The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-06-11
FASHION NOTES.

Bunting is extensively employed for
chilGrens costumes.
White plqus is still prominently consid-
cred for chiIdren's wear.
Ornaments for the hair are silver arrows,
daggers or pendants.
Small mirrors for the toilet or boudoir
have porcelain frames.
A speciality In hosiery is in the mottled
hose with embroidered tops.
Dresses for evening wear are embroidered
in various and brilliant colors.
Black satin sleeveless jackets of short,
jaunty cut, draped on the shoulders with
China crepe scarf, are new.
The tops of long kid gloves are embroider-
ed the embroidery also following the outer
seam on the back Of the arm.
Real pansies are worn in the hair. Small
wreatns of flowers are now worn on the top
of the head for evening dress.
The existing fureur for satin give, satin
ribbon the preference over gros grain ribbon
for sashes, and seven inches is the extreme
width,
a new material for trimming summer Co.'S
TUNES is the Oriental summer velvet in
dcmasse brocads, which comes in all the
new colors.
New York ladies. and 1t is sometimes diff
cult TO determine whether they are in mourn
ing or not.
Many costly mantles of questionable taste
are ornamented with colored beads of am
Der, old gold, steel and coral red formed into
snowy passementerie.
The new materials for black NANTES is
Bengaline, which is soft, lustrous, pliable,
and Grapes beautifully; its peculiar shade of
black is also excellent.
Stockings, hair-striped on the instep and
ankle, and clicked or embroidered in band
around the calf OF the leg, are among those
for which there is demand.
Small shoulder capes are seen with street
suits. The handsomest of these stylish wraps
| are made of black silk, covered with jet
beading and finished with fringe.
Tan and cream-colored cashmere or cloth
jackets are trimmed either with Pekin
fabrics or with plated satin introduced down
the front and back as plastron.
White lisse fichus are trimmed with lace
and insertion, in which Breton designs are
darned in with co!ors; they are fastened at
| the waist with buttercups or cowslips-
| The sash is scarcely as much require
ment in little girls dress as it was season
ago, and. if worn, it is generally sewed on at
the side seams and girded back rather than
lalQ around the Wa1st.
A new caprice in evening gloves is to have
| them laced instead of buttoned. Eyelet
holes are no. used, and they are laced by q
| very simple arrangement, which adds greatly
to the neatness of the fit
Waists open at the throat and made with.
out sleeves are to be worn this summer
The chemisettes and sleeves worn with them
may be of white, or of silk grenadine OF
foulard to match the Dress
The most popular wraps which are shown
for very small girls are of the light, sof
cloths, made up in the double-breasted, deep
hsIf-fittiDg sacque, with several rows o.
stitching on the edge and a finish of fancy
buttons
Some adventurous spirits in Paris hav,
been trying to revive the terrible Gabrielle
bonnet of the Restoration period. 1t may b.
seen in pictures, with an erect plume o
feathers at the side, shape trying to ever
the ioveliest and freshest face.
Paris authorities order that an airy scarf
the same color rs the dress, be worn thl
summer by obedient bellies. These scarfs Wi
be much better than wells for the young gen
, tlemen to twine about their hats. They vii
be longed for token. and much priced whel
had, for of course, the ladies will only len,
them to dear, very dear, friends.
For very dainty wear for little girls, Their
! are delicately clicked and lace-wrcught sill
and Lisle-thread stockings, in crearn-white
0 ivory white, pearl color, ciel and navy blues
rose-color and various shades of red. Fo
general use, plain colored stockings Of Lisle
' thread and British Balbriggan manufactur
: seem to be preferred, varied by fancy TO
the clouded and notified stockings of tn
season.
= Rough straw hats are in great favor, 70
the moment, for children. They are il
q white, Norvege- clue, gray, brown and il
) mixed colors. The prevailing shape has th
Z crown . very little conical and hollowe
out with the fiat brim curled up all around
or shelved up in the basin fashion. The
i are bound on the edge with rbbon or gal
t loon, and a fluffy tassel set down IN the ho
Il low of the crown.