The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-04-07
FOE THE FAIR SEX.

Fashion Notes.
Waistcoats are going out of vogue.
Satin bridal toilets are still fashion
able.
Guimpe is again a fashionable trim
ming.
Among new goods wooden moires ap-
pear.
Large buttons are more worn than
small ones.
Buttons with invisible eyes will be
much used.
Tulle continues to be the preferred
bridal veil.
The bonnet of the day and hour is the
fiat turban.
White faille is again in vogue for
bridal dresses.
Silk muslin crowns for bonnets will
be much worn.
Beads of every color appear in bon
net decorations.
Black satin is very fashionable for
evening parties in Paris.
Bridal dresses are made high in the
neck, and with elbow sleeves.
Gray and purple are favorite COM
binations of color in new silk brocades.
Damasse and brocaded basques are
worn with skirts of plain silk and vel
vet.
Vatican and Marie Antoinette styles
will prevail for dresses made OF
foulards.
Heliotrope- colored cashmere and
satin of the same color make an elegant
costume.
Dark claret velvet and satin are used
to brighten up ecru and almond-colored
pongees.
Foulard and pongee dresses will be
much worn in place Of light checked
and striped summer silks.
New ties and handkerchiefs are OF
linen cambria, edged with flowers
formed of handmade tatting.
With short-sleeved costumes, the
gloves worn should be OF light kld,'
with tops in lace design.
The favorite style of makeup for
handkerchief dresses is with a plated
BASQUE and a Tallien overskirt.
Jet fringes and passementeries and
the new "blackberry" buttons arc
used on the richer black summer toilets.
Satin finished foulards in Illuminated
designs are combined with other
toulards in solid colors of various
shades.
Claret-colored bunting is combined
with q fabric of the same color. with
white outline figures on it in a variety
of effective costumes.
Breakfast caps are oftener made OF
colored foulards n fancy
chiefs than of white tulle or capellne;
the frills, however, are OF white lace.
Almond-colored and ecru pongee
makes a beautiful overdress and basque
or polonaise to wear over a claret-
colored or brown corduroy velvet skirt
A new design in hosiery is the per-
pendicular and horizontal lace stripe,
alternating with q row of hand-em-
broidery in the lace pattern, but IN
various colors.
PICTURESQUE dresses are made OF pale
blue French buntings and cashmeres,
with borderings and trimmings OF
cretonnes, with white grounds, covered
with Japanese figures.
Spanish styles are represented in inn
portations of black dresses of fine, thin
all-wool toile religieuse, or wool tulle,
trimmed with black open. work silk en-
~broideries, or black Normandy or black
Spanish lace.
Embroidered straws and plain wide
tape braid have figures wrought on the
bonnet. The raised embroideries and
applioues of velvet with pearl and gold
inlay are used in thin crinoline and
gauzy braid hats.
Dark blue linen suits make up stylishly
for garden, party, or indoor dresses,
with borderings gay turkey RED OIL
calico, with palm leaf figures used
for the collars, cuffs, pockets, and fril!s
where frills are needed.
Polka-dotted fabrics are again in
favor. Pearl embroidered laces decor
ate evening dresses exquisitely.. Rich
point places come in raised designs, or
double flowers. Some OF the new
sleeves are decorated with putfs at the
top.
Handkerchief dresses will be made
this season of dark, blue and other solid
colored ~percales, as well as OF I'm
bleached domestics, and decorated as
last wear with b%andanna, Madras, and
Scotch bingham handkerchiefs.
Plant screens. made of moss and ferns,
ivy, and her suitable vines on a lattice
of green wire attached to a long green
tin window garden On rollers, are
among novelties for house decorations.
They are made to fit in freplaces, or to
stand in any part of the room that needs
to be screened.