The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-11-10
THE LATEST FASHIONS.
AS Written For the Vogue. Which
Is the Top Notch.

There seems to be little change to
note in the way of gowns. Skirts are
still fulled about the hips, loaded
with trimming, bodices still have va
riations on the cape collar, on the
long cravat, the bolero; the sleeve is
still flowing and fiounced, and fringes
and tassels, swaying cords, penda-
loques of guipure, dyed laces and
ruches and puffings abound.
The fact of the matter is that the
gowns have not seriously changed.
Wraps and hats, on the contrary, are
quite distinctive, and minor details
in the toilette point out to the OBJ
servant that the seasons, and with
them the modes, have gone around.
First, coifrure. A new comb is to be
seen on every fashionable head. 1t is
long, narrow, curved to fit, and is
worn straight up the back of the
head. The hair is given a twist,
more or less decided, in the fashion
once known as the French twist, the
whole loosely arranged and the comb
holding it close, and outlining the
shape of the head. 1t gives quite a
long line from nape to crown that
has no end of distinction.
The smartest turban to wear with
this coffure is a narrow one, short
at the back and clasping the head,
its front putting far forward in a
sharp peak. Other hats are frankly
Directoire and fare upward, tips
standing upright in a bunch at one
side of the front, the back short but
deep and held to the head with a
casque-like garniture of beads that
is most characteristic. Crowns are
high on the large picture hats that
are the vogue, and very wide fiounces
of real thread lace are fulled about
the crown and are allowed to hang
down to veil the head to the shoul-
ders. This veil Is called Ia Ameri-
caine, from the loose gauze wells that
American women first wore here. but
it differs in appearance, for this is a
veritable fiounce thickly fulled on a
string.
Evening turbans have the sharp,
long, forward peak: and two real
lace ruffies are fulled about to hang
down over the brim, like the ruffies on
a fat pin cushion. On top there are
three large rosettes of gold bullion
lace. Gold lace and point is COM
bination that is is excessively smart.
Many thick cords of bullion with
one or two fat, long bullion tassels
are used on hats, both on airy lace
ones for evening, and on rough. furry
felts in cavalier shape for morning.
Tarnished gold and silver lace is used
to bind and to band big, soft, dashing
felts, one brim turned up with bull
lion button.
Gold lace is used even on gowns,
one of the sensations being a green
velvet gown with long gold lace
fiounces falling over white chiffon
from the sleeves, more of it trimming
the corsage. On gowns, too, one sees
wheel rosettes of gold or silver lace.
A three-cornered gray felt hat of
picturesque grace of line has a silver
lace rosette fastening back one brim,
fat silver tassel dropping from II
and bobbing above it in a fascinating
fashion. To be as gold-laced and
gold-tasselled as the Lord Mayor of
London is the height of fashionabl BILE
ambition, evidently.
The arrangement of the deep lace
veil Is largely a matter of personal
taste. saw one at Longcamp that
was fulled on evenly all about
the crown, one end at the back looped
up and tucked into the crown. The
other end was allowed not only to
fall straight down, but It hung ex-
cessively long owing to the fact that
the drawing string here did not
start at the very end but about 5
incnes up. This caused drapery to
hang upon the shoulders on one eide,
in most coquetish fashion.
A double hounce of white tulle
sown with gold spangles hangs from
| an evening turban, the ruffies bob
bing from the sharp forward point in
front and lying on the hair at the
back. The ostrich plume laid on its
back, snail fashion, as they say here
and coiled about a hat, Is very smart
and goes to show that Hat hat:
will be again worn as well as those
that tower aloft with Haunting
plumes and high crows or that form
ed in peaks that strongly suggest
the prov of a ship.
Wraps are distinctly new. The
shawl shape Is very prominent, an'
there are many dolman sleeves
Such a nice wrap is in drab corduroy
Ii back cut with a bias seam tina
hangs in a point to the tournure
On the sides il is folded under t,
form wide cape sleeves and straight
loose fronts are added. The shoul
der is very sloping and is encircle,
with band of tarnished gold bul
lion galoon, above which there Is
fat, plated putting of cherry velve
that framed the neck. The edges o
. the wrap are bound with gold braid
and cords and tassels, very tarnisher
. fasten the fronts down the middle.
This, as are all other wraps, is s.
low of neck that a small tibbet o
fur is necessary. This Is made of
straight neckpiece with its ends act
ually tying, or crossing simply an
broadening into two paddles trimme
! with rosettes. The neck of fur gar
ments is sometimes finished with
gold or Persian galoon, which hang
J. loosely down each side of the front
its ends finished with several fu
= tails that lie upon the bust or eve
lower.
Muffs are of two varieties. Firs,
{ for general wear, there is a soft
r curved affair finished with ruffle Q
fur down each side that hangs fror
the bottom in a blunt-pointed tai
Others again are made of shingle
I running from right to left, eac
edged with a tint edge of white fu
that looks like q fringe, a final flu
: ruffie of fur along the bottom.
? For dress wear the muffs are rounl