Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-08-19
FOB TIE FAIR SEX.
Fashion Notes.

for English riding habits.
Dark blue flannel remains the popular
material for seaside suits.
Gold filigree is the proper jewelry to
wear with grenadine dresses.
Grass hats with trimming of worsted
embroidery are worn in the country.
Bedticking, plain and unmistakable,
is employed for rowing and bathing
suits.
Fichus, which are not 80 clinging as
scarfs, are much worn at the present
time.
Mechlin and Breton laces have now
an important part in millinery trim
ming.
Polka dots appear on many dress
materials, necktiea, hat scarfs, and rib.
bons.
Archery and angling are the popular
outdoor amusements for ladies this
summer.
Double rows of pearls constitute the
fashionable necklace for very young
ladies.
India null trimmed with Languedoc
lace makes rich and effective summer
evening dress.
Muslin dresses arc made with sur
plice waists, shirred on the shoulders
and at the waist.
Flowers, jewels, and feathers are used
monious occasions.
Yellow kid travelling boots and gar
| ters to match the dress are among the
late French fancies.
Nubias. hoods and shawls of ice wool
are more in vogue than those OF Shetland
floss or zephyr wool.
| The favorite handkerchief has n
colored border, with polka dots or
Chinese zigzags in white.
Elbow sleeves continue TO be the most
popular for young ladies' dressy mu slim
and grenadine costumes.
Coils are still worn at the back of the
head; not exactly at the nape OF the
neck, but little higher.
Evening toilets require n dressy and
| light style OF coiffure, with curls and
soft puffs, but not braids.
The choicest silk hose are so fine that
the pair can be covered in the palm and
closed fingers of the hand.
Soft sash belts with tasseled ends, and
carelessly tied either in front, at the side
Violet, and various shades of this
| lovely color, including the heliotrope
shades, is very fashionable.
Large sailor collars OF Madras and
bandanna plaid handkerchief stuff are
trimmed with torchon lace.
There exists at present an extraoTdi-
nary demand for bonnets and hats of
rough-and-ready straw braid.
White kid gloves with white lace in
sertion in the wrists and stitched with
black are offered for carriage wear.
The shade of hair which Sarah Bern
hardt Is endeavoring TO make fashion
able is a trife redder than auburn.
The best way to remodel an old CASH
mere dress Is to brighten II with bands
and trimmings of Surah or Corah silk.
Whitenun's yelling costumes are made
| very dressy, with cashmere borders
frightened with gold thread chain
stitching.
When an evening toilet is trimmed
with roses, il is not unusual TO see n
band of small rosebuds around the top
of the glove.
Elaborate embroideries on white sum-
mer muslin dresses have almost SUPER
seded lace for ladies no longer in their
| teens.
White toile religieuse, white chudda.
| white India null and white cashmere
remain the favorite fabrics for festal
occasions.
Dainty garden hats are of shirred
null, the shirring radiating from the
center of the crown and from the inner
edge ofthe brim.
A new way of finishing the back of a
basque, is to slash it five or six times,
gather the ends into points and add a
tassel or ball of Jet.
Black silk mitts, woven in alternate
concentric bands of plain stocking net,
and lace clocking, are fashionable with
dresses of any color.
Evening gloves are trimmed Mt the top
| with several rows of side plaitings of
lace, or with lace insertion with the
lace plating above 1t.
Sloping shoulders are not in favor in
London Just now; the dressmakers lay
padding along the shoulder seam TO give
the top square appearance.
As tue styles Of dressing the hair be-
come more and more simple, greater
attention is paid to- ornaments and the
use of lace and ribbon for The hair.
Dresses of ecru or rcream-colored cheese
cloth are made up with tri-colored hand
kerchief aprons, hip draperies and bodice
trimmings in CAV Madras plaids.
Surah silk blouse waists, with scarfs
of the same knotted on one side and tas-
seled at the ends, are worn with kilt
skirts, of any material preferred, by girls
under fifteen.
Worth has made up several silk hand
kerchief dresses somewhat after the
fashion of Madras ginghams, hence
handkerchief dresses have received n
fresh impetus.
Novelties pertaining to headdress are
bonnets composed entirely or in part OF
narrow straw fringe. They have a light
and airy effect and are correspondingly
trimmed either with light feathers or
delicate blossoms.
The handkerchief for best dressing is