Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-03

BACK -A-ace Sacquet-NamDr1c and
Calico COstumcs-White Wrappers
COrday Caps-LneE Sufts-EnSIfsh
Riding Habits - Sundry Hints
CrOWnless BOnnets-Jet Bags-COif.
fures.
-[From our own correspondent
New YORK, May 90, 1874.
THIN DRESSES.
The rosy month of June is here, and
thin dresses have been prepared for it;
at least the pseudo thin dresses of to.
day, for all those charming diaphanous
fabrics that were once worn over low
necked, short-sleeved Innings are now
lined with silk from throat to toe. This
destroys all their pretty transparent eff
feet and makes them very warm, but it
Is declared vulgar to wear merely
grenadine or Mexicaine above low cor
sage covers. do not know why, nor
do i consent to it; 1 merely chronicle
the fact.
BLACK GRENADIEE.
Black grenadine is the standard
costume for summer wear, as black silk
is for the rest of the year. The new
est black grenadines have small demure
figures, pin-head dots, tiny cross bars,
blocks, lozenges or brocaded arabesques.
These are for leaders of fashion. The
popular wear Will still be satin stripes.
polka dots and plain canvass grena-
dimes. The new grenadines are being
made up with knife blade plait-
ings sewed on a demi-train silk
skirt; a long apron reaching to
the toe is made of alternate longitudin-
al stripes of guipure or yak beaded IN
sertion or grenadine stripes, while the
back drapery is merely long-looped,
souare-ended sashes. Above this is a
basque with square back, belted front,
Pompadour throat and coat sleeves;
abundant pleatings of Valenciennes
and the immaculate GRIPPE isse trim the
neck and sleeves. Such dresses as
these and others more heavily laden
with Jet are being prepared for Mrs.
Senator This and Mrs. Secretary That
to take to their Newport or Hudson
river cottages. For palmer folk who
will spend June In town and for peo-
pie OF simple tastes out of town there
are graceful polonaises of striped or
dotted grenadine made with postillion
back and belted front, and trimmed
with light fringes of curled tape or
lace, or else pleatings.C IF the material,
but without the heavy barbaric Jet that
drags our frail grenadine and gradual
ly falls off bead by bead. The French
fancy is to wear polonaises of striped or
dotted grenadine over a skirt of glossy,
black taffeta silk trimmed-as
everything is-with knife pleatings, or
else with shirred hounces Of the silk in
stead of grenadine. Such a suit is far
lighter than that just described; as the
polonaise is not tight fitting, only the
&hinnest Florence silk is required for
lip;ug the waist and sleeves, instead of
the IN Eek silk serge now used for lin
ings. The tafeta silk skirt is also very
light. and its smooth surface will turn
dust like water. instead of offering
cunning grooves for holding 1t, as rep
ped silks do. If basque is preferred
instead of a polonaise, then the denl-
trained skirt should Lave q pretty tab
ier front of puffs and small ,pleats, and
perhaps some lace, while TIE back
bres this have one large panier pun,
supported by watered silk sashes and
two deep founces edged with pleatings
around the bottom. The only colors
that are stylishly used with black gren-
adine are shades of pearl and gray.
Blue and pink with black grenadine
have hard look and are now consider
ed decidedly "off color"
DRESSES OF ECRU MEXICAINE.
For more dressy costumes the accept
ed novelty of the summer is the ecru
Mexicaine, already described silken
fabric with large square meshes that
look as if threads had been pulled out
each way to make the open squares.
This, In its natural pale golden brown
color is being made up over darker
marion brown silk in charming suits.
The skirt is entirely of silk, with
founces of the transparent fabric piped
with the silk. The deep apron over
skirt is edged with fringe, In which both
shades appear, and there are bows and
sashes of the dark silk. The basque is
made of the ecru Mexicaine laid
smoothly upon the dark brown silk
which serves as a lining. Ecru Mexi-
caine is also prettily combined with
dark violet silk In the way Just de-
scribed for marion, and Is also made IN
polonaises that are worn with sashes OF
black velvet or black watered ribbon over
black silk skirts. Such polonaises are
sometimes trimmed with ecru gulpure
lace. but these colored laces are tawdry
looking and tabooed by the best dress
makers. There are also navy blue,
damson cllsr, gray and violet Next
Gaines made up over silk skirts OF the
same color, or else a darker shade.
These will be favorite carriage cos
TUNES and afternoon toilettes for sum-
mer hotels and the more refined cot
tage life at the watering places.
BLUE AND BUFF BATIsTE.
RIue batiste-which is simply plain
dark blue linen lawns lovely ma
terial that takes the place of those
dowdy- looking, thick, glazed blue linens
of last year. 1t is said to wash well,
which / doubt but it can be fresheped
and kept out of the laundry all sum-
mer by an occasional dampening with
a linen cloth dipped in starch water,
and pressing Immediately with a mod
arately hot iron. POlonaises are much
nsed for these suits, but there are
also pretty Medicis sac4ues and
oyerskirts. The trimming is usually
two gathered, ten inch aOnnces on the
Lower skirt and narrower rufies on the
-rgkirt. all of which is edged with
ove- '-ee, or else open English EN-.
ecru L., -;ther white or ecru.
DrG @ 80 = will again be worn for
SIMMER suits. re pTetIlese On IS sa In
bition are trimmedwI, Il n 81 of tbe
embroidery headed by "uI n,, on en-