The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-10-03
FASHION NOTES.

Just now the craze is for black sh irts
in almost everything.
Henrietta cloth is shown this season
in more than forty shades.
No cotton gown seems finished with.
ont ribbon somewhere about it.
White chnllies and crepons are good
materials for use in the autumn.
wiry vigoureux mixtures are the
most useful and popular goods for bi.
cycling.
All French gowns now fGsten at the
back, aud skirts aad sleeves are wider
than ever.
Some of the new black hose are shot
with different colored silks. Some Of
the tan color are also shot with green,
blue or rose.
For country use and tennis are some
natty little outing boots laced with
silk cord and finished with finely cor.
rugated soles.
The newest setting for diamonds /,
white enamel. This enhances the
brilliancy Of the stone and the setting
hardly shows.
Cashmere coloring, soft blending
of many colors and tendency to the
designs found in old cashmere shawls,
is just now popular.
The favorite foot covering Just nov
is the Juliet or Diana shoe, with
graceful instep, elastic sides aud a
shapely yet solid heel.
A dainty little cape has a heavy pat.
tern cut out of black silk, jet edged
and appliqued on to black net, the
whole being mounted over violet silk
A velvet ribbon. edged with fine
single row of cut jet spangles, makes
an effective and becoming flat garll.
ture for silk aud silk and wool gowns
The latest thing in dress gloves ior
women is an exact copy of man'
dress glove. 1t is of heavy white kid,
and buttons with two big pearl but
| tons.
The latest fashion is to discard
paper for walls and hang the rooms
with cretonne, satin cloth, pongee,
holland. denim and, in fact, any ma
terial but paper.
As must be the case when large hats
are favored, leghorns in both black
and white are freely shown. High
crown leghorns are very desirable aud
more picturesque than those Of seasons
past.
Visiting card cases made Of petunla
colored satin or pomegranate hues OF
moire silk bound with tiny clasps oi
silver or silver gilt are very pretty.
They are lined with pale heiiotrope OF
tri-colored silk to suit varied tastes
An entirely new design OF capes IS
made TO reach to the elbow and Hare
straight to the collar. Its foundation
is changeable tatieta silk, and 1t Is 1n'
ished at the edge with a thick rose
ruching, the edges of the ruching bS-
ing pinked out.
The two extremes in size are evident
this season in the hats and bonnetS
the one being very large and the other
eorrespondingly small. Between these
two extremes lie tho toque shapes anu
small round hats that will be mHsH
worn for early spring.
| Green is a color that has recently
laid hold on the fancy OF the vel
dressed, yet it bids fair to enjoy con
tinued favor, and for the Afternoon
at-home or a smart calling suit no'n'
ing quite takes precedence of Wel'
built green velvet toilet.
A visiting gown is of tan erePCa
with O silk thread ia, the warp. ln'
bodice has O short circular yoke I"
yellow satin with butter eolored lsS
over it. Three rows of narrow yehV''
ribbon velvet are run through .n'
meshes OF the lace to form the choke
or crush.
The latest thing in table emorou.
8 cries is the celery dolly. 1t Is i0us
and narrow, like the low glass dlSI's
and the edge all round is finished =
: irregular scallops. On the lensta~
. the dolly at each side, near the w.
der, is worked design of celery N'