Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-11
FASHION NOTES.

than smaller.
Carrickmacross point is the name of a
new Irish lace.
The gold serpent bangles are initiated
in pure silver.
Tarlatan is again worn for evening
dress by young girls.
The gloves with rows of stitching on
the back are English.
Stamped velvet is much used to trim
the new Surah gowns.
Shetland shawls for summer are shown
in several new patterns.
The new coral-red is anything but be-
coming to a flushed face.
Scoop brim hats turned down behind
will be worn for travelling.
French women wear their little bon
nets at the back of the head.
Decidedly, round skirts are the most
fashionable for street dresses.
Flounces rather than killings appear
on the newest French gowns.
Overskirts that open on one side have
a pocket set on the other side.
India cashmere shawls are made into
carriage wraps for summer wear.
Changeable and checked silk is a pref
ty combination for walking dress.
Pansies and maiden-hair ferns make
the prettiest flower knot tor the hair.
Coralline beads in oval and globular
shapes are preferred to red celluloid.
Fans are decorated both with flowers
and with Vatican pictures this year.
Peacocks embroidered in colors adorn
the corners of some new handkerchiefs.
Taffeta is now initiated in cotton SO
we'll that it cannot be distinguished from
silk.
Strings of Black Roman pearls are
much prettier than jet beads for neck
laces.
Madras and Swiss muslin curtains are
used in all parts of the house except the
parlor.
Evening dresses have no sleeves and
are worn with underwaists and sleeves
of lace.
Very little boys and girls wear ulsters
of pique and other materials that can be
washed.
Tapestries striped across the web and
interviewer with gold are used for door
curtains,
Colored cottons are used instead of
.crewels to embroider dresses that are to
be washed.
Scarfs of point lace are imported to be
used first as bridal wreaths and after
wards as overskirts.
One of the new black mantles is en-
broidered all over with carnations,
wrought in gold thread.
Little earrings made of turquoise and
steel, and shaped like a leaf, are worn
with white dresses.
When flowers are worn in the hair,
they are drawn down among the puffs
and do not project beyond them.
Silk lap robes are the prettiest for
summer. They are light in weight and
are striped with several colors.
The petticoats worn with round skirted
walking dresses are very short, but are
invariably founced at the bottom.
Unlined open-work Tuscan bonnets,
trimmed with one big bow of which the
long ends form the strings, are fashiona-
BILE.
American Louisines, which are much
cheaper than those made in France, are
even more popular than the plain Ameri-
can silks.
Lawn tennis dresses are made with
deep borders of some bright color, en-
broidered with flowers; and the aprons
worn with them are similarly trimmed.
Violet and brown are the favorite col
ors for mems socks this summer, but
there is fair demand for deep cream
colored hose with hair line stripes or
cardinal.
Summer dresses that have blouse
waists have overskirts pointed in front
and draped at the back; but those with
basques have tightly-drawn scarf over
skirts. These be Partisan rules.
The kerchiefs this summer are almost
too pretty to wear. Squares of Italian
silk, with embroidered borders two inch
es deep, are the newest. They are fin
ished on the edge with plaitings of silk
muslin.
Bengaline is Worth's last favorite in
materials, and capucine in colors. The
bengaline is a soft silk; capucine is a
fiery red.
Amazon hats, faced with shirred vel.
vet and trimmed with two long feathers
sweeping around the crown are new, and
becoming to most faces.
Wash-stand hangings should be dec
| grated with embroidery suggestive O
water, such as fish swimming in the sea
aquatic plants or mermaids.
White nuns yelling is used to MAKE
reception dresses for country wear. Thu
trimming is white fringe, the plaiting'
and sashes OF colored silk.
A new style of wedding gown called