Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1880 — Fashion Fancies. [ARTICLE]

Fashion Fancies.

Stockings are now made in all the colors and oorabinutions of color that enter into other -fabrics. The open work or cable cord thread hose are the newest. These come in solid colon of ecru, old gold, garnet, sapphire blue, cardinal ami black. French thread hose are open-worked in fanciful designs on the instep, as are the fine silk hose intended to be worn with the low-cut shoes and fancy slippen now considered so essential a part of every lady’s toilet. Spun silk hose are quite a luxury, durable, comfortable and moderate in Erice, and they rival the double thread ose, once so much in favor. Walking boots, cut high ahd made of French kid foxings, with fine satinlaine nppen, constitute the choice walking boot of the season. As the warm weather advances low ent shoes promise to replace the high boot to a great extent, yet it can never be considered so thoroughly ladylike for the promenade. * House slippers are cut very low in front, and have a right and left bow; that is the loops and cat-steel ornaments are different for each side of the slipper, while the bow in the middle may be of a third arrangement still. The loops may be of black velvet or of any shade of ribbon matching either the hose or some portion of the toilet. Silk kerchiefs bordered with lace inserting, a band of silk jardiniere embroider]), another band of lace inserting and a border of laoe are the latest fancy for the neck. Beaded fichus of nearly the same shape as those* oldtime crocheted shoulder afghans worn by ladies in the house and under their wraps, are among the imported Parisian novelties for street costumes. *- Fine line stripes, pinhead check, small broken plaids and solid looking cloths, having a blending of all the cob ors of the rainbow introduced so deftly as to defy detection at a distance, are used for gentlemen's clothing. Coats are cat quite high on the breast, and cut away very much below the waist Trouzers are straight and a shade narrower than formerly. Neckties Are of plain colored sarin, with a stripe of Oriental satin at the side or a hand embroidery of self color on the ends and oolors in the loop of the tie representing jocky caps, whips, horseshoes, etc. Sleeve-buttons have a spring to save the buttonholes of the ouffs, and a pair in colored ivory represents the one a male and the other a female monkey head, or a Chinese man or woman. Bank of England or mille franc notes enameled in lac-simile of the» original.— N. Y. Herald.

At a donation given to a parson of Cayuga County, & Y., a fewevenings since, the gross receipts were four dollars and the expenses eighteen dollars. Two Testaments, one hymn-book, • dilapidated copy of the Pilgrim’s Progw*s, of which latter he already had several gross, were among the teoti mpnials of esteem.'*