The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-08
STYLES.
For the Ladies to Read.
3louses are much worn.


The finest chip hats come from
France.
Braids of a domestic make are much
used.
Knitting is now a fashionable kind of
work.
Russian green is a favorite midsum-
mer color.
The Swiss originally brought hats
into fashion.
Walking dresses for the fall and win
ter will be short.
Yellow, in all its many ugly shades,
continues in favor.
Talmas and short sacques will not be
seen next winter.
Very small buttons are being used
again in dress-waists.
Basques are made quite short in front
and long behind.
Alsatian bows are worn on dresses,
hats and slippers.
Vests for ladies are much in favor,
and are very nobby.
Long white gloves of undressed kid
are new and stylish.
For day wear the short costume has
finally triumphed.
English turned-over collars ofdress-
es are made very high.
Square neck corsage and elbow
sleeves are still the style.
Short sacques are no longer worn,
except by young girls.
In the winter mantelets and long
sacGues will be much worn.
Artistic dressing is nowhere better
understood than in London.
Breakfast caps for young as well as
old ladies are much worn.
Prominent New York stores present
a fan to each customer.
Sandals, with two straps, are pre-
ferred to those with three or more.
Coaching hats have made their ap-
pearance at the watering-places.
A novelty in dress goods is a white
pique, embroidered in colors.
In Brazil beetles wings are used for
making head-dresses for ladies.
There eve was a greater variety of
rufiing displayed than at present.
A perfect imitation of a black lace
covered fan is among the novelties.
B~eige-colored net, worked with rose
buds, makes pretty summer bonnets.
A skillful imitation of a bee is used to
decorate costumes for garden parties.
Sleeves are still made to fit the arm
closely, and have very small cuffs, if
any.
Linen handkerchiefs with bright col
ored dots are the latest novelty in lin
gerie.
Organdie muslin plaitings are used
on shade hats to give them a dressy ap-
pearance.
Unique watches of tortoise shell are
worn suspended from the right side OF
the belt.
Seaside hats are trimmed with broad
galloon, with a gay wing on the lefi
side of the hat.
Slippers and ties are row in grea'
favor, because they show the fancy
stockings now in vogue.
Partisan ladies wear at present wha
are called PETITE ROBES in the street anC
at the Exposition.
Small fruits, such as plums, grapes
cherries and berries, are much used il
trimming garden hats.
Lace bonnets for young ladies to wea
on full-dress occasions in summer ar
, made in baby shape.
5 Birds of Paradise, whose plumage j
: so beautiful, are imported from the is
lands of the Eastern Seas.
Ladies seem to greatly fancy for sum
. mer wear what is termed a diamond
Q cut sandal, buttoning at the side.
The decoration of hats with feather
and other ornamental trimmings CON
menced in the Twelfth Century.
e Belts added to the front of basque!
II and not to the back, are intended
shorten the appearance of the waist.
/ Summer hats are made of the thil
nest white organdie, trimmed with
l. white ostrich plume and Duchesse lac
a Ladies again wear the hair in IL
n Grecian coil in favor a few years ag
IT and which was so universally becon
Is ing.
le In carriages and at dinners are set
J. dresses of black silk, or dark gray 81
f. trimmed with very wide fiounces
II white muslin.
Bouquet bows are used to trim lig
If dresses. They are made of short loo
81 of many-colored ribbon, and are ver
st pretty.
D. The Japanese umbrella is the fave
,e lite sun-shade at the mountains and Sc
re side, and makes the face look pictu
a. esque beneath.
Of A ball dress for summer of delica
~ pale blue is handsome with the Pri
cess back of white tulle, slightly gat
~ cred and strapped across with 81
: bands.
no One of the newest styles of hosiery
~ of black silk, with the feet embroide
ed in jacqueminot red diamonds, 81
rounded by miniature diamonds
white.
Breasts are very much used this We
of to trim hats at the seaside; they a
It. found more durable for sea-mist a