Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-09-09
FASHION NOTES.

Bcnncts of white lace aud pansies arc
popular.
Wide baby sashcs OF moire or fancy
ribbon rill be much worn with SKINNER
dresses.
The straw hats and bonncts dyed in
mixed Persian colors require but little
trimming, and that of the severest style.
Silver nets about six inches square
and fringcd with tiny slver balls mrs
worn by some young women in the
hair.
The most fashionable china is pure
white with scalloped edges. and has the
monogram of single initial engraved on
one side.
Rough, coarse, wooden materials,
woven with uneven threads, are very
fashionable for long mantlos and walk
ing dresses.
The long slccvci garments are useful
for the cooler days. Isle thread unions,
arc in ccru. The cotLons come in ecru
aud bleacled.
Wicker tea baskets containing silver
plated teapot, tea ca1dy and all the
Accomplishments for tel on II Journey are
used in England.
Breakfast jackets are made of Powered
dclaincs and nainsool aud trimmed with
ValeLcienucs lace aud ribbons the exact
shade of the pattern.
The round cnamelcl brooches, with fine
interlacings and powdered with colored
stoncs, come next to the flower jcwciry
in rivaliny the bowkno..
The Alpine hats have bccom,
genuine fad. The craze for them Il
growing epidemic, aud they are being
brought out in all materials.
The latest thing in hats is the sailor
in enlarged Dimensions, high crown and
wide brim, with ribbon band and fiat
knot the color of the straw.
Hats are moro worn than bonnets this
season, and the indications are that they
will supersedc bonnets for time, even
among niddlc-agcd matrons.
English jackets OF pale channels
colored cloth are worn with pretty waists
of cherry silk laid in fiae plaits and
fastened with tiny gold buttons.
The lace bertha and the Wattcau bow
have met with great SUCCESS, while the
bertha of old point lace, ornamsutcd
with small diamonds for evening wear, is
very popular.
Charming luce caps, fichus aud bertha,
will como in with airy summer toilets.
Some of these will b. 10 of crein
lace houncing deep enough to reach be-
low the waist.
From Paris comes the rumor that
shorter sleeves are to be worn in day
dresses, finished with flowing rufllss OF
lace, aud shorter skirt: are made for
walking gowns.
Ribbons of all kind, are in great do.
maud for dress trimmings, rs well as
millinery. The paleshades are shot with
contrasting colors, aud some are very
beautifully brocadet.
Dotted Swiss muslins with floral print.
ings are among the summer novelties,
and are made u, over colorei silicia or
Chinese silk Innings, while lace or MORE
ribbon are the trimmings m,st used.
The princesso gowns are open at one
side to show an underskirt OF different
color, and the bodices and sleeves are
slashed with puffings OF the same color,
or opened in some odd fashion aud laced
across with cord.
There arc many girdles of all sorts of
passementcrie and gold yet shown. and
many OF them have ono long end which
hangs straight down in front to the bot
tom of the skirt. These girdles give q
style to almost any costume.
Petticoats of dark or black silk, black
satin aud surah are suitable for every
day, as we'll as bottor occasions, and are
trimmed at the edge in the most varied
and charmingly dainty way, tho trim
ming being replaced as soon as worn
out.
A pretty novelty for the baby 10 a
jacket made of white China wash-silk,
embroidered with blue forgct-me. nots in
each corner and on the sleeves, and
these little jackets, instead of being
scolloped like the flannel ones, are
hemmed and leather stitched.
There are some newideas as to sleeves
which will be carefully observed as o
date-mark The latest of these is the
wide, loose Sleeve coming below the
elbow, and then finished not with the
usual cuff, but deep fiounce or two
frills of guipure or other kind of hand
some lace.