The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-05-28
FOR the FAIR SEX.


Madras cloth is used for summer cur
tains.
Louis Kill styles are coming next in
dress.
Summer washing dresses, to insure the
comfort their name indicates, must be
made up with view to convenience in
laundrying them. An incalculable loss
of time and temper is experienced every
season in the hopeless struggle to re-
drape and otherwise put together ella
borate costumes which required to be
taken apart before going through the
laundry. Do not fashion either cotton or
linen material after intricate models
comprising what is termed trimmed
skirt, with plated ruffling.
Select hounced skirt il you prefer it,
but let the fiounee be. gathered on, net
plated. This, Worn with any simple
form of draped polonaise, or better still,
a pretty, halfftting basque or jacket
with plain round overskirt, furnishes
pleasing and popular styles for prints,
muslins and ginghams. The overskirt
in question requires no arranging be-
yond the tying and untying of tapes
fastened on underneath. which regulate
its drapery.
Ready-made wash suits come largely
with long, round, half-ftting basques,
unlined and belted in at the waist with
ribbons, the same as decorate the sleeves
and other portions of the drsss.
Yoke bodices, also fashionable, are
particularly suited to young and slender
figures. They are much employed for
Madras checks and fine ginghams. In
the making up Of checked goods great
care should be exercised in matching
and arranging the check. Make the
yoke deep to begin with, both back and
front, and fit it neatly so as to outline
the top of the arm and shoulder. 1t
should also be as closely fitted under
the arm as if the waist were plain.
The bodice is extended all around in
length in form of basque. Sometimes
the fullness is laid in plaits, again it is
simply held in by the belt surrounding
the waist. All yoke bodies are belted
down either with strip of the material
of the dress or the ribbon with which
it is trimmed. Finish the neck and
sleeves of either basque or bodice ac-
cording to taste. Many ladies depend
on fichu of Breton lace, which can be
put off and on without trouble, for the
former, especially with lawn and muslin
dresses.
New bouquet-holders are rings and
brooches that support aylan-shaped orna-
nIoIIU nIsIuo up vIit cry OI IVIInO'VI SueSIo,
some ofthese havea serpent ofthe stones
twined around them. The ring holds the
corsage bouquet, and the pin fastens it
to the dress. 1t is worn near the waist
line on the left side. Large punches Of
natural flowers form such bouquets, and
it is the caprice of the moment to show
the bunch of long stems at the end.
Carnations, Marshal Neil roses, and the
Jacqueminot roses are the clusters most
used.
Japanese fans spread open, square
cornered, and with thick stick handles,
are made very handsome by being
mounted with silk-pale blue with olive
green, or cream-color with dullred-and
artistically decorated in Japanese de-
signs painted by hand; they cost $2
Japanese-shaped parasols grow in favor,
nd Lodi 1c 70
fercnt costumes-not to match them in
olor or in fabric, but to harmonize with
them. Stylish parasols are now so strik-
ing in their gay fabrics and quaint shape
that they are conspicuous if not in keep
ing with the dress.
New silk bows for the throat are with
out lace, but are madelup of the ma
terials of the dress and its trimmings.
Thus a cream-colored satin bow has its
iabot shape made partly of this satin and
partly of olive green, both of which are
held by straps and loops of brocade in
which these colors combine. The ends
of the satin are cut in sharp trident
points.
Dressy little kerchiefs of pink or of
white crepe lisse are trimmed with
Breton insertion and edging, and are used
or caps, for cravat bows, or as a pocket
bfSdlkeffgehiRf. Others. of panslip~ en-
caught up in puff, and held by cluster
of flowers. This may be used either on
the head or at the throat.
Newest white silk stockings are
wrought like lace ON the instep instead
of having lace inserted.