The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-08
HINTS ON FASHIONS.
Suggestions on Dress and style.

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summer wear, and for separate skirts.
Plaid cheviots are one of the season S
novelties. Broadcloth holds first place
for tailor-made gowns, although chew
lots that are exact limitations of the
materials used for mems clothes are a
good deal used.
| Muffs are immense. Fur is oftenest
used alone in their composition, but
there are many muffs of lace, velvet
and ribbon, with or without fur These
latter are elaborate and wonderful
connections. Some of the big cylin-
ders that smart women carry would be
funny if they were not the thing. The
mead and tail of the creature whose
skin forms the muff are sometimes used
&c decorate the mutf, but this somehow
savors of seething a kid in it's mothers
milk, and is not favorite fashion.
For fastening the fronts of blouses
and coats jeweled links are popular-ls
popular, that is, as their price will
allow. They may be of gold or silver.
but the favorites are of colored pre-
clous or half-precious stones. Cats
eyes, tourmalines and black opals are IN
demand for this purpose. rev stone
is the jargoon, which is related to the
garnet and runs through all the shades
from rich tawny brown to clear, brill
liant orange. 1t is lovely when com
bined with pearls. JeWeled and enam-
eled buckles seem to be on the point
OF replacing brooches on the collars of
gowns, and may be found in the quaint
est, most barbaric styles and combin-
atoms. Long chains seem to be worn
as much as ever although the tenden-
cy is to shorten them. Sporty girls are
wearing their watches on the end of
fob, but ordinary women cling to The
chain. and it appears probable that this
useful adjunct to the toilet has be-
come a permanent element in the dress
or the up-to-date women. Women
need so many accessories now that a
chaln affords the most convenient way
of disposing of them. 'r
Brown fur and orange velvet combine
to form collarettes that are pretty. be-
coming and not expensive. They are
mace with an inner collar of velvet.
over which the fur collar turns down
10 depth of perhaps five inches. Only
glimpse of velvet shows, unless a
bow OF it is worn in front Fashioned
with a buckle or clasp of bronze or red
gold, the effect is peculiar but rich and
effective.
Tight waists have returned for wear
with tailor-made gowns. They afford
good opportunity for the display of
fancy buttons.
Black taffeta remains favorite with
women of quiet taste. For house and
morning wear there is nothing more ell
egant
Nail heads" is the name given to
the tiny fiat buttons which are powder
ed over the surface of plain materials
in vast numbers. They are rare in
Worcester as yet, but elsewhere they
are regarded as smart
For evening wear the high couture
seems to be gaining steadily in favor.
BY day women continue to wear their
hair according to their individual fan
| cy, but by night they generally ar
range 1t upon the top of the head. with
a great variety of ornamentation Gauze
butterflies with spangled wings and
bullion bodies measure sometimes eight
inches from tip to tip of pinions, and
many smart women carry all their hair
up in small tall knot forward of the
crown. This pushes light pompadour
over the brow. To the small tall knot
is fastened huge bow of black velvet
ribbon that is not wrinkled and through
the hair the knot is passed and crossed
by Two long pronged pins, shaped like
nat skewers and showing most fanci-
ful JeWeled beads. This is a head dec
oratlon easy to copy, for the hatpins
OF French gilt with heads Of large ir-
regular pearls and paste diamonds
SHOW off to great advantage and small
outlay by night.
70 transform the modern skirt into
sort of sheathlike drapery. which
uraWs closely around the figure and
exposes each motion, is the aim of the
Iashlonable dressmakers, and recently
they nave hit upon a device which is
eagerly accepted by the woman who
makes pretenson3 to good taste. 1t
Is the abolition of the stiff silken un-
defsklrt. No longer is heard the mn
steal frou frou of silk friction aeai,,st
SILK, and instead of the bounced and
IuroeloWed Enlargement is worn a
narrow cllnSing petticoat of delicately
SNAPPED crepe de chine, with a soft ruff
ne ana insertions of valenciennes lace
! rms petticQat is worn quite short
relchlng to above the ankle and al
ioM ing the gown to fall with desired
eIlect Bloomers are also limited AT
10 take the place of the underskirt
1t looks as if the shawl, which for
something like Is years has been in ex-
ne, might before another winter return
from Punishment into popularity and
esteem. For without the least warn
ing IL mas become stylish again. Ex
qulslte crepe silk squares, with fringed
edSes and colored borders in Persian
pattefh are an essential part just now
OF the evening toilet. The crepe
squares are sometimes deliciously en-
pfoldefed, or even painted, and assume
IN good part the duty long fulfilled by
the poa. AT home in the afternoon
women wear exquisite imported japan
ese ShaWls of mingled wool and silk in
plgeon-throat purple, or white and pine
leaf green, pinned like capes on either
shoulder so that the front points can be
thrown back or drawn forward at will,
Whlle IN the rear the shawl hangs like
large. loose hood. A new fringed silk
shawl very much worn, woven in the
shape of a Scotchman's plaid or a tor
eador's scarf, is caught on one shoulder
ana allowed to swing clear or is drawn
up close about the figure. Less costly
than these are scarf shaWls of wool
gauze, with bands of bullion or colored
SILK alternating with the wool
or course, the Paisley and camels'
mar horrors may have to remain in
hiding a while longer, but their time
days.
Stocks which show the lower half of
| the dress goods and the upper of
some contrasting color or material are
a novelty.
| The time when a woman put on a veil
when she went into the street as nat
urally as she put on hat is gone. The
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