The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1880-09-22
Fashions.
NEW TRIMMINGS.


prominent accessories, or rather trim
mings, of a toilet are passementeries
and embroideries. An unheard Of
profusion will exist during the coming
season in ornamentation, and costumes
will be seen covered with the utmost
elaboration of white jet, mother-of-
pearl, gold and silver, opalescent
beads, pink pearls and flossy silks,
like the sparkling of a casket of flew
els. On white flmy lace and white
satin is exquisitely represented the
finest work in vines and flowers, fam
tastically trimmed with leaves and
curling tendrils. On a broad band of
white lace is seen the snow-droppat-
tern. The deep points of the lower
edge are separated by a delicate bind
ing of thread-iike white chenille and
gold twist. In the centre of each
point droops a graceful cluster of snow
drops, embroidered in chenille floss
silk and pearls; the gilt stems and
branches have leaves of opal beads in
| shifting shades of cream, violet and
palest green; the points are finished
with tiny scallops of fine chenille and
the delicate tints of opalscent bead
work. This beautiful pattern is also
produced on black tulle, and the em-
broidery is done in the most brilliant
| colors, and on black worked with gold
thread only.
A magnificent white satin trim
is still more elaborate; the lower edge
is scalloped with finest handwork of
gilt thread and shaded green beads
and seed pearls; at certain distances
apart are butterflies with outspread
wings, outlined with gilt thread, filled
in with knots of ~variegated metallic
threads and seed pearls the body is
in high relief, being stuffed, and is m
broidered with shaded green metallic
threads and barred across with copper
geld, and the head is Of red gold beads,
dotted with black. The curling vines
are done in green seed beads and gilt
thread the main stem is of fine pink
pearls, with lotos flowers of metallic
blue and pink seed beads filled in with
creamy floss, and tendrils curl about
them of gilt thread and dropping,
p~ear-shaped pearls. The upper edge
of this superb band is embroideredin
bars eff alternate pearls and knntted
threads of variegated metallic lustre.
A band of white lace a quarter of a
yard wide is exquisitely scalloped with
finest work of seeded pearls and chen
lille thread. In each scallop is a large
cluster of fuchsias embroidered with
white floss. in the heaviest manner;
the long, dropping tassel-like pistils
are made of graduated pearls, each fin
ished with one pear-shaped pearl the
leaves and buds are of finest work of
seeded pearls and opal segments of
bugles. A wide white applique trim
ming alternates with a buckle-shaped
and elaborate medallion. These are
on lace. The buckles are outlined
with pink pearls in small arabesques,
closely massed, and knots of glowing
metallic threads. From these spread
rays of shaded copper gold cut beads,
with filling in with pearls and floss;
the medallions are outlined with fine,
opal tinted bugles and shaded pale
green and gold cut glass fine beads.
The effect is that of the richest gems
in flashing, changing light. Other
white laces are embroidered in imita-
ton of Brussels and Valenciennes.
An exquisite with lace initiates old
point in flowers worked in white floss
and chenille thread, varied with seed
pearls, delicate iridescent seed beads in
a frosty sheen wrought like stippled
shadows. The lower edge of scallops
is in an intricate design of floss silk
glowing with mother-of-pearl %colors;
graduated pearls drop like lily cups in
clusters from trailing vines of silky
floss and silver thread.
Another applique Oh white satin is
series of medallions of pearls with cen
tres of pink pearls in trefoil of varie-
gated metallic threads glowing with
the colors of ruby, emerald, opal, saph-
ire and topaz, set like jewels in finest
outlining of gold thread. A cobwebby
lace seems strewn with falling snow
flakes and flashing icicles of iridescent
hues. One Of the most beautiful of the
lace bands has deep points of large
pearls and embroidery Of sheeny ride
scent bugles as fine as a cambria needle.
The graceful lilies and foliage are ex-
ceedingly rich with heavy floss work,
tiny transparent beads g%listening with
shifting rays of blue and gold, and
broad leaves of silver, outlined leaves
filled in with fine cut-glass beads, so
delicate that there is only a shadow Of
water green to be seen. In strongest
contrast is an applique trimming Of
wide branching foliage of finest jet
bugle embroidery outlined with gold
thread; here and there are clusters of
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