The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-05-24
Fashion Notes,
Paris bustles are short.


Bonnet brims no longer flare.
Cap ruches are worn inside of tonnet
brims.
Striped Algerines are favorite summer
fabrics.
Colored embroidery on underwear
grows in favor.
Black figured lace bonnets are CON-
ing in vogue.
Vexillo is the new form of croquet CON-
ing in vogue.
Percale and cambria suits are made up
la Breton.
The fronts of bonnets are worn close
against the face.
The Breton is favorite style for
bunting costumes.
bang" is the new society game
in fashionable circles.
Round lace collarettes are worn by
young ladies in their teens.
Walking skirts should not be more
than two and half yards wide.
Short bonnet strings tied in a bow
under one ear are coming in vogue.
Colored embroderies are seen on the
edges of linen collars and cuffs.
A knot of artificial violets is the but
tonhole or bosom bouquet of the passing
moment.
Sketching and flower hunting excur-
sions are the things for the intermediate
| season.
Luncheon, lawn, and garden parties
are the entertainments of the present
moment
Gauzy-knotted fabrics of silk, wool,
cotton and linen will be very fashion
able this summer.
All underskirts should be made SO as
to add as little as possible to the size
about the waist and lips.
"Five o'clock tea" on the lawn is the
substitute for the kettle drum during
the intermediate season.
The most effective bonnet ornaments
are those with gilt surfaces picked off
with small facets of steel.
Shaded embroideries in rose, blue and
brown are shown for trimming dresses
of muslin, lawn and batiste.
| Cuffs of Venetian point or antique
cut work are turned up over the sleeves
of the most stylish Breton costumes.
| Artificial grasses, clover heads, hop
blooms, and vari-colored leaves appear
in the summer bonnet trimmings.
The coming sleeve is tight to the wrist
and over it is worn a deep linen cuff,
edged with deep g1lipure OF antique cut
works.
Large clusters of crimson roses, natu-
raj or artificial, without foliage, are worn
as belt OF bosom bouquets for evening
toilet.
The colors most sought for in "bunt-
ing or seaside cloth y" are navy blue,
fawn, green, yellow, brown and tilleul
and creamy tints.
Bunting or seaside cloth is very
beautiful fabric. 1t drapes easily, does
not crease, is light, cool, durable, mex
pensive and very fashionable.
White muslin underskirts are made
with broad belts an eighth of yard
deep, closely gored front and side
breadths and one straight breadth be-
hind.
A novelty in ladies' breakfast caps is
made of striped Madras gauze, and imi-
ly by the mulatto women of the South.
The most popular novelty fabric of
the season is " bunting or seaside cloth. ="
Dampness or salt water will not damage
it, and hence the name "seaside cloth. I"
Handsome "French jewelry" sets are
forget-me-nots of imitation turquoise
enameled on silver, and picked off on
silver plate with small facetted points of
steel.
Cream colored, white, tilleul and pale
neutral tinted bunting suits have their
plaitings piped with Mazarin blue, coral
red, and myrtle green, and headed with
galloons to match.A
The flowers used i'll trimming black
| figured lace bonnets are jonquils and tea
roses, buttercups and forget-me-nots,
coral red roses and willow catkins, pam
, sizes or violets and Marguerites.
The latest fancy in hosiery is for black
stockings, crossbarred with fine lines of
white OF brilliant colors, or white ones
with black or colored bars, or brilliant
colored stockings with white or black
squares.
Fashionable combinations of colors in
Dounet trimmings are rose, pink ana
reseda, peach color and red buttercup,
yellow and forget-me-not blue, tilleul
and ivy green, coral and mignonette,
and myrtle green and cream.
A favorite style of finishing dresses of
blue, green, black or brown bunting is
to pipe the plaitings with white, vulcan
red or mandarin yellow, and head the
plaitings with wide galloons of the same
color as the pipings.
American bustles are long, light, wire
adjustable skirts, with no hoops for half
their length, or where the wearer would
sit upon them, but curving out grace
fully below the knees in order to support
the train and prevent the skirts from
falling in around the ankles.
Handsome imported linen suits are
made of ecru colored basket woven linen,
with irregular lines of bright color shot
into the fabric. The trimmings of such
suits are kilt plaitings, and two bows of
bright silk of the color of the shot-in
threads, one at the throat, the other
fastening the back draperies.