The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-16
Fashion Notes.
Bonnets are smaller.

Fashion Notes.
Bonnets are smaller,
The reign of the dolman is over.
Peacock blue is revived for silk
dresses.
Low shoes are again worn in the
street.
Manila hats are the novelty for little
girls.
Whalebone fringe is used in half
mourning.
Children's skirts are worn longer this
season.
Small satchels are taking the place of
pockets.
Coronet and cottage brims are equally
fashionable.
Neckties are de rigeuer with wide
linen or lacc collars.
Children wear colored dresses more
than white ones.
The short kilt suit grows in favor for
younger women.
Lisle thread gloves have open clocks
around the wrist.
The scarf fichu, tying on the bosom,
is very fashionable.
Hats are worn only by little girls and
misses in their teens.
The side sstchel Ia Marguerite is the
fancy of the moment.
Double fringes are used in trimming
mantles and mantelets.
The "Mercedes T" continues to be the
leading style of coiffure.
Pleated basques with square yokes are
worn by girls in their teens.
The Richelieu is the favorite set of
deep linen collar and cuffs.
Costume de fatigue is the correct name
for the short walking suit.
Point d'Alencon is the only French
lace made entirely with the needle.
Train supporters are necessary when
long skirts are worn out of doors.
Many handsome silk costumes are
made with yokes and shirred waists.
For full toilet the princess form of
dress takes precedence of all others.
Cutaway jackets for misses aud small
girls are not made with waistcoats.
Kilt skirts and cutaway Jackets should
not be worn by stout or elderly ladies'.
Amber and rainbow beads are mingled
with the richest fringes and basement
cries.
Spanish lace scarfs, black, white and
beige colored, are having run of popu-
lar favor.
When low shoes are worn out of doors,
the stockings must be dark or to match
the dress.
Roman pearl beads and mother-of-
pearl ornaments are taking the lead for
bonnet ornaments.
The ulster of the elegante this summer
is of India pongee, with Carrick capes or
cardinal collars.
Beige-colored light woollen dresses,
trimmed with brown and beige fringes,
are much worn.
All sorts of worsted, silk, embroidered,
brocaded and damassee galloons are used
for heading fringes.
Solid colored stockings, blocked on the
sides, are worn by little girls and misses,
in colors to match their dresses.
1t is fashionable to put two fringes Of
different colors or two shades of the same
color on beige or mastic-gray dresses.
The cutaway jacket, long wsistcoat
and kilt skirt, with scarf drapery around
the hips, is the costume of the moment
The fringes for colored bourette dresses
are of two or three colors in the same
fringe, to match the colors of the bour
cite.
| Plain princess polonaises are worr
over fan trained skirts, the train beine
iooped to escape the sidewalk when worI
in the street.
Gray linen lawns, with white polk,
dots or small Japanese figures, or barred
or striped with color, are in demand fol
suits for young ladies and misses in theil
teens.
Beige colored chip bonnets, trimmet
entirely with beige ribbons and ostricl
tips, and faced with black or dark
colored velvet, are affected by the mos
fashionable women.
Pleatings and futings of black Frencl
lace, mingled with fiat loops Of marrow
black gros grain ribbon, are the mos
elegant trimmings for black mantillas
mantles and dolmans,
Some very handsome princess polon
aises are made with a band OF beadet
lace inserted down every seam, the trim
mings at the bottom being of lace AM
beaded fringe to match.
Tie most fashionable bonnets ere @
gray, ecru, and mastic or beige-colore
chip, with diadem fronts faced wit
black or dark velvet, edged with gold O
, rainbow tinsel braid, and have no fac