The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-05-12
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Fashion Notes.

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Fashion Notes.
The imported bingham suits are he
prettiest of all wash dresses.
Jet passementerie and fringe are mos
effective on dull wooden goods.
The gay rainbow beads are more usec
o n light ecru cloth or cashmere NANTES
than on black.
Chenille fringe with occasional strand!
of let beads is very handsome trimming
for satin wraps.
Pink, gray and white cashmeres are
imported with polka dots embroidered
wish silk, to be made up with plair
Surah silks.
The most dressy foulards in Wattear
colors are lined throughout with pale
blue silk, and the. blue does not appear
elsewhere in the dress.
The round shouldered capes that dc
not quite reach the elbows are youthful
and dressy wraps when made entirely o.
let beads mounted on net or tied in the
mesieS.
A suit of heliotrope cashmere has q
skirted basque with punched drapery be-
hind, while the flat front opens over gay
foulard laid in small plaits the whole
length of the skirt.
Iridescent beads are still used, and in
many of the new colored bead trim.
mings purple and lavender tinted beads
are introduced. Steel beads are also
used, especially in combination with jet
beads.
The plated lace round capes are i'm
ported this season in shapes like large
cardinal collars, finished around the
neck with high medicis rufus, or with
lace directoire collars that roll high,
and are held in place by fine %threadlike
wires.
Lovely dresses of batiste, of the
sheerest qualities, are Of pale faded tints.
either pink, blue, cream or lavender,
and are ornamented with artistic en-
broidery done in crewel-work of the
gayest colors, in vivid contrast to that
of the dress.
For simple dress Of summer woolens-
bunting, cashmere, cheviot or Gamers
hair-to be worn in the mornings at
home, for shopping, travelling, etc, the
suit with position basque. tabliel
overskirt, as now published, is one Of
the prettiest designs.
A very pretty dress is garnet Surah
with lowered foulard p~laitings trim.
ming the basque and down the front OF
the skirt beneath the curtain-shaped
drapery overskirt. Point d'esprit lace
forms Il full iabot on the basque, and
edpes the neck and wrists.
The newest rassementeries look like
polka dots of braid and beads, as they
are shaped in large round pieces set in
rows; the straight-edged galoons are
also much used, and there are many
bands of diamond-shaped beads sewed
on net; the vine and foliage patterns are
rather passe.
A pink batiste in open lace-like pat
terms has the basque and the drapery
of the overskirt edged with lace frills,
above which are get clusters OF crewel-
work. rs large as Il lady's hand, repre-
senting bouquets. Of roses, carnations,
bluebells and, green foliage. Japanese
blues, olive green and dark red colors
prevail in this quaint needlework, which
is cut out and appliqued on the dress
goods. ,
Muslin keychiefs, sheer, soft and
creamy white, are also imported in such
large sizes that when doubled in three
cornered shape the points fall below the
waist, the shoulders are well covered
and the points are tiea in front. En-
broidery done on the edges md in each
corner is more fashionable than lace as
trimming for these null kercliets.
Young ladies will use these for mid.
summer wraps with light foulard and
summer silk dresses.
Very light small-igured foulard silks
are among the other fresh and pretty
dresses prepal ed for midsummer. Thus,
a white ground with tiny pale blue
spots is made up with a great deal OF
plain blue Surah, which forms the col
lar and bosom drapery, and is cut into
many narrow bias-gathered rufties for
trimming heskirt. These dresses are
commended for their lightness, a they
weigh less than grenadines, which re-
quire heavier silk Innings.
The basque pattern is full of sugges-
tons for remodeling last seasons
dresses BY adding the long directoire
revers that forms a collar in the back
and tapers to the waist. Moreover,
basaues that are too short for the coat
shape, can now have a skirted piece
added around the hips, and covered with
the trimming material, which should
also be held in position plaits behind.
Overskirts can be enlightened by adding
trimming, and the back breadths can
be drawn up in the hooped way now 80
much used.
A gay fancy is that Of trimming light
blue and white checked bingham with
bands and pointed tongues of dark
claret- colored Bingham. Such a dress
is further decorated by q cluster of
hand painted flowers in the point of
the neckerchief, which is tied sailor
fashion. Something unique in the col
or and in the combinations is aimed at
in these pretty cot.ons. Thus n of
the heliotrope purple has pale cream,
colored facings, while another of claret
red has ~plaitings of chintz figures on a
white ground, very much like the
~favorite patterns of toulard.