The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-07-09

none at all. 1t is too long and not
the right shape to YEA with a short
dress, and not long enough or up
rightly shaped to afford any support
to a trained dress. Buy two hoped
skirts at once, one especially designed
| for a short dress, the other for indoor
wear. There is no danger that the
fashion will be worn out before the
skirt, and the additional comfort
would pay for the entire outlay, even
if you had not two skirts instead of
Al an evening entertainment, late
~, we noticed some short dresses, and
though made of rich material. Gone of
white silky, they looked shockingiy
out of place. In fact, the more effort
there is made to give an appearance of
l""sdress" to short costumes, the worse
they look. In the drawing-room they
are totally out of place, and in white
material, with wide sleeves, make
their wearers look like Chinese man
darins rather9than the pretty spiritu-
ele women they would be in a proper
dress. 'fH @77"r .satse ast
~ :za! SUMMER BONNETS. directs e
The efforts to enlarge the bonnets
early IN INC SCdSOA
futile. indeed has only succeeded in
making them smaller than ever, the
latest style worn are mere scraps of
lace surrounded with pearls or crystal
drops, or covered with a spray of
small flowers, violets,i heartsease,
daisies, forget me -nots and the like,
the color selected in reference to the
trimming upon the dress. IS -
Whether it is because the small
bonnets have induced every lady to
become her own milliner. and thus
indulge intIsix bonnets, when before
she was confined to one, may be a
question, but it is a positive fact. that
the small bonnets as worn now-a-
days are constructed with much closer
reference to the detail of ltoilettes
with which they are to be worn, than
ever before, and in this respect show
correctness of taste, and greatly i'm
prove the harmony of the general APP
pearance. il .fro9 ssslL 7smltdsIu -
Formerly one huge bonnet trimmed,
In nine cases out of ten, with a glar-
ingly ugly ribbon, was worn with
every dress, no matter how opposite In
color one might be to the other; now,
the bonnets cost so little, and are so
quickly and inexpensively made that
women generally can afford n to
suit every toilette, and the result is
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT not of the MILL
ners, but those who sell millinery
goods, and the adoption in this re-
spect of a much more accurate and
complete style of costume. 5b aa7
With a white muslin dress trimmed
-x.kI lt,o -,hh1- ~ e. n
a little white muslin bonnet lined
with blue silk. and trimmed with a
rose, a band of blue ribbon and lapp-
cts of white Vallaicelunes lace at the
back.
Another pretty bonnet was of black
lace, trimmed with a wreath of droop-
ing crimson fuchsias. 1t was worn
with a dress of gray grenadine, and
large black Llama lace shaw.
1t is the style now for bridesmaids to
wear bonnets ornamented with long
white tulle walls divided in the center,
but descending from each side so as
nearly to envelope the person. This
seems to US neither appropriate nor
in good taste: the vail should be left
to the bride, and the bridesmaids wear
either wreaths or a little lace bonnet,
which is nothing more than the head
dress without the vail.
Round hats for country wear have
made their appearance in great va
riety. There is the garden hat. the
brim of which descends at the front
and back so as to protect the face
and neck there is the wide brimmed
shepherdess hat. and there are the
small, low crowned toquet, and small
fats, as much as possible like the ira
ditional little straw hat worn by the
traditional flower girl at a fancy dress
ball. Straw fringes are much used
upon the edge of round hats, and
bands Of feather trimming are very
common, though not very appropriate
for the season..
The correct thing for morning wear
in the country for drinking water at
the springs and the. like, are little.
low crowned round hats, of gray
brown, or black straw. The black
are trimmed with a curled wreath of
red feathers 1.-The brown. with a wreath
ofgreen and gray, with a wreath of
Bismarck leaves. 30 el ,aaJfa9