Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-07-31
Miscellaneous.
FASHION HINTS FROM HARPER's BAzAR.

The TrianOn STYLES lately brought out in
Paris have become the fashion of the sum-
mer there, and have already appeared here
at the summer resorts. The butterfly
overskirt, worn with gay short dresses for
the county. IL the avant courier of pam
iers. This overskirt is short, round. and
winglike on the sides. while the back shows
the contemplated return to boufant drap-
cry.
In Paris the simplest fabrics are made
up in Trianon dresses. New chintz CO.'S
tunes and the lndenne cottOns,--soft,
fine and closely woven. yet very light
have the butterfly ovcrskirt or the curtain
drapery precisely like those seen on the
rich blocaded satins and velvet-striped
gauzes. A dainty little neckerchief COM
pletes this dress, shaped somewhat like
the Marie Antoinette tichu, which has
gradually won its way into favor again.
Worth has sent over most beautiful fou-
lard dresses made in the new Trianion
STYLES. One of pale flesh pink has dem
itran trimmed with "a wide pleated flounce
edged with Nalenciennes lace, and above
the hem is insertion of Valenciennes.
To wear with such dresses at the garden
parties for which they are intended are
very picturesque round hats with broad
brims Some of these are made of the
thnnest white organdy muslin shirred on
flat thread like wire. The brim is broad
and made up of this shirred organdy COW
cred with row of duchesse point lace
laid on 50 that the scalloped edge will fin
sh the brim.
For inexpensive shade-hats there are
soft rustic straws far Lighter than those
formerly worn, and with satin lustre.
These cost from 80 cents upward, and
ladies trim them at home in most coquet-
tish ways. The brim is first faced with
silk. either dark Jacqueminot red, or pale
blue or dark sapphire. A wreath of leaves
or grasses or daises is on the outside.
The brim is then curved upward on the
left side, and the back is turned up more
abruptly, and large square bows OF ribbon
the color of the lining are placed on the
back ana sides of the brim.
Nabob gauze is the name given to a
beautiful fabric used by milliners for trim
ming round hats and bonnets. 1t is of
Oriental colors, in which are wide stripes,
and is loosely woven in square meshes. The
rich colors OF India cashmeres are seen in
this fabric combining dark yellow with
red, blue, and myrtle green. Another
fancy is that of using scarts of cream or
biege-colored grenadine for trimming
black and biege-colored round hats.
Lace bonnets for young ladies to wear
on full-dress occasions in the summer are
made in baby shape. or else regular
capotes. The frame consists of only a few
wires, and is very light. 1t is first smooth
~ covered with silk and then with lace.
Thus, for blonde, the frame is covered
with pale blue silk, on which is laid Va
lenciennes insertion and lace very much
like an infants cap. Roses, pale
blue aigrette, and loops of blue ribbon
complete it. For brunette, the silk is
old gold or cream color. and the lace is
black Chantilly; the flowers are Jacque-
minot roses.
Basques are becoming quite short in
front, extending not more than five or six
inches below the waist line. They re-
main very long behind, and when fullness
is added it does not begin at the waist line,
but more than tinger-length below il.
1t is more customary, however, to have
the back forms fiat, and to have each
form end in IA loop, made by lining the
end OF the form with stiff interllnlng, FAC
ing it with silk and turning it up under
meath.
A iabot of loops of narrow ribbon is set
down one side OF the apron front of
dresses. Sometimes these loops are many
colored, as, on a pale blue Chambery
gauze dress the loops are cream-color,
cardinal red and black. On black silk or
grenadine dresses the ribbon is black sat
in on one side and gros grain on the other.
This ribbon is an inch wide the loops
are about three inches long, they are in
rows of three or four, and should be very
thickly clustered.
The English turn over collars of dresses
are made very high, and do not flare be-
hind AS the Medicis collars did. They
should not be corded on the edges, nor
TooscLUDED ON FOURTH PAeE.l