, 1876-07-14
New York Fashion Notes.


Prom the pAnbury NswhI
PLAIDs will be out of style after this
year.
a REVOLUTION in the shapes of hats is
predicted.
PARAsoLs are made with viniagrettes
at the top of the handle.
FALSE hair is not invested in to any
extravagant extent at present.
SoME Of the new percale dresses are
made with half-ftting basques.
PARIS dresses so closely fit the figure
that tying back is unnecessary.
FASHIONABLE cuffs for gentlemen have
their corners cut of or rounded.
A NEW fancy is to trim bonnets with
strings Of colored seeds or berries.
PLAIDs are three times as large and six
times as popular for gentlemen's suits as
they were last year.
To WEAR with very long dresses,
belts are made of leather or cloth from
four to six inches wide.
CRnPKD isse or tulle for the necks and
sleeves Of dresses seem to have teken the
popular fancy even in preference to lace.
AT the wedding the bride and groom
should always wear white gloves, unless
the occasion is 30 informal that none at
all are to be worn.
AMONG imported French cambrics Che
viot stripes are found to be the most
popular patterns, and Chinese blue IA
vorite and durable color.
So NEARLY are the English fashions
copied by American gentlemen this sea-
son, that one might easily imagine an
army of foreigners had landed ON our
shores.
GRENADINES are more varied in pattern
than ever before. Plaids are more pop
ular than other styles, although stripes
and even the plain fabrics still remain
in fashion.
THESE are fortunate days for brides
when every lady dresses in costume
that is, with everything in one color
and the formerly conventional grays and
browns are adopted by any one.
WITH evening toilette scarfs or sashes
Of soft crepe de chine elegantly embroi-
dered are worn. These are very broad
and draped in knife plaits little below
the waist in front, and held with flowers
in the back.
NEW costumes Of bdtists are very ele-
giant. A combination Of brown with ecTw
has the brown skirt trimmed with ecrH
hounces embroidered with brown cotton,
and the ecTw polonaise trimmed with
brown batists hounces embroidered with
ecTN.
GKNTLEnEKN's suits for travelling and
business are Of plaided goods-and to
cut very swell appearance are large
and rather light and conspicuous In
color. The trousers are very wide and
straight. The vest is single breasted,
made without collar and high in the neck.
The coat is cut away and has "patch
pockets.
WMTR and light colored polonGisss are
again worn over black silk skirts. The
novelty consists in the very large bows
placed down the front, on the sleeS e.
and sometimes on the back, made Of
black ribbon and ribbon like the color
Of the undergarment. Sometimes dhree
colors are used-one or two have been
seen trimmed with our national colors-
red, white and blue.
IT is beyond the power of human
tongue to describe how the new polon-
Gises or overskirts are made. They are
polonaises and overskirts because those
are the names the modists gives them,
but certainly not because they are like
anything which has passed by either Of
those names before. Truly the design
ers must have great minds. To think Of
half million ways Of cutting and loop
ing dress, and that all the time some
Wsv way is being invented.