Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-08-22
Styles.
For the Ladies' to Read.
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White fans are used for full dress.
This is the sloppy era in ladies' dress.
The washerwoman costume is much worn
ut the seaside.
Fancy and extravaganza will run riot this
fall in buttons.
Summer shoes and walking boots have
squire box-toes.
Button hole boquets made of wax flowers
are much worn.
Excess of fancy now runs to trimming the
skirt of chemise.
A Profusion Of ribbons is seen everywhere
as trimmings.
Ladies in mourning wear black lace mitts
with Il cut Of Grape.
Bunting dresses shake Off the dust and will
endure hard usage.
The latest novelty in the way of artificial
flowers is :: sunt1ower.
Ladies' linen handkerchiefs have pen-and-
ink sketches in the corners.
Wide belts, embroidered in gay colors, are
now decidedly fashionable.
The revival Of barcgc for evening dresses is
thing of congratulation.
The preference for white toilets for summer
wear is as marked as ever.
''Brilliantes" is onoof the old materials that
has come into style again.
Combs made of cut steel are new and beauti-
lul. Incy GlllLcr ike diamonds.
One OF the great essentials to pleasant sum-
mer dressing IS proper under wear
Percales and cambrics formorning wear at
summer resorts are all made short.
The dart.fttc chemise is not very popular,
exdept with ladies who are stout
Every steamer from Europe brings novel
ties in trimmings, draperies and styles.
A lady's wardrobe is incomplete this season
that does not include at least one dress.
Ladies carry around many yards of unnec-
essary material in their dresses nowadays.
Narrow satin ribbons of dark Agrppina red
are worn with black grenadine dresses.
Lisle thread stockings, on account of the
perfection of their fit, are gaining the prefer
ence.
Spanish netting, embroidered with cut Jet
beads, is new fabric designed for evening
wear.
Black satin mantles trimmed with Jet and
lace are among the elegant wraps just i'm
ported.
White dresses for evening wear are trimmed
with profusslcn of broad white satin bows.
Parasols of black silk, brocaded with small
boquets in bright colors, are elegant and new
Massive silver pins, with ball heads, as we'll
as gold Of the same design, are now used for
the hair.
A great deal of embroidery will be worn
this coming winter, both OH thick and thin
dress goods.
indispensable as corsets are supposed to
be- there are DAYS in the summer when they
become intolerable.
A great deal Of shirring is used on the Par
sia1 dresses that have been sent over since
the latest openings.
Bunting dresses are found to be the most
serviceable dresses for country USE in the
mountains and for travelling
A small bow of inch-wide white ribbon,
worn at the throat with dark morning dress
es and linen collars, is pretty and becom.
ing style.
goods. There are over 500 shades of blue,
$50 of gray, to say nothing of the greens,
browns, and reds.
: Drawers with the French-yoke band are
now the most approved. In this pattern the
opening is made at each side, the band in
front fitting the figure.
The latest pattern for chemise has the
gored skirt, the waist shaped loosely to the
figure, the sholders cut high. and the neck
square in front and back.
Cut jet buttons, exquisitcly carved, will be
much worn the coming season. Also silver
and gold buttons, and bottoms of black enam
81 set with diamonds.
The .taror for garnishing with ribbon OK.
tends also to Undertaking. The sleeves of
CucAAlScs dic Cteu Will TlDOOH, ana DOWS are
coquettishly set on the bosom.
Small white handkerchiefs, width the edges
scalloped and wrought with color, are
formed into pretty pleated bows for the
throat, to wear with morning dresses.
Silver combs in tligree designs are used
within the low coiffures that are in vogue
this summer. Some have narrow high tops,
while others lean over towal DIS one side.
Silyery embroidery on ground of deli
cate shads is a new freak of fashion, and may
be seen on every thing, from handsome
evening dress to the hose which match it.
=. An exceedingly pretty costume for midsum-
mer is a pale blue organdie, trimmed with
Smyrna lace and insertion and bows of double
laced satin ribbons, pale blue and pink and
olive and blue.
Young ladies as the seaside are wearing
caps like those of the Roman peasant women
little oblong places of Swiss or organdy,
decorated with lace and ribbons-and long,
gold-headed pins are used to pin them on.
The shirt-pattern of the night gown, SO
long the accepted and most popular has now a
rival in the "Breton," or that with the vest,
the buttons being set on one side instead Of
Immediately in front, the lace, which is set
around the square openening, falling over the
vest.
Black English Grape is doubled plainly for
collars and cuffs, to be worn by widows and
those who prefer them in the first week of
dressing in mourning. The collar may be
very high, and turned over in English points,
or else it may be deep round collar. The
Grape cuffs are most usually worn outside the
close fitting coat sleeves. But Grape is
considered too unwholesome for wearing next
the skin, and in its stead finely crimped ruch-