The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-08-09
Fashion Gossip.

Fashionable ladies will be sorry to lea
thst there is decided attempt being msd'
TO abolish train skirts, and introduce il
their plAces not the looped up skirt, which
has been long admired and already become
an rinstitution' With us, but the short pess.
ant skirt, reaching to only some inches
above the ankles, This announcement will
strike dismsy 70 the heart of every lady
who does not rejoice III such pedal extrem
| tiles as raised OinderollS 10 8 throne; while
] those fair danes snd maidens blessed with
8 trim and well tuFne6a will hail with
delight fashion calculated totiisplsy them
to the best advantage.
The adoption of this new skirt dates, as
all fashions that are destined to succeed
must date, from Paris. 1t appears to have
been suggested to the ParisisDs by their
recent soiourn in the country, where, no
doubt, they found il vastly convenient and
great improvement on the train skirt.
The favorite color in Paris this season is
said to nave been the pink. An invention
of 8 certain lin PAIis) celebrated Mr..
Worth, known as the Rose Of Bengal, is a
very popular and much admired dress It
is very ingenious, and so pretty that we sp-
pend description Of it The skirt is made
in silk or Ohamberry gsuzs, or even in taf
fetss, and represents the petals Of rose,
placed the one on tep of the other, and mar
row pinked out ruches are sewn around the
edge Of each petal. The bodice is made to
represent two petals which cross each 9TH
or. 1t is cut very low in the>neck and
shoulders, and worn with gHi11pe, or high
or of elk tulle ia puffings, with rows of
Il w1h Nnau As-aa Tdr AoS
various colors, out it loses its significance |
except when mace in colors which the rose
is known to- grow. -.#
The old time fashion of silk skirts OPEN
ing over white muslin or satin petticosts is |
sgsin coming in vogue. The following |
will serve as q model: A pale, msuve silk
skirt, opened at each breadth from the
bottom 10 about q quarter of 9 yard up to
the skirt; strsps of white or other con-
trasting silk are used to hold them together
over the undershirt, and tsssel CORES
ponding in color is sewn at each end Of the
strap. The bodice is made of the same
as the undershirt, with corselet
Of silk to match the dress-skirt worn over
t, and laced with cord corresponding in
color with the straps on the skirt.
@ The newest thing in that ever.Vsrying
eoYering for the head is known as the
ozsnge bonnet. 1t is made either OF rice
,r Belgian straw, and describes lozsnge
IN the head, con1ning five smaller ones,
which are made Of either pink or lilac
Ribbon lozenges arranged sll round the
ront Of the bonnet have 8 curious and re-
effect; others have tiny flowers
instead of ribbon, similarly arranged.
3onnets entirely covered with flowers are
n high favor, and that style has already
,een adopted here For instance, the fol
owing unique and pretty bonnet which
Ve saw this week has been greatly admired.
he shape covered with light puffiog of +,
vhite silk tulle, and completely overlaid
nth ilsc-covered hsrebells and sprigs of
harp, spear-li like grasses; st the back
lsss of hArebells and grasses were az
Anged in such manner asto fall over the !
sir and serve the purpose of a hair orna
lent. Long tulle wells should be worn !
nth these bonnets, and hsve very pretty !
feet fosttng downward over lace and
urls and flowers. {