The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-12
FRILLs oFFASHlON.

Mink sleeves on cloth jackets hOlu no
end of favor.
Cranberry red is the new color and is
decidedly pretty.
Tea is served after afternoon lectures
given at the private houses.
Roman stripe couch covers have been
and still are very effective.
Two furs are much combined in winter
Jackets. Astrakhan and mink is fav-
orte mixture.
A boys delight in being boy is first
shown by his expressed preference for
wearing laced shoes
Chenille is appearing again as trim
ming.
Dancing dresses made of cloth form
one of the caprices of the season.
Bright French blue as well as turquois,
are favorite colors for childrens dresses.
The quality of the cloth used for even
ing dresses is so fine as to be almost as
costly as silk.
Black hair is now the most chic shade
in Paris. so the blondes and auburns are
out of the swim.
Both dressed and undressed kid is be-
ing used for bonnets.- Velvet flowers
are also in demand.
Wedding dresses are faced with rub
Der. which sticks to the floor and pre-
vents the train from turning over
To carry one immense rose is the fash
ion nowadays. 1t must be held in the
hand and have yard or two of stem
dangling.
Turquois blue is much worn, and the
Jewels, or rather their limitations, still
remain favorites with millions.
Some of the newest ball dresses are
made of cloth, but they are nearly GOV,
cred with gold and silver embroidery.
Collar bands are straight and high, but
are cut bias of the material to give width
at the lower edge and smallness at the
top.
School boys who attend certain swell
institutions of learning in this city always
carry their books i'll small sized travel.
ing bags.
Skating has been the most absorbing
occupation in all society abroad. Par
isans have gotten up fancy dress parties
for the ice, and there has been no end Of
gayety and pretty gowns.
French dinner gowns have their trains
reduced TO very narrow limits. The
skirt proper meets IN the back. and (
very small space is given to the bacl
breanths, which must always be of diff
ferent material from the front.
Lamps form the most decorative of al
i8tic1esni tfe'dIawing room. The ligh
they dispense is softening to the com
plexion, especially if rose cOlOred o
yellow shades are used. and they give al
p air of cOziness and comfort that any mum
Der of gas jets cannot produce.
1t has been discovered by inspectin;
the Babylonian-cylinders in the British
Museum that the street costumes of
society woman who lived $500 years be
fore Christ was very similar to the COS
tunes worn by the ladies of to-day, evel
to the tight-fitting waist and sleeves ant
the accordion killed skirt.
valentine parties are in order. Tn
guests each write their love missive
and take them to the house 0ftheir host
tess where' In the dressing room
punches of ribbons are to be found, a
well as heart-shaped bags. The laiie
deposit their valentines tied up will
ribbon iii one bag and the gentlemen il
the other, from which, in the drawin
distribute them.-Sunddy Press.
Candle shades made of asbestos TO loo
like fancy paper ones are among The neN
inventions, and are very sensible add
ton to useful table decorations.
Every kind of gown has a narrO'
velvet ruffle on it, and is worn with
narrow black SASH No more velvet, n
more black, need be used on the rest Q
the dress.
The cold weather has made the use O
fur very popular this season. One of til
new foreign made dresses has front G
fur, in which are insertions of cloth en-
broidered with silver.
One of the fashionable florists use
lace handkeroliefs (only they are to
coarse, the girls say, to carry, afterwarC
to do the stems of viOlets up in, instea
of the lace paper employed BY Parisia
Afnshiohablc woman who opened
new house this season gave her bOui
warming in the form of three afternOO
teas on three Successive days. IL W;
hard on the Hostess aud the ladies wi
received with her, but otherwise the II
noyation was a great success.
Anew e0nqeit imported from Paris
the byzantine belt, which is six or SIEVE
sinches wide, rs the figure at the wal
and falls in a straightPanef IN front frOl
the waist down. 1t isworn with a sin
pie princess dress, and may be made {
the same material orvelyet heavily en-
broidered with Oriental designs. 1t h;
the effect Of being crossed in front, bl
is really fastened in the back with hook