Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-05
Fashion

There is a revival of spotted fabrics.
Mignonette has become fashionable
again.
White is the accepted dinner dress
for 1880.
The gypsys is the bonnet for the
month Of May.
Red grows more and more in fash
ionable favor.
Cheviots and English homespuDs
are much worn.
Gypsy bonnets look best with no
face trimmings.
Sleeves will be pulled in the arm
holes this summer.
Nuns cloth is the most worn of any
light wollen summer dress fabric.
Salmon red and summer sunset are
two new shades of reddish yellow.
Old gold straws are very popular
and very becoming to brunette beau
ties.
Velvet spotted or polka dotted
grenadines appear among summer fab
RIGS.
The first painted costume made in
Paris vas made for Sara Bernhardt.
1t cost $500.
Little girls wear their hair loose and
flowing down the back, not braided or
curled.
There is a growing demand for Car.
rickmacross point coupee and other
Irish laces.
White chip hats and bonnets are
the most becoming for young ladies
under twenty.
Surah, a very heavy but soft and
supple silk, gains in popularity from
day to day.
No matter how short the sleeves
are, the gloves must be long enough
to cover the arms.
Rayon de Ia litne-moon's RAYS
the newest shade of yellow. 1t is a
pale yellowish orange, but very lumin-
Gus.
Revived point d'Anglcterre and RI.
gusa (machine woven) bid fair to take
the place of Languedoc and Breton
lace.
Louis XIII capes of jetted net, OIL
net and chenille, or of other worked
jet beaded passementeries, bid fair tc
be very fashionable.
Dresses of tafeta in all the new
shades of color, and black and white
painted by hand, are the fancy of the
passing moment in Paris.
The fans most fashionable for dec.
o%rative purposes at the moment are
those in the shape of a large sun
flower, pansy, daisy, or butterfly.
Both short and long sleeves fol
either evening or daylight wear will b.
pulled in the armhole in the next turn
of the wheel of fashion.
Spanish lace bonnets in Fanchor
shapes are becoming to nearly al,
women over twenty and under fifty
years of age, when they are not fat.
Black, red, and yellow prevail in al,
Partisan outdoor costumes, in spite o.
the introduction of heliotrope, aven.
%turine, mauve and rayon de la lune.
Brocaded or figured skirts, with
polonaiSes or over dresses aud basque;
Of plain stutfs, are more fashionable
than the reversed order of arrange,
ment.
Paris p~olonaises are made Longer
than the skirts of the dresses they are
worn over. and are looped and turned
up in various fanciful styles to show
the underskirt, which is generally
plated.
Canvas-back ducks are served a
ceremonious dinners on plates o
American silverware, because Ameri
can silversmiths are the best in the
world, and the canvas back is thu
greatest American d%elicacy.
To make a pretty Louis XIII. capt
take many rows of any lace preferred
black or white, u them together in
shoulder cape, set it to a straigh.
high collar of silk or satin, and faster
the same with a large boquet of flow
ers neal the left ear.
Old gold colored Tuscan lace stray
bonnets are lined with old gold coloret
satin next to the straw, and black vel
vet also under the brim, while golt
shot yellow satin ribbons, and ribbon
woven Of gold thread, and gold ne
strings add to the rich effect of III.
bright flowers and feathers used il
trimming them.