The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-02-11


The floral panier and the peasant bod
ice, made wholly of small roses, accom-
panying party toilets, are short-iiVea ao
surdities.
A model of pale blue bengaline to
wear above q sheath skirt OF sllver-gray
cloth has collar, revers and cults OF dark
green velvet,
Girdle belts of fur on ur-trimmed cos
tunes are new and unique, and like many
other fashions of the season are chlehy
designed for slender forms.
New handkerchefs have no hens, but
are whipped at the edges and worked
over in blanket stitch with any color pre-
ferred, and below the little colored edging
is half-inch open border as fine as q
fairies web.
Sleeves are now very frequently made
with wrist trimming to fall over the back
of the hand as they did in the days OF
the Pantagenets. The fashion is rather
becoming to women who have large
hands and wrists.
The latest style of arranging the hair
for full dress is the "Mme. dc Sevlgne.
The hair is waved over the head, then
arranged in easy braids at the back with
a cluster of light curls falling from the
centre of the knot.
Pretty gowns for dinner wear show
skirts made of pale doe color, dove gray
or violet cloth, with Louis XIV. of old
rose .mauye or chestnut brown bengaline,
trimmed with rounding collars and deep
cuffs of velvet in deeper or contrasting
shades.
Women who have the white Paisley
shawls of twenty or thirty years ago laid
away among their treasures should pro-
duce them now and make them over INTO
the prettiest of cloaks. They are lined
with shot silk or brocade of bright col
ors, and have double shirred capes OF the
border edged with its own fringe.
Seal is trimmed with Persian lamb to
as great an extent as last winter, while
other furs are more used upon it than be-
fore. Sea otter is employed as trim
ming of seal, and also mink, the sables,
too, and their limitations. Collars, sleeves,
vests, basques, shoulder capes and.pock-
ct flaps are of the trimming fur.
Bonnet strings are managed entirely
according to the within of the wearer. No
two are alike They are tied under the
chin, under the ear, harnessed in two
rows across the back of the head, crossed
and recrossed about the throat, speared
with jewelled pins in every direction,
and, in fact, have become subject to the
most erratic treatment.
Seal shoulder capes have yoke and
border of this trimming. A beautiful
shoulder cape of seal has an applique of
undyed seal outlined by gold cord. These
capes are lined richly, and are quite ex-
pensive. A krimmer cape adjusted to
deep pointed yoke of grey, hairless skin,
has this yoke set with tufts of krimmer
oncircled by rings of gold.
The "Ioose-back" wraps are among
the ugliest shapes possible. The wearer
must be exceptionally tall and slender,
and must carry herself in the most ap-
proved Delsarteon manner. Even then
one feels she has not done herself justice.
On short, stout figure this model, cut
without any seams in the back, following
the lines of the shape, is simply dis
astrous.
Bretelles appear upon many OF tho
new toilets designed for children, misses
and slender matrons. Some are made OF
the dress goods, others of bengaline,
surah, etc. Breteles of lace, velvet or
silk are seen that are mere point at the
waist line, widening to almost cover the
shoulders. Thence they pass to the
back of the neck in full-fowing pleats
like Stuart frill.
The braidng of seal with gold and silk
braid and appliquing it with other furs is
continued this year. A quarter-inch silk
braid Of light tan is used in connection
with gold. A full-length wrap of seal
has pattern traced by this braid, and
gold cord, forming yoke on the back,
Jacket fronts that round over tho bust
and run well beneath the arms upon the
waist, and trimming for the bottom of
the moderately flowing sleeves.
Queen Victoria still wears a hat; that
is, when she chooses. She appeared in
one about month ago in one of her
daily drives, "said headgear," writes an
American lady, "being sort of dab
brown straw, adorned with feather
which had once been white, but which
the smoke and fog of London had Just
us thoroughly demoralized as if it had
bobbed and nodded upon the head OF the
lowliest of the Queens subjects"