Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-05-06

twenty-four inches deep.
IL is impossible TO make n collarette
too large for the fashion.
Blondes wear black lace scarfs with
out any white lace or flowers.
Heliotrope and cream is the favorite
combination of colors this season.
Yellow sunfowers and crimson pop
pies are favorite flowers this season.
| Eugene net. much used in millinery.
shows gilt threads in diamond meshes.
| New cashmeres come in all fashion.
able colors and are unusually rich in
effect.
Sleeveless habit corsages of velvet or
satin are worn over ball dresses of tulle
or gauze.
Satins figure extensively among hand
some fabrics for costumes and bonnet
garniture.
| Beaded and jet passementerie forms n
fashionable garniture for costumes of
silk and satin.
Beaded passementeries are largely
used for trimming silk and satin man
ties ard dresses.
Plain colored French buntines will be
combined with figured foulards for wear
at watering-places.
New dress buttons come in two sizes
one intended for the coat and the other
for the dress waist.
The prevailing fancy for directoire
styles has brought undraped toilets
largely into fashion.
Cotton satin, with printed designs OF
flowers, is the novelty said TO be held in
reserve for the summer.
Some of the new artificial flowers are
furnished with celluloid leaves which
appear very lifelike and arc said to wear
well.
Spring and summer mantles are
weighted with profusion of lace, rib
bon and jet fringe, network and orna-
ments.
The new wooden mixtures are no
heavier than the French buntings, and
are covered with alternating dashes of
two colors.
Corduroy underskirts will continue
TO be worn under draperies OF silk
ioulard, Yeddo Grape, and light wooden
dress goods.
Nuns yelling Is the name of an mex
| pensivs dress material which ranks
higher than bunting and comes in all
the new shades.
Dresses OF India muslin made in
Paris are decorated with suitana scarfs
OF Oriental silk. embroidered with
either gold or silver.
LuteString ribbons have been revived
/ by PaTis milliners. They are made
with tape borders or fcnthtir edges in
oid time style. and are called taffctas.
| Dresses with plan corsages. plain tight
| sleeves, and plain skirts without
nounces, tabliers. or oyerskirts, are
worn by some very fashionable women.
scarfs Of scarlet tulle, beaded with
tiny pearl beads, are worn TO advantage
by those 10 whom scarlet Is becoming,
in place of the white illusion neck
scarfs of last fall.
Hats with black velvet facings trim
med with scarfs OF cream, pink and
blue gauzc may be worn by ladies 10
whose compilations neither OF the bright
colors Is becoming alone.
Square handkcrchicfs of bright coll
ored striped foulard are twisted into
pretty dress caps for ladies and fastened
on the head with lnrge Spanish pins or
bouquets Of artificial flowers.
Monte clcth which has steadily in
| creased in favor since its first introduc.
| tion ne n linen fabric Is furnished now
in handsome wooden goods finished
with crinkled or crape-like surface.
Three small ostrich tips shaded from
pearl To heliotrope, from cream TO Isa.
| belle yellow, or in various shades of
one color, form the Prince of Wales
plumes employed on Tuscan and chip
hats
Evening dresses are made with the
bodice open, in the shape of n square or
an oval, and trimmed with draperies.
lace and fringe. The sleeves are fin
ished at the elbow, and trimmed to cor
respond.
Many mazarin collars arc still worn,
both OF white and black lace. Two
plated pieces of point d'esprit, or of
| crepe iisse Tuching. one turned up and
tho other down. with ribbon bet tween.
make very pretty color.
Marrow plaitings form n iavorite
trimming for The foot of skirts; these
arc each three inches wide when fin
ished, and are made to lap an inch upon
each other; the plating Is then pulled
out of its fiat fold, to look ms bunchy ne
possible.
ISurtout suits, consisting of long coats
OF elegant shape, slashed in the back
| nearly TO the waist, lined with bright
silk, provided with handsome buttons,
and worn with skirts finished by simple
knife plaItinRs, are n favorite style for
handsome walking dresses.
The latest novely in dress goods Ii
eeru cotton, thicker than the heaviest
unhieached muslins oi Inst summer. and
with bayadere@ stripes of bright shades
of blue, scarlet, yellow and black.
over these bayadere domestics are
sometimes draped the cheese cloths OF
last summer.
a Paris letter says that the airy lace,
satin and rihbln mufEs have prov d so
pretty an addition 10 the toilette that
they have established position in the
ballroom, where they arc carried In tho
hand Or sown to the dress. They look
very well made n. match the dresses
In the plain Oriental silks, printed with
designs In gold or silver.