Sharp County record., 1879-04-24
FASHION NOTES.

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Skirts are beautifully short.
Every body wears Breton lace.
-Jabots grow longer and longer.
Marie Antoinette styles are revived.
Basque poIonaises will be much
worn.
The Trianon is the coming polo
naise.
Shoulder capes are again fashion
able.
English round hats have larger
crowns.
-Turbans are worn both in and out
doors.
Novelties in side saohels are in de-
mand.
Large bOnnets are preferred to
small ones.
The short skirt is as short behind
as before.'
Both high and low turban caps are
fashionable.
Black chip is the iavorite bOnnetfOr
all occasions.
-Bengaline is one Of the French
dress novelty fabrics.
Stirring is very fashionable on ali
summer garments.
Reed green is d new shade OF this
popular spring color.
Skirts of short dresses retain their
narrow dimensions.
Trains and dami-trains are no long
er seen in the street.
-Goldand gilt trimmings are as 7ui-
carly fashionable as ever.
Gloves are long, reaching to the eL-
bow for full evening toilet.
Elbow sleeves are seen on ball and
evening reception dresses.
-WaistoOats are as often made to
wear over the basque as under it.
New parasols have fatter tops than
the canopy ones OF last summer.
-ParasoI Innings are sometimes of gay
Scotch plaids or bandana goods.
Flat crowns with very little taper
/. ing are seen in English round hats.
Position plaits and fan trimmings
in the back OF Dasques are revived.
-Fichu c0llarettes and jabOt collar
cites give a dressy effect to a plain toi-
Let.
The turban is the fashionable cap
for young ladies and young married
women.
The panier scarf draperies of Paris
made dresses are stifened with crino-
line.
Gaps made Of silk handkerChiefs,
in turban or Normandy form, are much
worn.
-Bandanna and gay plaid handker-
chiefs are made up into dresses Ior
misses and young girls.
Shades of yellow, from pale straw
or corn, to deep tan and old gold, are
very fashionable.
silk handkerchiefs in Oriental de-
signs and cOlors are preferred for dressy
breakfast caps.{
Rhine pebble buttons look Ike
diamonds at night. The price varies
from 70 cents dozen up.
Very large flowers, especially roses
and chrysanthemums, are used in bon
net decorations.
-Scarfs of fine net, edged with Breton
lace, are as often worn for bonnet strings
as for neckties.
The marked feature in the new
overskirts are the shirred fronts and
boufant back draperies.
French bunting, fine, light wool
goods, is the material in use Tor spring
and summer half-mourning costumes.
Bonnet strings are tied in large
loose bow under the chin, not at the side,
or they are simply crossed in front, the
ends forming jaDot.
French chips are brought out in
shades of color to match costumes,
such as pale blue, dark blue, tan,
chamois, gray, beige, brown, and dark
green.
-Boufant draperies, whether on the
hips or back, are placed higher and
higher, the fullness more often being
placed just below the waist line than
lower down on the skirt.
The novelty in spring bOnnets is of
soft chip, or Tuscan straw, with large
brim of the same dimensions all around;
this brim the miIliners indent to suit the
face of the wearer.
The newest white lawn and cambria
waists have the fronts in tichu style,
made with separate piece in six pats
on each side, sewed in the shoulder
seams, and tapering to the waist.
The NOase sf the Life BleOd.
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