Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-06-11
Fashion Notes.


Lace turbans are worn by boy babies
India pongee is worn again for COS
tunes.
Pearls are used profusely on brida
toilets.
The era Davolo" is the latest roun,
hat.
Lace mittens are not suitable for stree
wear.
Bracelets of gold filagree are prett,
novelties.
Gabrielles are the favorite dresses TO
small girls.
Round hats are worn only by girls t.
their teens.
The wrists of new Isle thread gloves
are lace clocked.
Short overskirts are worn with som,
of the kilt suits.
Bridal dresses are no longer made en-
tirely of white satin.
The equestrienne hat of last summe
will be worn again.
The swallow-tail jacket is affected by
nobby young ladies.
Nuns serge is the correct thing fol
mourning travelling dresses.
Four-button undressed kids are the
thing for full street costume.
The capote, or cottage shape, is the
favorite style for mourning.
No looping in back draperies are worn
by fashionable women.
Bourette batiste is new knotted linen
fabric for midsummer wear.
Jaspe silks with bourette effects are
the latest novelties in dress goods.
There is a revival of spotted silks and
satins and soft twilled foulards.
The Don Sol scarfs are of silk chenille,
and bright colors are preferred.
New summer fichus of lace and crepe
lisse have collars and cuffs to match.
Dust cloaks of India ponges are chos-
en- by fastidious women who can afford
them.
White muslin wells, dotted with Ro-
man pearl beads, are pretty novelties for
full dress.
Young girls who are in deep mourn
popular shapes.
Striped black silk grenadine, with
chenille bourettes, is used for bonnet
CdpeS anu StriESS.
The most fashionable evening dresses
have the corsage opening V shaped,
front and back.
Reige chip, lined with black velvet
and bound.
"Whalebone" fringe is a misnomer.-
1t is a braid fringe which resembles
shredded whalebone.
Plain silk or satin bonnets, to match
costumes, are preferred by women with
Partisan tastes.
The fashionable belt buckle of the
moment is of cut steel and gold, or of
diamonds for evening wear
Silk dresses are trimmed with narrow
f1ounces in front, almost to the waist, at
the moment, by worth.
Grenadine lace is the name given to a
new trimming or Open-wOrk designs
embroidered on grenadine.
1t is said that gentlemen over the wa
ter are wearing black linen shirts dotted
and sprigged with white.
The bridal travelling dress is of beige
camePs hair or cashmere vigogne, COM
bined with seal brown silk.
Gold braid Innings for the brims of
white and beige chip bonnets are worn
by the most fashionable women.
A dash of Jaequeminot red is the only
spot of bright color on many of the
most fashionable hats and bonnets.
The trains of full dress toilets measure
three yards from the waist to the ex-
treme end OF the train in the back.
The novelty in handkerchiefs is of
pale blue or rcse-cOlOred linen batiste,
with white borders scalloped to match.
Plain or polka dotted white silk, with
white satin trimmings and accessories,
is the bridal dress of the moment.
Porte bouquets, which do double duty
as q brooch or fastening for a shawl, are
seen in some Of the fancy goods stores.
Those negligee curves Of hair on the
forehead and temples, la Montague,
are becoming to young and pretty faces
only.
Everything is embroidered in Paris
at present-shoes, dresses, gloves, bon
nets, corsages, wraps, and trimmings.
| Beige colored brocaded or damassee
| silk makes a beautiful waistcoat to be
worn with any dark cutaway jacket
costume.
The girl of the period wears a cutaway
swallow tailed jacket and leads an Eng
lish pug with a silver chain and blue
ribbon.
! Dark blue cutaway suits, with waist
coats and silk skirts made very plain,
tailor fashion," are affected by young
ladies,
| Almond color is fayoriie shade OF
tawny drab very fashionable at the mo-
ment for costumes de fatigue for very
young ladies.
Cardinal capes reaching to the elbow
of Sicilienne, and trimmed with tiutings
of black French lace, are fashionable
light wraps.
Flower bonnets should be worn only
| in al opera box. They are in bad taste
for the street, for church, or for the par
quet Of theatre.
Balbriggan stockings are seen in
leading hosiery departments, hair lined
horizontally i'll color and clocked on
the sides in the same.
Beige and mastic gray tulle wells, dot
ted with chenille, are worn around the
crowns of dressy bonnets, crossing in
the back and made to form strings.
Amber beads strung at intervals on
black silk fringes are effectively used fol
trimming black Sicillienne mantles in
tended for ceremoniOus occasions.
Worth's latest dresses are short, sheath
the form in front, but have small pan
iers in the back, or looped draperies
formed by catching up the demi-train.
The novelties in children's hats are
pagcla- shaped crowns, peaked Man
sard crowns, and sharp-gabled crowns
Their names are Pekin, Alps, Tyrol
Mercedes, Savoy, and Chin-Chin.
White Swiss and organdy toilets
trimmed with fine MirecOurt torchor
lace, are to be worn over colored lawr
or SiIesia slips for summer fetes
flower shows, afternoon concerts, anl
croquet parties.
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