Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1879 — About Fashions in General [ARTICLE]

About Fashions in General

Colored petticoats are again worn. Dark red of various shades is worn. Basques liave'not gone out of fashion. Striped hosiery is revived in new fomrs. Red stocking will be worn more than ever. The new silk stocklngshow corduroy effects. Children’s dresses entirely of red are revived. False frotfts are worn to greater excess than ever, j The Roman colors are sought for in striped hosiery. Medium sizes only in buttons are fashionable. High-heeled slippers are de rigeurer for dressy home toilets. More of the front hair is used in making the bang locks than ever. Painted silk, satin and velvet buttons are seen among new trimming goods. Japanese and oriental designs appear on many of the hansomest buttons. It is a wise railroad stock that knows its own par, nowadays.—[Whitehall Times. Red or scarlet sashes look best with white cashmere or flannel dresses on children. The prettiest fall dress for a child is of white flannel, or cashmere with colored sashes.

Embroideries or lace clockings cover the instep of all fancy, hosiery* that is not striped. The fashion of wearing large Alsatian bows on the top of the head is on the increase. Jet headed passemerteric ornamen ts are to be used t>n rich dresses as well as on the dressiest wraps. Long looped bows falling in a cascade from under the long point of Vandyked corsages are very much worn. The straight band across the forehead is still the moot faeionable style of cut and arrangement for young girls’ hair. The most fashionable arrangement of the back hair is narrow, in braids or torsades falling on the nape of the neck. Fancy and plain ribbons are both used for loops, and in some cases form a complete cascade down the front of the dress. . - India and valley cashmere shawls are revived as the most appropriate wraps to be worn with the new French India cashmere costumes.