs are luxuri-
ously set with diamonds.
A liberal share of favor is accorded
twisted wire bracelets with knotted cen.
tres beautifed by diamonds.
The Scarborough hat is of Modore
straw, enhanced with lace, black velvet
ribbon and double marguerites.
Gray still remains one of the popular
colors of the season, and is made into
both plain and elaborate toilets.
A pretty jewel in a scarf-pin is a
woman's bust with arms thrown up be-
hind her head, cut of moonstone.
Borgeon and pinetti are two new
shades in yellowish green, but borgeon
has much more of green than pinetti.
Pale cloth costumes are enriched with
Eastern embroideries or bands of feath-
ers arranged to simulate Persian handi-
work.
Odd trifes for the dressing chamber in
clude silver elephants head with up
lifted trunk, whose mouth does duty as o
catch all.
Match safes offer in their make unusual
opportunities for quaintness. A market
basket in oxidized silver serves as an il
lustration.
English suitings for travelling dresses
and morning wear repeat the small,
broken checks and irregular stripes of
last winter.
Pond lily is the latest tint in cream
white, felt, cloth aud cashmere, and
the new reds are called Sultane, Vero
nese, Mephisto aud Saliva.
Henri II. paniers, which are used
upon the latest French gowns. consist
of series of jeweled straps, laid over a
satin puff and turned at the waist.
Flower curtains are used for bridal
pairs to stand before while receiving con-
gratulations. They are of some dull,
neutral tint, upon which flowers are
thickly strewn.
An exquisite evening dress of black
gauze, with green dots. has its skirt
iauntily festooned with green hop bios.
SONS, and the same decoration is used
upon the bodice.
Grecian evening gowns are fashioned
of pale yellow nuns cloth, elegant open
work embroidery of cut velvet in gold
bronze tones with touches of lilac being
used as garniture.
Three. quartered coats of auburn brown
camel's hair are richly combined with
royal gray armure, striped with velvet.
Waistcoats, embroidered with running
vines, in silk, are worn under them.
Silk velvet is the preferred fabric for
all the new pretty fancy jackets and
theatre coats, but there are also very
dressy and becoming models in silk
cord-trimmed cloth lined with silk.
A party dress of pale green veloutine
is cut in umbrella form, to give the new
gored skirt its popular name. 1t is en-
broidered about the bottom with wreaths
of laurel leaves ard roses, spangled just
enough to light up the tracery.
Velvet bodices are much used with
chevron striped wool skirts. They are
made as a short French coat with box
plated back and open over smooth
vest. The edges are usually corded
either with heavy cord or with some
rough goods, and often with Persian
lamb.
Plain skirts are invariably accompanied
by jacket or coat bodice. The newest
are either of the short Eton jacket type
or are very long coats reaching almost to
the kness. AS a rule they are very
widely opened in front, sh owing con.
siderable expanse of shirt front as we'll
as tight fitting waistcoat.
A dress that proclaims Partisan birth
in every fold of the rich silver brocade
run with pale pink stripes has for its
decoration a silver passementerie closely
set with pearls. Full sleeves of pink
silk are finished with deep cuffs of pas
sementcrie, and about the waist silver
girdle is worn, clasped with pearl
buckle.
Some of the youthful French dresses
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