Sharp County record., 1879-08-07
FASHION NOTES.

Young girls just entering their teens
are given dresses very like their older
sisters.
Small boys wear long, dark colored
stockings, whether dressed in white or
colors.
American bridesmaids are begin
Ming to adopt the English fashion Of
wearing hats or bonAets.
For very young ladies and for
misses, suits of French bunting are
trimmed with polka-dotted satin.
Long mitts of pale ecru tint are
fashionably worn with black and tinted
white as well as with ecru costumes.
Charming summer toilets are Of
white barege, trimmed with quantities
of finely plated Breton lace and white
satin bows.
The draperies of plain skirts are
made short, en- panler and very bout
FAINT around the hips, with very short
apron or none at all.
"A new skirt-trimming consists Of
square slashed-up edges, under which
are placed ruflles of plated lace show
ing between the slashes.
"A pretty belt is formed by wide
watered ribbon passed around the waist,
with one very long flat loop and two
longer ends hanging directly down the
front.
-Gabrielles fastening in front with
double row of buttons, and trimmed
with founces at the bottom, are worp
by both boys and girls under B years OF
age.
-Cbangeable ribbons, blue with
gold, green with cream color, rose With
blue, and pale peacock and pink with
gendarme blue, are among late MILL
merry novelties.
Grape roses with dew drops sprink
led upon them are the prettiest flowers
imported this season. Clusters of nine
of them in different shades of red, are
worn on some of the bonnets. This
makes a woman a perambulating gar
den of roses while under one of these
creative desings.
1t is not the most fashionable lady
who is the best dressed, but the one
who, wearing nothing Oatre, is dressed
quietly, her clothes Of well selected, ,ricb
material, and every color harmonizing.
and not as the Frenchman forcibly ex-
presses it, "each garment swearing al
each other"
-Old-fashioned scarfs, like those
worn about Is years ago, are again in
use. They are now made of black satin,
trimmed with fringe or lace. "Gore-
de-pigeon silks are again in vogue.
Whole toilets have not yet been made OF
this colored silk, but the first step has
been taken by making out of this ma.
terial some very pretty bonnets. One
Of these consists of small capote COM
posed of a diadem of plated garnet
colored velvet, with the drapery OF
gore-de. pigeon filk, and a large bow
forming the crown Vi the bonnet. The
ribbon of this bow is taken down to
form the strings. On the left side is a
bunch of flowers. and toward the middle
Is small garland OF tine flowers IN the
shades of the taffetas.
1t is constant problem how to
make summer dressing pretty and
fresh, yet economical, repre-
sentative of the newest ideas,
vet not too difficult for those
who can neither devote all their time
nor their energies to the keeping it in
condition. The solution usually adopt
ed is to avoid all the delicate, light-col-
ored materials, and fall back on such
goods as will not need wash, or rather
will not "show" dirt. This is why
black grenadine and summer silks have
been so popular; both are safe and du-
rable, and can be worn upon the ma
jority of occasions. But the light mus
lins-the linen lawns, which used to be
so much worn in summer, are now
scarcely seen at all; and the new cot
ton goods, the soft-fnished cambrics,
the lovely chintz satines, the mummy
cloths, the real Scotch ginghams, the
fine batistes in delicate colorings, are
only used by the rich, and not at all by
the class who ought TO enjoy them.
The question may be asked, why are
not hght fabrics used now as they were
20 or 25 years ago, and the answer is
simple: then there were few complica-
tions tn the making of dresses, they
were much more easily laundried, and
among middle-class people they were
more apt to be done at home, and by
some member of q family, rather than
an ordinary domestic or washerwoman.
1t is almost impossible to make one
of these uncultivated specimens un-
derstand that starch is undesirable; that
making dress glossy in streaks by
ironing it on the upper, or what is call
ed the "right" side, ruins it for wear,
and that the perfection of washing, or
"doing up" dresses is to have them look
as little stiff, as little "done up" and
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