Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-05-01
FOR THR FAIR SEX.
Fashion Notes.

Shoulder capes are again fashionable.
Basque polonaises will he much worn.
Suits of two shades are out of fashion.
Shirring will be much used this sum-
mer.
French ladies of fashion wear only one
color.
Shirred fronts are seen on new over
skirts.
Large bonncts are preferred to small
ones.
Breton is the lace OF the passing mo-
ment.
Turbans are worn both in and out
doors.
The short skirt is rs short behind ms
before.
Breton lace jabots and scarGs are all
the rage.
There are l25 kinds of ruching in the
market.
The cutaway still retains its hold on
fashion.
Crystal beads will decorate summer
fringes.
Steel beads are used to studblack satin
slippers.
The humblest flowers are preferred
this year.
New walking boots are to be higher in
the ankle.
The edges of bonncts are left unbound
this season.
Myrtle green is favorite among the
spring shades.
An antelope's head is the last orna-
ment for fan.
Both high and low turban caps are
fashionable.
Black chip is the iavorite bonnet for
all occasions.
Shirring is very fashionable on all
summer garments.
Skirts of short dresses retain their
narrow dimensions.
The straw hats, in bright colors, are TO
be used for travelling.
Lace gloves with long fingers are COM
ing into fashion again.
Gloves are long. reaching to the elbow
for full evening toilet.
Suits in two shades Of the same color
are going out of fashion.
Waistcoats are often made to wear
over the basque rs under it.
New parasols have fiatter tops than
the canopy ones of last summer.
Position pleats and fan trimmings in
the back of basques are revived.
Fichu colarettcs and iabot collarettes
give "A dressy effect to- plain toilet.
Panama twecds. for light summer
dresses, look like Panama canvas.
The turban is the fashionable cap for
young ladies and young married women.
Caps made of silk handkerchief. in
turban or Normandy form. are much
worn.
al Paris dresses brought over this
spring.
Immense quantities of Lislc thread
gloves have been imported for summer
wear.
Garnet. blue glass and crystal are COM
bined in some Of the new hair orna-
ments.
Dark velvet. ligh shirrcd satin or In
dia muslin are ali used for facing spring
bonnets.
Graduated jet balls will he used for
the face trimming of black lace bonnets
this year.
Shades Of yellow, from pale straw or
corn, to deep tax and old gold, are very
fashionable.
Very large flowers, especially roses and
chrysanthemums, are used in bonnet
decorations.
Scarfs of fine net edged with Breton
lace are as often worn for bonnet strings
as for nccktics.
The beetle pins and brooches will he
used on both blue, green and white bon
nets this year.
Tea rose, old gold and Prince Of Wales
red will be used to trim black lace bon
nets this year.
The marked feature in the new over
skirts are the shirrcd fronts and bout
fant back drnperics.
Satin folds are not stitched on dresses,
but lined with wigan and caught down
with blind stitches
Underskirts have plated rufllos of
Hamburg embroidery, and are made with
deep yokes at the top.
Dark red and cream. pale Sevrcs and
tea rose and gendarne- blue and red are
to be fashionable combinations.
Balmoral skirts of gray mohair
trimmed with one or two plated nounccs.
are shown for summer wear.
White cambria waists are made up
with ten plaits' in front and eight In the
back, and have plated belts.
Princess overdrcsses of camers-hair.
that can he let down and worn for wrap
pers are economical novelties.
Crystal glass buttons, sometimes called
Rhine pebbles, cut in facets and set In
platina are shown for waistcoats.
French bunting. n fine. light wool
goods, is the material in use for spring
and summer half-mourning costumes.
The cashmeres in alternate glossy and
watered stripes are to be used for morn
ing wrappers and dressing sacques.
Blue and lavender are the favorite
colors for trimming dress caps. The
lace Is cashmere. ,londe or Breton, as
one chooses.
Bonnet strings Re tied in large loose
bow under the chm. not Mt the side. or
they are simply crossed in front, the
ends forming jabot.