Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-01-14
FASHION NOTES.

Silk braid fringes for wraps and dresses
are the fashion.
The floral panier and the peasant
bodice, made wholly of small roses, ac-
companying ball toilets, are short-lived
absurdites.
The latest style of arranging the hair
for full dress is the mime. de Sevigne."
The hair is waved over the head, then ar
ranged in easy braids at the back with a
cluster of light curls falling from the
centre Of the knot.
Some very beautiful cloth fabrics for
winter wraps have raised designs in
shaded velvet. Rough-surfaced cloths
fifty inches wide show fiecked effects in
fine brilliant colorings. Venetian cloths
appear woven with fur or shaggy camePs
hair borders.
Sleeves are being made with wris
trimming to fall over the back of the
hand, as they were in the days of the
Plantagenets. The fashion is decidedly
the thing for women who have large
hands and wrists. The coat sleeve, how
ever neat looking, is, in its severity, in
imical to broad wrists and hands inclined
to be red.
One of the novelties of the winter is
the Russian blouse of cloth or velvet
belted closely and edged with fur. This
new blouse is a long, straight garment of
simplest shape and belted all around, or
else the back may be fitted and the front
left without darts, its fullness, confined
by the belt, giving blouse effect.
Simple and lovely evening dresses for
young girls are of soft white Japanese
crepe that has deep crimson crinkles and
u very soft, silky surface. They are
made with baby waist, with two frills
of chiffon falling from the low, round
neck and caught up high on the shoulders.
The skirt is round and full and barely
touches the floor.
Bretelles appear upon many OF the new
toilets designed both for children, misses
and slender matrons. Some are made of
the dress goods, others of bengaline,
surah, etc Bretelles 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 flowing plaits like
Stuart frill.
The handsome robe dresses of ladies'
cloth, embroidered along the selvages, or
trimmed with applique velvet and bits of
fur, are reduced to at least third OF
their original prices, and are commenda-
BILE purchases in all the rich winter dyes,
and in the more delicate tints of golden
brown, dove color, Suede, chamois, beige,
fawn, and turquoise blue.
Queen Victoria still wears 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 q sort of drab
brown straw, adorned with feather
which had once been white, but which
the smoke and fog of London had just as
thoroughly demoralized as if it had
bobbed and nodded upon the head of the
lowliest of the Queens subjects"
The chief novelty in gloves lies in the
new shades made for exening wear, which
include ficelle and heliotrope, and the
new tones of drab and beaver intended
for day wear Foremost among them are
imitation buckskin gloves. The antelope
is q newer kind and several new forms of
gauntlets are drawn in at the wrist with
elastic, and have pricked seams, which
means that the needle is passed through
the two edges, and the leather is not
overlaid as in pique sewn.
A variety of pretty things is done with
striped silks. An example is dress of
white and orange striped moire, with
which orange velvet is used, The skirt
front is of the moire, with the stripes
meeting in VS. down the middle; the sides
and train are Of velvet. The corsaga is
corselet of bias stripes with half
open drapery of white lace above; on
this drapery are short rounded Spanish
jacket fronts of moire. The lace sleeves
are very full, and terminate just above
the elbow.