Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — FASHION NOTES. [ARTICLE]

FASHION NOTES.

Slightly draped skirts are appearing. A black-cloth prineesse dress with black-velvet sleeves is one of the most admired of the new importations. Seal-skin wraps are the populur outside garments. The long Newmarket style is preferred to all others.

Very bright-red and black is one ol the most popular combinations of the moment. The fancy in jewelry is the making over of old-fashioned ear-rings into stickpins. Iridescent or shaded velvets are much used for the sleeves of silk or cloth dresses. Felt hats arc less worn this year than for many seasons. Velvet, cloth and fancy materials are preferred. The butterfly effect in the front trimming of bonnets is very noticeable on our best thoroughfares. Very long black-velvet cloaks in the newmarket style with very wide plaited collars corded with satin are fashionable. The facings of fashionable dresses are finished with several very narrow pinkedout ruffles. Among the veilings a square mesh, having n tiny crescent of velvet upon it here and there, is very much liked, and is decidedly becoming. The fondness for Persian coloring finds expression in the useful and effective silk and satin ribbons as well as in handwrought and woven bands. Modistes are just now making great use of Empire ruches and rosettwwrf both lace and silk and velvet ribbou. Hough camel’s-hair-finishcrt goods are much better liked than many of the smooth fabrics. They aro more stylish and usually more becoming. Vails are much less worn than formerly and, it is said, will go out of use almost altogether, vGiich will he a benefit to the eyes of womankind. All fashions have their compensations, and the woman with pretty arms is rejoicing that long sleeves are going out of style. Long skirts on the street are a thing of the past, and are only seen upon women who are wearing last season’s clothes. The ruffles on the fashionable petticoats increuse in number, some of the new models being ruffled inside as well as out. Very old coins are set iu rings of gold and worn as pins. Whoever has an antique silver piece may make this use of it. Home of the newest und most fashionable bonnets aro scarcely larger than a saucer. They aro worn without strings, being fastened to tho hair with.plain or jeweled pins. The Rembrandt hat is another revival. Those lmts arc as large around as a bushel basket, and give a sort of roofed-over appearance to the woman who wears them. The newest idea in millinery is the revival of the old-fashioned poko bonnet with an abundance of nodding plumes und roses in tho front of the brim over the hair. The advanced girl not only designs her own dresses, but makes them herself. Hho exhibits her scratched und pricked finger with some pride as an evidence of her industry. A new wrap is of brocaded silk with wide plaited collar of velvet, enormous sleeves in leg-o’-inutton style, ruchings of ostrich-feather trimming around the neck, down the front and around the hem, and lining of quilted satin.