The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-02-01
FASHION NOTES.

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Silver brooches are in great favor.
silk-faced velvets are popular fo'
fancy jackets.
Buckles, plain and fancy, are used oD
all the latest hats.
Box cloth is becoming a fashionable
material for ladies' jackets and cloaks.
Elegant black nets, for evening cos
| tunes, show spangled border, and all
over jet designs.
Why doesn't somebody devise q pill
able asbestos dress braid or some other
kind that will wear seasons
Gloves to be fashionable must not be
too tight. They are however growing
longer, and we are told that sleeves are
| to be proportionately shorter.
Enormous sleeves of shaded velvet are
worn in outdoor and indoor garments.
| The effect is pretty for girl, but awful
| when the arms inside belong to woman
| of prominence.
Long cloaks of brocaded stuffs with
Livery full trimmings of fur or feathers
fseem to be in perennial favor. Nobody
| knows the years that they have been
fashionable.
Shoes grow more and more pointed,
| and foot doctors rejoice. Figures
would fail to compute the misery and
| suffering and bad temper that are caused
by narrow-toed shoes. =,
Tiny bonnets of passementerie and
embroidery or metal filagree are the
favorites for dressy wear. Many OF
them have no strings, while others have
strings of inch-wide velvet.
Three-quarter.length cloaks are very
geners4ly worn even though they are
voted unbecoming and ungraceful. They
are convenient and stylish as far as they
10 and that seems to answer all pur-
poses. E
Wide collars and cuffs of rich lace,
particularly Irish crochet in cream silk,
heavy point de Gene, and white silk
Spanish Guipure, are worn with many
of the handsome day aud evening cos
tunes of the season.
The girl who still wears the stiff shirt
| waist also assumes long four-in hand
tie of heavy black satin, in which Is
stuck the fanciful pin that is her delight,
but which on her brother would be
counted as very loud.
White petticoats of very thin, fine
lawn are quite the rage. Some OF the
newest are several inches shorter than
| the black silk petticoat. They are elab-
orately ruffled and puffed, and trimmed
with lace and embroidery.
Considerable trimming is seen on
skirts, and in all that is used for such
| decorations return to the 1880" styles
| is noticeable, and is shown in the bands,
festoons, founces, etc., which bring
back the mode of that period.
Nine in twelve women met in the
street wear their hair up on the top OF
their heads. Hats and bonnets that de-
pend on pins for position must have
something to pin to; hence the popular.
ity of the high style of hair dressing.
| The "Columbus" cape of cloth or
velvet is quite popular this season. 1t
has sort of vest piece inside the fronts,
which affords extra warmth and protec-
ton, and its broad collar and large neck
ruff give it very distinguished appear
| ance.
In freshening up black silk gown,
| full sleeves, collar and broad revers Of
shaded velvet are used by the best DRESS
makers. The fashion is pretty. as the
| colored velvet has the effect of soften.
ing the somewhat trying framing OF
plain black silk.
The association of the bell skirt with
bodices having sleeves either very large
or of moderate dimensions is observed.
The double shirt, which has an apron
or tablier front, in which second fabric
of color contrasting or harmonizing Is
| seen, opens upon the tablier itself.
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