Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-07-26
Fashion Notes,

Fashion Notes.
The short walking dress is already a
success.
Corsets have been very much improv-
ed lately.
The Charlotte Corday is fashionable
cap now.
Fichus are worn with nearly every
style of costume.
Polonaises of colored goods are no
longer worn over black skirts.
Ostrich tips are in great demand and
will be worn all the season through.
Laces for trimming dresses should al
ways be set on plain, never gathered.
Pale-colored grenadines form some of
the most admired toilets of the season.
Summer suits of small checked or
striped silk are very pretty for young
girls.
Thehower bonnet, whichit was thought
would become popular has been aban-
doned.
A large cluster of natural roses and
violets is worn at the waist, and long lace
mittens are stylish.
A very pretty cap for morning dress is
of white muslin, trimmed with Valen-
ciennes lace and Sultan ribbon bows.
Striped silk vests are considered es-
pecially elegant in black cream, or beige
brown with satin stripes of the same
shade.
Grape cloth is a favorite material for
auoYo1ncr ~, xrTIf&n and oil kha lals
cate hues, which just now are considered
stylish.
Abeautiful home dress is of gray beige,
trimmed with a narrow band of silk;
cuffs of the same material, trimmed with
killing of silk.
Ladies' watch-chains initiate those of
gentlemen. Iney are no longer worn
around the neck, but fasten in button
hole Of the dress with bar of gold.
A novelty in white torchon lace is call
ed double meshed torchon, and is with
out fancy design, resembling merely
eyelet-holes, with scallop to finish the
edge.
Bunting costumes are in great demand,
as they are very good for ordinary occa-
sions; also light varieties of camel's hair
cloth, serges, debeiges and such mate
rails.
Linen lawn dress, either all white or
else with japanese zig-zag figures or
bars, are very pretty trimmed with Sy-
merna lace and small pearl buttons in
bullet shape, yet with the eyes through
the middle.
Very pretty suits for little girls are of
bingham in large plaids, which initiate
the Scotch plaids In wool, but the colors
are subdued, being various tones Of
brown or gray. They are cut all in one,
and trimmed with white or colored EN-.
broidery.
White dresses for afternoons at home
and for young girl graduates are made
of finely dotted Swiss muslin trimmed
with pleatings of the same, simply hem
med not trimmed with lace. These have
a basque and elbow sleeves, while the
simply shaped and bouffant over-skirt
has long, looped bows of pale blue rib
bon, holding it up on the sides. A
bunch of dark red jacqueminot roses is
worn at the waist.
When polonaises are made with wash
dresses they are now quite short and
are turned mp in front in washerwoman
style. This suggests a good plan for
undermining the long wrinkled fronts of
polonaises of last season. The wrinkles
in the side seams are let out, the extra
length of a quarter of yard is cut off,
and after being shaped to fit the edge
from which it has just been cut, it is
trimmed at top with plating, ruffie or
lace, and is sewed on again as an out
side facing.
French lawns, in solid colors, will be
very popular this season. They are
most liked in pale sky-blue; also in deli
cate fesh-pink, in mastic gray, and in
dark violet blue. The favorite way of
making them is with plated basque,
with yoke and close sleeves, which are
quite short, reaching just below the ell
bows. The over-skirt is sheath-shaped,
or else the style called the "Washer-
woman, with the edges turned up plainly
all around and the top edge of the turn
up part finished with standing plated
fril, that may in its turn be finished
with narrow Valenciennes lace.