Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-02-15
FASHION MOVES.

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A soft taffeta texture of summer silk
has henclaw checks in two colors.
Full vests and cravat bows of white
tulle arc shown, for wear with colored
silk gowns.
Crush collars of white lace have a
crayat bow, long scarf ends and a
fancy buckle.
. Some stores show black accordion
plated chiffon for vests. yokes md
entire sleeves.
Small cloth capes in triple form are
trimmed with MORE pipings OF in
sertion cdging.
Medium-sized portmonuaies arc
used, but are generally largo enou III
to carry card.
Umbrella. opera glass and lorgnette
handles are favorite subjects for costly
ornamontation.
Buckles We're never moro handsome
or moro fashionable and are worn on
shoesr belts and hats.
Tho fashionable parasol hos a
slender stick, long rather than short,
with knob on the end.
Stick pins arc simply indesoribablc,
are unlimited i'll their number and
variety and beauty of design.
A very pretty Frnpah -sa,-sf....nio-con.
sists of r,,.ia 'godet skirt and leg of
mutton sleeves of blue-and- white
checked silk
Accordion plating will DO much
worn this season, and it appears in
variety OF new designs, the crepon eff.
feet being most novel.
Heavy white applique embroidery
made into corselets, vests, cuffs and
epaulets is seen on summer gowns OF
crcpon in pale colorings.
A dainty light mantle for evening
wear in the summer is made of French
lace laid in accordion plaits and edged
with narrow frill OF black lace.
There is employed great variety
of plaits for waistcoats; diagonal,
fishtail, serpentine, small, largo plaits
grouped inan endless variety of ways.
Vandyke laces, also laces with ir.
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pleasant change from insertions with
straight edges, but each make has its
peculiar uses.
A beautiful crepon pattern called
the ondine has the plaits i'll two ways,
that is, the material is plated length.
wise, while sort of crumpled plat
crosses it and produces serpentine
effect.
Lace and jet arc two garnitures that
are very popular, especially when
combined. A pretty illustration OF
this combination is seen in the stylish
bolero jackets displayed at the lace
counters.
In old paintings of Venetian women
of high rank are seen collars precisely
similar to those affected to-day, and
the famous French Cardinal is nearly
always pictured in lace collar of lib
ernl size.
Among the picturesque additions to
the evening toilet are extremely wide
lace collars and cuffs, particularly the
collars, which are variously design nted
''Richelieu, Venetian" aud Came
of Austria
A new feature in the handsome
black silk dresses is that OF having the
front of the waist open on full-gath-
cred blouse of ecru batiste wrought in
open embroidery and placed over
white or colored silk.
Neat and serviceablc driving and
travelling cloaks are made of light.
weight serge, black Japanese water
proof silk, changeable surah OF taffeta
glace. Capes of the Same material or
of lace may be used rs trimming.
The most popular feathers, outside
of tho fancy skins, are scal and
morocco. Tho palest creams, pink and
heliotrope, are used for full dress oc-
casions. claspod with miniatures and
bound with gold or silver.
Crooks ore out of date, and the par
asol knob must be small, scarcely
wider than tho stick, and oval. This
genteel knob is overlaid with gold, and
perhaps ieweled, or it is cloisoned,
or it III OF crystal, with an open gold
fretwork over it.
Carpets are giving way to rugs, and
women who have ever made carpets
will hail the news thai rag rugs are
being made by women in cities for
use in rooms where there is "hard
wear" These rugs, when we'll made,
are very handsome.
Fans arc much smaller than hereto.
fore and the most fashionable are the
pretty Empire air-givers mounted on
tortoise shell sticks of yellow. Others
are embroidered very finely with taby
ribbon. in Louis XIV. styles, and il
Illuminated with spangles.
Very short shoulder capes, box.
plated and hardly reaching to the
waist, are made in black aud also col.
ored moires, the neck finished with a
very wide, falling frill Of Yandyko lace
white, black or coxu with a band
cape fronts. w o"" 'A'
Women who do nos like the oirs,e
s ,g;tl' nha a. nave trad of the bell-snape
W.T., sodet back, elect this season for
the ~ d gored skirt Inch moderated as to
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