Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-17
Fashions Chit Chat.

winter bonnets.
There is most decided tureur for
white dresses this season.
Large clusters of Marguerites are
worn for the waist bouquet.
The latest fancy is for stockings of old
gold and bright gold colors.
All sorts Of shade hats are worn. The
brlm is bent indlscribably.
Cover Japanese fan with bit of
pretty silk, and it is quite "chic."
Dresses buttoneu behind are not nearly
so fashionable as they have been, not
even for girls.
Young ladies in England have taken
to canoes for amusement, and the sport
is very popular.
The corsage en- ceeur, or in the V-shape,
IS taking precedence of the suuare or
Pompadour corsage.
Sprigged linen lawn breakfast wrap
pers have been reduced in our furnishing
houses from IS to $275.
Dresses of gauze and grenadines are
trimmed with bands of embroidered
gauze in mile feur colors.
There is a greet deal of stirring on
white satin, as no other fabric looks so
pretty when masscd on drawing strings.
French ingenuity has made birds
nest with a humming bird or wren
nestled within as an ornament for
shade hat.
Sarah Berndardt has decreed that the
tiny bouquet de corsage must be worn on
the left side of the neck Of the dress.
The new patterns in Honiton lace
braid are wider, and give the effects for
merly obtained by sewing two or three
braids together.
Japanese tans will be decorated this
year with highly improbable focks of
RED hens refusing to be .sshooed" by a
ridiculous blue woman.
The thinncst veil of silk handkerchief
thrown over the face while riding or walk
ing against a cold wind is a remarkably
comfortable protection.
Pctticoats of white and of tinted foul
ard silk are the demand Of the moment
in dainty wardrobes. They are trimmed
with lace-edged plating.
A pretty shade hat has the scoop brim
covered with dotted muslin on the front
and trimming of two loops of muslin on
the crown, divided bya clust ter of con-
volvuli.
Flowers are not so lavlshly used in the
decoration of wedding dresses as former
~. Small bouquets arc set at intervals
down the front, or clustsrs are fastened
in the paniers.
Many ladies have never left off wear
ing small crinoline tournure, even dur
ing the reign Of Princesse dresses, and it
is this hustle that it now generally adopt
ed for short dresses.
Contesting popularity with tine .scheese
cloth'' costumes for wear at summer re-
sorts are those of Zephyr CLOTH" or
very fine quality Of French gingham, and
Madras glnghams.
A richly ornamented garter is one of
the regulation presents to German royal
bride, and an illustrated German paper
depicts such an article given to the En-
press fifty years ago.
A bonnet forming point at the top
like the roof of a Swiss cottage, and
worn on the front of the head, is the last.
and it is to be hoped the ugliest, inven-
ton OF the French m1lliners.
Elegant fans are of the feathers of par
rots, radiating from a common center un-
der tutt OF swans down set with clus-
ter of South American blossoms made of
the breast-feathers of the humming~bird.
Al old-fashioned hat that has recently
been introduced abroad is of tiny silver
bells attached to lady's dress. and oc-
caslonally little golden bells fastaned to
the hair, after the fashion of those for
merly worn by Arabian princesses.
For the soiree the most popular dres-
ses are of sprigged or dotted white mus
lin, with the short skirt, the tunic, and
the round waist, or the panier basone.
They are trimmed with muslin or lace
edging, and garnished with ribbon bows.
Silk painting is turned to account in.
various ways. A painted silk dress is ex-
qulslte; so are fans. The ends OF sashes
and neckties are very pretty when paint
ed with suitable flowers. On cushion
color is apt to wear of, but for banner
screens it is very suitable
Among the prettiest of the inexpensive
wash costumes are those made Of ma
terial called ''cheese CLOTH" a soft. semi
unbleached cotton fabric,
bearing closest resemblance to the canvas
used for wrapping cheese, or the thin
nest and sleaziest unbleached muslin.
The recent development of Partisan
fancy is shown in high, strapped shoes,
or sandals, Of maroon colorcd and navy
blue French morocco. They are ungar
nished with bows or buckles, buttoned
on the side Of the foot, and worn with
plain silk stockings Of a contrasting
color.
English crewel-work on mummy cloth
is very popular for lambrequins, table
covers and curtains. The cloth is gen
darme blue, brown, old gold, white or
crimson. A table-cover of gendarme blue
has border of brown velvet, on which
peacock feathers are worked in crewels
ana in silks.
The newest thing in lace-work is the
Church or Spanish lace for decorating
curtains, mantle lambrequins, and in mar
row widths, for trimming dresses. It is
made of braid laid in patterns and edged
With cord, put together with button-hole
It is basted over leather to
lold it in place.
The evening dress worn at summer
oalls and hops do not differ greatly from
hose seen during the winter. The heavy
materials, such as satin, velvet brocades
ire as often combined in one dress as are
The lighter silks and Chambery gauzes
white satin is probably the favorite of
he heavy fabrics.
Bustles are again considered necessary
o produce the boutfant effect now in
7ogue. When these elaborate draperies
we're revived it was hnnnd tho droes