The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-06-12

The long Mercutio plume is the
fashionable feather.
Flower epaulets will be worn with
evening dresses this season.
Nuns yelling is the latest white and
cream colored novelty for summer tot
lets of ceremony.
Embroideries in jit, in pearl, in am
bdr and in iridescent beads are among
elegant tri innings.
Many linen suits will be made with
almost plain skirts and PLAIN round
corsages with wide belts.
New chemises fasten by buttons
hidden i'll the pleats of the embroidery
and lace on the shoulders.
A new and odd fashion is to lace up
dresses with silk lacing strings and
leave the tags hanging as ornaments.
Dresses of sun color, covered with
beads that simulate precious stones.
are worn by Paris graude DANES.
Very simple elbow capes are of any
black silk or wool fabric, with three or
four pleatings on the edge and ruff
at the neck.
Coiftures are arranged very low.
smooth bandeauX with Il parting in the
middle are now worn in preference to
a fringe or frizzled curl.
Fashionable stockings are in all the
new shades of heliotrope, cream, al
mond, old gold, blue, rose and red,
viii the insteps are embroidered in
buttercups, rosebuds, forget-me-nots
and polka dots in contrasting colors.
The colors adopted by fashion this
summer are yellow and purple in all
shades, from deep orange to straw color,
and from dark violet to the faint lilac
tint which goes this year by the name
Of heliotrope. Deep red and fire color
also are liked in small quantities.
Pleated skirts for walking dresses
ire more popular than they have ever
been, and are most variously made.
some are bOX-pleated in single pleats,
,thers are double kits, while many
lave three Killed flounces covering
hem. Most of the skirts of one peat
all at the foot on narrow p!eated bor-
Ter, which is often of a dark orange or
ed, in contrast to the goods of the
kirt.
Black grenadines retain all their
Ong-held popularity, and are made up
ver silk, satin or velvet. The most !
legant grenadines are of velvet, and .
be newest idea has the brocaded design
Il lace work, while the ground is of {
elvet.
Summer woolens are legion, and are =.
ne and soft enough to please the most :
lstidiOus taste. Nuns yelling Is the
hottest of these and next comes crepe
e Paris, all wool, but as sheer and
ght as linen lawn. The new bunt- 6
ngs are fine and soft, and those in,
ICE and damasse patterns i'm black
lake up very stylishly as walking A
tits when combined with black Louis II
lie or taffeta. u
White dresses of all sorts are the
aiding style this season. Victoria fis
WINS and nainsouks India mulls and ~,
Tx muslhs are made up Oversilks and M
tin and drape in soft clinging folds,
hich are very effective. Ecru and ST
embroidered muslins are ca
Sed, trimmed with Languedoc lace. W. W.
Ows of brilliant red give veritable "'
to these dresses, the red
ing particularly vivid on the rich
cam color,
Cotton dresses promise to be much Y
1rn this summer for full DIR, IS at wa
ring places. Some of the sateens and
Dmie c'oths are quite charming; they
e printed on black grounds, on white
d on cream, powdered or scattered l.
tn bouquets which look as if they X
d Just been painted. Some with pink, J.
reclaim, green and brown grounds
We closeT-set conventional patters
vering the ground, but look very
like cottons and might easily be mis-
Ken for silks. RI