Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-05-08
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Fashion Notes.

Morrow trains are stylish.
Dolly Warden styles are revived.
New parasols are generally lined.
Round trains are generally preferred.
Club handles for parasols are revived.
Grecian or bertha waists have revived.
Trains may be either rounded or square.
Short dresses for country wear have
paniers.
Short dresses for city wear do not have
panicrs.
A new dress material is called Damassc
bunting
Every fashionable dress has satin for n
part of 1t.
!Scures blue and sulphur color is favor
ite con- 0ination.
The newest wraps have paners and are
boufiant in the back.
Black Breton bids fair to take the place
of black French lace.
Baayeuses are worn with short MS we'll
as with trained skirts.
Lace mitts and kid gloves are equally
fashionable for full dress.
Silk handkerchIefoverdr are worn
with plain foulard skirts.
Black tulle wells. with tiny gold thread
dots, are recent novelties.
Some snowy parasols have the ribs
gilded, silvered or colored.
Changeable and shot silks are seen
again on dry goods counters.
Three-quarter length sleeves are worn
with all demi-toilet dresses.
Worth uses shot silk in two colors for
some ofhis most effective costumes.
Passion flowers form part of the trim
mings of many fashionable evening bon
nets.
Black silk is combined with white
polka dotted black satin for steel cos
TUNES.
There is n return to the fashion of lac
ing up the back of the corsage of evening
dresses.
The small carriage parasol or sunshade.
turning over the handle when raised, is
revived.
Modistes predict that before the sum-
mer Is over we will all be wearing hoop
skirts again.
White wood parasol handles are pre-
ferred for plain pungee or twilled soft
silk parasols.
Painted ribbon or bands of satin are
the newest thing in the trimming line for
girls of the period.
They are going to put gold ornaments
on the new bonnets, or gilt, if the real
stuff is not available.
White wood polished and carved with
thread tracerics initiates ivory to perfec-
tion in parasol handles.
The neck feathers of the Impeyan phea-
SAINT make the most effective tipping for
ostrich or marabout plumes.
New parasols have quaint but finely
cut and carved handles of weichsel wood
emitting n delicate perfume.
The chntz-figured satteens are made
up with long sacques, and ilounccd skirts
with borders Of Hamburg edging.
The new white lawn and organdy mus
lin dresses for house wear have panier
basques and Pompadour polonaises.
An excellent woolen-skirt braid. sold
under the name of Stafford, comes wound
conveniently for use in Courtyard lengths.
Very full rosettes of soft India muslin
and Breton lace are made to serve either
as a hcaddress for morning or as a cravat
bow.
The newest wells are of black tulle with
small dots made of very fine gold thread,
and border lightly wrought in gold above
the hem.
Dressy aprons oi muslin are trimmed
with lace and bows of ribbons; the
pockets are lace trimmed and ornamented
with bow.
Bugs. alligators, beetles, toads and all
sorts Of quaint, queer and curious things
are found among the carved ornaments
Of parasol handles.
Dressy aprons have but one pocket on
the right side. Black and colored silk
aprons are trimed with Breton. torchon
and Nalenciennes laces.
Black Breton lace is used to edge white
India muslin for jabots. This combina-
tion Is new. and Is very stylish for wear
ing with white, ecru and pale blue
dresses
White linen handkerchief have narrow
blue or crimson hens. with white polka
dots. They are very effective when
plated and knOtted together rs bows for
the throat.
Large fichu-collarettes of India muslin
and Breton lace have jabot attached i'm
front reaching TO the waist. The iabot
is permanently plated, and the collarette
fastens beneath II at the throat.
The newest designs of Breton lace have
large flower patterns that are more
heavily wrought than those usually seen .
The design is like embroidery, instead of
the mere darning of simpler Breton lace.
All sorts of buttons are shown. from
6erres blue enameled porcelain buttons
to plain horn and washed pearl; jeweled
buttons are also worn; and buttons oi
wood, covered with silk, on which artis-
tic designs are painted, are sometimes
seen among the spring dress decorations
silk gloves come in great variety oi
shades to match spring and summer
dresses. such "a old gold, ecru, tan-color.
roseau (reed green), gendarme blue, rose
pink and Sevres blue. They are very
long, covering the arm half way to the
elbow, and are fastened by ten buttons.
Another American Countess.
Miss Ada Hungerford. sister-in-law
OF Mackay of the millions, has become