Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-05
GnIy for Women.

Pineapple dresses are taking the
places of goods more easily affected by
damp weather.
White dresses continue as pOpular
as ever, and for two months to come
will be as suitable as anything else.
There is a positive mania for all
kinds of pOngees, India %toulards,
grapes, maniilas and pineapple cloth.
Brilliant lines on white grounds,
and the richest grapes, hanging in
wavy folds are more than fashionable.
Cream white challies and finest
goats hair trimmed with cross bars of
the gayest satins are among the hand
some dresses.
White jackets, wrought with the
gayest %cOlOrs, and scarlet ones with a
network of embroidery in Turkish de
signs, are the most fashionable and
expensive.
Scarlet, black and white shawls
are the most fashionable, though we
have e one of the shade called
ecru, the peculiar unbleached color,
which was most delicate and beautiful.
Long chains of coral, strung as
baby chains were wont to be, are lash
ionable, as also short chatelaines of
cut coral with the watch hanging, ac-
companied by many charms.
Delicate silks of the variety for
mourning are Of black and gray;
three, five and seven finest lines OF
gray upon a black ground, or rice rersd,
black upon gray.
Some travelling dresses designed
for fall wear are made of the Panama,
and bamboo fibre, of a heavy quality,
quite rough TO look at, but soft to the
hand. This material is in such de
mand that enough of it is not to be
had at any price.
Scarlet, blue and almond-brown
Jackets of finest flannel are worn as
pardessus garments at the edge of the
evening Just now, when n needs a
slight addition to the dress of daytime.
The more brilliantly and deliberately
they are embroidered the better.
Stockings of a linen web as fine as
Desdemona's handkerchief are worn
with these pretty shoes, and the sup
ply of Madame Metternich of 365 pairs
does not seem quite SO fabulous. Some
beautiful scarlet shoes of this style are
seen with white peignOirs at breakfast.
The latest sashes are of the purest,
softest, India silk, which has a wavy
look and an INDECENT grace peculiar TO
itself. These sashes are very wide
and long, and tie in immense falling
loops or a single large knot, Their
col0rs are not brilliant, and the de-
signs are generally bars and squares.
Some small, squareshawls, scarce
ly more than handkerchief, are
wrought in lace patterns about the
edges are thrown carelessly over the
shoulders. They are more quaint than
beautiful, though lace embroidery
upon pineapple cloth is something
new, and of wonderful execution.
Shoes, quite low, with a high.
pointed heel piece, running of at the
back of the foot, and a square piece
everything the instep, are now tolerated
out of doors at the seashore and cOuD-
try place. They have large, fiat bows
of kid, and square steel buckles shap-
ing TO the foot.
The dress is Of a neutral shade,
a fawn, or almost brown, and
along the selvidge a bright border
runs. composed of uneven stripes of
gray eolors. This stripe is cut oil ana
used for trimming, which Is put on
fiuted, by leaving q small space De
tween plaits to correspond. A pretty
addition is Tom Thumb fringe in col
ors to match.
Ladies who preserved their Cam
ton Grape shawls, which were in fash
ion twenty years ago, are not sorry
for their prudence now. They are
among the most eouTted and stylish
of light grapes; they are no longer
worn in the simply folded triangle, |
however, but are eunningly draped
about the person in a manner requir-
ing the skill of a m0diste.