The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-08-11
FASHION NOTES.
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Lace overgarments, of various modes,
are considered very elegant for dinner
and full dress wear.
| The newest linen collars are high at
the back, fiaring in front, and have wide
round -cornered ends.
Pale silk bonnets trimmed with cash
mere or point lace and flowers, are de-
! signed for open carriage wear.
Canvas grenadines or silk in every
| fashionable shade are very generally
used for elegant summer dresses.
New models of bonnets have ribbon
strings forming a strap under the chin,
and a bow with no ends at the side.
White fancy overdresses for children
are all the vogue; the prices range from
$3.50 to $50, and even to 81 goo.
Gauze Overdresses are very much ad-
mired. The style is quite elaborate, and
admits of considerable flower garniture
Grass-cloth suits are thin and delicate
in appearance; this style of Overdress is
verv comfortable for morning wear.
Elegant ecru lace vergarments, polo
naise, French jackets and clOse-ftting
sacque, all marked far below cost price.
Handsome white demi-suits, made of
cambric and trimmed with Hamburg
embroidery, are selling from $3.50 to
$3.50.
Overskirts arranged in Swiss muslin
and trimmed with black velvet bands
and bows are worn over delicate summer
silks.
Beautiful suits made of black French
cambric, very fine in quality, and gar
nished With knife pleatings, are marked
down to $15.
Byculla cloth is lace-like texture,
closely resembling plain Portuguese en-
broidery. 1t comes i'll white, and striped
in blue and buff.
Corsages, cut heart shaped in the neck,
both back and front, are intended o
wear over a chimisette of white muslin
or nainsook.
Sun-downs," trimmed with tarlatan
of two shades, with cluster of flowers
on the top of the crown, can Re pur-
chased for seventy-five cents.
Only the young and fair should wear
ceral-blondes and brunetts with clear
ccmplexions look well with coral earrings
and necklace.
"Pony phaeton hats" are of rough
straw, wide brims, which are faced with
velvet; long plume and nobby silk
scarf completes the garniture.
White wraps for carriage wear very be-
coming. The figures are lows. Those
finished off with gold and silver threads
are only S5.
The baroness Rothschild lately ap-
peared in a toilet of black and white
glace silk, with lace man+ilIa and
wreath of chiDaasters by way of a
bouquet.
Handsome grenadine suits arranged in
black and profusely ornamented with
ace or heavy fringe, form aristocratic
nd appropriate toilets for summer wear.
Fashionable breakfast jewelry consists
of plain gold sets and if in mourning,
French jet, since Whitby jet is more ex-
pensive, and hence suited for dinner and
evening wear.
White figured parasols, richly orne
with lace and ribbon bows, are designed
exclusively for carriage wear. The
same can be said of blue, pink and green
parasols, covered with point or cashmere
laces.
Leghorn hats with wide brims have
the same faced with fancy silk OF be-
coming tint, the left side held back with
a gold aigrette, which also fastens to the
crown long ostrich plume that enclr-
cles the crown; a cluster of wild flowers
ext on the top of the crown and on the
right side beneath the brim.
Fans form quite an item in a mode
trosse1u. There are fans for suits, fans
for occasions. and fans that can be worn
with any style of dress. Fans costing
three cents and fans costing $50. The
regulation fan at watering places is quite
simple in style, but the SHOW of fans
begins at the dinner hour. The styles
are various, and run all the way from
the cunning ivory fan to the elegantly
painted kid fan. Every lady in the
6enu monde can or should lay claims to at
least six fashionable fans.