The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-07-04

CLOTHES AND THEIR WEARERS.
FASHIONABLE APRONS. - Within the
last week or two, says Paris cores
pondent, aprons have app cared, and now
dresses of all kinds, even ball dresses
are made with them. 1t is, IN truth, an
adaptation of the crlirasse, and the new
aprons are called tabliers cuirasses.
They are made very tight across the
Hont-so tight, indeed, that the wearer
Often finds If difficult to sit down, and
is often forced to balance herself at the
very edge of her chair, as our grani-
mothers did in the time of Queen Char
lotte. However, there is no need to ex-
aggerate. The small fichu or scarf
worn around the shoulders suits the
new styles of tablier very well. Some
one speaking of the new-fashioned
dresses describes them very aptly as
resembling the plumsge of peacock,
smooth, close fitting to the figure, with
loose, voluminous tall trailing behind.
ENGLISH BARRGE DREssEs.-A pretty
and long-neglected fabric has reappear-
ed, this season, and makes up into
pretty. simple, inexpensive dresses for
the country and home wear. This is
English barege, and in Quaker-gray or
the creamy-white, which many matrons
will remember as furnishing a costume
for the days of their girlhood, is ex-
ceedinely delicate and lady-like. They
are usually made without overskirts,
and trimmed with the material only, In
narrow, fiat pleated founces, headed
with puffs in sometimes double series.
The bodice is straight round the waist
what is known as the French waist;
the sleeves long, close, and trimmed at
the waist with a single repetition of the
design upon the skirt. A valenciennes
lace at the throat and wrists, and sash
fastened little to the side in a loop,
with two long ends, completes the cos
tune.
FASHIONS FOR CmLDREN.-If children
are not dressed prettily this year, it will
not be for the want of material. Never
before was so many and such lovely IA
brics adapted to their special needs.
Not silks, or flimsy bareges, or luckless
grenadines, in which they dare not have
"f1n," but stout linens, washing satins,
soft, unfinished cambrics, and pretty
lawns, in which they can run,f Jump,
dance, aud play to their hearts content.
For girls from six to ten years, the ga
brielle polonaise is recommended for
travelling and visiting costumes. And
the gabrielle. design for spring and sum-
mer dresses, French yoked aprons of
white Swiss, either plain or dotted, look
beautifully over the gabrielle dress. For
older girls belted pOlonaise and gored
skirts are very fashionable. For little
ones under four years of age, the gored
walking cloak, with cape, made OF
pique or satin and handsomely trimmed
with English embroidery, forms the
most complete and perfect suit for the
street. For little boys under five years
of age, blouse suits are wholly super
seding all other designs. They are com
posed of a close fitting sacque, fastened
low by belt over the pants, and may
therefore be as well made of the vari-
GUS wash fabrics, as of the heavier wool
en- materials. June.
MUSLIN CAPoTEs. -The new caprice
for summer wear is the pretty capote or
Normandy" cap of muslin or muslin
over silk or crepe. 1t is trimmed with
band and bow Of black velvet and clus-
ter or half-wreath of hedge roses, and
isVdainty and coquettish enough for
very young girls, but cut of place as a
frame for the experienced faces OF mar
ried women, even in the country, where
so much latitude is allowed in dress.
The cap crown proves to be the distin-
gushing feature of dressy spring and
summer bonnets, black lace beaded with
fine Jet dividing the honors with silk
and satin, the latter of which is always
covered with crepe hsse. Crepe lsse
also invariably forms the inside ruchlDg
or plating, and not unfrequently part
of the trimming on the outside. In fact,
there seems to be conspiracy IN favor
of this fabric, which is as useless and
not nearly so pretty as tulle. Flowers
of pale sulphur-color are very much IN
vogue, and the very newest are clusters
of cow-slips most faithfully copied from
nature. Long branches OF elderberry
are also among the new things, lovely
tinted fuchsias, and the blue ragged
robin which Paris milliners admire so
much and arrance so gracefully. No
ribbon strings are used at all. They are
not needed and would be very much in
the way of the fashionable finishing at
the throat.
BLACK GRENADINEs.-M dresses of
black grenadine are being made by the
modistes for summer wear. The newest
grenadines have pin-head dots, across
bars, and lozenge-shape figures; bu,
there are also many satin striped, water
ed-striped, polka-spotted, and plain can
vas grenadines. An elegant black gren-
adine dress for one of The leaders oil
fashion in Washington has tiny pin-head
spots. The silk skirt has alternate knife
psatings of silk and of grenadine -
three in front, curving up higher to si1
in number on the back breadths. The
long apron is of alternate stripes Of
grenadine and beaded lace, with gath.
cred lace on the edge this apron il
hooked together over the tournure, anC
the square back drapery, consisting o.
two wide ends and loops, is formed Of
grenadine and lace. The basque Ii
square behind, with belted front anC
Pompadour neck. This is for dressy
afternoon and carriage toilettes. I'm
ported ostumes for the street have
skirts of black taffeta silk, trimmed will
five or six very fine pleatings, and 6
polonaise of spotted or of striped greDa
dine, without jet, but trimmed will
beautiful fringe of curled silk tape
These polonaises are very long, with
apron fronts trimmed with spirals of the
grenadine and fringe, while the French
the Marguerite fashion, giving the ap
pearance of being nodded to the long
slender waist the front is usually with
out darts, and worn with a belt.-RGr
per's Bdzar.
NOVELTIES IN JEwELRY, DECORATIONS
ETC.-At a luncheon party, recently
given to the bridegroom OF the presi
dents daughter, previous to his mar
riage, the table was decorated by al
artist whose business is to attend to this
department alone. Lakes in minia
ture, composed of glass, were filed
with fruits, embedded in their OWL
flowers and foliage, strawberries, lem.
ons, oranges, grapes, and even pineap-
pies were treated in this way, and over
all was suspended flying white doves
upon golden wires fastened to the cell
ing, which closed and spread their wings
as naturally as if sharing the enjoy.
ment. The pretty idea was illustrated
in one of the offerings made to Chris
tine Nilsson on one of the last nights o.
her appearance in New York. Above {
magnificent silver and gilt vase, filled
with flowers, fioated a raven In minia
ture, carrying something folded under
its left wing, but whether it was a dia
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