The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-06-07

Fashion Notes.


sleeves.
Gray and black brocades are much
worn.
Yak lace is coming t.4to favor for
out of door wear.
Fashion allows full scope in the
garniture Of ball dresses.
All skirts are quite plain at the
waist to the side scam.
For an ordinary evening party
sleeves are worn to the elbow.
Immense quantities Of ribbon are
worn, and will be all the season.
Fringes and laces are worn in
great profusion and very fine
qualities.
Fringes are now made with head
ings of such width as to be substitu-
ted for tabliers.
Very long trains are worn for full
dress except when they are intended
for dancing
With black tulle dresses only
black silk, black velvet or black
satin cuirasses can be worn.
An immense variety of foulards of
novel make and pattern have been
prepared for this season.
Skirts, bodices and sleeves have
button-holes made on purpose to be
laced together with ribbons.
!, A cuirasse, with two points at the
back Of the basque, is a novelty for
Pingat's dress bodices this season.
Lace is not only employed as
aounces and trimmings, but the
upper dress is sometimes entirely
composed Of it.
Pockets are not worn on evening
dresses. The handkerchief, richly
belaced and embroidered, is carried
in the hand,
Many Of the dresses made with
oyerskirts have the under one en-
tirely plain, all the garniture being
appropriated by the upper one.
Single dress skirts, more or less
trimmed, are worn by many ladies';
sometimes these are quite plain,
particularly if the material employed
is rich and handsome.
Overdresses, whether called polo
naise, princesse or juive tunics, are
daily increasing in favor, and are
likely to as long as toilets composed
of two materials are the mode. !,
Martha Washington fchus are
made not only Of sheer Swiss, bob
met and other cheaper materials,
but are brought out in fine point
lace, wrought in elegant patterns,
and commanding prices varying
from seyenty-fve to several hundred
dollars, e, t,....-.
In Paris evening cuirasses are
made SO as to simulate an open
bodice, and the open parts and back
and front are filed in with ruchings
and pu0lngs to match the dress.
When made unopened at the back
the cuirasse s laced up t b e
back. ~ +.
Young ladies, whether married OF
single, will make the adoption of a
mantle matter Of taste for walking
or carriage wear, fashion being com,
piled with either way, with or with
out any extra outside garment, not.
with standing the variety of the man,
ties introduced.
| Among the many ways of trim
ming dresses with their own mate
rial are cascades of plisses on the
tablier or back breadths; coquille,
Of plisses; gathered OF plated aoun
ces, alternated or headed by bouil
tonnes; aounces in cluster Of plaits
alternating with space left plain
and gathered founces with severa
rows of conlisses, either continued o
in groups. @
| The BRITISH MAN:oF-WAR In
FLEXIBLE The new British man-ot
war 1nflexible will carry in turret
four eighty-one ton guns; her turret
will be protected by eighteen-inc
armor; and the citadel, Or vital par
of the ship, will be guarded by. n
less than twentyfour inches Of al
, NOR. She is designed to be a foa
: ing castle, the rest of the ship b.
: side the citadel being mainly usef,
J for the purpose Of giving buoyanc
3 to the central stronghold. She wi
!, be fitted, however, with a spu
a which can be taken off at pleasur
and her enormous bulk will give h
} terrible power as ram. Her di
placement, when all her weights a
4.