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Show FASHION SPRAYS. The new head trimmings cost $10 and $15 a yard. Breton lace cuffs are worn with close coat sleeves. One of the newest brown shades in the color of mahogany. Tulips and lotus flowers are used for trimming evening toilets. Plaid silk and woolen goods are used for trimming plain materials. Satin and velvet combinations make a charming effect in trimmings for plain silks. Tortoise shell and coral can be imitated perfectly in celluloid for combs or jewelry. Natural moss, arranged in wreaths and clusters, is used to trim evening dresses. A woman's dress ought to give a certain clue to her individual taste and character. Shirred waists are much worn, and shirring is used in the belts and sleeves of blouse waists. Gold filigree rings in very pretty patterns are used to fasten the wide bonnet strings of soft silk. Broad, soft Scotch ribbons in basket plaids are much used as artistic coils for lining felt bonnets. Now lingerie is of colored percale, lined with white and embroidered in colors matching the colors in the percale. A new trimming velvet is of tan color, with irregular spots of dark brown in it, and is appropriately called tiger velvet. Handkerchiefs are much worn at the neck ; they are of palm-leaf design, rich Persian colors, and are tied in sailor knots. Crochet lace in shaded wool is used to border embroidered tides. It is also used as an edge for house sacks and flannel skirts. The leaves of the sumacs, in their autumn tints of claret, crimson and gold, are fine material for bouquets or wall adornment. Eugenie, the French millner, has engaged a Japanese workwoman, who makes wonderful bands and crowns of feathers and flowers. Some of the New York shopkeepers advertise an opening of an "exposition." One of them has had a "pageantry of head-gear" finery for sale. Damask materials are in favor as a foundation for embroidery. The design of the damask is simply carried out in the silk, and the work is very easy. Fringes are not to be discarded this winter. On the contrary, the richest varieties are to be employed, in combination with antic, for the garniture of a skirt. With pink and white costumes black is much used with the accessories; as, for instance, a black fan, black mitts and black velvet sash may be used with these dresses. The new styles in jewelry all show a prevailing love for the antique, and pins, earrings, bracelets and necklaces are copied from the old Greek and Roman models. Bracelets are worn of point duchesse and other fine real laces. A band of lace encircles the arm, with a simulated clasp in a double French bow, a butterfly or a blossom. English women give large pieces of worsted-work out to their friends to do as remembrances for them. They then collect them together and make into rugs and carpets. The surtout, worn instead of the ulster, is cut precisely like a gentleman's overcoat, and is make of English waterproof. Its masculine cut and severity of trimming make it a stylish garment. |