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Fashion Notes

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
October
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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l'Voj green is a new ('all color. IVr.-iini (nted ribbons are again popular. New bonnets are small ; new liáis aro large. Kichlv coluroil iimiiiiny eloths of fine wool are offtred lor winter wear. Brazilian bugs and beetles are used in profañoD apon some of the Paris bonnets. DahKai Oi all iz(¦s and colora fornj the desicD dn wme of the new brocades with black groanda The piotareaque broad-brimmcd hat.s DOW worn wit h Imiso feather-tips on the front are copies of those worn a century ago. lleliotrope and roM beads are used for tiimniings. I5andana haDilkcrt'íliíf' plaids are used tbr upbolsteriDg r.ittan furniture. Snuul bnstles are worn with strect cos(unies, and largor ones with eveoing toilets. Tliere is a new brocade, in solid color, which is dotted all over with the ace of spades. Little iris' dre.-ses are of white cashmere or flannel, and are worn with crimson lashes. English fashionsin dressare beconiing as popular witli ladies as they are with gentíomeo. Very elegant nccklaees, bandeaux, armteta, car-rings and brooches of jet havojust been imported. A grotesque ornament for a bonnet is the foot of a bear's cub in natural fur, with claws of gilt and silver. For triniiuing bonnets there are palm leavcs, wlflkt Mn :md sprays, with a bird or butterfly, all of gilt metal. iligh-hceled shoesareusedonly for house wear, while the broad, flat Englisb boot ia atended for the street. Surale holds its own among the new goods. It is oftenest secn now in brocaded goods, or in two or more different colors. Narrow gathered flounces are put iinder the plaitid border of petticoats, niaking a sweeper like that worn in the dress skirt. Silver jewelry is more fashionable than gold in Eoglaoa jutt at present, and the indications are that it will soon become so here. Embroidered linon colors and cuffa of a soft cream color are very frshionable and exceedingly becoming. They are edged with lace. The Souvenir, Marshal Neil and Nephctos roses are the flowers moot used by florists at present. The garden blossoms have hadtheir day. Amber colored roses are very fashionable on black vclvel bonnets. A friuge of amber beads forms a sort of coronct over the hair in front. Handkerchief bonnets, thehandkerchiof having a brocaded center and a ride border of gold and silver, are among the new displays. Beautiful niantlc lambrequins are made of satin to matnh window curtains and niture, adorned with picturcs of real artistic nierit, paintedin oil or water colors. Transparent Frcnch iuull is generally wed for the newe.st styles in hundkerehief's, and these are trimoied with fine laco. The monogram continuos tobe very smal! and workcd in floj-s silk. One of the new fringe designs lias a heading of' ruany-colored beads, from whieh fall stnall fjuarter circles of beads, with silk tas-ii'l.s [icndant from their loweat points. The effect is cidd and not pretty. happy dea in bracelete sezpreaaedb; having four golden wire.-. ipread out on tlie lower side of the arm meeting on the top, and at their joint forining the setting of a diamond, which looksto beontirely unsupportod, as the tliin wire is almost invisible. Autumn colors are lich and beautiful. Instead of old goldhe yellowa aj-e briglit canary, and the blues still rotain the peacock shades. Dull cinnatnon nel, ofire, bronze and moss-greon are prominent, and dashes ol bright poppy-rod illuminated all neutral tints. Thu now browns are of the old-fashioned ashes ofrose shades, and the new purplos have conconsiderable of red in them.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News