The free press., 1892-03-10
FASHION NOTES.


Short street costumes are in favor in
Paris.
Dahlia red is pretty color for cloth
or silk dress.
| Violet ink is considered the proper
writing fluid.
Tweed cloths are much in voge at
present, being tailor-made.
Double breasted jackets with large
pearl buttons are among favored styles.
Blue serge pulls, but it makes very
serviceable and ladylike dress for general
wear.
The Victoria chain rivals the queen
chain. The Victoria has bar as well as
ball.
Beautiful silk crepes in plain and
swivel weaving are fit for Queen to
wear at her coronation.
odd looking cottons are shown, hay
ing minute dots of black, white or colors
on striped and colored grounds.
Draperies are fast coming in. We
shall soon see as many draped skirts as
we have before noticed plain ones.
The Cleopatra hairpn is a gold serpent
with decorative fold in his body, an
ornamental head and a waving tail.
The prevailing fashion of wearing broad
velvet strings knotted under the chin
pleases the milliners and the patrons as
we'll.
Small cups of pale greenish onyx in
which are rose diamonds are the settings
of rings, not so expensive as they are
pretty.
Bangs will soon be out o. date. Many
who have high foreheads are brushing
their hair plainly back, and it is very
becoming.
Gold and silver ball hatpins are among
the best selling articles, so say jewellers.
The balls are formed of crossbars, scrolls
or flower de-luce.
Small turbans generally have facings
of velvet, with bunch Of coque feathers
or large bird perched on the side, and
tail loops of ribbon.
Cream lambskin is an uncommon ma
terial for bonnets, but it has been made
into most becoming one, scalloped all
around and edged with gold.
Chiffon plastrons, white and colored,
are finished with deep falls of white Irish
lace and its limitations, which are almost
as pretty, though less costly than the
real.
The toque is either hat or bonnet, ac-
cording to the way in which it is worn.
If bonnet, it is furnished with wide
ribbon strings, tied in a butterfly bow
under the chin.
A pretty novelty in jewelry is spray
of thistles which Is used as lace pin.
The round base of the blossoms are sin
gle large pearl and the tilaments are OF
small diamonds.
A novel fancy of the moment is the
trimming of damask and brocade Co.'S
tunes for grand dinners and receptions
with artificial flowers of the same kind
with which the fabric is figured.
Among the rather striking costumes
are those with skirts and sleeves OF dark
India-red cloth trimmed with black pas
sementerie vandykes, with Louis coat
and cuffs and black watered silk.
In making calls it is now the custom,
both in Paris and New York, to wear a
long cloak which is dropped in the re-
ception- room, and the drawing-room is
entered in a pretty visiting costume
without wrap of any sort.
To woman with graceful, regular
features the softly braided Grecian Golf
fure, arranged little below the center
of the head, with little cluster of zephyr
curls not more than three inches long
escaping from it, is very becoming.
What is know as Russian serge is a
heavy, all-wool fabric which will be
fashionable for utility dresses this spring.
1t is a durable goods and so firm and
closely woven that skirts made of it
require neither drop skirt nor founda-
tion.
The bodice made with half-low waist
and very long sleeves, similar to the
corsages worn by Hannah Moore in her
| day, are seen at various receptions and
grand dinners. Still they are not prom
inently popular, nor, as rule, especially
becoming.
AS history repeats itself, so does fash
ion. Dresses and bonnets are getting to
look each year more like those worn by
our grandmothers; and wraps are soon
to be the same, for the pure old broche
shawl is becoming very stylish among the
| fashion leaders Of Europe.