The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-06-11
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Fashion Notes.

Fashion Notes.
Polonaises are in high favor.
All shades of red are fashionable.
New parasols are of medium size.
The return of bustles is predicted.
There is a revival of spotted fabrics.
Mignonette has become fashionable
again.
Gypsy bonnets look best with no face
trimmings.
Cheviots and English homespuns are
much worn.
Sleeves will be puffed in the armholes
this summer.
Languedoo is the popular lace for
trimming white muslins.
Hoods are to be revived and use to
excess on all kinds of wraps.
Turbans and Gainsboroughs rival the
gypsy as hats for young ladies.
Nuns cloth is the most worn of any
light woolen summer dress fabrics.
Rich and substantial fabrics are neces-
sary when plain suits are preferred.
Gold lace is sewed in two or three
rows at the ends of black net strings.
Old gold stra VS. are very popular and
very becoming to brunette beauties.
Velvet spotted or polka dotted grena-
dimes appear among summer fabrics.
Salmon-y yellow and summer sunset
are two new shades of reddish yellow.
White chip hats and bonnets are the
most becoming for young ladies under
twenty.
Surah, very heavy but soft and sup
pie silk, gains in popularity from day 10
day.
Little girls wear their hair loose and
flowing down the back, not braided or
curled.
No matter how short the sleeves are,
the gloves must be long enough to cover
the arms.
Gathered ruflles made very narrow
and double of the silk are on Paris
dresses.
Plated skirts forming double kits are
very fashionable for foulards and for
thin wool dresses.
Pretty three-cornered fichus of POM
padour muslin edged with lace will be
worn with light dresses.
Coat sleeves of dresses are made very
high ON the shoulders and stand upward
like mems coat sleeves.
Partisan dresses of to-day glitter ex-
ceedingly; and sequins, us well us gem
like beads, appear on many.
Gay cotton dresses are quite rs effective
as those of foulard, and form part oi
outfits for Newport and Saratoga.
The great novelty in summer under.
skirts is made of the new canton suit.
ing in gay stripes. which suggest avn.
irgs.
Shawls with solid centers and cr,.
broidered borders are being utilized fol
the long coats and surtouts now il
fashion.
Both short and long sleeves for either
evening or daylight wear will be puilet
in the armhole in the next turn of the
wheel of fashion.
Spanish lace bonnets IN Fanchor
shapes are becoming to nearlyall womef
over twenty and under fifty years of az,
when they are not fat.
Spanish lace will be the fashionable
net for polonaises in the summer, ant
will be worn with dresses of pale gray
heliotrope or ecru silk.
Louis XIII. capes of jetted net, O.
net and chenille, or of other opel
worked jet beaded passementeries, bic
fair to be very fashionable.
Very picturesque round hats of Whit
chip have the wide brim bordered witt
daisies, and turned up directly in front
where a satin bow holds it.
Brocaded or figured skirts with polo
naises or overdresses and basques @
plain stuffs are more fashionable thai
the reversed order of arrangement.
Paris polonaises are made longer thai
the skirts of the dresses they are worl
over, and are looped and turned up il
various fanciful styles to show the un
derskirt. which is generally plated.
Creamy muslin embroidery and whit
Languedoc lace are lavishly used O.
French costumes of Turkey red calico
the parasol and fan to match are G
the same calico. very delicately painte
by hand.
The new foulards are used to max
underdresses and worn with black sati
polonaises. The effect is very gay, an
much prettier than that of the gown
in which the foulard is placed upper
most.
To make pretty Louis XIII. cap
take many rows of any lace preferred
black or white, run them together in
shoulder cape set on to straight hig
collar of silk or satin, and fasten til
same with large bouquet of flower
near the left ear.