The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-15
Fashion Notes.

very novel trimming effect was witnessed tho other day on n reception costume of white broadcloth, made in cut away coat style with long train skirt. The bottom of the skirt and the coat were braided in scroll design with black soutache and the latter trimmed with white Droadcloth buttons as large as a butter pad, half of which were covered with the black soutache, making one half of the button white and the other black, and these were set In a circle of braid. Other buttons of smaller size on this cos tune were of white cloth set In black bone rims. This half and half idea is also noticed In millinery, large white beaver chapeau for instance. being trim med with huge bunch of white mara. bout spreading to the left from the front of the crown and n bunch of black spreading to the right. It is novel in- deed, but will probably prove nothing more than a fad.
 A handsome dress simple in the extreme worn by stunning brunette, is of Paquin blue satin made with simple straight skirt, gored just enough to give a pretty flare at the feet and joined to the waist with an inch wide bias belt. The waist, perfectly plain. except for two
 wide Gibson pleats on the shoulders to give little bust fitness, is buttoned in
 the back with tiny bone buttons in the
 same shade as the material. And with
 this simple creation, which, by the way is finished at the throat without col
 lar. Is worn a round flat collar and high cuffs of venise lace. The white lace is beautiful with the blue satin, and the It.ltw s4 to any type of woman to whom simple
 effects are becoming.
 If you happen to have beautiful
 silk or crepe scarf fringed and em. brodered at the ends and are wondering what possible use can be made of it,
 use it as one Paris maker does in his latest creation. The centre is caught to
 the waistline in the front with q square
 rhinestone buckle. Then 1t is brought
 up over the shoulders to form Japa-
 nese drapery and down again In the back,
 where there Is another buckle larger than that in the front, the ends of tine scarf
 hanging almost to the hem of the dress,
 which in the original model is pale blue
 satin, and the scarf blue crepe with si-
 yer embroideries. Various other ways of using these scnrfs equally as good as this, may suggest themselves to the in- genious homesewer or dressmaker, once 1t Is known. that these accessories may
 be used for anything but their original
 purpose, that of draping the shoulder of
 the owner as A separate wrap.
 A hat trimming which Is at once
 pretty and seryiceable, as well as ex-
 tremely stylish, Is the ruche of fringed
 silk Black and all colored silks are used, but in every instance the silk
 should match the hat color. Chsngeable
 silks are especially good in this instance, a green hat seen the past week having q ruche of changenble brown and green silk Prayed out silk about an inch wide may. be bought by the yard and sewed | on the edge of ribbon ruche. thereby saving no end of time and trouble and | precisely the same effect is gained. Flat | rosettes of silk and ribbon centered with i cabac achons are another form of trimming | on medium sized bell shape hats. These are set very close together all around 1 the crown, so that only the top of 1t Is visible and give to the hat the effect Of | an inverted basket.
 There is n new material brought out l this season for winter negligees which Is
 unusually attractive. It is silk erepe'
 stamped to resemble quilting. with
 feecy wool back, and while amply warm 1 is extremely light in weight and lacking | the bukiness of similar material.