The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-06-28
Fashion Notes.

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hind.
FIounces are in the height of pop
ularity.
Buttoned shoes without heels for
children.
In linen. the standing English col
lar very high.
Sashes are but little worn except
ing for evening toilets.
Repped silk is preferred to satin
for wedding dresses.
White muslin toilets for fetes are
made with polonaises.
Transparent stufs of silk, wool,
and cotton are now the fashion.
Cashmere is in demand for every
thing but the deepest mourning.
For young ladies overdresses,
white tulle strewn with pink rose
| leaves.
Bonnets are more uniform than
hats-generally half gypsy, half cot
tage.
Imported polonaises show a basque
on one side and princesse model on
the other
New braids made of steel cloth
and worked with silks are exquisite
but costly.
Wide belts of plain dark, smooth
leather have been revived under diff
ferent names.
Embroidered silk and satin corsets
are being largely adopted by fash
ionable ladies.
Linen and cambria dresses are
made in much simpler style than
they were last year.
French kid shoes strapped across
the front so as to display the stock
ings are fashionable.
Ladies' stockings are embroidered
not only across the instep, but far
above the ankle.
Fashions of hundred years ago
enter largely into the fashionable Ia
dies toilet Of to-day.
Pearl shell has more than doubled
in price. owing to the popularity of
she'll ornaments.
Old jewelry is in demand, especi-
ally shoe-buckles and rows of gold
beads for the neck.
Girls over ten or twelve years old
wear their dress-skirts long enough
to touch their ankles.
Mixtures are the order of the day;
two different materials introduced III
to almost everything.
Leghorn straw is in demand for
watering places, where it will be
much affected this summer.
The newest thing in pocket-hand-
kerchiefs have pleated frills of bas-
tile edged with ValenceinBes lace.
Plainly folded scarfs for gentle
men, instead of made-up cravats, are
worn with the high English standing
collar.
Travelling shirts have the collars
and cuffs lined and the edges of the
bosom piped with checked or plaid
percale.
The skirts of Paris-made dresses
are cut to fit the figure so closely
about the hips that very little tieing
back is necessary.
The French twist, high behind, is
the simple and stylish coiffure of this
summer The front hair is arranged
in long waves.
The ladies of Queen Victoria S
court have their under petticoats
wired, and we're graceful sweep to
the train is the result.
The rage of the moment in Paris
is to trim bonnets with strings of
seeds of all colors-green, brown,
red and black.
As the season advances, fruits.
such as currants, cherries, straw
berries and grapes are to take the
place in bonnet trimmings.
Underneath the trains Of all dress
es is placed very deep founce of
muslin, edged with narrow founce,
which is again edged with lace.
Skirts worn with polonaise are
trimmed only at the bottom, and the
trimming should never be above the
knee point in front; in the back it
lies on the ground unless raised.
Little girls costumes are now made
with princes front and kilt pleating
in the back, \ sash of inch ribbon
tied over il. the back OF the bodice
reaching considerably below the line
of the waist.
Among the more notable imported
bonnets arc those designed to be
worn at the side of the head and
turned up high on the left side.
The eccentric fashion Of red para
soils. prevailing abroad. is rivalled
only by black ones trimmed either
with white lace or heavy network
fringe.
A revival of Louis XIV. waistcoats
embroidered with subdued colors in
cream, mauve or green satin, to be
worn with either black or gray skirts.
Summer hats represent many dis
tinctive styles. among the more pop
nlar of which are counted the Gains
borough coaching hat, the Belocca,
and the Killarney.
White chenille is finding its way
into bridal toilets. A white repped
silk dress having the tablier en-
broidered with seed pearls and che
mile is an illustration.
Short skirts, without trains, for
morning and country; high boots
with low heels, and uppers made of
/ the same material as the dress, are
worn with these sensible costumes.
Lace necklaces, with lace pendants
and earrings to match, are the latest
novelty in the way of ladies' dress.
These are composed Of point duch-
esse, honiton, or other fashionable
laces.
The chamois-leather basques and
aprons, natural color and wrought
with gay-colored silks, are favored
in Paris, where they are worn with