St. Landry democrat., 1891-12-12
FASHION NOTES.

uSeu LOT mourning.
Eoas, mutfs and toques are now made
of pheasants' plumage.
Combined rain and travelling era.
vanette cloaks are worn.
| Among the novelties are jet bonnet,
with frames of chenille.
Dandelion putfs mounted with
aigrettes are used as pompons.
Collars and yokes of fine jet and tinsel
cord are suitable for lace dresses.
Elegant lace patterns are decorated
with designs worked in rhinestones.
When hats are trimmed only with rib
bon, a generous quantity should be en-
ployed.
The Tudor cape in cloth or in velvet,
black or colored, is great favorite with
stylish young women.
An excellent stuff for elderly women
who do not care to put much money in a
gown is corduroy in drab or gray, or
coffee brown.
The Henri IT, cloak, which is still
favored of fashion, is now made to match
the gown and not, as formerly, of o
different material.
Authorities say that the high collar
will die with the year, and January
bring us close neck bands, Jokes and
straight shoulder pieces.
Plain tips and plumes for hats and
bonnets do not seem to be much in favor
at present, an inclination being shown
for ostrich feathers in fancy effect.
New pinking-irons are manufactured
that work lihe pair of nippers. doing
away with the hammer and heavy block
required in using the old-style irons.
Pongee or mohair busters have had
their day. If you would be swell buy
a SO travelling gown and cover it with
500 travelling cloak of rich brocade.
Transparent stufs for evening wear
lace net, chinon, etc.-are often made
high IN the neck, over lace lining, and
with unlined sleeves of the sheer stuff.
An important chatelaine adjunct is
writing table composed of celluloid slips
enclosed between silver covers embossed
and otherwise made to copy feather fans
A breadth of rulled crinoline, innocent
of stees, is worn under trained gowns
to keep them properly distended. This
may or may not foresnadow the hoop
petticoat.
Jackets of various sorts are very popu-
lar and continue to be of the three-quar-
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mented with gallons and fancy and tinsel
braiding.
A novelty in dress goods is what is
known as the unique" This consists
of only one dress length of any particu-
lar pattern or design and includes
variety of styles.
The long veil is an accepted fact. In
black, soft net, falling we'll below the
chm, it is not half bad. White wells are
ghastly,yet they grow and increase. The
woman who dares even wears white fig
ures on black ground.
A pretty evening gown is of primrose
bengaline embroidered about the foot of
the skirt and the corslet with cabo-
chons of jet. The upper part of the
bodice, which is laced in the back, Is OF
daintily draped crepe de chine.
All corded fabrics in wool promise to
be more popu!s; than ever. Bedford
cord in delicate colors, with accessory
trimmings of velvet of shade dark |
enough to contrast we'll, will be used for
visiting gowns during the coming season.
According to present appearances
shaggy wool fabrics are likely to be pre-.
ferred before fine cloths with faced sur
face. The detached eccentric patterns
that were popular last year are generally
repeated in the vest and other decorations
of the gown.
Pretty little mackintoshes are now pre-.
pared for children, being mostly in fawn,
red and black, and other checked ma
terials. One of the prettiest models is
made of double woven cloth, the outside
being blue and the inside red. All OF
these are coat-shaped, with capes.
Bodies grow more and more fanciful.
King Solomon in his glory nor any of his
700 wives ever wore Just such and so
many az you may see in the big shops.
The underfront has full, soft vest, the |
overfronts are long and loose, the sleeves
tight to the shoulder, where there is a
very full puff.
Some of the youthful French dresses
of cloth and Bedford cord button down |
the back and have sleeves set into the |
arm-hole with puff made OF a bias piece
of the dress material or of silk, folded |
together and gathered, the piece being
much wider in the middle than at the
ends and standing up well on the shout
ders.
Very handsome is tailor visiting
gown of dove-gray camel's hair, with
Louis XIV. coat of gray velvet, decorated
with frilling of rose-pink arrophane,
the costume completed by large picture
hat of softest gray felt crowned with
rose-tipped gray feathers. The pretty
accessories are long dove-gray mara
bout boa, and gray Suede gloves, with
shoes of the same.
Boas and high collars of ostrich feathers
are to remain an adjunct of the toilet.
The strings no longer come from the ex.
IRENE back of the hat, fitting it often at
an unseemly angle with the hair. They
are now placed well forward so that they
hold the hat on firmly. There are some
hats which are genuine little bonnets,
similar to the small bonnets worn before
the introduction of toques.
The new National Library building,
now in course Of erection at Washing
ton, will cost St, 900, 600.