The Russellville Democrat., 1877-04-12
FASHION NOTES.
given.

Tan color is revived.
 Tight slevees are de rigeuey.
 Buttercups are favorite flowers.
 Small caps are very fashionable.
 Small yellow roses are in demand
 Putty color is revived for kid gloves.
 No biros are seen on the new bonnets.
 Madras ginghams are in vogue again.
 The "Imperial" is the leading dol man.
 Orange and flame color are fashion able.
 No wine," is the rule for the kettle drum. Visits of ceremony should always be short. French and English chips are on the wane. Black and tilleul is popular combina. tion. The Normandy IS the leading spring bonnet. The "Corisande is beautiful new overskirt. Square box-toed boots are the most fashionable. Bonnets with pointed crownsare things of the past.
 The princesse is the favorite dress for little girls. Several kinds of tea are served at a kettledrum. Angot collars for ladies are worn with plush cravats. Cream colored dress are made with ruby velvet sleeves. Nail-head galloons are among the new dress trimmings. Tilleul green is the color much used in the new assortment of spring flowers. Grifiins, dragons, and devils are ladies' favorite subjects for fancy work.
 The fashion of wearing leather bags suspended from the shoulder is again revived.
 The newest percales gre in India de-. signs, and dark colors, like those seen in cashmere shawls.
 In London ladies' dresses are kept close to the figure by means of elastics sewed to the creases.
 Album fans are very fashionable vagary. Portraits of celebrated persons or friends are painted on them.
 Ladies' linked watch chains, made of gold, with the stays enameled in white and light blue, are new and extremely pretty.
 The latest importation of kid gloves for evening wear are laced up with cord finished with tassels, usually of a shade to match the glove.
 The new color this season, introduced mainly in trimmings is yellow in shades from pale lemon and mustered-seed to high carrot red.
 Gift rings are formed like bracelets of several strands, with pearl or opal, or emerald and diamonds in the center, or rather in top, for fashionable ring now reaches quite to the first joint.
 It is said that white will be worn great deal next summer, but not on the streets of Paris, London, or New York. Large cities always demand dark and black suits for street wear.
 Ladies' linen collar and cuffs are now white, edged with narrow borders of dark blue, myrtle green, or chocolate red, stitched all over with white thread in designs of arabesques and flowers.
 The newest kid slippers for ladies are a kind of sandal, with three straps but toned across the foot, and each one orna- mented with bows of the color of the dress, or with black velvet bows and steel buckles.
 The button rage has not yet died out, though it is now pretty generally under stood that the sudden demand for small buttons originated in clever trick of a manufacturer to get rid of his super fuous stock.
 Cashmere for suits is as high in favor and as much in demand as ever, but it is no longer trimmed with silk, the combina- tion having been found undesirable from every point of view. It has, therefore, been superseded by Breton embroidery in different colors and various shades of color upon strips of cashmere. The shades mostly used are bronze, green brown, invisible green, and other very dark shades.