Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-18
FASHION NOTES.
Havana is the new shade of Drown.

more the rage.
Tiny black velvet bows are seen ON new
walking boots.
Black tulle will be in great favor for
evening gowns.
American flag handkerchiefs occupy
large amount OF space in all the shops
these days.
Venetian martlcs for concert wear,
lined with pink, blue or scarlet, will be
extensively worn.
The skirt of the most elegant and
fashionable walking dresses clear the
ground all around.
The new hats and bonuets show q de.
termination to cling to the use of lace
among their garnitures.
The new and pretty Sedan cloths arc
made up with jacket corsagc ofrepped
silk braided with wool soutache.
Silver bowls for dowers have irregular
edges and are tighter on ono side than
the other, like broken cggshells.
A large Egyptian shaped vase, simple
and severe in outline, with solid handles
like wings, is one of the novelties.
The plain, tight party skirt still lives,
despite the prophecies of the modistes,
who felt sure its reign would be brief.
A new French woollcn stuff is serge
with narrow stripes of shot chenille in
striking colors, 1t is called, "Velours
Russo"
Belts and braces of two-iuch wide gold
galloon are fancied with skirts of black
or blue serge and blouses of black OIL
blue silk.
Small checked materials are greatly
improved by plain trimming, which
should be either the same or OF contrast.
ing color.
II you want to look pretty in your
studio or boudoir get Japanese robe of
blue cotton crepe and learn to play
the guitar.
A new soap rack is standard with
graceful narrow chased bands in sort
OF Greek fret design in which an oval
cake of soap is held.
just at present bongaline is one of
the most popular materials, and the fig
ured is quite as we'll liked as the plain
! HOOuS, DOLu III SILK ana WOOL.
A novel notion in ladies' shoes is to
perforate them, aud run very narrow rib
bon into tho perforations, the ribbon
being changed to match the costume.
Silk stockings with the old-fashioned
clocks are shown in the stores, aud, al.
though they are pretty, they are not a.
reined-looking as all-black stockings.
The Elton jacket, short, with square or
| pointed fronts, seems to have caught the
popular favor, and it is worn over the
handsome shirt waists for dressy occa.
sions.
New watch chains are fine golden
cords, couple of yards long, and dot
ted here and there with small pearls.
They are worn around the neck aud hang
loosely.
Dear little after-dinner coffee spoons
are of gold, aud have handles of enam.
Tiled flowers. When the latter are for.
get-me-nots they make especially pretty
souvenirs.
One of the most stylish novelties in
millinery is the felt poke bonnet. 1t is
universally becoming, and the usual
trimming is ribbon aad velvet with o..
trich tips.
For hunting breakfasts, au ecru table
clotn with wide border all round in red
and blue Russian embroidery, represent.
ing birds, rabbits, hares, etc., is the
proper thing.
Crinklcd crepon seems to be decided
invorlte in that fabric. The effect is
good, and it makes n garment dressy
with less accessories of trimming than
the plain crepon.
/ Pongee parasols are serviceablc, like.
wise pretty. A parasol costing no more
than SO can be bought, made of good
quality pongee, with wide rullle about
Ine edge, mounted on snort handle Of
mattlei wood.
Box plaits appear on some of the new.
est modes in dress skirts. Some of the
plaits show at the back only, others in
'front.', and on still Others they form n
Vatican fold that reaches from the neck
10 the hem in the bacK.
Lace jabots are more worn than ever,
and are effectively displayed in novel
way below n V-shapcd neck, and run.
ming down to the bclt-iine, or at the top
of u high waist and running far below
the belt, even to the middle of the figure,
Genuine silk batistcs ore used THU
season, very largely in the place of the
cphemeral chiftons. These batistes are
shown i'll new and beautiful colorings,
and textile comes wrapped IN silky, per-
tuned paper, as if from Oriental shops
of the Far East.
The accordion plated blouse is a new
and popular waist. There is no lining,
except in the round yoNe, from which
the plated fullness falls longer than the
waistline, and is caught up beneath q
folded belt finished with rosetie on
one side