Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-12
FASHIONS FoK AUGUST. j..

Peterson gives US the. following as the
styles to prevail during the ensuing month.
1t will be observed that there is consider
able change in the mode of wearing the
hair, the chignon now being worn quite
round: r4e ec'aa - ..-r
Dresses entirely without pleats have by
no means such uniform success. Ladies
perceive that this style of dress is not be-
coming. and they almost all prefer to wear
skirts with few pleats at the back and
| s1'ies. The short dress is worn mostly by
young ladies, and, to be in good taste, they
must be accompanied by under-skirts much
longer than ordinary petticoats. Very few
white under-skirts are seen with walking
toilets; they are either of the same mate
rial as the dress, or of some material of a
different color. H
FANCY MATERIALS, of some light wooden,
or wool-and-silk tissue, entirely white,
are very fashionable; the dress and paletot
are white, the under-skirt is colored, blue,
mauve, green, or even bright rose color.
The trimming of the dress and paletot are
OF the color of the under-skirt; this trim
ming is generally composed of thick pip
ings or rouleaux of colored silk, arranged
In round scallops, square tabs, or vandykes,
coral branches, plaits, loose sleeves, inter
laced rings, and so on. Gray fancy mate
rials can be ornamented i'm the same man
ner. Many are striped others, as we have
already mentioned, are chined, speckled, or
brocaded. eaf
SMALL FLoUNCEs are again worn, as we
predicted, early in the season. ~ Is
TRAINS are longer than ever, but only
sufficiently wide to look well without hoop
lng-none being over six yards at the bot
tom. All skirts are very much gored; but
almost all have one large box-pleat at the
back, or few gathers-the perfectly plain
ones being very unlpcOminp
The new color, particularly for evening
wear, is kind OF red leather-color, some-
thing like reddish salmon.
Ribbons for sashes are again coming in
favor; they are from twelve to eighteen
inches in width.
All the new bonnets of the season are ex-
cessiyely small. A great many are Fan
chons of very much rounded aud curved
out shape. Other bonnets have a low
crown, round or oval, and very narrow
border, sometimes small turned-up cur
tain. sometimes none at all. Both these pat
terms, and almost all the others, leave the
chignon completely uncovered. Ladies
are far from having given up their volum-
1nous chignons, which have but changed
their shape; they are now quite round.
and formed of heavy twists of hair arranged
in coils, or else of thick plaits; for the
evening, often, also, of short curls of differ
ent lengths; but the chignon and the Louis
XIV knot are quite gone out of fashion.
Plaits of velvet or ribbon are much en-
ployed for trimming bonn, is, which are
also bordered with garlands of flowers and |
fringes OF beads.
A very pretty bonnet is of fine straw. |
trimmed all round with narrow cross-cut |
band of black silk; at the side of the bon |
net there was a bunch of cherries and in |
the inside q small ruche of black lace; the |
strings were black silk, about half an inch |
wide, bordered with wide black lace, caus-
ing them to have the effect of lappets.
These strings are not tied under the chin,
but they form a bow on the chest, and in |
the center of the bow there is a bunch of
cherries. Also '1Marie Antoinette" bon
net of gray straw, lined with pink silk; a
small curtain divided in two parts, bound |
with pink silk, and crossed at the back; an
agrdfe of moss-roses at the side;pink strings.
The new hats. intended for town wear, are
all very small; but for the country, they
are made large. For the latter the Pom
padGur" hat is once more introduced, with |
Its fiat crown and wide brim, the whole
lined with pink silk, and trimmed with
pink roses. Toqatets, simply trimmed with
Diack velvet and straw gimp, are very lady
like =al SIS i 1fo -
BAsoUEs.-The fashion of wearing
basquee aud centuries, to simulate casque,
has again revived, the basque may be seal
Ioped, or plain, but always trimmed, eth
er with passementerie, or a satin cord, or
with wide jet fringe. A very wide rib
bon, tied at the back with large bows, may
be worn with these basques. Mantles are
also worn of circular shape, and may be
If fancy CLOTH. molleton. or India CASH
mere, but never of the same material as the
iress. The most beautiful rotonde may be
composed of an India China crepe shawl;
Ind those who possess such treasure will
ind an admirable opportunity for dis
playing this long-discarded article of dress,
1y altering it to a circular mantle. ~