Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-05-08
FASHION NOTES.
Wine shades are popular.

FASHION NOTES.
Wine shades are popular.
French dressmakers still use MORE.
Ribbons the color OF the fur tie the
little collars.
Old fashioned ashes-of-roses is again
seen in silks.
Hemstltched black surah silks of triple
warp are entirely new.
1t is said that stripes will be preferred
to plaids for summer dresses.
Wide aaring collars of thick silk with
velvet applique arc very pretty.
Stout women are perhaps wisest who
do not appear in the scant skirts.
There is new kind of hat and bon
net veil that falls below the waist.
The bouquets carried by ladies are very
large, and are tied with satin ribbon.
Indian shawl wraps are said to be still
worn by all the grand danes of Paris.
Ruchings for the neck are very popu-
lar, but are rather smaller and narrower.
Patent leather shoes are difficult to
wear out, both in person and in popular
ity.
Some new bracelets are silver snake
with scales raised like the genuine rep
tile.
There is threatened revolution in the
matter OF fashionable arrangement OF
hair.
"Alannish fashions" are to continue
among women who are not over effimi.
nate.
Little buttons representing the college
colors are the newest on the girl of the
period.
Pocket tides to hold the watch and
hang on the brass bedstead are some
thing new.
Blocked and striped Scotch cheviots
will be much used in the making of
spring costumes for travelling and the
promenade.
Some of the new fine spring woolens
are woven in tucks either wide or mar.
row. These make pretty skirts, as the
tucked borders are also used for guimpes,
vests and panels.
When it is desired to have the gloves
cover the entire arm, as NAV occur with
evening dress, they are secured to the
shoulders by straps of satin ribbon that
buckle on the gown.
Ncatness and suitability are two of the
factors to be observed in the dressing of
children, and she is q wise mother who
can preserve the means between furbe.
lowed tinery and unbecoming severity.
1aip &c
dotted with violet clusters is made with
violet silk sleeves and collar, with very
fine gold braid on the bodice and on the
belt of the extremely plain English
skirt.
An apron of black ALPACA feather
stitched in color will be found Just the
thing for the school-room, as it needs no
laundering and is always ready for such
an emergency rs to cover grease spots, q
torn width or rubbed sleeve.
In the list of jackets, the three-ouarter
model, which is cut in one length far be.
low the waist, then cut in tabs and neat
ly corded, is more generally becoming
than the shape which has straight seam
joining the cross-cut basque to the
bodice.
Nobody wears wells adorned with
beauty spots now unless the dots of court
plaster are arranged with clever eve to
detail and effect. In other words, every
girl is her own veil maker, and she places
the small black disk in such place rs
will call attention to her most beautiful
feature.
For wee tots the finest cloaks are of
Ottoman or bengaline silk made with the
French back and the loose pleated or gath
cred front. The handsomest are silk
lined and have enormous pearl buttons
and big, full sleeves with velvet collars
and cuffs; silver-gray, pale brown and
Edison blue are among the preferred col.
ors.
A galloon shows anchor designs, hav.
ing on both sides cross, lengthy design.
The whole is made of papier-mache,
covered over with silk and surrounded by
small cord, the two long side designs
being bordered with small tree designs.
A pearl galloon is made of round and
oblong star designs wholly filled out with
pearls.
1t is evident that the sheath skirt has
come to stay for the spring aud summer
Mt all events, even though having rs
rivals the somewhat fuller bell skirt and
the all-round English model, almost
always preferred by women of tall,
slender figure. The materials compos.
ing the sheath skirt may be slightly
draped without adding bulk, because