Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-19
FASHION NOTES.
what is Worn and How Ii Looks
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Society.
Thin gauze wells are fashionable; alst
light blue tied about the neck.
Sleeveless jackets of lace, worn ovel
light-colored silks or muslins, are pretty
and stylish.
Bathing shoes are of plated straw or Of
oilskin, tied to the ankle with bright.
colored tape.
A mania for white vests with gilt but
tons has broken out among the wouid-be
swells.
Miss Nelson's summer toilettes are the
admiration of her set. They are simply
exquisite.
Some gentlemen affect entire suits of
white linen, leading friends to imagine
they are spotless.
Sunshades with purfume bottles at
tached to the handles is the latest Flora
McFlimsey wrinkle.
Blue is the fashionable color this sum
mer. all the girls at the seaside appear
to have the blues.
White morning robes are much in favor
among ladies. They look so spirituelIe,
they say.
Bonnets, except for church or state &C.
casions, have been discarded for the sum-
mer by our fashionable bellies.
Jet ornaments are in vogue again, es-
peeially for breakfast wear. Long pend
ants are the style for ear rings.
The new Maud Muller hats are lust
about the nobbiest, mos. jaunty little bits
OF head gear ever introduced.
Fashionable hair dressing: Do it in g
fashionable mess in front, and let it hang
down in plaits and curls in the back.
YiOlet-woOd fans are the latest novel,
ties. They are fragrant, are quantity
carved, and bear the owners monogram.
Bonnets have been almost entirely DIS
carded for jockey hats by our fashion
able young ladies Ia town and country.
1t is fashionable to order your wedding
dresses to be designed and made up by a
French man-milliner as sit for q prin-
cess" It is questionable to pay like a
princess.
D0uble-breasted jackets are worn cool
mornings and evenings by ladies at the
seaside. Those of white cloth, trimmed
with velvet, are particularly rich and
handsome.
Entire dresses OF robes Of white are
fashionable for morning wear in the
country. Some of them are very elabo-
rately trimmed with lace and made with
alarmingy long trains.
Evening dresses for summer wear will
be thin material and generally white.
Very beautiful ball toilettes are made of
white gauze texture trimmed with silver
fringe.
Pendent ear rings retain q deal of favor,
and some new and rather unique styles in
that line have recently been introduced.
Those of jet ere only suitable for break
fast wear.
Black ard white lace jackets, made
without sleeves, and worn over some bril-
liant colored silk, sre very elegant and
fashionable, particularly among the la
dies of Newport.
Wax candies instead OF gas are used to
light the most fashionable and exclusive
houses on wedding occasions, receptions,
etc. The complexion and pearls look
best in such light.
Cloud is the name given to 2 bit of
fine wors.ed intended TO enc1cle young
msidens' necks on cool evenings. Their
eyes and nose can only be seen peeping
from beneath the cloud.
Stripped calico and peroale polonaise,
in the long Louis XIV. style, are becOm-
ing very fashionable for street wear in
the morning. They are worn over black
alpaca or mohaIr underskirts.
The Princess Louise plaids had but a
short run among the London ladies, and
are now being imported to this city. The
colors are altogether too gaudy for prom
ensdes suits or costumes.
Driving sacks for young ladies are
made of all colors, although those of
white or blue cassimeres appear to be the
most fashionable. Considerable French
elaboration 10 the style of trimming these
jackets has been observed.
Nut sets of silver are ornamented with
couchant squirrels eating nut. They
are perched on each side of a gold-lined
dish as handles, on the top of each nut
pick, and also form the handles of the
crackers, spoons, or ladies.
VINO would have believed there is 3
county in Ohio without 8 grOg shop2 The
county of Noble has not g grog. shop
within its border, every one having been
sbated during the past year. And the
temperance people who have accomplish
ed this reform have the good sense not to
mix the matter with politics, but they
labor for the temperance cause within ex-
istins lines of parlV politics.