Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-01-20
The Fashions.

[From the New York Evening Post
| Rows of very handsome buttons appear
once again, placed down the fronts of sty
lish house and street corsages.
The modiste eschews flowers in most of
her beautiful decorations just at the mo-
ment, but the milliner is making great use
of the choicest exotics in garnishing her
smartest bonnets and hats. Rose-tinted
velvet chrysanthem ums, mauve and pale
pink roses, singly or artistically massed,
are used with pretty effect upon head
gear designs as well for the street as for
dress uses. Many other flowers are used,
but these, with violets, pale-yellow jon
quils, hyacinths and gay shaded velvet tn
| lips, are the preferred blossoms that gleam
amid odd winter surroundings of fur, vel
vet and sable plumes.
| Ruches, rows of narrow bias ruffies, tri-
ple-box pleatings pinked at the edges, and
| slightly gathered black lace hounces are
very fashionable finishes for the bottom of
new dress-skirts. Pipings, rows of hand
| some ribbon, slender passementeries head
ing band of fur, applique ornaments set
on in vine patterns, rows of wool and
metal galloons in graduated widths, and
silk cord arabesques laid over bias bands
of tan, silver gray and chamois-colored
cloth are also used both here and abroad
Pretty French fannels for morning
wrappers have iowered stripes, foliage
patterned edges, or fine arabesques in rich
dark shades on neutral grounds. Others
are bordered in Greek key devices, or
show a Vandyke pattern in woven silk at
the selvage. Other lightweight iannels
have tone upon tone of one color in charm
ing rose and pale rosy mauve shades, in
fisherman's blue, in dahlia, dove-gray and
mignonette.
Rich lace toilets still retain high place
in the world of fashion, subject only to
new arrangements and combinations. A
charming creation from a noted Paris shop
is made of creamy Venetian lace over
Spanish yellow corded silk. The full
puffed sleeves and V-shaped Josephine
bodice are garnitured with Vandyke points
in costly gold passementerie, the designs
being almost as ilmy and delicate as gold
lace The effect of this trimming upon
the wonderful sswoven dreams" composing
the toilet is most artistic and beautiful.
Shot and striped effects appear in new
stationery. The 'shamper" note is an es-
peciaI outcome of the period II resem-
bles the plait of a wicker basket, and is
made in soft shades of different colors
Among the peculiar styles in paper is that
of a pale green-gold lint with water-line
stripes of silver. Most of the new invi-
tatioh and correspondence cards are small,
and special English styles are in crimson
and gold. r.
All the stylish pelerines have high col
lars in Elizsbethan or Medici fashion, with
fur on both sides. SO that they can be
turned up or down. In London appear
> many large boas or tippets with larger
muffs than are carried here, these being
, deemed in accord with the types of street
dress now in vogue. The fur fchu with
| deeply pointed ends and high collar is
I onite as protective as the large boa, and
: far more graceful and tight-itting; un.
trimmed jackets are preferable az . basil
) for either boas, tippets or stale frpnted