Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-09-06
FASHION NOTES.


White drill costumes will be much
worn again.
The liking for black nnd white cos.
TUNES docs not grow less.
Opnls cut round like pearls aro tho
present crazo among gems.
Long loops of white ribbon falling
over the sleeve puifs are fashionable.
Modistes are using largo quantities
of Dresden ribbons for dress trim
mings.
A pretty OBJECT is obtained if tho
finger bowls carry out the color of the
table.
Dresses of pique, with Louis XVI.
stripes on white ground, are very
effective.
Reversible print is novel and ser
viceable material which has recently
como in.
White muslin laco petticoats, Incl
with white tafletas nnl trimmed
houncos, arc worn.
Some of the new challies are silk
striped and como under Il new name
of Trench moussel:nes.
Wings are being used moro and
more to give height to tho flower
trimming seen on the hats.
Tho most fashionable whito cos.
tunes and toilets are snow white, with
not hint of cream in the tint.
Tho newest weave in crepon shows
honeycomb effect, with small con-
trusting designs in bright colors.
White and gold belt buckles, Gun
buttons and studs designed alike and
sold in sets, arc in great demand.
Tho extremely fashionable bonnet
Is about as small rs it could be and
yet be considered head covering.
Some of the prettiest doilies shown
at the exchanges aud fancy gooIs
counters are mode of hairpin work.
Nut-pickers have been abolished
from the table. If the nuts nee any
further breaking, the cracker is there.
The latest novelties in pique como
in tones OF heliotrope. beige, gray and
tan. They are used mostly for tailor
gowns.
Collars and cuffs OF batiste uuilt-
ing, bordered with fins ruche either
of batisto or Vulenciennos, arc much
in fashion.
Gloves for bicycling purposes arc
OF silk and Isle thread, with leather
on the inside of the hind to make
them serviceable.
Fancy ribbons, in Dresden or chino
effects. are leading favorites already,
as shown by both tho imported anl
domestic patterns.
Fashion seems to have settled down
to the simple wide skirt with tho cir
cular side breadth, and three pyra-
midal breadths at tho back.
Some of the latcst of the fine InIia
linen costumes are silk-linel through
ont and trimmed with ribbon bands
of expensive Irish guipure laces.
The most elaborate gowns of tho
season will be composed of rich silk
embroidery with gauzo sleeves. These
costumes will be as novel MS they are
attractive.
F Lace fichus become more aud moro
elaborate and beautiful. They arc an
Improvement upon those that old en-
cravings show to have been worn in
colonial days.
Among the newest laoes are those in
ieather-color, or CUR, rs the French
call it. They are very heavy, being
of incrustation pattern, and nre used
principally for trimming mantles.
The fashion of not trimming skirts
at oil is universal, but there arc cx-
captions where long panels nro in
serted. or vandykes, which may BIO OF
rich embroidery, brocade or lace over
color.
According to present fashion largo
pulled sleeves only go as far as the e.
bow, and very long gloves arc indis-
pensible. Nothing is moro inele2ant
than part of the arm showing be-
tween the sleeve and the glove.
The latest sleeves from Paris, while
large and full, in style very appro-
pirate for light summer textiles, and
FREQ from tho crushing effect OF heavy
wraps put on above them, arc reduc-
ing somewhat their ridiculous proper
tions to more nominal lines.