Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-05-30
Fashion GOSsiD.

PLAIN white tulle wells are to be worn
with straw bonnets next season.
A NEW style of card receiver has a
flowers.
POINT lace parasols have become quite
common sight on the promenade this
season.
FASHIONABLE ladies nowadays keen
a maid to take exclusive care of their
lap.dogs.
GREEN of all shades is very much worn
this season in costumes, bonnets and
gloves.
Two or three black silk costumes are
considered as an indispensable part of a
brides trousseau.
JET fringe and flowers is the fashion
able style of trimming for bonnets and
round hats thisseason.
SUNDAY evening is the. fashionable re-
ception evening in Baltimore. and
Wednesday in Philadelphia and
Boston.
HOUSE weddings are all the style this
season, with no wine and no music.
and the presents not displayed till next
day.
HE new style of lace veil is heavily
embroidered around the edge with floss
and beads.
HE most beautiful Dolly Vardens are
OF the French pattern, which come in
pale grounds, with garlands of delicately
tinted flowers.
BLUE sunshades lined with white are
reputed genteel.
WHITE Swiss muslin will be very much
worn this summer.
YoUNG ladies have their coral-handled
parasols fastened to their wrists by neat
gold chains.
THREE new hotels have been erected
at Narrangansett, which now looms IN
most formidably as Viewpoints rival.
A REVIVAL of the ancient Spanish cos
tune in Spain, including large combs
and short dresses, is noted.
CoLoRED silk hose and high-heeled
kid of silk slippers to match the dress
is the fashionable "foot toilette'' for
home wear.
SLEEVELESS jackets of muslin and lace
are very fashionable this season, and
very stylish for full dress of white
lace.
The jolly local of paper in Boone
county says: "Come where nv love
lies dreaming-and see how she looks
without any paint on her face"
FRENCH milliners call Dolly Vardens
" Vatican" costumes after the famous
french painter of the time of
Louis XIV, who represented in his pic
lures ladies' skirts drawn up as in the
modern fashion.
STREET costumes recently sent over
from Paris are made short enough to
clear the ground. Ladies Just returned
from abroad are surprised to find Amer
lean ladies dragging handsome silk
dresses over the dirty sidewalks of New
York.
The little ick-knacks of the season
are crepe de chine accessories for bows in
the hair and for collars. 1t is no longer
admissible to wear the old formal bows.
They are trimmed with Valenciennes
and fringed-the most delicate shades
being preferred.
The comfortable linen blouse with
long skirt looped at the sides is
fastened at the waist with a leather belt
and fancy buckle. To this belt is at
tached useful little contrivance for
carrying scissors, thimble, etc.
No dress for the promenade could be
prettier than the plain silk of Two
| shades. Among these the cameo tints
are still popular. Black silks ALWAYS
have been, and probably ALWAYS will be.
considered both rich and Iady.like2
therefore, they are made up in suits as
much as ever.
HE most curious colors imaginable
are now worn for ladies' head-gear-
blues that look green, and greens that
look blue, browns that look forty other
colors by gaslight, and flowers that
| look as If they had been ruthleesIv
dragged into public life from the
honorable retirement of the ash.barreI,
THE Parepa" bonnet is made of soft
rich silk, the crown is large and lappet
OF the silk falls over at the back.
| large, heaVy pufhng Is used about the
crown, from which depends branch of
cut roses, the large center rose falling
very low upon the chignon. This bon.
net may be worn with lace lappet. or
| simply an elastic at the back.
For street costumes the American
ilks are becoming quite popular thew
are found in solid colors, brown. grav
and the olive tints, as well as in black.
which was the only color in which thew
We're manufactured at first. There has
been great improvement in the mann.
facture of these silks during the past
two years, and they now add real beauty
to the durability which they have al.
ways possessed.
A New YORK bachelor recently gave
a very gorgeous banquet to seventy-fiy e
ladies and gentlemen in Delmonico,s
big oval room. The immense table was
timed over, filed up with moss. and
stuck full of the richest flowers. Seal.
lops in the fower-bed admitted the
necessary plates, and in front of each
plate was little silvered column trim
med with flowers, and a festoon of ~ ;.