Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-07-26
FASHION NOTES.

-Polk-dotted fans are among the
novelties.
New balmorals are made of pale
blue bunting.
New Jet combs are in the shape O
a horseshoe, with balls of cut Jet at
tached.
Dresses for little girls are of un
bleached muslin trimmed with bandan
ma plaids.
Handsome half-shawls are of BLACK
chenille, netted and finished with deer
fluffy fringe.
The latest caprice in hosiery is en-
broidered Balbriggan in fern and in
shamrock patterns.
Short dresses for dancing are made
with over-dress of pompadoIr brocade
very slightly draped.
An odd and pretty fan is of bro.
caded velvet in palm-leaf design, and is
finished with tips of peacock feathers.
Beige, light woolen serge and light
camel's hair cloths are materials in de-
mand for making the travelling coStume.
Elegant India popgee walking cos.
tunes are trimmed with Hamburg Dor.
dering, in point de Venise patterns.
Linen serge slippers, with a mile
fleur bouquet embroidered on the toe,
are among the attractive caprices fol
house wear.
Black and white dresses have sud-
denly become the fashion for evening
dresses, while the gayest colors are seer
in the street.
The Queen Anne sacque is q favor
ite novelty with ladies of artistic tastes
who delight in bric-a-brac, Queen Anne
furniture, etc.
English makers are using gar.
net maroon and blue sateen for walking
skirts. The overdresses of these cos
tunes are made of pekin.
Mountain dresses for young girls
have single skirts, plain in front and
kilt-pleated behind, and trimmed with
three rows of white braid.
-Bretonne lace dresses are an entire
ly new development of fashion, and will
probably be as popular as they are
chaste, airy and graceful.
Few very fine real lace mantles are
imported now, as the shapes change so
frequently that ladies are not willing to
buy very expensive ones.
Coarse torchon lace and woven
Russian lace are extensively employed
in trimming costumes of zephyr cloth,
satine, and other wash fabrics.
The latest parasols are of India
pongee, embroidered in parti-colored
sprigs, on the ground, and a garland
border. They are mounted on rattan
stick.
The new silk gloves, with long,
open-worked wrists, are the novelty,
and will be much sought after during
the reign of the short sleeve now so
fashionable.
-Parasols of the gay bandanna plaids
are exhibited as novelties at the leading
houses, but do not find favor with many
ladies, as they are too conspicuous.
Two colors appear in the fashion
able Partisan stocking; but they are so
distributed that the world is none the
wiser for one of them. The leg is of
one tint and the heel and toe of the
other.
Travelling shawl-cases are of ecru
ducking, canvas, black enameled clotl
and gossamer india-rubber cloth. They
are bound and strapped with soft calf
skin or Russia leather, and finished with
q handle and buckles.
-Shawls of colored thread woven in
shell patterns are light and cool for
morning wear in the summer. They are
large squares finished with fringe, and
are found in amber, pale blue, rose and
white. They cost $3.50.
After so long run of chip and
heavy braids, the reappearance of the
Neapolitan braid bonnets is refreshing.
As yet they are very scarce in the mar
ket and rank among the daintiest and
most elegant of millinery features.
The popular dust-proof travelling
cloak is modification of the "Ulster,"
of steel-gray mohair. tits slightly fitted
some models deep circular cape is set
in with the side seams of the back, and
he garment called " Ulster Dolman."
There is a special fancy this sum-
mer for shirred bonnets or round hats
of cotton goods that may be renewed by
the laundress when no longer fresh.
Ladies save pieces of their lawn, batiste,
and simple plaid gingham dresses to
make the round hat which Is to be worn
with them.
"A new way of arranging alternate
black and white flounces is to graduate
them from wide white and narrow black
fiounces to narrow black ones, and
gowns which have the vest and sleeves
composed of ruilles arranged in this
way, and curtain draperies drawn back
to show fiounces disposed in the same
manner, are said to have ray-like eff
fect.
"A novelty this summer known as the
Spanish long shawl is really a scarf,
three yards long and about three fourths
of q yard deep, made of either black or
white Spanish lace. 1t is to be worn as
a coiffure at the watering places. The
middle of the scarf is thrown over the
head, one long end is caught up on one
arm and the other hangs to the foot of
the dress.
New cuffs and collars have the en-
tire outside of solid colored gingham,
either pink, buff or light blue, while the
inside is of white linen, with the rolled
over English points at the throat,
wrought in rows of fine embroidery that
spread outward like q fan. This en-
broidery is the color of the gingham
The CUTS have single embroidered
point turned over on the colored sur
face.
Recalled to Life.
The recall of country girl to life by
a sisters shrek is one of the local topics
of the journal, of Evansville, Ind.
The young lady had been quiet ill for
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