The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-01
Fashion Notes.

Fashion Notes.
Guipure sacques will be worn with
black silks
Fans bearing biblical quotations are
a novelty.
Chenille bourette grenadine is some
thing new and stylish.
Ladies kid gloves have a heavy
stitching on the outside.
Mother Hubbard is the name of
one OF the latest bonnets.
Children's dresses are being made
longer by an inch or two.
Velvetpocket-bags have monogram
in silver upon the outside.
A new design for a pin is bundle of
wood with Ratchet across it.
The cottage-shaped bonnet seems to
be the tavorite for straw and chip.
The Iceland floss is much used for
crocheting shawls and sacques.
Gold thread is novelty used for
stitching some of the new short dresses.
Wide belts fastened with buckles are
seen on the latest imported costumes.
Prlncesse dresses are shirred in the
front, and trimmed with passemente-
ries.
"Modesty, rare, delicate, and last
ing" is the name and the claim of a
newperfume.
BaSques are made with long tabs at
the back. Some are tastefully trimmed
with lace.
Homemade trimmings are much
used for ladies' lingerie. They are more
durable than the Hamburg.
English bareges are again intro
duced, and combine very beautifully
with silk, and the same use is made of
plain heavy grapes in light colors.
Breakfast caps are more worn than
ever, and have been adopted by young
girls as well as by matrons. 1t is said
that they will be quite feature of
watering-place outfits.
Havana browns, copperas color, will
low green, and mastic gray or putty
color are the leading shades. Pale
blue and rose color divide favor with
white for evening dresses. After these
colors come the blues and browns,
violets, and all the colors we know so
well. Red is much used as trimming
never IN masses.
For those who will pass the summer
holiday at gay watering places there
are exquisite damascus and summer
brocades in. every conceivable shade.
Louisines, with pretty basket squares,
silk bourettes and soft armures in pink,
blue, chamois and rich cream color.
With these summer velvets and gros
grain silks of moderate weight are in
tended for combination.
Printed silks which have black
grounds, with pinhead dots, stripes,
small sprays of leaves or a delicate lit
tie flower in white, are among the most
comfortable and beSt-wearing materials
for summer wear. Lace striped bunt-
ing is introduced, and bunting plainly
woven as hitherto sells at fifty cents a
yard. A beautiful soft material is buff,
or else pale gray, with pinhead blocks
of darker buff and gray. Beige is a
name applied this season both to a ma
terial and a color. The fabric is soft
and unlike camers hair, and the color
is rich brown.
The richest fringes are mixtures of
jet or rainbow beads, with grass or lam
inu twist and plain heavy twist, with
loops and snowy pendants of jet and
amber-dark red, brown and other col
ors, which are more admired than clair
de lune. This is used for trimming
black silk dresses. For colored silks
embroidery is first choice, and this is
supplied by bands of open-work silk
galloon, with beads wrought in figures;
another style consists of appliques of
cashmere done upon a machine and
called "Bonaz embroidery" The rich
est colors appear in this trimming and
flowers are as handsomely represented
as ii they were painted.
A popularity of trimming is the SIM
ulated style. Frequently the skirt of a
handsome toilet has the front breadth
made extremely long and gathered up
on cambria underpiece so as to repre-
sent shirred apron if lergthwise or
crosswise bands of lace, or embroideries
are placed upon the side cores, in the
panel fashion, and the back is plated
or left plain. For cambria, Scotch
gingham, and other inexpensive sum-
mer fabrics, bands of solid colors, with
rutfles of machine embroidery, are as
effective as anything, and these, with
Smyrna or Torchon laces, are the lead
ing garnitures. Delicate batistes are
trimmed with colOred needlework, done
upon grenadine bands with silk. Such
trimmings cost about eighty cents a
yard. These are also used to trim gren-
adines.
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