The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-01-14
FASHION FRILLs.

FASHION FRILLs.
Black net with chenille dots is used
for evening dresses.
The new style of Empire coat lends
it's If very nicely for dressing sacques
and house jackets.
Bebe ribbon, principally in black
velvet or satin, is being used by
miles to trim gowns this year.
The long, loose fronted princess
coat may be very new, but it is very
ugly and unbecoming, certainly.
For use on plain material the fancy
velvets or silks give the best results,
while for chameleon fabrics plain
trimming is the most successful.
/. No gown is complete these days
without the stock being finished with
a frill or an additional high f1aring
collar around the back and sides.
Elton jackets of fur and cloth Jack
cts with wide fur reyers complete the
most fashionable skating costumes,
which are often made OF velveteen or
corduroy.
Moderation is the word in regard
to the prevailing modes for skirts
and sleeve. They are both much
smaller than last season and yet not
! scant either.
Some extremely swell jacket bodices
displayed in one of our large shops
had jaboted hretelles and tops edged
with gimp. The sleeves had f1aring
cuff to match.
If you hear Milan gimp spoken of
| you will know that is very much
used gimp at the present time, into
which little gold or silver is intro.
duced in the design.
Velvet is the most fashionable
| material for short street coats. They
are edged with fur or plain, but the
front shows a full vest OF some soft
lace or light colored silk.
A popular new collar for bodice
] is a military one with an outside
| faring one cut in tabs stiffened and
lined with silk, then edged with mar
row velvet or silk, or metal cord.
One of the latest Partisan novelties
in seal is a cape full and short
enough to meet the waist line, and
trimmed around a little way from the
edge with lines of gold braid put IN
three groups of four, three, and two.
Never were plain bands of different
kinds such favorites for trimming;
| they are ubiquitous. Bands of
heavy insertion of applique, of jet, or
gimp of velvet or silk, and plain
| stitched bands of material are used
alike on gowns and coats.
Gold braid and gold and silver
threads are a telling feature of dress
decoration this season, and boleros
and entire waists are made of a cloth
of gold. Military braid is employed
for belts, with a gold clasp in rocco
designs. Gold effects in any form are
much sought after.
Coat bodices of light fancy hrocade
silks are worn for afternoon dress
with dark skirts of cloth or elk.
They have the full soft vests of lace
or chiffon, a short, rippled Lasque
lined with plain color, and a mar
row belt of velvet or jewelled gallon
across the back and sides.
Certainly it would seem as if all the
birds in creation, of all kinds and
conditions, had been denuded OF
their plumage, judging from the
quantities used on this winter
millinery. Almost every hat worn is
heavy with them-ostrich, coque,
marabout, pheasant, Bird of Para
disc, etc.
If looking for a material In vogue
at the present time if you select from
the following list you will be in
fashions high seat. Heavy mOhair,
reps, rough boucles, wa fife cloth,
basket weaves, tweeds, cheviots,
vigognes, English melton, faconnes,
| French epingle, canvas cloth, eping-
lines and bourette.
An effective and new idea developed
by a leading modiste on a violet
camePs hair gown was to have the
vest of the jacket and the front panel
of the skirt in plaid silk combining
two shades of green, white and violet.
The jacket met at the neck display
ing the silk at a point, then gradual.
ly widened to the bottom OF the skirt,
and it seemed as If it were all one
piece.
A new idea in skirt gdrniture is to
have two bias pieces of the material,
tour inches wide and niue inches long
across each hip from back to front,
the centre just touching the belt.
This has seven buttons and false but
tonholes on the upper edge. "A bias
fold to match is put around the foot
OF the skirt with the buttons, put on
In clusters of five at intervals oil
about II inches. 1t is very new and
| stylish.