The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-05-08
Fashion Notes.

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Contrasted fabrics produce artistic ef-
fects. ........
Baucle grenaaine has Medcaine open
lace work squares.
Grenadines with Heecy silken threads
are very beautiful.
"Mother Goose" is the new style Of
children's bonnets. ~
Lawn ties are embroidered profusely
with variegated silk.
Silk sun shades bearing the owners
monogram are novelty.
' Queen Anne and Japanese styles of
furniture predominant.
Box and ..side-pleating will be very
much used again this season.
It is best to put q small cord in arm
holes OF dresses Of all materials.
The mantles made of stripes of lace
and velvet will be worn again.
There are several lovely transforma-
tions in delicate summer textiles.
Fabrics with armure grounds having
Grape characteristics are admired. -.
Bourrette grenadines give promise OF
becoming general favorites with fash.
ionables. 70.
Fashions demand for jet still con-
tinues, and it will be worn more than
claire de lune.
Swiss neckties, with the end braided
in colored silk, will be worn. with sum-
mer dresses. ,,....-. .. -.
Burlap mats are made with successive
square bands of coloredI merino, cat
stitched down with colored floss silk.
For watering-places are dressy COS
tunes of damask silk Of light quality
combined with plain silk often Of con-
trasting color. .,.
Unique scarf pins in Japanese designs
are shown one composed of two small
canes with fan of cloisonne enamel at
tached. <s.-..
Satin will be much used for trimming
summer dresses. Some of the new gren-
adines are trimmed entirely with black
satin.
The little Marseilles coats are made
with carrick capes and the cloth coats
finished with little vests like the gar
men of grown folks. .,.t,.. ..-.
The new colored embroideries are
used for trimming '>children's white
dresses. Those with scallops OF blue or
cardinal red are prettiest.
For evening dresses garlsnds are made
in all styles, and, as the combinations
are such that a diversity is allowable,
all tastes are easily satisfied.
Black cashmere is made up in prin-
cesse polonaises, with panels of silk on
the side, barred with gold braid or the
new shaded rainbow braids.
Infants first short clothes should
reach nearly to the ankle. Black or
buff kid boots buttoned on the side
are most worn by small children.
Black grenadine, trimmed with knife
pleatings and folds of the same, is suita-
BILE for deep mourning. The square
meshed canvas grenadine is used.
There are many kinds of rich dress
fabrics that have smooth surface.
These unobhusive patterns are in ar
mure designs; hence, rather small.
The prettiest sacques with carrick
capes, omit the middle seam in the
back, and none of these English gar
ments have long seams from the shou1-
ders.
For costumes to be worn in the morn
ing very thick linen that is at the same
time light and fine is used, and trimmed
with frills embroidered in high colors,
especially in red or blue with black.
Grass, or lanainee fringe, is made Of
twist passed between hot rollers, which
process produces a lustrous appearance.
The "cataract fringes are beautiful;
the tendrils fall both ways of the head
ing. ....
The Scotch and Madras gingham
dresses are charmingly cool and fresh
looking. The bars and stripes are OF
two or three colors on white ground,
and the new combination of colors are
adopted. - -.
Large collars and cuffs of white lace
are sewed on the dark silk dresses that
will be used for summer, and the neck
and wrists OF the dress are finished with
a row of loops of narrow ribbon the
color of the dress.
Very few dressy wraps are made in
sacque shape. There are, however,
some of heavily repped silks or OF
Sicilienne make in the simplest French
sacque shape, single-breasted, medium
long, and smooth over the tournure.
The news comes from Paris that self
trimmings are still disposed in fine
knife.plaitings and shirrings formed like
gathered tucks. ALI washable materi-
ais look attractive made up in this man
ner, and are not difficult to edo up" If
properly made. The .plaitings must be
double stitched. ......
The fashionable breezes from Paris
indicate that plain and dotted Swiss mus
Inns will be in demand for evening toilets
next season. This style OF goods comes
twenty-seven inches wide. White dress
goods, wrought in fanciful patterns,
will be quite popular.
In the way of beads, all sorts are
fashionable; preference, however, seems
to be given to clair de luae, jet and
amber. True, these beads are more ele-
CANT, and produce in garmtures the best
effects, hence their popularity in, the
world of dress. Roman pearl beads are
the preferred style in the millinery '.ax-
ings." .:
Buttons of every style appear to find
favor; all modes are accepted, from the
severely plain to the opposite extreme.
The cameo effects on some of the pearl