The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-05
Late Fashion Items.


fashion again. They are made of fine
silver wire, and are suspended from
the chatelaine.
Matelassee woolens have larger
squares and figures than those worn
last year, and seem to be more raised
above the surface.
The Newport wrap is the name
given to a pretty wooden shawl with
white ground, wrought with blue or
scarlet stars or circles.
The fashion of cutting the edges of
overskirts and polonaises into squares
is much followed for plain costumes of
silk, cashmere or alpaca.
New braids for trimming dresses are
of wooden twills, through which are
threads of chenille. The fringe used
with these has chenille threads also.
Basques of new dresses have vests
in front, and the back is elongated to
represent polonaise back, and join
with the trimming on the back of the
skirt.
New belts of velvet and of leather
are wide girdles, pointed behind and
in front, and laced with silk cord.
Straight belts are ornamented all
around, with square clasps of silver.
New fchus of kerchiefs of China
Grape are of delicate colors, blue, rose,
or cream, or else dark blue or Cardinal
red, and are trimmed with white silk
lace woven on the popular Smyrna lace
designs.
The colored nets for the hair are fast
becoming popular with young ladies.
The hair is not now braided before
being put up in the net, but is tied in
straight loop, which is called the Cat
ogan loop.
Solid-colored stuffs in matelassee,
armure and basket-wOven patterns are
in great favor with people of quiet
tastes. They come in all the stylish
shades of prune, invisible green,
bronze and seal brown.
English collars of linen remain the
favorite shape, but are worn very high
behind, with the points in front turned
over widely leaving the throat exposed.
The novelty is to cover the hem with
small stars of embroidery.
The novelty in Chambery gauze is
velvet stripes of delicate colOrs, with
dots and dashes in the thin alternat-
ing stripe of gauZe. Cream velvet
striped grenadine is exceedingly hand
some, also pale rose and blue, and
these are to be made up with velvet
skirts.
English calicoes are brought out in
foulard patterns, with soft finish that
makes them resemble the fine French
foulard cambrics. They are shown in
stripes, dots, crOss-bars, and in dam
ask patterns in the stylish gray-blue,
brown and navy blue colors. They
cost twenty-eight or thirty cents a
yard, and are yard wide.
Among rich and stylish materials for
polonaises is the fine damask camel's-
hair, thick, soft and pliable, and of the
darkest shades of gray or brown. 1t
comes in Oriental designs that are
very indistinct, but when traced out
are found to be palms, arabesques and
ferns OF lighter shade laid over a
thick dark ground.
Bagdad stuffs promise to be popular
with lovers of novelty. These are
dark wool grounds with stripes of
raised, knotted or tufted threads,
either silk or wool, in gay colors like
those seen in Turkish and Servian
stuffs. This bright stripe is so slight
that it is not too striking for good
taste, and is to be made up with pip
ings of bright color.
Transparent materials for the over
dresses of evening toilettes show bro
cade and damask designs closely
worked up to cover the whole mate
rial, while others have open lace
worked grounds. These are called
gauze grenadine, and are shown in
new shades of lilac, canary-color,
cream and linden green (Which is al
most as pale as cream-color) Indienne
blue and foam green.-,Harper's b.
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