Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-05-12
NOTES ON THE MODES.
SrasonabIe Suggestions on the CurreT
styles in Woman's Wear

SfasOnable Suggestions the Current
styles in Woman's Wear.
The proper caper in gloves to wear
with tailor gowns is of fine Swedish kid
matching the costume in color.
The polSe-bonnet has come hut has
not conquered and. indeed. for the pres
ent at least has been rejected. Small
bcnnets and large round hats will con-
tinue in popular favor for the coming
season at least.
The famous Partisan dressmaker Felix
is making walking dresses for women
who decline to drag the lower part of
their gowns about the streets with
round skirts that comes near to the
ground yet just escape touching it.
While French ginghams. batistes.
chambrays and other wash fabrics are
still popular. challis and pretty-figured
veilings are to a degree usurping their
place These last are cut in princess
form with the back plated or gathered
below the waist and with the front
slightly draped.
The importation of shot silk parasols
i very large this season. These and
those of figured changea BILE silk simply
flushed with gathered pinked frills of
the same or with tape fringe. will he
generally carried. except for dress oc-
casions when those of chiffon and 9TH
er fancy materials will be used.
The Queen Anne shoe. with the long
in-step-tiap and glittering buckle. is a
ver- fashionable NODDED designed to be
worn with tea-gowns and other dresSv
hene toilets. However. the low-cut
shoes and sandals of plain black IN
L. L. 81, -
beads are much more graceful and -
coming.
A nodish and popular cOmbina ton is
gray with pale yellow or cream a
fashiona BILE costume of this com bination
is of gray cloth. with vest girdle and
broad bias band about the skirt of
cream-white cloth borlered on citker
side with an applique of gold and silver
ralloon dotted with small steel and
pearl nail-heads.
All sorts of erinkled goods are very
popular this season. There are the
creponS of soft. fine wool. dainty Snow
talked crepes and dotted or striped
fabrics in silk and wool. corduroy ma
te-ialS as sheer as crepon. yet ribbed
like Bedford cord. and various other
>erni-diaphanous fabrics as deeply
crinllled as in English Grape.
Wool dresses are no longer. as for
mcrly. used for calling and similar oc-
czisions to the exclusion of silks and
other more Ella bora te costumes. Women
who are quick to see the drift of fashion
now wear from four to seven o'clock in
III" afternoon. for promenade. calls. five
o'clock teas ana exhibitions. handsome
toilets of silk in light shades. with
bonnet correspondinglv dressy and elc
CANT
Chemisettes and blouse vests of va
riOus delicate shades of sura n silk or
of silk batistc. are being made by the
most fashionable modistes to be worn
with the open-fronted toilets that
are being finished for summer wear
They are made withholding collars.
trimmed with fine valencienes lace
a bout two inches wide. The front is
tucked. and at the closing has lace
edged rutfie-
A beautiful and striking Felix dress
is of black Russian velours with cord
stripes of green, and with threads of
gold and copper between This dress
has corsage of black mousseline de
sole plated to jeweled yoke and belt
ed by wide black ribbon. The bell
skirt is lined with pale blue taffeta. and
is edged at the foot with loops of black
satin ribbon falling on similar loops Of
palc-blue satin ribbon.-N. y. Post