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Show FASHION NOTES. Pompadour silks are growing in popular favor. Many narrow ruffles appear on early fall dresses. Dotted and sprigged dress fabrics grow in favor. It is admissible to go anywhere with a short dress. Ostrich tips and plumes will be in high favor this fall. White evening bonnets will be as fashionable as ever. Side combs of shell, jet, coral and ivory are used again. Plush will take the place of velvet in millinery next winter. Many ruffles or flounces on skirts will be a feature of fall fashions. Public taste in Paris runs to the revival of directory styles of dress. Chinese Corah silks in flowered designs will form parts of fall toilets. Red pleatings around and under the bottom of dresses increase in number. Wide canvas belts are more fashionable than either leather or ribbon ones. The fashions of England and France have very little in common at the present time. Gold lace, gold ribbon, and gold braid will be used to excess in early fall millinery. The fashionable evening color takes the name of Ophelia; it is a dark shade of heliotrope. Corah washing silk in natural undyed shades of cream or ecru is found among early fall novelties. Indian washing silk in natural undyed shades of buff, resembling pongee, is sold for morning chamber robes. Black silk poplin is again in demand. It is used for skirts of black costumes of Surah silk, cashmere or camel's hair. Soft, crushable India silks are much used in Paris and London in he composition of classic and artistic costumes. Marguerite sleeves, puffed in the arm-hole and at the elbow appear on some of the lately-imported Parisian costumes. Frank Leslie's Lady's Journal says that the baby stare[?] is considered the pretty thing for a young girl in England just now. The Pilgrim polonaise loosely defines the figure, and is bound with heavy silk rope, finished with cones, balls, tags, or tassels. Belts of cream white, black, or gray striped saddle girthing, from two to three inches wide, are worn fastened with leather straps and buckles. |