San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-08-24
FASHION NOTES.

Checked cotton braids are used for
trimming linen dresses.
The military jacket is one of tho
latest styles for young ladies.
Among the novelties for vouno
girls are hats ornamented with hand
painting.
-Garden-hats are of lightly-woyen
straw, trimmed with grasses and wild
flowers. .1. ... ...
New styles in stationery are orna.
mented with grotesque old English fig.
ures in color.
"A recent extravaganza among fash.
ionable ladies in New York is the use Of
gold hair-pins.
Pretty princesse dresses for the lit.
tie ones are made with square neck and
short sleeves.
Among the absurdities for children
are the wide collars and cuffs similar to
those worn by their mothers.
-Double-meshed torchon is a novelty
in laces, and is used principally for
trimming lingerie aud dresses which
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Young ladies, wear caps like those
of the Roman peasant women; little
oblong pieces of Swiss or organdy deco
rated with lace and ribbons, and long
gold-headed pins are used to pin them
on ~ 30 F" H"'a H' Do.
Black grenadine dresses have faint
tints of yellow and old gold introduced
in their trimmings; sometimes in the
shape of pipings, sometimes in ribbons
set under the ruffles of French lace.
Japanese pins with fan, and
mouse watching fly, or silver bow,
arrows and CULVER, are among the new
est patterns in sterling silver for long
scarf-pins, and chatelaines have the TOP
of the hook enameled with some pretty
design or a painting in enamel set in
glass. .,..,,.,,.. ........ ..5..r ..,. @.
There are SO many styles now in
wear that all tastes can be grati6ed.
There is the princess dress, the cuirass
waist, and the habit and polonaise.
There are waists cut out in points on the
borders, rounded basque waists, either
open or initiating openings, with vests,
or long, swallow-tail coats, with long
faille vests in bright, contrasting colors.
Pretty aprons are to be worn this
season by little girls up to the age of
10. Some of these are in dotted Swiss
Valenciennes or torchOn insertions and
lace set in the bibs and bretelles. Some
of the null and nainsook aprons have
edges of colored lace, and bows of rib
bon combining the two shades of the
lace. A great many specimens are
found in, all the leading dry-goods
houses. r. .....i..
Black is to be worn a great deal
this year; it is taking quite as promi-
nent part as white in the seasons
fashions. With this, silver jewelry is
very effective; silver band bracelets are
now worn quite wide, with little polish
ed knobs or balls set closely on the
edges. Large medallion pendants and
ockets, also sterling silver, are found at
The principal jewelers.; and handsome
pins and earrings; some of these in the
shape of round platters with bee-hives
IN them in frosted work, Others with
Japanese patterns.
Great favor is shown this year for
vi the Scotch zephyr goods, or soft-fin-
shed ginghams, which resemble
oulards. There is an endless varietyof
designs, from the plain goods in all the
shades of gray, beige, and ecru, and in
I'll plain designs up to the gaily tinted
Stuart tartan. The English cheviots
ire also much employed for ladies and
,hildren's seaside dresses, being thor
'ughly we'll adapted for all changes of
he weather, and much worn by En-
,lish ladies for this reason.
Country hats for young girls are
made of coarse straw, trimmed with a
ull wreath of wild flowers and wild
with natural leaves and
lark MOSES. Another style shows the
lack and rough-and-ready coarse straw
lat dropping over the face, with the
Jack brim upturned; placed inside is a
arge Alsatian bow of black velvet or
Tacqueminot red ribbon, and a leng os-
rich feather curls over the crown. The
'yrolean shape for children is new,
urned up on one side; the Alpine peak,
ailor, jockey, and Scotch hats make up
he remainder of the styles for the little
eOple.