The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-07-02

At the most exclusive houses are
shown the new fanciful parasois of ecru
pongee or foulard striped around with
gay colors to match those in the costume.
There are also embroidered parasols for
dress occasions and carriage use. These
are white, cream, or pale tinted foulard
or twilled silk bordered with hand
needle-work in gay colors, red, blue, and
moss green, finished with fly firing in
which all the gay colors appear. These
have canopy tops and long floating ends
of bright-colored ribbon; the sticks are
of most unique design.
New cravat bows are long and slender,
and are OF embroidered Or brocaded rib
bon loops of very bright colors down one
side, while the other half is of white
lace, either Valenciennes or duchesse.
Others are made clustered loops of
doubled satin ribbon all of one color, or
else in contrasts, such as pale blue with
Jacqueminot red, or olive green with
pink. China Grape bows of pale tints
are embroidered on rich dark colors.
The fancy now is to wear a great deal of
white lace or lawn at the throat, and the
long iabots, fchus, and round collars
often form the only trimming for hand
some corsages. Silver braid is also used
to trim China Grape bows.
Silk and thread stockings are chosen
to match the dresses with which they are
to be worn. Black silk stockings have
come into vogue again, and are orna-
mented across the instep with bars of
pink embroidery or with dots of cream
color, or else they are wrought up the
side with garnet or pale blue. Another
fancy is that Of having the leg of one
color and the foot of another. Pale blue
and red gre combined in this way, or
lavender with cream color or with brown.
Fine thread stockings have bars of blue
on white, or else colored stripes on the
insteps. g..
Buttons of real tortoise shell are shown
for rich costumes. Some of these are
inlaid with colored pearl to represent
flowers and leaves, and others have gold
or silver birds or bees, and cost often 81
for single button. ..-.. ...
Alsacian bows of watered ribbon trim
the newest breakfast caps of white Or
CANDY Oh of gauze. A tiny bunch of
howers-violets, daisies, rosebuds, or else
foilage-is sometimes set in with the
bow, and fringe of foliage falls over
the back hair, Embroidery in colored
silk edges dressy gauze caps, and some
times seed-pearls are used. ~. ~
Head-dresses il flowers are in tiny
pointed hut shape, to be placed on top
of the head, with fringes to droop from
the center.
Modistes who make a specially of
white goods, lingerie, ETC., import white
dresses for the morning and summer
afternoons in most beautiful designs.
For the morning are white lawn dresses
with deep pleating in the skirt, while a
drapery arranged in simple yet most
graceful fashion forms an oyerskirt that
is easily laundried. This consists of 9
sort of scarf front put on straight across
in easy folds, and trimmed on the top
and bottom with wide embroidery. The
lower edge reaches about to the knees,
and conceals the top of the pleating on
the skirt; this stops on the sides, and
the back has hanging drapery of two
widths of lawn trimmed all around, and
pleated on the tournure somewhat in
fan shape to spread out on the skirt.
The waist is basque of graceful shape,
with the front tucked in diagonal rows
to represent vest, and edged with en-
broidery. For the afternoon are-,rssse,.,s,
elaborately made dresses, with longer
skirts and more ample drapery. Young
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