Sharp County record., 1879-07-31
FASHION NOTES.

ALI the French bonnets thus far i'm
ported have strings.
-"Chaudron," the new color, is ole
gold with a dash of red in it.
Suits in two shades of the SAINT
color are going out of fashion.
The first large importation o.
dresses consists largely of short street
costumes.
-"Fair Maid of Perth " is the name
of costume made of wool trimmed
with plaid.
-Shirred fronts and soft full back
drapings are marked features in the
new overskirts.
limitation feather trimmings made
OF colored muslins are used for mex
pensive ball dresses.
Late importations in parasolS show
striped satin ones, and also those of
dark blue, with white polka dots.
-Pompadour styles will be employed
in making up costumes for lawn and
garden parties the coming summer.
Many wraps have jet trimmings.
1t is simply q matter of individual taste
whether they should be used or not.
Among the most stylish and dressy
fabrics used for spring wraps are the
soft brocaded cloths in delicate tints
such as pearl or cream.
In shape the spring styles of wraps
do not differ greatly from last season,
although every thing with dolman like
wings hanging down the sides has dis
appeared.
-Bayonnaise, a new material resem-
bling tamise cloth, will be in favor for
spring dresses. Light shades of it are
preferred, and they are trimmed with
satin, brocade or figured foulard.
The plastron jacket is very simple
in shape, and is suitable for any occa-
sion. 1t may be made very dressy by
adding rich trimmings. 1t is largely
imported in tan and beige colored
cloths.
AT present the home dress of the
Partisan lady, the gown which she wears
in the house every day except that upon
which she receives, is of satin or bro
cade, lined throughout with plush and
trimmed with that material.
The sleeve to be worn with white
jackets this summer will, it is said, be
gathered in three places, and orna-
mented with three frills of lace. This
is an adaptation of the styles used
with transparent sleeves during tie
winter.
The right side of many of the pat
tern bonnets is left almost bare. The
trimming is massed high on the front
and graduated towards the back on the
left side, ending there in an elaborate
bow, but the right frequently shows
only a doubled ribbon, which pass.
es backward and drops to form
strings.
For the street, short dresses are uni
versally worn. There is not even the
ghost of train. All manner of pretty,
fanciful stockings are worn, and ladies
are having plain Lisle thread and bal
briggan stockings stamped in floral de-
signs and then embroider them in col
ored, shaded silks. Before being wash
ed they should be placed for an hour in
a bucket of water in which teaspoon
full of sugar of lead is dissolved. This
will set the colors also of lawns and cal
icOes.
Dresses are easily remodeled this
season, and the tight Princess dress,
now discarded, forms an excellent foun-
dation for few yards of another ma
terial in the way of paniers, some rib.
bon, lace or fringe, a simulated vest for
q worn waist and front breadth to
match the vest, polonaise draped away
at the sides and caught up high on the
hips, or else cut on the edge of the font
breadth in three large points as de-
scribed; the waist cut square at the
bosom and sleeves made into elbow
sleeves, will transform something OF a
past away fashion into one new, fresh
and quaint.
According to Harper's Bazar the
new black grenadine dresses have satin
accessories and jet ornaments, jet gal
loon, much shirring, and great deal of
black Breton lace in pleatings, or else
French lace plated, or perhaps glass
fringe. These rich trimmings are used
on the plain square -meshed grenadines.
The new black striped grenadines are
very elegant, with inchwide stripes of
moire, or satin, or velvet. The colored
grenadines represent the gay many
Rued stripes seen in silks and in the new
batistes; there are also chintz-fgured
and watered stripes in gay colors.
-Night-dresses are made of white
cambric muslin. They are trimmed
down the front on the lower border, and
the collar and sleeves, with double rows
of futed rufIling and lace. Train un-
derskirts are still made with full puffings