The Portland daily press., 1877-06-29
Vanity Fair.

Artificial flowers used in button.hole bou.
quets are perfumed.
Apes heads of Labrador stone, with dia
mond eyes, are the recent innovations for gen.
tlemen's sleeve buttons, and scarf pins take the
form of miniature whips, fans and the like.
For corsage bouquets to be worn in day as
well as evening are clusters of longed-stemmed
yiolets, or else mandarin roses with mignouette
OF pink coral roses with rubber grasses.
New York ladies are knitting for them
selves long, old-fashioned purses of rich
colored silk twist, which are closed by silver
rings and slides.
"A late Paris novelty consists of leaf fans
some of them apparently formed of a series of
fern or begonia leaves, and closed look like
branch of shaded green or tinted autumn leaves
fastened and held by vened handlet match.
The latest yellow fashion is that of Steep
ing straw bonnets in a chemical bath that gives
them the appearance of old gold The past
generation bleached straw bonnets in sulphur
in order to take away their yellow look. Thus
the whrligig OF fashion brings about its re-
verses.
"A caprice in note paper fashions is that the
upper right hand corner of the sheet should
appear to turn over and be transfxed by gilt
pin to hold it down. On this turnover piece
is placed the address, generally in old English
characters The envelope has also pin in
serted at the seal, which has sometimes a
shadow below it. So exactly initiated are both
pin and shadow that one is easily deceived by
them.
-"D'ye see anything green?' The old rustic
query, put in Paris, would be answered en-
phatically in the affirmative, for that's all the
rage. Madge Elliots "tree toad, dressed in
apple-green," would be Just in STYLE There is
the Holbein, the sage, myrtle, willow, Florer-
tine, bronze, moss, and, newest of all, cooked
sorref' a yellowish, soft tint, which is horrid
alone, but combines well with pale-blue or
pink.
-Cambric and cotton are made into "Indien-
mes" and are copies of those worn by Marie
Autoinette and her maid of honor at Trianon.
There are some that have dark blue ground
covered with palms of cashmere design; others
are studded with cashmere flowers, but the
most recherche of all are the poppy red in
diennes covered with Persian patterns. Red
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smock-frocks, ale among the eccentricities
introduced.
The great success of Massenets opera, the
Roi de Lahore, is producing an effect upon the
Parisian toilet. Says the Hartford Times
correspondent: We have had costumes Ia
Japanois and a la Chinois, but now the Hindoo
styles prevails. Indian lamas, with scarfs of
silver and gold tissue and multicolored en-
broidery are appearing and becoming the
fashion very rapidly. The paradise of India is
reproduced in our salons, and Mile. de Rescke,
in the character of "Sita,'' is really settling
the present fashions for Paris, and after that
for all the world, more especially America
The present rage in writing papers is to get
the most hideous possible Tint of raw beef
spinkled with SCOT, mandarin dotted with gold
dust, gray specked with silver, and navy-blue,
bottle-green, brown, crimson, carmine-aDy-
thing not handsome-is in demand with tie
ultra fashionable. White and pale gold bronze
ink is used with this paper. Another ''new
departure in expensive stationery is the Ja-
panesque paper, ornamented at intervals over
the surface of the two outside pages with
tracings of figures or'fowers in pale gilt, indi-
eating the state of feelings in the representa-