Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-06-01
FASHION NOTES.

Ermine is the one fur that cannot be
successfully initiated.
Flat lace insertion is pretty trim
ming on house dresses.
Accordion-plaitcd skirts nre much
liked for house dresses OF thin silk,
crepon or similar fabrics.
Pointed apron-front over-skirts,
drnped high on tho hips, have been
revived, and are now very popular.
The leading colors for spring cnpes
for general wear are black, green, the
darker browns and n rich deep shade
of blue.
There seems to be no end to the
fancy kerchicfs and collars which the
lady of fashion delights in wearing
about her neck.
Open-work stockings are again
popular, while novelties in imported
hosiery show gay colored stripes,
plaids and diagonals.
Lace or fur trims large majority of
the reception and party dresses this
season, and it is not unusual to SEQ
both on the same costume.
House dresses of colored Henrietta
cloth, yelling or thin camel's hair are
made up with silk, velvet or lace, or n
combination of the two last
Rhinestone ornaments of every shape
and size are extensively used upon
handsome hats, bonnots, toques and
evening toilets sent from Paris.
Round handles of wood about five
inches long, ornamented with fine
carvings and capped with gold or sill
yer, are the latest styles in umbrella
sticks.
Tailor made shirt waists of pink
linen, embroidered pique, and fancy
cotton fabrics are displayed among
other premature novelties of tho
spring season.
Ginghams, zephyrs and cnmbrics
show flower stripes alternating with
those in solid colors. Some of them
are MS exquisitcly finished MS one could
imagine, and suggest old time bro.
cades in their daintiness.
Made muffs of sntin and velvet are
trimmed with ostrich plumes or bands
of fluffy fur. The ends of the muIl
arc of velvet, full plated and bnnd
OF folded satin around the middle, with
puff or rosette Mt one side.
In making up q dress in given
style care should be taken that not
only the fabric but the cOlors and their
combinations suit the style There
are many dresses spoiled every year
because these details are not observed.
In new spring jackets models for
middle-aged women remain of three
quarter length; for youthful wearers,
from twenty-four to twenty-six inches
is the desired length, the designs, as n
rule, being double breasted and tight.
fitting in the back.
A beautiful walking dress is made
of dull-brown cloth, trimmed with
dark, duslty red velvet ribbons, with
open work silk embroidery over silk
of the same shade. The corselet cor.
sage has double pointed yoke of the
embroidery, silk and velvet, which is
made continuous on the top of the full
sleeves. The skirt has red silk un.
derdress with panel of red velvet.
French walking dress in mauve
and white crepon has skirt lined
with mauve surah and trimmed round
the bottom with II deep band of mnlve
moire. The trinity fitting jacket
corsnge has wide revers of the mauve
MORE and the same MORE forms the
lower part of the sleeves. The full
chemisette lis Of white gauze and the
girdle of mauve MORE.
Tiny roscttes of piece velvet are
made useful in various WAYS. Some
have the velvet edged with narrow
lace. A big chou of black velvet on n
turban has n white aigrctte planted IN
the middle. Ciel blue satin is gath
cred in large loose rosettes on hats OF
brown velvet. Brown hats nrc offered
in beautiful shades of the richest vel
vet in soft and stiff felts and in com
bination
Walking dress skirts are usually
made quite plain, frequently only fin
ished with few rows of stitching
above the hem. but many rows of plain,
fancy or waved braid are often seen !;
also small gathered or plated flounces
or bands of velvet or fur A very
fashionable trimming consists i'll car
rying the braid or fur or jet passemen-
terie lengthwise of the seam of the
skirt, finishing with narrow band
around the bottom.
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