Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1895 — FASHION NOTES. [ARTICLE]

FASHION NOTES.

Items of Inter*st to th* Fair Sox. The coming season will be a lace season, just as the last one has been. Satin duebesse will be sold more for skirts than any other silk the coming season. A youthful hat with a poke shaped brim is covered with loose, soft frills of white lace. Black satin chokers Sre “in” again, even when there is no other note of black in the gown. On silk dresses there will be dear little Marie Antoinette capei of chiffon and of many new gauzes. Fine printed flannel, known as Aglaga flannel, is the latest fashionable fabric for cool weather house gowns. Pale golden green will be a favorite tint among evening toilets. The taffetas in this shade are called Chartreuse silks. Changeable crepons will be used for dinner and evening costumes. A handsome model in shot green, ecru, and old rose is made up with accessories of moss green satin duchess. Full effects are retained on separate waists fgy autumn wear. A popular shape shows a box plait in front, with a deep yoke effect each side, and in the back is the yoke shape, but below this the waist is snugly fitted. A very graceful and pretty model for a cool weather shoulder cape is formed of Havana brown velvet, silk lined and trimmed on the edge of the Stuart collar with a row of bronze bead passementeries. A silk plush circle cape twenty two inches in length has a small flaring collar and a sailor collar below made of dark mink fur. A black velvet cape nearlv covered with jet arabesque garnitures lias a jet trimmed Medici collar, and is lined with Highland plaided taffeta silk. In the first importation of autumn millinery the shape in round hats as a rule was large. In bonnets the effect is broad from side to side.

The combination of two or more contrasting; fabrics will be utilized during the fall season, not only for fancy waists, but in the making of new skirts, which are to retain their spreading, voluminous effect for at least three mouths to come, and probably during the entire winter. Ttye best way to set the dye of black lisle thread hose is to put a couple of good pinches of common salt in the washing water. Cold storage for clothes is the latest novelty in the big down town refrigerators in the New York dry goods district. The idea is to get rid of the moths. After dinner coffee spoons are quite the thing in the service of ices. From a hygenic point of view they are valuable, as they can convey only a small portion of the frozen sweet at a lime, and therefore minimize the chilling of the digestive process. For a bride’s travelling dress get covert suiting of tan brown, if the color is becoming, hut if not try grayish blue. Make it with a short open jacket that can be lapped double breasted on a silk waist of changeable taffeta, either blue and black together or else brown and blue. A great many novelties have been used for lamp shades, although pearl white silk is now the favorite, as it sheds a more delicate light than cream white or other colors. There are a holy red and a Neapolitan pink silk used for shades that produce a charming effect. For bridesmaids’ baskets the Dolly Vardeu shape, made of green rush, is the favorite —a novel arrangement of ribbon bows and flowers combined, carried out on the handles, the baskets to be carried on the arm, so that the ribbons and ftowers will fall gracefully, forming a sort of trimming for the side of the dress.