The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-05-05
Fashion Notes.


A white satin dress laden with pearls
has two punches of white hyacinths fol
garniture.
For basques the surplice effects ART
very much used, and quite rival the di
rectoire styles in popularity.
Polka-dotted lavender and heliotrope
silks of thin light quality make pretty
dresses when trimmed with CREAMY
Languedoc lace.
Light foulards with cream, pale blue
lavender or gray grounds are made with
quantities of Languedoc lace for trim
ming them.
A surplice basque, with a kerchiei
about the neck, draped overskirt, and
q kilt-plaited ,owcr skirt, is the iavorite
model for dresses of Ia neige tissue.
One of the prettiest simple suits has a
dark heliotrope, kilt-plaited skirt, with
tiny checked silk of lighter shade for
the Tallien overskirt and directoire
coat.
Youthful looking dresses of white
Chambery gauze over satin have a great
deal of Languedoc lace on the apron,
while the foot is trimmed with three
close fine plaitings of dark red satin.
Polka-dotted satin is pretty for the
basques of young ladies' evening dresses,
and the apron is then Of the same, or
perhaps the front breadths are plain
satin, grenadine or tulle, while the fig
ured satin is in the train.
The skirts of evening dresses are made
to represent fiat petticoat front or an
apron, while the back breadths sweep off
like court train, though the whole
skirt, apron and draperies are invariably
made together; that is. to put on in one
piece.
White challis, white mohair, camel's-
hair and Chuddah cloths are also used
for summer dresses for the country.
Some of these have the Tallien overskirt
draped very high on the side, or else
opened its whole length to show the
flounces of heliotrope or blue silk skirt
| beneath.
Pink gauze and satin dresses have n
deep, full apron of the gauze, edged with
curled fringe, gathered into the flowing
satin train. Thecorsage OF such dresses
is only half high, pointed back and front
with Grecian folds, forming bertha on
the bust, or else Languedoc barbe is
draped around the neck.
Very dark satin foulards are used for
| the street. The grounds are pheasant
brown, olive or violet, and the figures
are round white moons, with chintz pat
terms in them, or else polka dots or
Japanese fans. The deep apron is fin
ished with heavy festoons Of the same,
and in the anticipating at the foot one
or two red plaitings are introduced.
Vests are not rs much worn as they
have lately been, but are sometimes seen
with the shirred fronts of dresses; thus
the contrasting fabric it set down the
front of the waist like vest, q I'd the
materia, of the basque is shirred in clus-
ters each side of it. Sometimes the
basque is laid in plaits that fold on the
| bosom in surplice shape, and this is re-
peaied in the back.
Basque and trimmed skirt are the pre-
vailing style, but great many polo
naises are also used. Some of the latter
are seen with straight backs not caught
up in the east, and quite full in plaits
that fall lengthwise; others have COM
binations of different fabrics for scarfs
in front or on the sides; and many are
cut off in front like basque, while the
back is IN princess shape.
A great deal of beaded embroidery is
used in the new styles. Sometimes the
entire basque and apron is of white satin
wrought with pearls, or black satin with
jet. Lace is employed in profusion,
more especially the Languedoc and Bre-
ton laces, that are not expensive, yet are
effective for plated hounces, and in the
barbes now used for draping the cor
sage.