The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-04-25
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
From an Occasional Correspondent
METAL TRIMMINGS.

"metal" Of different kinds is at present.
We have bonnets all crusted over with
gilt silver or steel, or again we find alter
nations of metal braids with varieties of
straw. Metal additions in the way of
trimming are largely used, as for exam
pie rows of large gilt beads, gilt bands
and curiously devised gilt ornaments in
great variety. Metal is employed on
costumes likewise. Dress fabrics arc
interviewer Herewith, braidings or bands
are wholly or partially composed of gilt
or silver, and ribbons placed in band
like fashion show borderings of metal.
Again we see what may be called "me.
tallic effects" Over superb costumes of
oriental fabric seems to have fallen a
shower of gold or silver, but it is in
seeming only, since in truth there is no
thread of metal anywhere. Rainbow
jet on dark silks is also conspicuous in
many colored radiations.
OUT DOOR GARMENTS.
First comes just the sweetest little
capes ard fchus that ever were-so Co.
quettish, SO pretty. Of black silk or
cashmere, they are trimmed with lace
or frings, and the more expensive are
embroidered. The fashionable scarf
worn is a very graceful and stylish wrap,
caught by plat at the back, and tied
loosely in front. Then we have cut-away
jackets of light mosaic cloth, either black,
grey or brown, and in more sober style
we find straight sacques, dolmans and
mantillas. The Selika mantilla is q
graceful design, and in dolmans the
regina is distinguished model. Gar.
ments made in silk are trimmed with
rainbow jet, and additional finish is Civ
en- by lace or fringe.
COSTUMES, CoIoRED EMBROIDERY.
Cool wash costumes are of percale,
stamped in bourrette patterns, combined
with solid-colored percale, showing
overskirt, cut-a-way jacket and vest.
Knife plaitings are used in trimming, or
again the underskirt is finished with a
bias ruffle, and white or colored en-.
broidery ornament the overskirt and
jacket. On white costumes, pretty effects
are produced by scarlet or blue embroid-
cry. Colored embroidery is indeed quite
feature in Spring fashions, for we see
it furthermore on sacques, aprons, petit
coats, and even night-dresses, to say
nothing of collars, ties and handker-
chiefs. Stylish handkerchief are now
also stamped with colored borders woven
in scollops. But the most coquettish in
termixtures occur in breakfast caps,
which are extremely fashionable, even
for young ladies. On one 1 counted a
mixture of more than a dozen colors in
the embroidery-white parti-colored rib
bon, bouquet of gay flowers gave finish.
Then again they are of fresh white mus
lin, relieved by delicate ribbon, while
gaudy ones are of colored silk barege,
worked in some violent contrast. A
handsome breakfast robe accompanies
the cap, or the cap accompanies the robe,
whichever way you may put it.
SHOES AND STOCKINGS.
Cinderella might be envious of the
pretty shoes worn indoors. With deli.
cate straps across the instep, they show
the ornamental stocking below, while
bows of colored ribbon give finish full
of coquetry. One may choose the slip
per, halfhigh shoe or sandal boot Fol-
street wear, we have the side-buttoned
boot in French kid, or with cloth top,
but the novelty is the half-high n shoe,
finished in cloth to match the dress and
stocking. New stockings are woven in
bourrette patterns, the groundwork dark
to match dress goods. Surfaces of course
are smooth. These are novel, but the
solid-colored and hair-line striped are
also fashionable. Finer styles are oi
Isle thread or silk, and here we have
open-work, combinations of various col
ors and embroidery.
CHILDREN's FASHIONS.
Cunning suits of ginghams in large
plaids in tones of brown or drab are
shown for little girls. They are made
all in one, and finished with kilt plat
ings or embroidery, white or colored