Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-06-19
FASHIONS FOR JULY.


dry goods houses offer everything that can
possibly be needed, and of the most stylish
kinds. To be convinced of the fact that our
Columbus dealers are as fully up with the
fashions, and present as great variety as can
be found in the retail houses of New York
or any Eastern city, come with us to the
great dry goods house of
A. C. HEADLY & CO.
Here we see all the fashion plates and
fashion publications, Die Moden,oeh Demo-
rest, LIE Bon Ton, and on the shelves we find
just what the undisputed edicts of fashion
say shall be worn. At this counter we Fl d
beautiful pique. The prettiest toilets are
always white-white pique or muslin in the
morning, white grenadine, organdie, tulle.
or gauze in the evening.
On this side we turn over those brilliant
grenadines and organdies. White grena-
dine dresses are cut with train and with
out lining, over gored and flounced under
skirts. The body is cut in one with the
skirt, and trimmed with blue, mauve or
green silk, edged with crimped fringe
The side sash is trimmed to match, and
very often used to tie up the immense
train In pdniers over the hustle attached to
the hoop-skirt behind.
Now let US turn to the fashion plates, and
we learn that some hooped skirts are made
with hustle. rs they are now called, en-
paniers; that is to say, short springs are
; bowed over the back, and sometimes upon
the sides, so as to form a base upon which
the paaiers rest, and which shapes them
This absurdity is one of those introduced
from Paris, which revolts all right-minded
women, and Is, in reality, an insult to their
sense and taste.
The gored dress is very graceful and very
becoming; it shows fine figure to the very
best advantage; but the "bustle" and the
pdnteTs are mere eXcrescence which, If
natural, could only be looked upon as
huge and unsightly deformity.
Ruffies are the universal trimming this
season, and they are especially pretty upon
all thin dresses. Upon muslins, grenadines,
and bareges, nothing is so pretty as ruff1es.
cross-cut, and only little full, as the FASH
ion is.
In grenadine they are sometimes bound
with contrasting color and sometimes
edged with narrow fringe; in muslin, they
are simply hemmed.
Trains are worn as long as ever; but it
is not wise to make thin dresses quite so
long as rich silks-sufficiently long to be
graceful is best.
The bodies are worn the natural length
they are not so short as last year.
A great deal of ffullness is massed togeth-
er in the trained skirts behind, but they
are still gored, front and sides.
In short walking dresses only enough
fullness is allowed to give ease round tue
bottom of the skirts.
The little Marie Antoinette fichu and its
twenty different variations are the almost
universal finish to simple summer toilets.
and, though its effect is rather narrow and
restricted, yet its neatness, and a certain
fresh quaintness, constitute relief to its
plainness.
The fichu effect is often given to Jackets
by arrangement of trimming, which is ex-
tremely pretty and there is a cape with
hood attached which is much admired, and,
in conjunction with the wide sash with its
fringed and ornamented ends behind, forms
very dressy and elegant garment.
When the .fchu is worn over trained
dresses, the ends are longer and wider than
when tied at the back of short dress. In
lace or tulle, 1t is fashiOnably worn by
married ladies over low-necked evening
dresses.
The burnoose is revived in striped silk
and greDadine, mounted with tassels. They
were always gracefully worn by elegant
women, and are particularly diStingue over
trained dresses.
White underskirts, it must be remem-
bered, arc now gored, and trained nearly
the length of the dress. Ordinarily, they
are made narrow at the top, and with a
deep flounce.
A beautiful style of summer mantle is
made in grenadine. barege, or any thin
material, and may also be made en-
q
shawl in front, the ends of which cross
over under belt, which fastens with a ro-
sette. The mantle hangs loose at the back.
Tasseled fringe, with pretty heading, is
generally used for trimming.
Still another summer mantle is made
with shawl-front and a pelerine back,
with long ends, which are knotted, and
form a sash, or, rather, wide sash ends.
This may be made in any thin material, en-
suite with the dress. Wooden grenadines
and Chambery gauze may be trimmed with
guipure, the same color; muslin, with q
tril of the same material.
The short silk sacks or paletots are either
cut in, so as to form hollow square at the
sides and square tabs back and front, or
else very short at the back and long at the
sides. Very few are made straight around.
Black silk suits are so largely worn that
nearly all ladies have them, and make use
of the garments en- suite as a silk cloak with
other dresses.
1t is fashionable, now, to simulate cape,
ming is used upon the dress and outside
garment When the trimming consists of
frills of the material, the effect is very
quaint, and rather stylish.
The summer grenadine shawls are, this
year, very pretty; some striped, some
plain, some striped as border. The price
ranges from four to seven dollars each.
There is decided reduction in Paisley
shawls. A very handsome square one can
now be bought from thirty to forty dollars,
and a good long shawl from forty to fifty.
A Paisley shawl is what every lady, who
cannot get an India shawl, ought to have.
In corsets we find the cheapest and best
ever brought to this market at Headley's.
1t is the La Favor corset, and is worn by
our most fashionable ladies, because of its
comfort. resulting from the sensible man
ner in which it is formed. 1t is made of
drilling, the outside being finished with
sateen. and is sold at 81. A cheaper arti-
Gle of the same style of corset sells for 80
cents. We are certain this article will
please our lady readers and we advise them
to try it,
For seaside or watering place dress. a
gored dress; sac of white pique, the sac
the whole trimmed with white washing
braid, with the addition of fringe edge
to the sac, is very pretty.
Promenade suit of white French challie,
trimmed with folds of. green silk, piped
with black. The suit consists of under
skirt, overdress that could be worn looped
up or as train, and short, loose French
sac. with reuers at the throat.
Robe de Chambre of small-figured per-
Gale. trimmed with straight fold of narrow
chintz bordering stitched on. The robe is
gored, en- frincesse, huttoned all the way
down the front, and finished with little
pockets. This is loose, simple and most
useful summer wrapper. 1t should have
been remarked that it is tied in at the waist
with a Gordon of the material.
Leaving Headley's, we walk up to the
Opera House, and drop in at the fashiona-
BILE millinery house of
SIMMONS HEADQUARTERS.
This, from the variety and beauty of the
artificial flowers, looks like a garden. Here
we learn just what is fashionable in heau
gear. Tie latest styles of new straw bon
nets are rolled up from the front, or rather
the oval rim is rolled up over instead OF
standing up straight as formerly, and is Of