The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-18
FASHIONS.

Old fashioned red is the fashionable color
now.
Very small Jet buttons will be used in
dress trimming.
The most fashionable ribbons are of VEL
vet, satin lined.
Slides, buckles and fancy ornaments in
gold will be much worn.
Young ladies now wear caps like those
worn by Roman peasant women.
Persian cOIors and designs are brought out
in the new brocaded silks for fall.
new style of handkerchief is the plain
hemstitch, with polka dot centers.
Etruscan gold buttons. engraved like pure
gold, will be used on plaid dresses.
Very handsome inlaid buttons are being
imported in colors to match costumes.
Black figured velvets will be much worn
for carriage costumes and full dress toilets.
The short walking dress will be brought
out in more graceful designs this winter than
ever.
White satin, brocaded with small figure
in colors, will be handsome style for even
ing dresses.
are new and will be popular striped shawls
with richly shaded borders are also a new
style.
The earliest importations of fall wraps
show sacques. or coats, for plain garments
for general wear, and nantes for driving
wraps.
India cashmere and camePs hair cloths
will be chosen for fall nantes; black, steel
gray and dark blue will be the popular
shades.
Heavy square shawls, for early fall use,
have the smooth center of black, brown, or
gray, with a broad, rough figured border
in gay colors.
A novelty for morning wrappers is a very
fine quality of flannel, which is called cam
els nair flannel. 1t comes in dark colors
such as garnet, blue, gray or black.
Colored hosiery has completely won the
day against white, and the latter is no longer
seen. The dark hair lines are also in good
taste, and in fine qualities very becoming to
pretty foot and ankle.
Cloaks are to be cut considerably shorter
than last year, which will be good news TO
many. for the inordinately lengthy garments
of last season not only concealed the dress
entirely, but were an intolerable weight to
carry.
MORE is used for the vest the cuffs the roll
ing or falling collar, and the facing of the
lapel part of the habit bodice In the for
nation of a dinner or reception dress il con-
stitutes the sides, from the top to the bottom
of the toilet The front of the dress, which
is cut low, open square, the back of the
bodice, and the train, are OF satin, as are
the sleeves also. Another fashionable but
less expensive combination will be made by
uniting plain wool with Scotch check and
plaid. This is a useful conjunction, and
might be made effective without being
outre, but it can only be so under the most
favorable conditions.
The reign of dirty and dishonest Bridgets is
short; they may make the most OF their present
chances; the populations and dishonest work
of a class of dressmakers will shortly come
to an end, for the bright girls of the present
generation will not stand it, when they feel
the ability and know how to mend ii. Some
of the prettiest girls belonging to the best
families have shown what they can do dur
ing the past summer in the interior of
Maine, in the mountains of Pennsylvania
and in the hooks OF the Catskills. major
ity of them have prepared their ogn ward
robes some have taken il upon themselves
to fish and forage for the 'shanty," and
Others have done the cooking. Cooking
clubs will undoubtedly be a rage this win
ter and lunches at which the meal is pre-
pared by the young hostess, assisted more or
less by her guests.
There is nothing so aging as the compiled
ton of rich, weighty fabncs, with profuse
trimming and ornaments; there is nothing,
either, more exbausting to the nervous sys-
tenn No more becoming toilet to pretty
girl can be conceived than a dotted muslin,
made short, with two skirts, and a shirred
blouse waist, a Creole head dress arranged
with a small soft silk handkerchief, with q
border in which the coors are displayed. and
ribbon trimmingsfor the dress, repeating the
colors seen in the border of the handker
chief-pink and blue, crimson and canary,
olive and red, or olive and blue and the
like. Dotted muslin can be purchased fol
% cents per yard. and such dresses, ribbons
included, need not c. st s10if the young lady
has industry enough to make them for her
self. very easy matter in these days of well
cut and well designed paper patterns