Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-01-15
FASHION NOTES.

No fur nowadays is too costly or too
Insignificant to be neglected.
Leather is much used for combining
with the material of costumes.
Cloaks and wraps have reached the
acme of Luxurious elegance"
Blue is apparently fashionable color
in the cloth promenade costumes.
A leading modiste states that the long,
full court train will obtain for all full
dress occasions.
Cowslip yellow satin makes very
beautiful evening toilet, as under electric
or Sasight it turns to pale, charming,
shining gold.
A pretty and stylish dress trimming is
made Of narrow, fancy braids applied in
straight rows, in Vandyle points or in
waved lines.
A novelty in trimmings is messy
chenille garniturc that is quite as pretty
and becoming rs feather trimming and
not nearly SO costly.
Flocks of rosettes, or, as the French
call them, choux, of all sorts of mate
rails have settled ON the garments and
headgear of fashionable women.
A marked characteristic of the hats
and bonncts Of the season is the tilted
appearance they present, caused by the
setting of pointed wings at tie extreme
back.
For combination gowns and entire
dress the rough surfaced bourette woods
and those with the silky pile of the
fleece of the Thibet goat rival the fa-
miliar serges, tweeds and cheviots.
Very pale gray gloves are worn with
entire white costumes. The effect is q
little odd, inasmuch as the hands look
shade darker than does the upper part OF
the arm, and constantly nave what might
be called dusty look.
| The large real white lace wells that art
worn by few women will, it is said, be
popular during the winter months with
the large white felt hats that promise to
hide the view OF the stage from every.
body who loves TO go to the theatre.
Among the recent importations are
black satin bonnets faced with white,
edged with jet, and trimmed with white
applique lace, Russian sable and feather
aigrettes. They come in small shapes
and also in the new 1aring directoire
bonnets.
With n pale French gray, white lamb'.
wool was the trimming. Feather collars
and boas have taken the place of the fur
ones. Pretty ostrich feather collars eau
now be bought in the stores at less than
four dollars, while those made of the
coque feathers are even less expen.
sive.
The fashion for bow knots in wall
decorations has spread. 1t has reached
the trimmings for ladies' costumes, and
has now begun to bloom forth in Jewel
ry. Bow knot pins, buckles, clasps,
combs, handles and in all kinds of knick.
knacks are to be seen in the jewellers
windows.
BY recently expressed law of the or.
acle, the shoes which, as every one knows,
must match evening and home dresses
are made of patent leather dyed by some
new process to the desired tint. The
variety of coloring is great, aud is rem
dered more diverse still by combination
of two or even more colors in the same
shoe.
Many gowns of heavy cloth are still
lightened by emitting the foundation
skirt, and are worn over separate petit
cont, sometimes of fine mohsir, but US.
ually of Taffeta silk. Collars both high
and low are worn, and the haring model
IS popular that extends low on the
chest, with plastron of some rich tex
tile inside, and also an inner collar.
The new lowered silks are too pretty
to be used for Innings alone, and many
women have already discovered their
value and have had these gay Marie
Antoinette fancies made up into charm
ing toilets. either very elegant in effect
through being enriched with black lace
trimmings, or made up simply with a
sheath skirt or with one gathered to the
edge of q pointed bodice
The new feature of princesse dresses
is their bias back seams that give the
effect of a bell skirt. The two middle
forms of the back begin to widen lust
below the waist line in each of their
three seams, and continue to broaden
their entire length; the skirt part is then
stiffly interlined and is held in two dis.
tinct loios Dy being tackled underneath,
making a graceful bell-shaped demi-
train.
The new cart" brown tint of q deep
reddish shade appears among the hand
some dress fabrics of silk, Bedford cord,
bengaline, velvet, and ladies' cloth. It is
also used extensively by ladies' tailors for
recherche visiting and carriage costumes
OF velvet, striped armure, plaided camel's-
hair and Venetian cloth. These gowns
are decorated with various rich brown
furs and have full sleeves and high arched
collars of Lyons velvet.
Bright red cloth of the new taureau
shade is used in gay gowns for very
young women. The newest fancy is to
make shirred bodice of sleek black
plush with large sleeves and n bell skirt
of the brilliant red cloth. The black
bodice, fastened invisibly on the left
side, has many rows of shirring in round