The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-06-07
Fashion Fragments.
New York Herald.l

Dom Pedro note paper and envelopes are
the latest thing out in stationery. The
paper measures six and a half inches by
four, and is covered-without folding-by
envelopes of the same size.
Cards of fashionable size with envelopes
to match or Dom Pedro stationery, are the
style now for notes of regret and invitation.
Fine rubies are rarer than any other jewels,
and far more costly.
Henrietta cloth takes the lead among
mournful fabrics.
Toilets for evening are fresh and light !;
the season for rich heavy material is over.
Leather belts are revived.
Flower fringes are introduced in Paris and
London as garniture for evening dresses.
Grass and daisies, red berries and mignonette,
punches of lilac with olives, and water plants
with leaves, are among the favorite combina-
tions.
Straw and silk embroidery vie with flow
ers for favor as trimmings.
The popular black grenadines prove to be
those with stripes of the Mexicaine pattern
worn last year.
Fine canoes are much sought after.
White muslin dresses are made with cui-
rass bodices, deep tabliers and demi-trains.
Paintings are again appearing in bracelets
novelty for a summer over-dress is the
Russian polonaise. This is belted garment
! with yoke in the back. The skirt of the
back is deep, full, and trimmed to the cen
tire. The front is open and a belt sewed in
it.
Scarf TUNES, recently introduced to wear
on bail dresses, are composed OF soft, supple
materials, and are two and halfyards long.
They drape across the skirt closely falling
back in careless folds to almost reach the
edge of the skirt.
Very long and very fat are the prevailing
features of Paris dresses, so far as form is
concerned.
Much ecru is to be seen in both costumes
and toilets, and in all the accessories.
New necklaces are composed of rows Of
gold beads divided at intervals by square
blocks or bars of gold.
combination of platinum and gold Is
universal among ornaments for gentlemen.
Wool Titan braids in all shades are chosen
for trimming de hege and other wooden ma
terials.
Turquois is largely introduced into brace
lets.
Misses skirts are never more than three
yards in breadths at the bottom, and they
reach to the ankles.
English Grape is the trimming for mourn
ing costumes.
Children of both sexes wear solid colors in
stockings.
Striped India shawls for travelling.
Modification of last winters styles for
children,
Rough satin-faced straw bonnets will be
worn by elderly ladies for travelling, while
young ladies will patFOnize round hats and
English walking hats.
Present fashions in mourning admit some
white about the neck
Shopping bracelets are composed ofa chain
with pencil attached.
Ball dresses, as a rule, have pointed
/ bodices and lace at the back
| Cream is universally worn for evening
toilets, and much trimmed with grasses OF
| every variety.
| The porte bonheur bracelets continue to be
popular.
Fly fringe is a novelty in trimmings.
! The Parisian, whatever her station, never
/ has a large number of toilets at one time,
which accounts for her always being dressed
! in the fashion
| Now that all the boufant eject in dra-
perry is produced lower down on the skirt,
| long, slender bustles, that slope larger as
they descend, instead of projecting sudden
/ ly below the waist, are worn.