The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-03-21
FASHION NOTES.

Flowers are worn on almost all occasions
with simple toilettes; at the belt, in the
hair, and on the skirts of the dress.
Black lace bonnets of plain or of figured
net laid plainly on the frame are among the
most elegant OF the importations.
English thread gloves are shapely and
durable, and cost 80 cents for those with one
hutton. so cents for two button gloves and
! 80 cents for those with three buttons.
1t is predicted that white will be worn a
! great deal this year. and that white muslin
| will be favorite material for carriage and
house wear. On the streets something with
more body will be used.
In all the new spring dresses the shoulders
are very short the neck is cut very high be-
hind, and the tight sleeves have the upper
half slightly gathered on the elbows to fit
the arms more perfectly.
The Byron collar is seen on a great many
polonaises. Fringes and wide galloons are
| the trimmings universally used, and the
galloon is very generally arranged in slOp-
ing lines, or else in a long V down the back
| from shoulder to waist.
While the skirts remain narrow and tight,
outside pockets must continue TO be worn.
| For summer dresses the pockets are to be
| separate from the dress, and are to be sus-
pended at the right side by means of ribbons
to match the dress in color.
| Imported percale dresses for ladies are
made with fitted basques and demi-trained
skirts, on which the upper skirt is draped,
so as to form two aprons in front and a
souare drapery behind. These are made of
dark blue striped percale, brown or green,
and are edged with white Hamburg work.
| They cost S14 or SIS.
| l. Ill If
cade and partly of plain silk, and are
| trimmed with galloon, lace, fringe and
| ribbon bows Dolmans are thus confined to
| the gray and drab wool cloths already de-
scribed. The sacques are half-long and of
| French outlines, with long seams in the
| back or else the galloon trims the back per-
pendicularly The long slender garment of
sacque shape, with shoulder pieces giving
| the effect of Dolman, is imported in sum-
| mer cloths and in black silk, and promises
| to be as popular as it has been during the
| winter
The newest white muslin wrappers are
made of nansook, trimmed with bands of
Hamburg insertion and plain or frilled
edging. They are in the princesse shape,
perfectly plain down the front and sides,
quite narrow in the skirt, and are finished
down the middle of the back by princesse
pleating set in below the Marguerite waist
low on the tournure, and forming a fan
train The insertion is placed straight up
each front, crosses over the shoulders and is
in each of the three seams that shape the
back. In others it has the outline of
sacque that is longer in front than behind.
A simple costume of light gray material is
made for spring, with a deep, box-plaited
hounce of the material. Heading this is
| piece put on nearly plain, and cut in deep
| battlements, which are bound with a har-
-. A do Eor
shade of gray is handsome. A fold of the
material completes the skirt trimmings. The
Overskirt is very deep, rounded in front,
raised very slightly on the side, and pointed
| behind. This has a wide galloon to match
| the binding running all around 1T. The
basque is made with seven seams in the back,
/ cut pointed in front, sloped up on the hips,
and the middle of the back is cut in point,
being much shorter than the sloped side
seams. Beneath this are placed two box
plaits, which are just long enough to reach
| the points of the side seams, to which they
are Joined, givinga square, fancy postillion
| effect in the back. The sleeves are bottoned
| to the elbow on the outside, and linen cuffs
are worn over them. The hat, of gray
| straw, has a scarf OF grenadine wound around
| it, with bird holding the long, gray brides
in the back. 1t is slightly rolled up on one
side, and cluster of violets and roses peep
from beneath it.
Another stylish costume is of plain gray
and soft plaid goods. The plain gray goods
forms the skirt which is trimmed with a
deep, side plated fiounce, above which are
two folds headed by side plaitings. The pol
onaise which accompanies this is made in
princesse shape, perfectly plain, merely
faced at the bottom with fold of the plain
goods. 1t is lodged little low in the back.
There is probably nothing so indispensable
TO lady as wrapper, and wrapper suita-
BILE not only for mere convenience and re-
pose, but one sufficiently attractive for re-
ceiving those more intimate friends who are
somehow received when one Is mot at
home" to mere acquaintances. An exceed
| ingly pleasing one is of pale blue flannel or
cashmere. The front is cut in princesse
shape, while the center of the back is shirred
| to bias band some five or six inches below
the waist line. This produces a full and
graceful train. The little bias band is edged
! on either side by scant ruffie of white
| Smyrna lace. The neck is cut
open in a small point, and is
edged with lace, which continues down the
whole front. A deep Spanish fiounce orna-
ments the bottom, and is itself trimmed
with three narrow folds and edged with lace
/ The sleeves are edged with a cashmere
| pleating and an inner ruffle of lace.
| A fancy pocket completes the wrapper An
| other much more elaborate robe de chaBsbre
is of the same cut as the former, with the
| fulness at the back concealed under large
bow. The material is an exquisite shade of
pale buff cashmere. The front has pointed
vest of black satin reaching slightly below
the waist. At the bottom of the skirt, rum
ming up the front, is a shell trimming of black
satin, which edges each side OF the vest and
continues to the back, where il forms a
black satin, the seams where they are in
| serted being concealed under the she'll TRIM