Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-23
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pretty 20 De resigned without protest.
Suits are already made up without them,
however, the skirt being founced, or
laid in narrow ruffies or shirrings
above plaits, to meet wide sash
of generally contrasting material, which
has ends in the back, a long, plain
surtout held down by weights descending
close upon the sash. Surah, the great ia
vorite in dress trimmings. is soft silk,
twilled, having shiny, satiny surface.
The windows are filled with plaids and
gay. very gay, Roman-like stripes, to be
used in combination with plain colors. But
most people make themselves look like
rainbows by wearing too much plaid and
stripe. The nattiest dress | have seen was
of olive green, with wide collar and cuffs
of large ld-gold and green plaid, mere
suggestion of the same appearing in the
fiounce at the bottom Of the skirt. Large
buttons have disappeared. and small ones
are hidden as much as possible, being sue
ceeded by bows of ribbon of many loops.
Parasols, even, are edged with loops OF
narrow ribbon instead of lace, but it looks
very much like fringe of shavings. A
parasol used to be an expensive article, and
you may still have it so, but not necessa-
rily. a great many are OF light pongee,
embroidered IN sprays or Treaths, and very
many of figured silk, while you may pur-
chase, though the purchase is hardly advis-
able, parasols of cotton, an imitation of bro
caded silk, for SIX bits. In small articles like
hosiery, collars and cuffs, neckties, etc,
the polka dot has returned, the dot in col
lars and cuffs being very large. Turn down
linen collars adorned with crescents, horses,
dogs, sphinx heads, horse shoes and clowns
faces in faint colors are fashionable, and
the same in handkerchief borders as well as
the polka dot This is a very busy season,
and in some of TIE popular stores you have
first to catch your clerk before you can be
waited on. In one, however, found an
obliging young man with lisp who seemed
to have nothing to do but polish up his
lisp and look pretty, so presently pumped
him very dry on the handkerchief question.
He showed me handkerchief from ten
cents apiece to beautifully hand worked
and Spanish embroidered at $72 per dozen.
''And do you ever sell this sort p l asked,
examining the latter, and l learned that
they did and costlier ones than that beside.
THE cLoAKs FOR SPRING
Are more than half nantes, and there
seems an inclination toward drapery like
the scarf and mantle for the shoulders
An indication of this is in the long loosely
worn scarf of Spanish lace in the wide
laceshandkerchief for the neck, which will
soon descend to enwrap the shoulders. A
hundred pretty fancies in white and cream
lace come for neck wear, and they are in.
expensive, too. In fact you have but to
buy bit of wash blonde, plait it aud
edge it with lace-lo Sara Bernhard
collar. Or wear it plainly knotted at the
throat, and drawn in little wrinkled
fashion from the back, and you are still in
style, or plat it narrowly to stand just
inside the colar-good again A mascu-
line connoisseur in feminine dress
says that lady should never wear
anything stiff or starched about
her face, but should soften her
complexion always by putting lace or some
thing tine and thin against it. There is
something in that opinion, too. Models
are arranged of everything, so that a pur-
chaser may judge of style exactly Every
one knows of the wax figures arranged in
tarletan which stand in the hairdressers
and pivot about with horrible stare at
the observer. But there are beautifully
modelled busts. now, for dresses, hands on
which to display gloves, legs above the
knee adorned with exquisite stockings,
and flesh colored feet for the satin slippers
one sees upon the stage and seldom any
other where's. The Jersey, of which we
have heard so much, has never been
adopted to any extent here, though Mrs.
Lingard exhibited one in Stolen Kisses, "
and she might wear it with IMMUNITY, since
her lovely figure lies all in curves. Her
beautiful face finds its exact counterpart in
Mrs. BirdsalPs-a lady of Sacramento. In
speaking of &c The Woman in White the
other night, a gentleman remarked that
the character of Marion Holcombe in
Wilkie Collins deep-laid plot always put
him in mind of Mrs. Chesley, of Sacra.
meuto. Have l said anything, everything
or nothing on fashions, wonder? After
a friend is gone one always thinks of some
thing that might have been said, and tbs
not any different with letters.
KATE HEATH.