The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-05-24
FASHIONS EDICTS.

Leather belts are revived. |
Fine canoes are much sought after.
Striped India shawls for travelling.
Fly fringe is a novelty in trimmings.
The canopy shape prevails in paraso.s
Paintings are again appearing in brace
lets.
Modification OF last winters styles fer
children.
Turquoise is largely introduced into
bracelets.
The porte bonheur bracelets continue TO
be popular.
Children of both sexes wear solid colors
in stockings.
Cresm-colored muslin hardkerchiefs are
offered for sale.
Henrietta cloth takes the lead among
mourning laoTics.
English Grape is the trimming for
mourning costumes.
The new buttons are ivory, chimed with
the coler of the costume.
Ball dresses, as rule, have pointed bod
ices, AID lace at the back.
Present fashions in mourning admit
some white about the neck.
Straw and silk embroidery vie with flow
ers for favor as trimmings.
Small carriage psrasols with fine lace
covers are again in demand.
Fine rubies are rsrer than any other
Jewels, and far more costly.
Shopping bracelets are composed of
chain with pencil attached.
Buttons are Us by the dozens as trim
ming on costumes and suits.
Pink and blue bstistes, striped and plair,
are offered for summer dresses.
Brocsded cresm-colored silk psrasols
are trimmed with cashmere lace.
widows veil should be three yards
long, with hem hslf-yard deep.
"Brassards," or elbow trimmings for
coat sleeves, are growing in favor.
Bias folds bordered with Tom Thumb
fringe is popular dress trimming.
Much ecru is to be seen in both costumes
and toilets, and in all the accessories.
For mourning, light gray cards, with a
broad black edge, are sometimes used.
The only shswls worn are square India
and striped wool for travelling purposes.
Toilets for evening are fresh and light
the season for rich heavy material is over.
A combination of platinum and gold is
universal among ornaments for gentle
men.
White muslin dresses are made with
cuirsss bo1ices, deep tabliers and demi-
trains.
Ladies' boots and slippers for evening
are made of the same material as theil
| dresses.
Summer balmorals are striped and
plsided, and finished with box. plated
fiounces.
Very long and very fiat are the prevail
ing features of Paris dresses, so far as form
is concerned.
Cream is universally worn for eveDins
toilettes, and much trimmed with grasses
of every variety.
Gray and ecru batistes will again b,
worn this season and overdresses for blscl
or brown skirts.
Wool Titan braids In all shades ar
chosen for trimming de bege and othe
wooden materials.
Misses skirts are never more than tire
yards in breadth at the bottom, and the,
reach the ankles.
Brown linens are in great measure super
seeded by French percales in Alssce finish
called toile Alsace.
The popular black grenadines prove T.
be those with stripes of the Mexicaine pat
tern worn last year.
New necklaces are composed of rows @
gold beads divided at intervals by squar
J blocks or bars of gold.
The long waists have revived the broa
leather belts, which are broader than eve
, and known as "Henry ""
; Cards OF fashionable size with envelope
to match, or Dom Pedro stationery, are th
style now for notes OF regret and invits
ton.
AS the dvances hair ''invisibles s.
: will be more and more worn. They rang
10 price, according to depth, at from 81 t
q $40 per front.
, Martha Washington tea-sets, with cup
saucers, etc., bearing copy of George WASH
ington's autograph, are the latest thing
out in china.
Rough sstin-faced straw bonnets will
q worn by elderly ladies for travelling, Will
~ young ladies will patronize round hal
and English walking hats.
Dom Pedro note paper and envelope
are the latest thing out in stationery. TT
s. paper measures six and a half inches
n four, and is coveTed-without folding-t
d envelopes of toe same size.
A novelty for a summer oYerdress is u
Russian polonaise. This is belted ga
ment with yoke in the back. The ski
'r of the back Is deep, full and trimmed I
If the capter The front ia omen and a be