Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-11
Notes of the Fashions.

Straight collars, cut as high as can be
borne comfortably, are most fashionable.
Furs are going to cost about as much
this year as last, the dealers say, as far
as they can see.
Friendship quilts are make of squares
OF linen or mummy cloth, each con-
tributed by friend.
Millinery is excessively smart just
now. Lace and fur add their richness
to many elegant hats and bonnets.
English bridesmaids usually wear
!plcture hats" Very often short tulie
wells are worn by the maid as we'll as
the bride.
The French wedding d.'os7 is usually
of peau de sole and of satin duchesse
The English dress is of satin duchesse
or plain satin or corded silk.
In weddings of the best form the
brides bodice is high, with long sleeves,
and train as long as the occasion and tine
height of the wearer requires.
Nothing for youthful women can be
more effective or moro fashionable than
the fitted blouse waist of tartan silk that
tones we'll with the dress skirt
Some of the now gowns OF serge,
trimmed with plaid, are finished with
long, narrow scarfs. hanging on either
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garb.
Beautiful capes for dressy wear are
made of dark green corded silk, with
immense empire bretelle-lile revers
spreading over the shoulders and back
from n few inches below the neck. The
capes are Of dark green velvet edged
with a roll OF otter, seal, or other rich
fur.
Silk petticoats for evening wear are,
if possible, moro elaborate than ever.
One model is of green and crimson shot
silk, he.lower edge alternately frilled
with red and green silk Narrow ruflies of
rich black lace fall ever these, the up
per edges of both being threaded in and
out with bebe ribbons in the combined
colors,
Bonnets for evening wear are the
daintiest confcctions of laces, pale vel
vets and soft-hued pompons and flowers
The evening bonnet Of the season is ex-
ceedingly small. scarcely more than a
head dress. Strings are often omitted.
Where there are strings they are gen.
orally of black velvet and not over an
inch in width.
One very marked feature of the sea-
sons fashions is the fancy for wearing
| dark gowns, with coats or capos of vel
vet in rich, bright shades and very or
nate and brilliant in decoration. Par
ticularly effective, because as yet un-
common, are the coats of black or dark
green velvet worn by the tall, slight
women, for which fashion ever reserves
her choicest productions.
Two handsome silks have ground OF
MORE. One is striped lengthwise with
two-inch stripes OF satin, brocaded along
the edges with the daintiest OF rosebuds
This silk is in pink and pearl, and whore
the pink ends and the pearl begins nc
one can tell, They both begin and END
all over; first the silk is pink and then
it is pearl, then both at once, and some
times neither, because 1T is white in
stead.
Accordian pleated skirts make the
prettiest of all skirts for girls from IL Il
IA TO wear to dancing school. China
silk frocks, made very full, are quite
charming in their effect when held out
in one OF the pretty poses of a dance. A
dancing school dress should be lighter
in every way than the ordinary home
costume, and children should be taught
to don their light silks as matter o
course and without consciousness, a.
being as much the accessory of the les
son as a riding habit would be at th'