The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-06-04
JUNE FASHIONS.
Note From Jennie June's Last Letter

SUMMER BoNNETS AND COACHING HATS
never remember season when hats
and bonnets were so striking and impor-
tant part of the costume as now. Ivory
chips, or black trimmed with ivory
gauZe, lace and flowers, are the most
general, but these do not suit high fash
ion. Fashion has adopted the Gains
borough and the 'Belocca," the former
large, high crowned hat with broad
brim, dropping low on the right and
Mrned up high on the left the other a
saucy witch OF hat, pitched very low
over the forehead, and turned up very
high behind, all the trimming being
massed at the back over the chignon.
These styles are the rage for coach
ing" and are displayed in Leghorn, Pam
anna, ''rough-and-ready" straw, and
Florida chip, which is very light, and in
black and very high style. The trim
mings are coarse cream net, embroidered
with Persian colors, or edged with cream
colored garlands Of grasses, heath, or
wild flowers, small white. and mixed
with berries. The ''lngenue' hat is very
simple; it is a broad-brimmed sailor
hat, OF very pale ivory chip, Panama
straw, or course fancy straw, the first
two trimmed with simple brown ribbon,
tied in bow with ends the last with
blue ribbon, a fold Of which Is placed
near but not upon the edge OF the brim.
MANTELETs.
The newest thing in Outside garments
are small, round, silk. lace or cashmere
mantelets. In Paris they have taken the
form OF the "visite." which ladies suiii-
GENTLY married may not be afraid to re.
har M l,a fala ,g b,
and simplest 1.-THE 'visite'' has sleeves
| and answers every requirement ola sum.
mer wrap. Judicious women have them
made en- suite with their dresses, which
is much the better plan, but for ar
extra" to wear with ''anything," black
| silk, black cashmere and black or cream
colOred lace will be found most useful
| In lace as in silk or wool, they are made
| from the piece, and trimmed with a Dor
| der OF the same kind and quality of fab
| rio. Some, also, are arranged with {
foundation of net and alternating rows Of
fringe and lace; these are very graceful
and pretty.
HERE AND THERE.
A great deal of cost is Just now being
put into Ii6ckties and hosiery. The ava
| lanche OF imitation lace, and silk ant
i NsePS ttsiihitd with has llluuItu
to resort to neckties OF real old lace, il
order to obtain something distinctive
lialf-handkerchiefs are used in this way
and immense quantities of old lace il
| pieces have been received by real lac,
houses, nearly all of which Is being
] turned into neckties, which cost from five
TO twenty-five dollars each.
| The exhibition will, il is thought. Civ,
| an impetus to the manufacture of rea
lace, "A school for which has been recent,
formed in New York.
liigh-heeled shoes and slippers hav,
restored 10 US fine OPEN worked as wei
as embroidered stockings, and they tax,
very well @ith bellies who have pretty
feet and delicate instep. They are moi
white, even when cotton, but usually
cream or ivOry-tinted, or. fresher still
show milky blue shade which might bt
called watered milk.
They may be worn with shoes
made from pieces of the dress. but usu
ally they are not. Most ladies prefer
neat black shoes or walking boots, ex
cept for evening wear, and then they
may DC ivory white or the tint Of the
dress.
The couture has really become an art,
In which the less hair lady has Of her
own the better, provided she has money
enough TO submit herself entirely to thu
n'lr aresser's control. "lnvisibleS, y