Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1888 — FASHION NOTES. [ARTICLE]

FASHION NOTES.

English women still wear tbe bustle, and the skirts of their walking dresses are cut short. The low-crowned hat and bonnet are * coming, but they come, like nost good things, slowly. Ostrich feather and marabout fans are the dressiest for bah and evening toilets of high ceremony. Although coiffures are less voluminous, the hair is still piled oa tho top of the head, while a few light curls fell over the forehead. With high frocks of velvetor cashmere little girls wear very deep, round fluted vL collarettes of white lace or cut-work embroidery. Some lady horseback riders in Paris are trying to introduce the fashion of having the jacket of the habit of a different color to the skirt. Dull black braid is the trimming of the passing moment on all wool gowns and jackets intended for general utility and out of-door nice wear. The hat, stockings, shoes, and gloves of little girls who dress in English style must be.black, no matter what may be the color of the frock or the coat. The New York Fashion Bazar for December is out, and its contents are of interest to all women, but especially to mothers who have little girls and boys to dress. The mingling oi pure vivid reds, blues, greens, yellows, and purples with medium and two-tdne shades of these colors along with the grays, drabs, olive, and browns, gives a marked individuality to this winter’s fashions. The orange buds and blossoms are not the only flowers chosen for pride's wear this season. The small white bridal roses, tea roses, white lilacs, lilies of the valley, and other white flowers are given them for garnitures. *The newest La Tosca sticks have a cavity in the top, in which a pen, ink, pencil, and a roll of paper is carried. The head of the. stick is screwed on to keep these artist’s and writers’ utensils In good shape until needed. It was Mrs. Mackey who started the fashionable fever for black underwear by wearing it under a wondrous ball gown of black tulle with diamond orna-. .ments that she wore in Paris at a private fancy ball, at which she personated the Queen of Night. And now word comes from Paris that the ostrich plume is restored to favorwhile the demand for ostrich feather boas and ostrich feather trimmings of all kinds, and ostrich tips as well, is so great as to create a fear that the ostrich Tarins of Australia cannot supply what is called for. None' but young girls wear the catogan tied in a bow in tbe nape of the neck. Young giris’ evening dresses are made in the Directoire style, with a low pleated bodies and short puffed sleeves, a short waist, straight skirt very little looped, and a very wide sash tied at the back or on one side. Tulles, gauzes, and crepes are the favorite material for ball gowns. The tulles without tinsel or beads are preferred,but the gauzes are nearly all shot with gold or silver threads in lengthwise stripes or lines across the goods, or in crossbars and plaids. The crepes are plain or embroidered in gold; silver, or bright-color-ed silks, or in silk the color of the crene.