The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-17
FASHION NOTES.

In hat ornaments birds and wings
seem to hold first place.
Feather bands are used on felt and
velvet, but not as much as last season.
The habit of making up the COM
plexion is increasing when it ought to
be diminished.
The latest thing in souvenir spoons
is to have the owners favorite flower
enameled in natures coloring.
The felt plateaus were very popular
at the beginning of the season, but
since then they can be bought rs low
as seven cents apiece their popularity
is waning.
The dainty embroidered cloths 30
much in vogue for the last few years
are used at teas and luncheons, 80 that
deft fingers are not yet bereft of their
occupation.
Moire antique, satin and looking
glass velvet are the most popular
fashions of the hour. Crocodile
crepon of thick wooden material is also
new favorite.
Something new in dresses is one
made of sealskin. The skirt is tight
fitting around the hips and the bodice
is tight fitting, with a sharp point
back and front.
A novelty in table linen is the auto
graph marking on table cloths and
napkins. The name of the owner is
reproduced in his own writing and
then embroidered.
Fashionable danes are returning to
the use of perfumes, and are no longer
content with the imperceptible
fragrance produced by scenting every
article in the wardrobe.
Round centre pieces are more used
than the square. When scarfs are
used they are placed diagonally across
the table and held in place by bowl
or basket of flowers at the centre.
Tapestry has come in for fancy work.
Real old small cross-stitch woodwork
and pictures of heroes and huntsmen
and medieval castles in grey-greens
and browns are quite the correct
thing to have for fancy work.
Double skirts and overskirts are
coming in slowly but surely. A Worth
dress has the overskirt drawn up at
the side with jet ornaments into three
scallops, assuming the appearance OF
train over an under petticoat.
Napkins hemstitched and embroid-
cred with initial letters are affected by
the dainty housewife, while tray
cloths and drawn or embroidered
doilies help to preserve the spotless
whiteness of the snowy drapery.
Following the lead of the idea of
the pet chameleon ornaments the skins
of all creeping things are finding
favor. A handsome purse is one of
rattlesnake skin, with its markings Of
brown and white mounted in silver.
Something new in silver are the tips
for evening slippers of gold and silver
pierced work. They are like the
leather tips, deeply pointed and mar
row at the toe and cut in filigree pat
terms. Heel caps come to match the
tips.
Very few of the evening bonnets
have crowns. A band of satin, silk or
velvet forms the foundation, and if
there is to be any rim, that is made
with wired lace. The bonnet is worn
much farther back on the head than
formerly.
Turquolses have once more come
into fashion, and many cuff studs are
made of clusters of turquoises, or of
single stone surrounded by diamonds.
Monograms are introduced on crystal,
and on jet, gold, steel and silver for
cuff buttons.
To modernize the convenient friz-
zles, too long-lived in the eyes of
capricious fashion, new style has
been invented, which consists of a
number of narrow pufings put close
together round the brow. The effect
is certainly pretty, but it requires the
practised hand of hairdresser to
produce such result.
Charming capotes of jetted net have
for their trimming a scarf of the
glossy satin antique in ruby, iacque.
minot, or magenta red. The jets
forming the bonnets are in spangles,
not in beads, and 'Valkyrie trim
ming is added of two wings of span
gled jet spread out boldly and holding
n black aigrette. The strings are OF
narrow black satin ribbon.