The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-03-07
FASHION NOGEs.

Unglazed percales are the best.
The new round hats are very small.
Angot collars for ladies are worn with
plush cravats.
Cream colored dresses are made with ruby
velvet sleeves.
Another novel trimming is parallel rows
of silk tape in different shades.
Seal brown and navy blue are still the IA
vorite colors for little boys suits.
Rose and blue is favorite combine
ton of color in the new Scotch plaid ging-
hams.
Stout women with broad backs are recon-
mended to wear basques aud polonaises with
many seems
Striped silks are much worn, both in en-
tire suits and in combination with other de-
signs and materials.
For earliest spring costumes the new
trimming is cloth and braid fringe, en-
broidered on the heading with floss silk.
Yellow in all sorts of shades is now the
fashion. 1t runs through a series of gorgeous
tints, including orange and a rhinestone
hue called 'Lucifer." am sorry to say the
ladies prefer the latter.
flOWerS are arranged IN DOuQueIS, WredJ0d,
and in half wreaths for face trimming. Roses
with mignonette, or rose buds with fern
leaves, make beautiful clusters There are
many salmon tea roses that have much coral
pink in them.
Twists of silk NOTED, plaitings of raveled
silk and ruches of tulle will be worn inside
the Normandy and capote bOnnetS, but the
novelty for the face Will be half wreath of
| dwarfed roses of three or four sh des worn
inside the front of the bonnet.
Morning jackets for dressing or for break
| fast are of twilled woois and of flannels of
pale or of dark shades of blue, rose or cardi-
nal, and are embroidered lightly with white
| floss They are made with deep sailor coll
lar, and are slightly sloped in with the fig
ure. Opera flannels are also used for this
| purpose, and are trimmed with pinked
bands or with bias bands piped or corded
with white.
The manner of trimming the bonnet is
| very simple. Loosely folded ribbons or else
scarfs of bias silk are laid around the crown,
and bouquet of flowers is on one side near
the top, or else there is a cluster of loops in
| stead. When flowers are used in profusion,
| they form broad wreath that almost covers
the brim of the little capote, and some ten
| drills climb up the crown. Streamers will
not be given up by those who like them.
The delicate cream tints have given place to
darker shades as deep in color as the yellow
| of the fine straws they are to trim. First of
| these is mandarin, vivid yellow shade,
which is the imperial color of China; then
comes the buttercup color, maize tea-rose,
Isabel; and last of these shades is Viellz dor,
or old gold, a quaint brownish yellow. that
needs to be lightened by the brilliant coral
shades that are shown in great numbers.
Plain Swiss muslin and the figured mus
| Inns will both be worn next summer, and in
some dresses both materials will be used.
| The figured sheer muslins have sprigs dots,
| stars and lace-like arabesques in them. For
dressy occasions there will be princesse
dresses made of many graduated muslin
puffs, with insertions between, and lace on
| the founces. For other dresses the Breton
style will be made up in muslin and lace,
| with colored ribbons or silk laid under the
lace.
The greatest merit of this rage for fancy
dress is this, that the skill and insight into
the peculiar fitness of certain attire to GER
tain individuals which fancy ball brings
out can often be applied to ordinary cloth
ing. A festival of this nature always gives
rise to great and serious discussions on
toilet. Male advice is asked for and freely
given. Each individual may hear lavish
! comments on his or her peculiar merits or
| defects and certain amount of latitude is
| accorded to personal remarks at such time.
A girl will have special dress chosen for
her, not, as usual, by a partial mother or
servile costume monger; she will hear
what many Indifferent persons think of
| her good or bad points, and
what the general verdict may be
about her peculiar style. In this way the
more elegant of the old fashions become
grated on the new, for the effective modes
of wearing a garment, or of dressing the
hair, are copied by those who admire them,
and the style outlives the single evening for
which it is revived. 1t is to some of these
costume balls that we owe many of the
pretty fashions of to-day; for although the
stage and the paintings of the old masters
alike show the world how picturesquely its
ancestresses clothed themselves they had
no power to set fashion. 1t has been the
attiring of some of the quiet gentlewomen
who lead the better part of society, in these
quaint old dresses that has created fash
| ion; periods and anachronisms are forgot
| ten; The sole ambition is 10 knot kerchief,
poise hat or drape a mantilla, not like the
| original wearers of the graceful garments.
but like this or that lady who leads the ton
of to-day.