The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-27
FASHION NOTES.

Ruchings of fringed.out silk, feathers,
fur and lace are in very general use.
There are new Paris suits made of
handsome glace silk with brocading in
tiny vines and blossoms.
Sleeves are high on the shoulders, quite
full around the arms, very long and elab.
orately trimmed at the wrists.
Colored crystals are now freely mingled
with jewels, especially in bracelets.
Mauve colored crystals are preferred.
Some new jackets have short inner
fronts, the long outer fronts turned back
about four inches on each side over the
vest portion.
Among novelties in trimmings are rib
bons with flower fringe at one edge
There are also chiffon edgings with an
embroidered vine and q scallop, to which
is sewed a fringe of flowers.
Hsud-painted garniture is coming into
use again on very rich fabrics. A very
fine satin in ivory-white has bunches of
chrysanthemums and trailing vines OF
smilax painted in natural tints.
Some of the combinations Of colors are
very quaint and pleasing. Cronstadt
green with pale-rose, ecru and blue,
heliotrope and green and heliotrope and
pink are among the odd mixtures.
The most fashionable street garments
are half-atting jackets. They are much
liked in London, but American women
seem not to take so kindly to them, pre-
ferring the more closely fitted wrap.
A new opera cloak is made of white
ottoman silk with yolk of gold passe-
menterie. The cloak extends about two
thirds the distance down the length of
the skirt, and is lined with gold-colored
satin.
In Paris the long lace wells are made
of Chantilly or Brussels net. Usually
the veil is gathered on an elastic foI
.bonnets and for large hats, but it
is shlrred and stitched round the edge of
small capotes.
Ribbons are extravagantly used on
costumes, and indeed for trimming pur-
poses of all sorts. New ribbons have em-
broidered figures, and there are also rib
bons with spaces for running narrower
ribbons through.
Upon many of the new models for sum.
mer the sleeves are unlined. Some are
lightly yelled with japanese oversleeve
of lace ten or twelve inches in depth, not
extending beyond the elbow and very
full IN the armhole.
Jet, in very fine qualities, is said
never to be out of fashion. Certainly,
it never stays out of market for any
length of time, and now comes in again,
after seasons quietness, in the most
exquisite qualities.
Twilled silks make serviceable para
sols. The sizes are medium, also the
STYLES of making, nothing absurdly
striking marking the stocks thus far
shown. Lace and silk rufaes finish the
edge singly and together.
Pretty shoulder -capes are made of cash
mere. There is deep yoke with straight
breadths below, or the material is in
double plaits from the shoulders, front
and back, falling over plain straight sec.
tions; or the garment is of two materials,
the front and back plain, and the plated
sleeves of richly brocaded material.
Hats and bonnets for the season to
come differ from those of the season past
in three essential points. The trimming
instead of rising from the back, will be
massed in the front of small hats and of
| bonpets, and on the crowns of large hats;
streamers will take the place of strings
on the greater number of the milllner's
! creations, and the trimmings, in place OF
being sewed, will be held in place with
jeweled pins.