Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-19
STYLES AND FASHIONS.

iridescent and diamOnd-tinted, are on eve
rything; and the Spanish marriage, which
has had the credit of making fashionable
the colora red and yellow, in combination,
is not the real motive OF their use The
change of taste from grave to gay, so
marked in the last few seasons, is only
another evidence of the exhilaration OF
feeling consequent on brighter business
outlook. A few years, ago lady dressed
as is the common custom now, would have
been stared at IN the streets as an escaped
lunatic-or what is, according to some peo-
pie, worse-a burlesque actress who had
forgotten to remove her stage trappings.
After all, why should We not wear the
brightest and prettiest colors that nature
shows? Woman has been always known
as bird of paradise, " " butterfly, every
name implying show without brain and
now that she is stepping forward in the
van OF intellectual de' elopment, she can
afford to choose her array and make her
self as bewitching as possible.
CAPRICEs.
Among the pret6iest caprices of the time
is that of wearing dress collars or capes Of
beaded netting, so flexible and graceful as
to follow every movement of the figure,
and to disclose and not conceal the per-
fectly fitting dress which covers it. Some
wraps from Berlin, shown at a leading
house, are made OF satin de yon lined with
gold, loaded with passementerie to the
elbow, and below that latticed netting Of
beads falls, a third Of yard in depth.
The bead trimmings ars now extensively
manufactured in this country, and at such
hat ba
casting about for something new again and
less accessible to the common purse. In
some bands of feather trimming as many
as twenty different shades are shown, and
these are SO expensive, both in material
and the care necessary for their dyeing,
that they cannot become SO generally used
as to lose their value.
THE HUNGARIAN SPIKES,
Popular in the place OF tassels) with and
without cord, are sometimes used to form
fringts, and they, with the majority Of
shapes IN costumes, are indications Of q
sitter and more prim manner of dress
which the aesthetics are trying to intro
duce-as witness some of the bonnets worn
by young girls whose size and shape would
suggest an Older face to put inside them.
The next person we meet Is arrayed in
scarlet and gold, Sinsel and cashmere
feathers, the charm Of each bonnet lying
in its being adapted TO the face which is to
wear it. Never has there been a time
when the opportunity for excess was
greater and, on the other hand, never
was there so good chance for people to
be, individually, well dressed without an
wise outlay. Judicous choice always
would be medium in color as IN
shane, and the woman who sits down
at home, her own dressmaker, can
find much to comfort her in the
fact, that she can obtain excellent and re-
liable patterns, can choose what shape will
be becoming to her. and often can combine
Two or three partly-worn garments and
have unique and pretty dress. The old
Turk satin-revived under the name of
satin de Lyons one of the proofs OF this,
for many an old Turk satin wide skirt is
packed away-if changeable so much the
better-which viii be the foundation now
for an elegant costume. India silks are
popular again, our early and intensely
warm summers hay ing shown the necessity
for large preparation of thin dress, and
these silks, with the foulards, can be worn
at the seaside without the limpness of
grenadines. They are often embroidered
IN varied colors, and are SO cheap as to be
a pleasant and possible addition TO mod
crate wardrobe.
FoULARDS, SATIN PACED,
Combine with their figured sisters in soft
drapery, and form admirable foils in con-
trast with the fiat costumes which have
seized the popular fancy. One of two Ia
dies on the street will be seen without
a puff or plat in sight ard, by her side,
her companion with high panier, plaitings
and drapings indiscribably complicated
and both in the fashion. There is no limit
to the caprice which can be INDUCED with
out being thought peculiar-as witness the
" Jersey" ascrlbing its name to the fair
Mrs Langtry. In shape it is nothing till
worn, when, as it is practically an elastic
Guernsey shirt, it stretches close to the
wearer's figure (which must be beautiful to
m ~ it a successl and when it forms the
corsage with short drapery to cover its
Join to the skirt. After it, there would
seem to be nothing which modern women
will not dare and do to be differently
dressed from their fellow-woman.
THE ORCANDIEs AND summary CLOTHS
Are found in all the combinations and
styles Of silk and worsted goods-Watteau
j Japanese and Persian figures, ground work
from black to white and in most exquisite
tints. Muslins, dotted and plain, are made
with lace ToIchon, Breton and its varie-
ties, and are often shown with under-slips
of color accompanying pink, hello
trope and in such case the ribbon bows
nesting in the lace must harmonic as well
as the flowers to wear at the neck or in
the belt All the little accessories of dress
are 80 tempting that it is very easy to
empty well-filled purse just through
these little tantalizing bats. Pocket hand
kerchiefs to match dresses, in India silk
with palm and cashmere borders, in every
kind and color, hang seductively before
the eye in every store you enter and
lovely woman was always weak as regarded
laces and tixin's.
POPULAR THINGS.
The parasols partake of the extravaganza
shown everywhere. Among the choicest,
those hand-painted are most expensive. A
spray OF wild flowers appears to be laid on
a black satin, with lining of cardinal on
another, little pansies at the center increase
to large ones at the circumference, and the
fringe is OF flowers, with rubber stems and
grasses. The Innings are put against the
outside silk, showing the ribs, whether for
any purpose of wear or only caprice, it is
too much to attempt to decide Since
fashion means novelty in everything, the
careful critic dares not commit himself to
the reason for anything. The less sense
the better seems the rule.
Fans with handles yard long, and the
leaf five or six inches, are chosen by young
ladies who wish rather to aniuse them
selves with coquettish gestures than to
make practical use of them; these are
Japanese, and some of them hand painted
on silk. A fashionable young belle was
seen the other day using one for walking
stick. Perhaps that is their destiny.
Who shall say? Spanish fans, of feathers,
or with many strips for easy folding in play
with the hands, are gay with the bright
colors which pervade everything - Nor.
ford's Monthly for June.