The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-03-24
Fashion Facts.

Waistcoats are going out of vogue.
Satin bridal toilets are still fashion,
able.
Guimpe is again fashionable trim
ming.
Tulle continues to be the preferred
bridal vel.
Buttons with invisible eyes will be
much used.
White faille is again in vogue for
bridal dresses.
The bonnet of the day and hour is the
fiat turban.
Beads OF every color appear in bonnet
decorations.
The Fanchon is the coming shape for
chip bonnets.
Silk muslin crowns for bonnets will
be much worn.
Ruby beads and yellow pearls are the
latest novelties.
All fashionable coiffures in Europe are
worn low on the neck.
Black satin is very fashionable for
evening parties in Paris.
Languedoc lace bids fair to precede
Breton for millinery purposes.
Bridal dresses are made high in the
neck, and with elbow sleeves.
The fashion of wearing powder in the
hair for evening toilet is to be revived.
The fez shape for ladies' indoor caps,
either for morning or evening wear, is
much used.
Sleeveless habit corsages of velvet or
satin are worn over ball dresses Of tulle
or gauze.
Tinted pearl and enamel buttons have
eyes in the middle so deeply indented
that they are invisible.
Lilac flowers of two kinds and shades
are fastened together with silver rib
bon for corsage bouquets.
Pulled or PLATED plastrons take the
place of waistcoats, but they are unbe-
coming to any but slender figures.
Light woolen and silk and wool ma
| terials will be more fashionable for full
dress even in the summer than silk it.
self.
Ecru lace of the same shade as the
chudda cloths and French buntings
that they trim will he much used this
season.
ESru of darker and richer shade
than of former seasons appears in most
of the latest importations of spring
dresses.
A great panache of feathers, of two or
three ostrich feathers, placed far back
on the left side of the bonnet, is very
stylish.
The high faring Valois collar, kept in
place with wire, is found among new
styles of neck garniture on the richest
toilets.
Ladies' morning and evening caps are
made of figured tinted foulardS and ST.
ins in preference to lace or tulle, and the
fez shape is preferred to all others.
A "Daisy Pinafore," or long tablier of
tulle or organoie, completely " studded
with daisies sewed on it, flat and in
rows, is the latest novelty in floral dress
garnitures.
Square handkerchiefs of fbright-colored
striped foulard are twisted into pretty
dress caps for ladies, and fastened on the
head with large Spanish pins or bou-
quets of artificial flowers.
The latest novelty in dress goods is
ecru cotton, thicker than the heaviest
unbleached musiins of last summer, and
with bayadcre stripes of bright shades Of
blue, scarlet, yellow and black. Over
these bayadere domestics are sometimes
draped the cheese cloths of last summer
Black will be the principal color for
street wear this summer, in spite of the
use Of bright tints.
Painted waistcoats are worn even with
gingham gowns. The material used is
fine sateen.
New hosiery includes not only the
most fashionable plain colors, but also
many striped stockings in two or three
tints, and open-work and embroidered
stockings without end. Lisle thread
hosiery is more handsome than that of
silk this season, and costs only half as
much.