Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-05-26
FASHION NOTES.

Every Sn1ue Oh gray IS lasulOnaotc'
Dark green and bright red mixtures
are much fancied.
All the Empire dresses which are belt.
ed have the skirt gathered full.
Wide leather belts, faring toward the
top, are among the latest fancies.
Nuns yelling will be very much worn
by young girls this coming season.
Some of the new sleeves are formed of
two or three puffings, and finished with
u deep frilling.
Some of the new sleeves are formed OF
two or three pafiAgs, and flushed with
deep frillins.
Golden brown and light reddish violet
shades form one of the striking combina.
tions of the season.
Dressy and fanciful vests, to slip over
dress fronts OF plain bodices, are very
popular and useful.
Powered and striped hounces serve
to lengthen down old dresses and
brighten them up for house wear.
Robin red is new color in cloth, and
is pretty when combined with russell
brown velvet and dull gold passemen-
tcrie.
Street gowns are cut short, and are
quiet in color, while the corsage is
frightened by sleeves and guimpe OF vel
vet or silk of a contrasting color.
A much admired sleeve, which is rs.
ISOLATED with the Russian blouse, shows
two large puffs crossed by bracelet Of
fur in the middle OF the upper arm.
The fashionable silks for evening wear
for young women are extremely delicate
in ccloring, pink and heliotrope in their
palest tones seeming to predominant.
French dimity, striped epingle, silk
striped gingham, English perc lie, Gel
onial serge, and figured Swiss are very
few of the beautiful fabrics for spring.
Very narrow galloons are arranged
upon skirts in parallel rows, the space
between being Topped over with ribbon
or velvet fastened in place by large cut
jet facets.
Sleeves are puffy aud baggy almost
beyond endurance for stout people, and
if fashion keeps on, we will have the
old-time angel sleeve, the point of which
nesrly touched the ground.
The petticoat question has finally set
tied itself wisely. The servlceable black
silk or alpaca is still worn with dark
dresses and fol- the street and travel, but
not with light dresses or in the parlor.
Ottoman cloths are revived. Plai1s
and russell velours, silk and wool plaids
in charming color combinations, and a
material with shaded silk effect called
Dnmier, are all to the front as desirable
fabrics.
Wedding trousseaus include severai
blacl gowns. Economical women have
several corsages TO wear with one black
skirt, while combinations of white, pink,
and pale green with jet are especially
popular.
A few novelties in outdoor jackets
have come out lately, and they are made
of cloth, the iavorite material for such
garments, and have very fnll sleeves with
short braided cuffs, and turn-dowp
braided collar.
Henri Deux collars of pale tinted
cloth make picturesque evening wraps.
They are lined with quilted silk oil II
pretty shade, and the high collars and
the full pointed shoulder capes are
bordered with fur.
Narrow stripes and quarter-inch checks
in indefinite shading, and the old sailed
mixtures are among the designs in tailor
wool. The stripes cross the goods,
which, If the wool is hung widthwise,
will throw them up and down.
Bright colored chevrons are shown
with narrow satin stripes of the ground
color set third of an inch apart, with
silk arrowheads. or other figures, shot
through on the stripe; scarlet is figured
with yellow, gray with scarlet.
A new and lovely cotton is French
dimity with flower printing on the white
corded ground. The texture is finer
than the ordinary dimity; the flowers
are in wreathing sprays of little bios
SONS. Twenty mine inches Is the width
of this fabric.
Printed silks are this season conspicu.
GUS by their absence, all of the newest
designs being woven in the fabric.
China and India silks are decidedly passe,
and, excepting for morning and neglige
toilettes, will not be worn ct all by
lnodish women.
A pretty white muslin has lines of
maroon color, for apart, with the space
between etched in maroon, in little pen.
Gil touches that look like the swallows
homeward Aging. The striped and
lowered percales are pretty. Swiss
without Towering is dotted in colors.