The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-07-05
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New York mdiesare knitting for them
selves long, old.fashioned purses of rich
c c:, silk twist. which are closed by
silver rings or slides. ---sAF -
Square lace collars Cromwell collars
are novelty Of, the year tor bows end
gTis. In France the square is placed in
s AZ tn the back; here, as often in
Linen mousquetaire cuffs have straight
bands of linen in the center, two inches
wide when doubled, and edged u both
sides and each. end with wide gathered
Smyrna lace.
Apes heads Of Labrador stone, with
diamond eyes, are the most recent innova-
.tiOns for gentleman's ve-buttons, and
scarf-pins take the form of miniature
whips, fans and the like.
Gold bOnnets are one Of the last Paris
extremes. They are made of straw, which
is then stepped il bath Of gold. The
trimming consists of large velvet bow
and humming. bird.
A favOrate material for shade hats is
manila straw, ecru woven in q slight, in
distinct pattern. The crowns are high,
and the broad brims indented on each side
and in front in Vatican fashion.
The diagonal scarf Overskirt is merely
two pleatcd breadths of silk, trimmed on
the lower edge with fringe, lace or pleat-
ings, and sewcd on the lower skirt to
form two aprons that cross the front ana
sides diag0nally.
A late Paris novelty consists of leaf
fans, some of them apparently formed of
a series of fern or begonia leaves, ana
closed look like branch of shaded green
or tinted autumn leaves, fastened and held
by veined handle to match.
A novelty is very small carriage para
sol, made to turn over on the sides of the
stick; in very dark, heavy silks, bright.
ened by butterfly embroidered in gay
colors on one of the cores, and by long
loops of ribbons of two contrasting colors
tied in the center.
The lace sacques imported for summer
wraps are partly fitted to the figure, have
flowing sleeves and are not toO long for
gracefulness. The neck is without COL
lar, but finished with scailops like those
edging the front, and MANY turn over the
Wide cuffs of lace to he worn outside
the sleeve are among the impOrtatiOns,
They are six inches deep, and square, or
else they are. closed in gauntlet shane for
the hand to be slipped through. Accom-
panying are broad collarettes that fastcn
behind and have long jabOts in front.
Summer silks for travelling dresses are
in tiny checks, brown and gray, or brown
and white. These are made up with
fiounced skirt and princess polonaise, and
nnlshed with brown or gray bows; tic hat
may he broad "sailor," in fine straw, if
tine wearer is very young, but otherwise a
capote bonnet.
Large feather fans arc stony" Some
are white feathers, others are black and
the peculiar shade of stone which is the
natural color of the ostrich. They are
mounted on sticks of iris, mother-of. pearl,
OF burgau pearl, of ivory, of tortoise-shell
and ebony, and the monogram of the
wearer in either gold or silver-chased let
tiers is added on the sticks.
The broad brimmed hats turned up high
on the side, which we sent abroad last
year, have returned to us emphasized, as
Louis XIV. styles, and are very striking
for tall beauties, who can exhibit the long,
sweeping plumes to advantage. Fanny
Davenport wore one as the "Princesse
Royal" and has another in all black for
the street.
The newest French material is bourette,
a mixture of silk and wool; the shades are
generally light stone and gray of all tints.
Thin flannel and serge dresses are very
much worn in greer, blue and prune
color. Jackets of same material as the
dress, lined with a different color and
bOrdered an inch or more outside with
color of the linjng-for instance, gray
b0urette lined and bordered with prune
silk or blue admiral with caroubier.
The white-figured Swiss muslins are
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Ders, an0 look very pretty trimmed with
SMYRNA lace and pale pink or blue rib
bons, but white princesse polonaises for
material, and lie new satin-striped and
da1nasked linens and figures are utilized
for this and other purposes, and may be
trimmed with fat, win &c braid, or Madeira
embroidery, with velve. bows; If. as is
often the case, at the sea she or In the
cool localities, the skirt is of ,elvet.
The GainsbOr0ugh remains lost plct-
uresque of all summer hats. In many
instances q velvet bandeau is below the
brim to fit it securely to the head, and the
hat then curves away most gracefully in
front. White chip Gainsboroughs,
black velvet bandeau and bindings, and
the upturned side, are in perfection Of
taste. To complete such hats, a charac-.
teristic feature is bunch of short nod
ding ostrich plumes placed just in front Of
the brim and curled over toward the face.
The present rage in writing papers is to-
get the most hideous tints possible. Tint
Of raw beet sprinkled with SCOT, manila.
rim dotted with gold dust, gray specked
with silver and navv.h1up hOff1e. GREEN
brown, crimson, carmine- anything not.
handsome-is in demand with the ultra.
fashionable. White and pale gold bronze
ink is used with this paper. Another
new departure in expensive stationery
is the Japanesque paper, Ornamented at
intervals over the surface ofthe two out
side pages with tracings. Of figures or
flowers in pale gilt, indicating the state ct
feelings in the representations.-Spri4-
field (Mass.) Republican.