Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-08-05
FASHION NOTES.


Long dresses are very little worn.
The gowns preserve the princess form.
Suushades are smaller this season than
last.
Yellow blonde hair is no longer fashion
able.
The LRnballe is the leading summer
fchu.
Fichus are de rigueur with all dressy
toilets.
Mitts are of all colors, as well as white
and black
Amula is the popular toilet wash for tan
ana freckles.
Kerchicf gowns are as popular as ever
this summer
Tar soap is the French specific for incipi-
ent wrinkles.
The fashionable collar at the moment is
the Dauphin.
Red mitts give a brilliant effect to
black costume.
Paris theatre toilets are always adorned
with bouquet.
Large lace butterfly bows appear on
Partisan toilets.
Spotted and small.fgured fabrics grow
in popular favor.
Ashy blonde is the new shade of fash
ionably dyed hair.
Zones, pointed back and front, are again
worn with dressy toilets.
1t is the custom abroad to wear flowers
wherever they can be worn.
Roman and Greek dresses are worn at
costume parties in England.
Just now it is at the left side of the
neck that the bouquet is fixed.
White cheese cloth makes a beautiful
and inexpensive Greek costume.
Lace covers to fine carriage sunshades
remain in vogue season after season.
Cascades of lace do gn the front of the
corsage appear on many dressy suits.
Gray, which has so long been out of
favor in PARIS, is revived this summer.
Black toilets are as much worn at Paris
ian weddings as colored or white ones.
Veronese surcoats are woven in all COL
ors, and in black and white to match cos
tunes.
When bonnets are small they cannot be
too small, and when large the larger the
better.
For ball and festival dresses the rule is
decoration to profusion with artificial
flowers.
Etching on terra Gotta, porcelain, or
drift is the latest decorative art craze in
England.
Bodices are pointed in front, rounded
on the hips, and have position basques in
the back.
Dancing dresses are made of thin goods,
and for young ladies white ones are the
most popular.
BY far the most fashionable colors In
conjunction with white are mauve and
Persian lilac.
A weak solution Of carbolic acid in rain
water will cure summer pimples and sim
PIE crupticns.
The gold thread seen in fine white em-
broideries and in lace does not tarnish
when washed.
Small detached figures predominant in
the patterns of brocades received as sam
pies from Paris.
Lace albums are the latest fancy Of
women who have no real work to occupy
their leisure hours.
Black dresses, trimmed with profusion
of jet, are among the most distinguished
toilets of the season.
Bridal dresses are made of white satin,
with round dots, and trimmed with tuIle
and orange blossoms.
1t is the fashion at present in Paris for
brunettes and medium blondes to dye
their hair blue-black.
The most fashionable parasols are Of
surah silk or satin, in any color preferred,
or black or white and hand-painted.
Yellow lace is much used for trimming
dresses and jackets. 1t is sometimes
worked with colOred threads to match the
dress.
Flarlng "stand-up" collars, with lace
ruffles within them, have been revived by
ladies of the Sara Bernhardt and Modjeska
style of tournure.
A black dress recently worn in London
was made of satin, embroidered in gold
butterflies. Black holds its own against
all the popular colors.
1t is also fashionable for young, unmar-
ried ladies, and even young matrons, who
have pretty feet ben chausses, to wear
short dresses for dinner toilet.
Attention to triaes makes perfection,
and without care no toilet can be perfect
in its details, is the sermonette of dress
ethics at the moment In England.
Reticules just like those carried by our
grandmothers are revived, and carried on
the arm at the elbow, not swung TO the
belt as side pockets were last year.
Pretty silks are dotted with satin in self
color, and are very effective, combined with
sef.colored surah. They make up very
elegant promenade and visiting costumes.
Charity visiting costumes in England
consist of plain, straight skirt of dark
blue flannel and jacket bodice of the
same, made and finished in tailor style,
Elegant toilets for fashionable watering
places are made Of shot.silk in dark tints,
trimmed with surah, In Horiated or Japan
ese patterns upon white or light ground.
An English journal brings to notice
novel invention-a nose machine-whicb,
it is said, so directs the cartilage that an
Informed nose is quickly shaped to per-
fection.
Shirring is more used than at any pre-
vious season for the front of dress skirts,
but is now shirred horizontally, in wide
clusters, instead of lengthwise, as it was
formerly.
The most fashionable of all sunshadeS
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