The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-29
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Fashion Notes.

White pansies are used for bridal
bouquets.
Buttons will be as fanciful as ever
this summer.
There are twenty-five new shades in
open-work silk stockings.
Lutes ring ribbons with feather edges
are coming in fashion again.
Bracelets should be worn on the wrist
when placed outside long gloves.
Imitation Alencon point is much
used TO trim kerchiefs and neckties.
Isabelle yellow is the proper name for
the coffee color so prominent in lace and
nets.
Bolts and rivets in metal are to fasten
on the trimmings of some of the sum-
mer hats.
Outside jackets are made with very
large pearl buttons, but are otherwise
quite plain.
Plain grenadine and brocade grena-
dine will be combined in summer
gowns this year as they were last sum-
mer.
Plain linens and cottons, and very
simple stripes, are to be the favorite
wear of our English sisters this sum-
mer.
Louisine silks are replaced this sum-
mer by what are called canvas silks.
They have alternately stripes of plain
color and of brocade on white ground.
Loosely woven Cheviots in pinhead
checks of two colors or of two shades
of one color, will be worn for travelling
suits this summer. They are wide and
not very expensive.
Sea-green, which is to be fashionable
this summer in thin goods, needs 10 be
lighted up with pink ribbons or pipings
to become blondes, and brunettes cannot
wear it at all.
Long jackets, made tight at the waist
and reaching nearly to the hem of the
skirt, have been introduced in England.
They are almost exactly like the old
fashioned basquine.
Camels hair goods appears still an
other style this year. 1t is made with
thick round threads, loosely woven, and
is either striped, clouded or strewn with
tiny dashes.
One CT the new ways of dressing the
hair is to part it in front, crimping it
slightly, and to fasten it into one large
braid at the back, placing bow in the
center of the knot and a rose low on the
side.
The Difference.
Iti is frequently remarked, says Jen-
ME June in the Washington Star, that
one of the great advantages which the
dress of gentlemen possesses over that
of ladies is the permanent cut and style
of their full, or what is known as
evening dress" With a clean shirt,
a dress coat and white tie all men look
like gentlemen, and what is more, feel
like one. This is not always the case
with the evening dress Of women, not
withstanding the vast amount OF
trouble and anxiety it costs them, be-
cause it is so often different from any
thing else they ever wore before in their
lives, and they are not sure of it or them
selves. Full dress ought to have some
thing distinctive about it, and it should
not change very often, or in essential
ideas. The skirt should always be more
or less trained, the bodice cut square or
open, and the sleeves 10 or below the
elbow so as to allow of the delicate fin.
ishing of lace, the display of jewels if
need be, and tie wearing of long gloves.
A dark short street suit is as much out
of place in drawing room on dress "
occasion as the business suit of man,
and for gentleman to make his appear
ance in such a costume at formal
gathering would be to exclude him from
the lists of guests in the future. unless
his poverty or his genius formed suf-
ficient excuse. The short dresses worn
at dancing parties by young girls are oil
course most fitting and proper. They
are usually of light delicate materials,
and as charming as the wearers. They
have reason being which the
walking suit has not--in such COM
pany.