Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1879 — FASHION NOTES. [ARTICLE]

FASHION NOTES.

Lees of wine is a color for dinner dresses. ■ ■- Painted side satchels are tbe latest novelties in this line. Flower garnitures are more worn on evening and reception toilets than eyer. "■ -? . < When beaded corsages are worn the sleeves and skirt draperies are decorated in like manner. A great deal of jetted lace is shown for trimming ifi heavier designs than have been used. I A small round crown d rby felt hat Is the favorite hat this autumn for young ladies to wear. ; The most feshionable handkerchiefs for neck wear are in rich Persian colore in palm leaf design. % . The p&nier mantle is one of the newest designs in wraps, and is made of the handsomest materials. * ' Collars and lapels like those bn gentlemen's coats are, it is said, to be worn with street dresses this autumn. Vests are very narrow in the new dresses, being at the waist lii e scarcely more than an inch wide ou each side. I Long, square coat tails are again seen on some or the latest costumes, and are even supposed to be suitable for full dress. ~ f Black canvas belts are seen in all widths aud will probably supplant the white surcingle belts worn tms summer.

Pierrot collars—that is to say, two plaitings of lace, one flat and the other erect —are worn with high necked gowns in Paris. New bonnets are very large and are almost exactly the shape of the old fashioned bonnets called the "scoop shovel bonnets.” For common uses point d’ Aleucon lace is now so well imitated in woven laces that the most fastidious do not hesitate to use it. A new trimming material ia tancolored velvet with irregular spots of dark brown in it, and is appropriately named tiger velvet. Two sizes of buttons are used for most suits, those on the waist, both front and back, being nearly twice as large as those on the sleeves. Full waists are again seen in the latest costumes. One of the prettiest is the old-fashioned fan waist, which is fulled on the shoulder aud at the belt. Very soft handkerchiefs for service are made of silk and linen spun together; they cost sixty cents each, ana are creamy white, with a hem-stitched hem. Shirring, or to use an old word revived French modistes, gauging, is probably the most conspicuous feature of Parisian costurhes for the fall ami winter. A belt and sash of satin ribbon and point d’esprit lace is a dressy addition now fashionably for plain, dark silks, or else for light muslins or other evening dresses. A single rose of Immense size, with the petals of satin, silk or velvet, is new corsage flower, and is worn very high on the left side, almost on the shoulder. Scarfs of white India muslin, with fine dots, and edged with point d'esprit, are worn around the neck in the street, tied close in the throat with an immense bow.. i

Brown will. be one of the favorite colors this winter, and will be seen in a great variety of shades. One of the newest is called “acajou,” apd is mahogany color. -j » Green, maroon and dark blue are the favorite colors for plain suits, that are now preferred to all others for morning shopping, walking and especially for traveling. The whale bone and tape fringes are shown again, and there are beaded fringes of the finest-cut jet, as well as more showy fringes made of large beads graduated in size. Fleece-lined pique wrappers enable the wearer t though an invalid, to dresa in white in her room always, and yet be warm as in midsummer when in lawn and muslin alone. Ribbon strings are wider, but the most fashionable bonnets have immensly wide, cylindric silk strings, generally trimmed at the bottom with Breton or point d’esprit-laqe pleatings. It is the very acme of fashion and taste to wear silk dresses, either white, tinted, or colored, decorated with artistic designs of flowers and foliage, bees, beetles, and butterflies in water colors. On some French dresses shirring a finger deep passes entirely around the waist in place of using a'wide belt. It is seen on nearly all bqpnm drapery, and trims sleeves at the wrists ana often at the elbows. Plain handkerchiefs for morninghave a half-inch hem hem-sttched, or* else they are colored in some old design and quaint combination of colors; on some a pleated frill edged with scallops of needle-work is the trimming. To wear In the street are scarfs of white India muslin with pin dots that are scarcely n-ore than white specks woven in them: The edges are trimmed with point d’esprit lace. They are worn close around the neck, tied in front in a mammoth bow. Price,sl.2s. House wrappers or tea gowns of ceremony are made of plaiu all-wool stuffs, toile religieuse, chudda cloth, or cashmere, and have the front breadths open and turned back with a rich silk lining, in revere, like a Trianon polonaise, showing rich brocaded stuffs frequently gold shot, that simuiat< # separate jupon.