The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-02-15
FADS OF THE HOUR.

Dainty Toilets for Evening Wear-Veils
Copwebbing is used like a ribbon to tie
up the hair.
One of the prettiest gowns which the
young wife of General Schofield wore re-
Gently in Washington is of white brocade
figured in tiny pink daisies. The skirt
and bodice are in one, made with short
baby waist with a wide fall of French
lace around the neck, and the elbow
sleeves are OF point d'esprit with rufle of
the lace and capped with the Drocade A
broad belt of seed pearls forms a point at
the back and front, and a fall OF the lace
is slashed across with the brocade, the
skirt like all of the new gowns being bell
shape with a narrow quilting around the
bottom.
A very pretty gown recently worn by
Miss Helen Gould was of old-fashioned
'~'peachblow" faille, with demi-train, cut
princess shape. Around the trout was a
festoon of steel and pearl bead trimming
held by upturned ostrich tips. A narrow
ruche of feather trimming outlined Il vest
front, below which. on the hips, fell ID
deep trimming of the same, and there was
a necklace of the same around the slender
neck. The sleeves could be better under
stood than described. The train comes
from the centre of the back. fan-shape.
Feather trimming ornaments the sleeves
and punches are on the shoulders. A
fan of the same pink feathers completes
the costume, which Is easily copied. 1t
needs ten yards of faille.
The small. tightly-curled Prince OF
Wales feather, which furnished such
smart decoration for hats, has found favor
of late as a ruff for the high Medici col
lars 80 universally worn.
A handsome walking wrap is of
Russian design in hunters green vel
vet, edged with sable and ornamented
by a wide girdle OF green crochet work,
the ends knotted and fringed. The gar
ment is warmly interlined and faced with
r~ose-dotted satin.
'Skiris of gowns Just completed are al
most without exception in the clinging
style, either with a numbe OF gored
breadths, which is really the bell"
| shaped skirt, or the forreau or street
model with the single sloping back seam.
All sorts of novel devices are called i'll to
relieve the plain effect of these close
skirts. Seams are slashed to show siuu-
| lated drop skirts, and the slashed edges
are covered with passementerie or braid
ing, pointed trimmings of jet or gimp, or
bands of ripoon or velvet. Wide bands of
very open embroidery are frequently
lined with contrasting color n set be-
meath slashed seams.
Sleeves will be developed along the
course already indicated in the winter
SOotA 1ANJ 49, w ~ - 49,
shoulder rather tnan high, and they will
wrinkle down the arm, just as do the
sleeves of the Russian peasants. This Is
au ideal sleeve. such as an artist
loves, and if one wants an artists eX-
preston of it they will find it in the
pictures of Burne-Jones. To produce the
effect the dressmaker will cut it at top so
that the fulluess droops, or else she will
gather it full along the inside seam,
which is the only seam; or. better yet,
| she will cut it much longer han the arm,
and pull it up onto the lining and fasten
it there.
Russian waists and blouses are worn Oh
all occasions.
The latest service of the bowknot is the
very last that might be expected. A set
of after dinner coffee cups OF Royal Wor-
cester are bound with gilt ribbons tied
in Il bowknot at the side. 1t is a charm
ing device as we'll as novel. Each cup
stands on a little gilt base.
The new French swallowtail coats will
be smartIy worn by slender ONE The
seams up the back Of q golden brown