Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-03-15
FASHION NOTES.


--Ragusa point is the coming lace.
-Faience blue is among the new
colors.
Street suits are devoid of fancy
trimmings.
-Coteline is another name for print
ed dimity.
The tendency is to make short skirts
still shorter.
Coral pink bids fair to be very
fashionable shade.
The Turkish fez is the latest novelty
in French caps.
-Gendarme blue is new dark shade
of this popular color.
Roses will be the popular flowers for
ornaments this season.
"A new shade Of dark green bears the
name of serpentine.
-Twilled satin foulards are among the
new suit materials.
Wax white is the very palest imag-
irable shade of straw color.
-Pekin or striped gauze figures large
" in ball toilets this season.
Dark navy-blue and brown are the
most fashionable colors for cambrics.
Fancy gilt ornaments suitable for
hat trimmings are offered for ten cents.
The fashionable color for children's
dresses and wraps is robin's-egg blue.
Dotted Swiss muslins are made over
colored silica and garnitured with lace
and ribbons.
The new flannel finished fabric for
SUNNI er dresses is called beige de-sante.
1t is a sleasily woven, fine wool in gray,
tan or beige shades of single color, or
else in invisible checks.
The new flowers and leaves are
rich in color, and wonderful copies of
nature. They are made of shaded satin,
or velvet, or fine, furry plush, mounted
on flexible stems, and are often COM
bined with field pods, burrs and nuts
just bursting their shell.
1t is the correct thing to have ones
table linen ornamented with border
designed to match the china. Table
napkins trimmed with lace are quite the
rage, especially at lunch time or tea.
Likewise it is proper to blend styles on
the dinner table.
There is no doubt whatever that
bonnets with brim are among the writ
ten facts of the near future, but it Is al
so certain that we shall still retain the
square-crowned half-bonnet, half-hat of
the past season, the picturesque hat
with the up-turned brim, and the En-
glish walking hat, with its brim which is
never exaggerated, and obtain several
novelties from the soft-crowned caps
and turbans which young ladies affect
so much, and which have been among
ha OF III of In
ties.
The best qualities of ginghams are
as ever in delicate combinations of blue
and white, or blue, pink and white, with,
perhaps, lines of gold or black which in
tensify or develop the latent color. The
trimming used for these consist of bands
of embroidery wrought in the colors of
the gingham, and so finely blended,
matched and adapted that they seem to
be part of the fabric. Suits of this
description for summer wear are quite
as pretty as checked silk, and more in
harmony with cultivated taste because
they are so much finer of their kind and
have not the gloss and display of COM
mon silk.
Washing dresses will be made as
walking suits as much as ever, and have
changed in form but very little. The
fishwife tunic, which turns up in front
and is caught back to form the drapery,
is more popular than ever, particularly
since it is now so usual to arrange the
fullness low upon the back of the skirt.
Overskirts are almost a necessity with
these costumes unless they are composed
of skirt and polonaise, and for sum-
mer wear two skirts a half-htting jack
ct are found much more cooler and
moro comfortable than polonaise and
jacket.
The new styles of polonaise are of a
close princesse cut, draped straight
across the tablier or apron, and allowed
to fall in irregular, but very graceful
serpentine folds at the back. This dis
position is particularly adapted to gren-
adine and to all soft, delicate, summer
materials. Some of the fine chintz sat-
ins are made up in this way, and are
trimmed with needlework ,ruffles, or
ruffies of lace and ribbon bows, and
loops in two or three colors, and tints
down the front and amid the folds of
drapery at the back. 1t is a style so
graceful and becoming that it may be
adapted to the richest fabrics of soft
and summery character, and is very
handsome for black grenadines, over
black silk skirt, and with a black foulard
silk as body lining.
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