Fashion Notes

Coloree! petticoats are again worn. Dark red of varioua shades is worn. Basques have not gone out of fashion. The new silk stockings show eorduroy effeets. Children's dresses entirely of red are revived. False fronts are worn to greater excess than ever. Caps and turbans will be in fashion this season. Medium sizes only in any kind of button are fashionable. Painted silk, satin and velvet buttons are seen among new trimining goods. .Tapanese and Oriental designs appear on many of the handsome metal buttons. The íashion oi wearing large Alsatian bows on the top of the head is on the increase lied or claret sashes look best with white cashmere or (lannel dresses on children. The new hat, styled "The Phonograph," may be feit, but it cannot be heard, like Edison's. The bands and tabliers for dresses, on which printed designs are seen in Paris, are of tliL richest velvet, satin and silk. Fancy and plain ribbons are both used for loops, and in some cases form a complete cascade down the front of the dress. Little children, whose hair is not shingled very short, wear it long and curled in the back and banged square across the forehead and temples. Oriental French cashmere is the name of a new silk and wool dress goods whose designs resemble the figure and colors of an India cashmere shawl. A new trimming material, compos ed of the plumage of tropical birds in terwoven with golden threads, has been produced in Paris. It is exceedingly gorgeous, surpassing the richest embroideries with colored silk and gold thread.