Omaha daily bee., 1891-12-27
HoNEr ron rHE L1DIEs.

Some dress trimmings arc made Of bullion.
The baby boys clothes must DO devoid Of
all color.
Stockings Of Cleopatra red promise to come
In style again.
a greasy fan can be ameliorated by stoam.
ing II over n wash tub.
Ropes Of flowers are once more in use to
decorate the dancing robe.
The girls are wearing rcd four.in.hand ties
as bright as q house aiiro.
Shapely collars for Jackets aud coats are
cut with a scamlcs back.
a new watch bracelet winds automatically
as 1t Is slipped over the wrist.
Basque backs aud princess fronts and vice
verso seem to he favored Uy swell modistcs.
The blending of deep, pale aud brilliant
colorS In some OF tho more expensive plaids
is novel.
Ladies who wear them, and don't like to
call them tights, speak of them as ballet
stockings
While the ribbon coIlarette Is in the swim
1T can never frame the face rs becomingly rs
other materials.
Gold and silver buckles for suspenders are
now recognized as staple goods in the ladies'
furnishing stores.
1t is said that Mrs. Mackay has a mantle of
black fox made up Of 10000 separate skins
which eight years ago cost ~, 500.
pThe floral panier ~ d tho peasant bod c !
made wholly of small roses, accompanying
ball toilets, are short-lived absurdities.
Rosettes, big and little and Of lace, velvo
and silk ribbon are Just at present percncd
upon every conceivable part of tho feminine
toilet.
How much higher the leg o. mutton is to
creep it is hard to determine. 1t Is still the
raging i%avorite, holding its own against all
sleeve Innovations, no matter now lascinat-
ing.
Tho Intp-t gt,tn &c n,,,,,r;n. a., L,;, r~,
full dress Is the mime de Sovigne." The
hair is waved over the head, then arranged
In easy braids at the back with Il cluster of
light curls falling from the center OF the
Knot.
Me for years have expressed their pity
for women because there is usually only
one pocket in n wOman's dress, but they
nave only recently begun TO discover the
possibilities of the handbag which every
woman carries.
The heavy woollcn fabrics now so popular
have defeated the designs of the
10 introduce draped skirts. So, for the pres
ent. only three STYLES of skirts are pos slble.
they are scverally the Sheath the fan"
and the umbrella skirts.
Some women florists in London have in
vented and made fashionable a new bouion-
Mere for the gilded youth of that city. 1t is
most sentimental, being II true lovers knot
IN small flowers. rs Its use is common. It's
significance is CORES pondingly lost.
Pretty gowns for dinner wear show skirts
made of pale doe color, dove gray, or violet
cloth, with Louis Nv. coats Of old rose,
mauve, or cheStuut-brown beugaline, trimmed
with rounding collars aud deep cuffs of vel
vet in deeper or contrasting shades.
Handkerchiefs of some sheer fabric are
finished about the narrow hemstitched border
in an overlapping stitch. A bright tint of
working cotton is used for this purpose.
When an inch wide rutile of black lace is
added these kerchiefs become unique.
Straight from Paris comes tho news that
leaders of fashion in that city are rapidly dis.
caruing the ueml-train. Two years ago q
goWn without on, no matter how elegant,
could be bought for a song. Today the bar
gains in gowns will be governed by the dip.
Some very beautiful cIotn fabrics for win.
ter wraps are sold that have rased designs III
shaded velvet. Rough surface cloths fifty
inches wide show flocked effects in fine bril-
liant colorings. Venetian cloths appear
woven with fur or shaggy camel's hair Dor
ders.
For a young married woman a very hand
some reception dress is made of black gauze
embroidered with flowers IN black lace, over
a trans parency OF mauve silk; trimming of
mauve ribbons. Skirt of silk and ample
skirt of embroidered gauze. The corsage
full, of lace, gathered at the waist, drawn
into the figure by a sash after tho Swiss
style of mauve silk; braces of ribbon at
taChed TO the belt.
TIE newest gloves OF dogskin to be worn.
with sailor dresses are stitched with a heavy
embroidery of black silk on the back and
finished with four large black buttons. Rus
STA leather gloves are now made on the same
way. The newest evening gloves are in lace
kid, in long opera length. Pale yellow,
lavender, pearl gray, and are
favorlte evening cOlOrs and are preferred to
the more pronounced tan shades.
y visiting dress for a Young girl is made in
the following way: 1t is of diagonal beige,
Ornamentcd with mordore silk. A false skirt
NJ "a - - Ii -If.h l.. s-l4 -, l--l
to the lett; the front and left side are short
ened on the foundation of the skirt. a slight
movement OF drapory at the top of the front.
CorSage cut round the fronts, open anu
crossed to the right: button ut the waist, at
tached to the crossing: shawl collar orLa-
menting the corsage.
A new arrival is the coat with tails tn at
fall within a quarter of a yard Of the foot
hem OF tho gown. 1t is short at the sides,
the back receiving a decided slope. A square
vest with pocket flaps and IA high collar com
pletc the Louis coat. The entire garment
suggests a copy of the masculine dress coat.
The fashionable close coat sleeve is trimmed
on the upper arm near the shoulder either
with caps, putfs, braids, chevrous, or gimp
edged vandykes and silk cord arabesques IN
net devices, while on the new ''art' toilets
the open-iioWing japanese sleeve, gaily lined,
appears, worn with an undersleeve OF hand
some brocadc or silk richly embroidered.
For house wear the Russian shoes will be
much favored. They are decidedly com
Portable, with the piping of fur about their
tops and along The edges of tho square flap
that sets back over tho inStep. The shoe
itself is square toed and somewhat fiat at
the heel, tho vamp is in one piece, with the
instep flap, ana the only seams are at the
SIDE, midway between toe aud heel. The
leather is Russian red, or black French kid,
the lining flannel, and the plaiuness of the
vamp Is relieved by a large ribbon bow, at
the center of which is II small steel buckle.
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