Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-18
Fashion Notes.

Fashion Notes.
Stockings in small checks OF various col
ors are the latest.
The new, very smart. very elegant. very
fashionable evening toilet has a train.
The correct shoe for the present pleas
ant weather is the patent leather tie, worn
with cloth gaiter TO match the gown.
This season there are Countess Castel-
lane cape, a Paget Jacket and an elaborate
duchess OF Marlborough princesse dress and
picture hat.
Queen Bess sleeve puTs and Queen Bess
ruffs and fraises appear upon elegant dress
toilets of velvet, Lyons satin and brocaded
MORE.
Many OF the yokos and chatelaine and
muttonleg sleeves on French and English
gowns are laid in tucks that are often an
inch and quarter wide.
n Corded silks and ribbed woolens and vel
vets will be extremely popular for handsome
gowns entire street costumes and elegan:
wraps this winter.
Large mufs are made in various kinds OF
fur very plain in style. but very extravagant
as TO quantity OF fur and jeweled gold chains,
by which they are suspended from the neck.
Tules and gauzes according to Paris cor
respondent, are to be the most fashionable
materials for evening gowns for young
ladies. especially those who next year are to
make their social debut.
Monogram fans for bridesmaids are
pretty fast ion revived recently; the letters
are traced in diamonds or painted in tiny
| forget-me-nots on the outside rib. according
| TO the wealth OF the giver.
Fashionable people are said more than
ever 10 be known by the dimensions OF the
| sofa pillows they have in the drawing room.
| 1t is a popular impression now that the
! larger they are the more fashionable their
possessors.
The cape collar is usually made OF one
I fur edged with another. or is of rich silk
| velvet, with deep round yoke OF embroid-
| cred kid, or OF the velvet itself inlaid with
| elegant passementerie or bead arabesques
| en- applique.
| Black costumes are always In style to a
| certain degree. but they take a prominent
| place this season, not. however. interfering
| at all with the elegant costumes in their
| endless colorings, but giving fine rich con-
trast and background to the more brilliant
| attire.
New impcrtations of fans for full dress oc-
casions show tendency to return TO the
very large ones that were in vogue a few
| years ago. Something new in fans are those
| superauous to state cannot be had at the
| department stores.
The fur boleros will be a useful fashion
| for those who have small amount OF fur
to be transformed into fashionable gar
| ment. These are very becoming TO slight
| figures, and very stylish with wide revers.
| The new fur coats are rather short, not so
| full in the basque they were last season.
! and have loose fronts.
The rage for the early part OF the winter
| season will be for cape collars, oddly shaped
| collarettes flchus with long stole ends. and
| bolero, Zouave and Eton jackets made Of
| furs innumerable-the jackets exactly like
| those so familiar for seasons past made of
lace, net, silk, velvet, passementerie, etc.
| In the matter OF fall millinery there are a
| lot Of DOVGl tbiDpg tn
mend themselves to any woman. The tur-
| ban is the hat par excellence of the mo-
ment, and probably will be until late into
| the season, when the neyer-failing picture
| hat will shine forth as imposing as ever.
Sleeves were never more varied in style
or prettier or more becoming in their nor
NAL outlines and picturesque effects than
/ those designed for the winter season. They
! are a most satisfactory compromise between
! the ridiculous balloons of seasons past and
! the torturingly tight and unbecoming shapes
of other days,
Among the various things that importers
and retailers are exhibiting this season are
| small fur garments and trimmings in novel
shapes and styles; superb spangled. Sc
| quned and iewel-wrought dress and wrap
garnitures; brown silk plushes that so
| closely copy sealskin that 1t would take an
expert to tell the difference without close
| inspection.
The new repped fabrics are softer and
rlcher looking than ever, but the chief dis
| ;l=-uishing feature is found in the beautiful
color-bending effected in the weaving. In
handsome pattern one OF the cords is a
delicate old rose, and the other a sof. silver
gray, and the cords are woven en- hayadere
on a changing ground that unites these two
shades with pale blue.
Among the new shades in mohair, English
| serge and bourette fabrics for travelling
| costumes, touchwood and nasturtnm arc
| the newest shades in brown. Mahogany is
| another shade that finds favor, and all
browns with a reddish tinge. Pigeon gray
is liked on mohairs, tweeds and French
suiiings, and a rich Russian blue among
| tailor cloths. Venetian and ladies' cloths.
Leagues OF black satin or black velvet
| ribbon are used on autumn and winter dress
skirts and bodices. Besides the usual uses
| TO which ribbons are put they are made
| to simulate narrow glrdes and wide folded
| centuries, 10 outline bolero jackets, to form
a peasant bodice back and front on the cor
sage, and they are used, in rows, and bows
| and choux, on every available portion OF
| gowns both for day and evening wear.
| Feminine Notes.
Mrs. Francis Hodgson Burnett, II is said
| makes a larger income than any other
rif ft, tlr.