Vicksburg weekly herald., 1878-06-21
Fashion Notes.

Fastening while yet the gate stands 81 ar.
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Fashion Notes.
SOME OF THE NEW FRENCH IDEAs FCR
BONNETs, HATS, sHoEs, JEwELRY AND
DREssEs-Co TASTE FOR TIN.
sEL AND STARTLING CoLoRs.
n. Y. Evening Post, June II.
Many white cashmeres are made for
Summer watering places; the newest
have designs through them in satin
threads.
The newest boots for ladies are made
of patent leather, aud the uppers match
the dress. These are also buttoned up
with small silver and gold buttons.
TAe newest round hat is called "Le
Petit Due after the opera of that
name. 1t is somewhat like q mans
hat, only lower, aud the brim is
turned up.
DI asses for Summer watering places
are appearing, and are Of all those pret-
ty cheap materials which can be made
up picturesquely; often the trimmings
cost more than the material.
Madras cloth, with gay plaids or
stripes, is trimmed with colored em.
broidery, and il, as It was last year, a
fAvorite for seaside places. Oxford
linen and Vichy cloth are also made
into nobby suits for the seashore.
Grenadines are trimmed with guam
titles of French lace, amidst which balls
Of Jet and other hanging trimmings of
cut Jet are thiuckly sci. White dresses
are much trimmed with tassels made
Of white satin bugles.
Gold aud silver are mixed with
everything; bonnets and hats are stiff
with them gold bags and beetles are
thrown indiscrimiOately over flower
and feather trimmings, and feathers
droop with the weight Of their golden
tips.
Pins for scarfs assume ell sorts OF
fantastic shapes; they are always long
aud narrow, and ladies draw their own
designs, or call upon artist friends for
them, as they used to do for mono-
grams, aud many eccentric ideas are
mingled.
Percsles In the dark shades are trim.
med with quantities OF Russian lace In
serIings laid over color, and organdies
and white dresses ripple out into mar.
row founCes which are edged with
narrow lscts, and caught here and
there with knots of ribbon.
Flower bonnets are still worn, but,
though the Wreaths on them are lees
heavy, they shine with the mixture OF
gilded beetles settling among the AOw'
ers the wreaths are laid on pufiiHgs oI
tulle, which generally matches the
color OF the flowers, aud the diadem il
not go high as Of late, and slopes
farther back.
Dresses made up over silk are quite
startling By their contrasts; turquoise
blue grensdine over dark green silk
T the edges of the dress trimmed with
blue lace, which shows the silk through
olive green over dark tlue, and maiz'
colored India pongee over deep red
the pockets, cuff4 aud collar lined witt
2 red. These are carriage dresses, ant
carriage wraps Gre of India pongeI
lined with some bright.colored silk.
For some unknown reason Il is con
sidered quite "chic" TO wear lizard OF
A the shoulder OF breast; generally tht
lizard is encrusted with diamonds o
y. some other jewel this fashion is seeI
so often thai II has ceased to look lik
a badge silver spoon Is often used q
pin In the hat or for the scarf, bu
this Is In honor of the Spanish studen
. depulation, whose badge was a sp0ol
!. stuck into the wide sOmbrero hat.
q Whether the Exhibition at Parls is /,
, be held responsible for the presen
! taste for all that Is gaudy ii would b
difficult to tell but one fact is certain
4 the French dressmAkers aud mllner
n have eel their wits to work to produc
fashions which may please the taste o
foreign nations, "un peu barbara" per
haps, according TO their notions, an,
s having set them, have fallen into tn
!. trap themselves, aud all Paris is nov
Ie seized with fever for eccentric dres;
10 Crepe de chine embroidery is also
r. very dressy aud serviceable seasid
y evening dress. One of the pretlies
,e dresses prepared lately was OF yer,
s. light blue silk with crepe de chine owe
.e ii, embroidered in saw points whicI
were cut out in maroon, red, rosC
n, green, havana brown and yellow, Tn
?. dress was simply draped, the EN-
Q. broldered points accentuatiDg all tn
10 edges and peculiar jObits Of the EN-
n, brOidery were set on where the dres
st was looped; its general appearance
al was decidedly antique and FrenChil
A classical, in that last fashion which ape
" the classic style Of the beginning {
10 the century.
/. The newest buttons for dresses al
J.. postage stamps. One cannot be ami