The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-10
FASHION NOTES.

!" Alexandrite, which is green by day
and red by night, is a woman's stone.
Velvet is used everywhere and on
everything-in fact, it is to be velvet
season.
A leading characteristic of spring
fashions will be modification of win
ter ones.
A novelty for vests for the front of
dresses is of white cloth embroidered
with jet.
Braiding is again in high favor on
skirts, redingotes, capes, sleeves, coats
and bodices.
There are still perfectly plain skirts,
and these are much liked by the best,
dressed women.
Party gowns of spangled nets are
seen, the spangles now being made in
all and any colors.
An odd collarette is of sealskin, hav.
ing fnli collarette of white guipure
lace and Medicis collar of sealskin.
Evening cloaks of black brocade
trimmed with an ermine collarette and
lined with white moire or brocaded
satin.
A new textile for party toilets close.
lyresembles Grape, except that it shines
like satin and is manufactured in the
most beautiful colors.
The new sable furs worn around tho
neck have no heads, and this is the
only way they are to be distinguished
from those Of last year.
Even white chiffon waists are now
decorated with sable CT mink for bre.
telles, or a yoke trimming and guipure
lace has the same treatment, which has
ceased to look odd.
Moire lamb is used for calling cos
tunes, with crush belt and collar of
velvet, plastron Of white guipure lace
and skirt, sleeves and jacket waist oi
the glossy, pliable black fur.
Children's dresses are exceedingly
picturesque. A little princesse of vel
vet has the front filled in with shir-
ring, across which are straps of velvet.
The very full-topped sleeves have cuffs
of elaborate embroidery and shoulder
ruffies of the same material.
An attractive dress for child is
made of cashmere suiting. Straight
breadths are plated into yoke. A
round cape-ruffle is set in at the collar
and covers the shoulders and sleeve
tops and falls over the back and front.
The full-topped sleeves with velvet
cuffs.
For gowns that are cut round in the
neck, or with broad, square shape,
permitting the throat to be visible, the
favorite finish is soft fold of black
velvet ribbon, really folded, and which
b.ings out the whiteness of the skin.
No gown is too elaborate for this style
of finish.
Sequins are the newest thing in trim
ings. There are bodices Of sequins,
there are skirts decked with sequins,
there are sleeves of sequins, and, in
fact, they are the rage. These sequin
bodices can be worn over colored
waists, giving great variety to ones
wardrobe.
The arrangement of the hair ut.
tracts quite little of the attention OF
the fashionable. Like the hat, it
must suit the style of the wearer.
There are few greater mistakes than
to adopt o style merely because one
sees it in fashion book or because
some leader in the gay world arranges
hers after that model.
The sleeveless jacket Of fur is one OF
the caprices of the season, and q not
very sensible one. 1t is just one de-
gree worse than the shoulder cape,
which was just about as bad from a
hygienic point of view as it was pos
sible for garment to be. This sort
of thing means colds, pleurisy and
pneumonia, world without end