The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-03-13
Fashion Notes.

Many handsome ball dresses shown by
the leading dressmakers are without q
train.
Fancy camsps hair will be worn for
spring suits in light tints thickly covered
with different designs.
Ladies who have slender figures add
the Garrick or coschmsn's cspes to their
home dresses, and trim them with fat
galloon braid.
Young ladies for evening wear large
bows of ribbon on the front of the crown
braid of hair. They are called Alsace
bows, and viewed from in front look like
bonnsts.
One of the most beautiful dresses re-
Gently seen in Europe was of rose-leaf
satin with tunic of English point lace
draped across the front with gsrlands Of
oeillets" snd heather.
Light summer silks, which will be
much employed for street suits. have
chinchilla stripes, or narrow elouded
chine stripes set close together on brown,
csrdinsl garnet, blue and other colored
grounds.
Among the prettiest street costumes
are short dresses of brown csmels hair
of the Princess Csrita style, long,
coarse-shaped sealskin jacket, and seal
skin cap, or walking hat of brown felt,
trimmed with raw silk, the brown o
which is frightened with dsshes of gold
and crimson.
White cravats are ga la Csmargo;" they
are of white India null or Bishops lawn,
the edges plated with falls of old lace or
Breton lace; they are tied and worn very
large. When knotted and allowed to
hang down they are called Steinker-
ques," from fashion of the same date
Fine cashmere and delaine are consid-
cred quite as stylish az black silk for
polonaises. They are trimmed down the
front with black wooden lace, quilted
very full and interspersed with bows
and ends of black satin ribbons; or else
bit of cardinal lace red or blue silk is
put under the lace and Just shows
through it.
Dresses for dancing are made ex'
tremely short in front; some reforms
have also taken place since the beginning
of winter in the matter of trains they
are, therefore, much curtsiled, and in
some instances done away with alto
gether, and Directoire" dress is the
result.
Embroideries of fine jet are still very
much used long vests, reaching to thu
knees, glisten with fine cut-beads, il
closely worked designs; Nine. Nilsson
recently appeared with black dres
thiekly covered with clue jet, the sleeve
" of tulle also embroidered to match
Many black dresses for evening of sill
or velvet have tulle sleeves covered viii
embroidery of fine jet beads.
> Bouquets for the evening, Of real o
:, artificial flowers, are much worn on tn
Z Ie.s shoulder if the dress is low if it
y high they are Wotn ~ the left side Of th
u waist at the belt. Squ&re-hsck cTesse
e have a bouquet on the right side yer
l. high up, and with a low square DIRE
" with short sleeves, two little curled Of
i trich tips are often worn in place OF
bouquet, with a jeweled pin to taste
them on.
The little red silk handkerchief tn
- bans which are now fashionably journe,
As ing around the world, were frf' e4a-te
ID in Paris last spring, the Princess
DC Wales having appeared in one at Par
u fete; they We're Immediately adopted
y Paris. This lady is said to have perfe,
CO taste, and she now sets the fashions +
10 both London and Paris, in the sbsen'
o of any high authority in Paris, such
III the Empress Eugene used to be,
of