The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-01-29
LATEST THINGS
IN FASHIONS.

Inc 3owne and costumes of oldsn time
kurni1A tho basis for modern attire.
iAyen 1he pitch OF tho feminine voice Ia
IeeHaietedTbY fashion.
Mirk y frequently seen on evening gowns
III yellow cloth.
Y DeltcatS shades OF green for evening
eloves - IN favor.
Nav blrs and also black hosiery are
Ropelav - daytime wear.
Fearis of different colors are popular in
combination.
Flaids Of all sorts will be worn in tho late
winter and early spring.
A new fad 10 a bright red rain umbrella
Wasn neAvy handle and gold knob.
nsanding velvet collars are much used on
girls wooden dresses.
OranGe flower pins in white enamel with
Jeweled cente 8 are suitable for brides.
Twisted bracelets of all sorts with jewels
- IN line on the links are greatly worn.
Fashionable French bonnets ars pro
iasely adorned with pearls and colored I'M
ttation gems.
ridi6uled out of basiness.
Thore 10 a craze for empire designs.
Even understanding comes in empire pat
terms.
Ths Lan0try slipper. with high instep.
pointed toe and numerous jewels, ID q nov
city.
Lace and fluffy collars, collsrsttes, plas-
irons. fichus and the like are worn with
palmer dresses.
Cardinal velvet and jet is a popular COM
bination for dressy women OF ali ages.
A very handsome dress of black velvet
has the front and q long wide sash OF hello
trope satin.
Middle aged ladies are wearing dresses
OF maroon, deep wine color and ruby velvet
with black lace and jet.
Athletics and gymnastics are tho current
fad with Washington women and girls, who
are RoinR in strong on it.
There are symptoms thai crinoline is
coming in again. The ladies' fashion jour
malls are D eparing to hoop her up
Lowell Courier.
The princess OF Wales has been appealed
to and although she has made no sign as
yet. it 10 understood ahs is q strong oppon-
emit OF the %orinoline.
Very large gold buckles are shown for
front Of the hat in the middle of a large
bow.
A popular millinery material Is OF felt on
one side and velvet on she other. These
are made together and have the appearance
of a single fabric.
The triple capes of tan, blue or green
cloth are favored by many slender women.
i memo AIo Iu0Iely BLK llueu SlQ HAAoWAy
edged with seal, mink or other fur.
Chicago bellies talk seriously of following
In the footsteps of the female sutfragans of
Kansas City, who have started the fashion
Of wearing street dresses that hang three
inches or more above the ground.
A new petticoat is of colored silk with
trimming of black lace and black velvet
ribbon Ont into tiny points and sewed on so
as to fall over the lace or droop from be-
meath IL.
The stick-pin craze grows. The fashion
able girl wants \ change for every dav in
the week and almost every OCCASION. What
suits the evening dfess is unit for the tailor
costume. SO she must have q great nuNDer
Of them to 20 around.
Girls, to be quite commeil fault. you must
roll your Umbrella tightly when not in use
and grasp it firmly in the middle. BY no
means be persuaded to carry it as a man
does a walking NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Times.
Very comfortable garments to be worn
under any wrap to give extra warmth are
which comes fromb5apan. They are too
thick. however. to be worn under any gar
ment which fits closely to the figure, and a
soft knit jacket of wool, which clings
closely, Is still used by many.
The fact that Mrs. Cleveland has ordered
some of the gowns IN which she ls to grace
the White house is now of paramount in
-~terest. One of these is of pink brocade.
with pale green velvet sleeves and O lace
cape which falls from the shoulders down
the front of the bodice and is caught here
and there with jewels. This is TO be a
sshort-waisted ftock of the empire style.
Another gown is to be brocade. with a green
and gold Marie Antoinette design, ruohed
at the bottom with changeable green feath-
,ers. Pale green gauze will fall from the
left shoulder to the foot of the skirt in
front and be caught on the bodice with g
buckle of gold.
1t would seem q pity 10 lose the fashion
of wearing the pretty, picturesque capes
that now show out 80 gally and effectively
upon our city streets and that are worn
alike by young and old and in colors and OF
fabrics both dark and fanclful. These
wraps, in all their married forms and COM
,binations grow still more unique and varied
in effect as the season advances and on
''ladies' day" following New Years day,
when the whole feminine world of fashion
was abroad in all the glory of their new
mid winter adornings, tho throngs OF
pretty women and girls, as they accident
ally and uncopsciously massed in striking
groups on street OF avenue, were a speoial
and delightful study, very largely on ac-
count Of the quaint and elegant or i'm lie
but stylish ca Ell they wore. Sometimes to
the admiring on-lookers it seemed as i
every new arrival upon the gay scene
brought with her 8 new variation of the
most popular winter wTap.-NeR Yolk
Evening Post.
WEIGHT OF SNOW.