Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-24
FASHION NOTES.

Buttons are great feature in this
seasons trimming.
French dressmakers use furs very
much rs they do velvet or satin.
Among tho colors most liked ara
mulberry, damson and heather-bloom
shades.
Stocks of lace, velvet or satin are
narrowly edged at the top with mink,
sable or Persian lamb.
Fluffy furs are most effective in
muifs of the new large sizes, but Per-
sian lamb and sealshin NUTS are SINH
larly made.
A great deal of white laco will be
used for trimming winter dresses. Tho
present preference is for applique
lace and for bits of old Bruges.
Trimming of fur will be more used
this winter than they have ever been.
Narrow fur bands of one, two or three
inches trim cloth and velvet dresses.
To get oriental effects in vests the
quaintest silk handkerchiefs are usel,
n single kerchief, border and all, be-
ing laid in fine accordion plaits for q
vest.
Bands of mink and of senlskin in
inch-wide rows trim the velvet collars
of girls froclls, and the crinkled black
and white Thibet furs trim their
cloaks.
The newest evening wraps, copying
the cloaks of Chinese mandarins, are
long, straight garments reaching be-
low the knee. and sometimes i've yards
around.
Seal capes for the winter are moth
ing if not stylish and beautiful, and
are sold at prices that would buy sew
eral acres of land in some thinly set
tied neighborhood.
Black elk dresses for both house and
street have deep collarette of Astra-
khan or Persian lamb sewed on per-
manently and trimmed in front with
a iabot of white applique lace.
The Highland bonnet with quill
feather is very much in evidences. On
q young and pretty girl it is chic, bnt
women the other side OF forty should
leave it alone as an unloadcd musket.
Girls of the period are very much
enveloped in oil kinds of wells this
season when out of doors. It may be
we will come in time TO the Eastern
woman's way of covering up all her
face except the eyes.
Milady's maids disposition is most
tested when trying to put this years
sleeves into the sleeves OF last years
wrap. The struggle is violent one.
and often ends in milndy's mental
resolution to buy new wrap.
Some of the newly imported French
dress bonnets are almost angelic
light, fluffy and airy, with no particu-
lar shape. They are more oh n "dream"
than ever, and justify the predictions,
deemed extravagant, that were made
concerning them.
White as color for bridal gowns
has almost gone out of fashion in
and its disuse here must
soon follow. 1t is held to be trying
color" for the generality of brides, oil
of whom, Jenkins to tho contrary not
withstanding, are not "beautiful.
Velvet as fashionable material will
be at the head of tine list this season.
There are German to compete with
the French velvets which are very ele-
CANT in coloring aud quality. The
velvet cloaks of grandmam-
mas day are surely coming back
again.
Chinchilla will be one OF the most
fashionable furs of tho winter, The
fact has already raised the price of it
considerably. Some women prefer
chinchilla to oil other fur because, as
il is impossible to successfully
initiate it. Therefore, it can never be
''common.
Evening bodices require very little
material, and in display of "white
bare places" recall the Polar regions,
albeit woman wearing one there
would first have pneumonia and then
freeze to death. There will be n great
display of anatomy at the fashionable
balls of the season.