Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-02

There are shaded buttons now. That
makes one more article of dress fated to
be good for naught next season.
White jean parasols with bright colors
suspended from the top will be the thing
this summer at the seaside in England.
Seeded net, white cream, or any other
becoming color, will be worn over the
head and face at watering places this sum-
mer.
Mourning gloves for full dress are EN-.
broidered with jet beads on the back and
have broad band worked in at the wrist
to simulate bracelet.
Kerseymeres, bieges, camels' hair cloths,
English homespuns, cheviots and light
cloth suitings are the materials for fatigue,
business and travelling suits.
The waists that are shirred all the way
around the belt are called sponsors, al
though much prettier than the ugly gar
ment that formerly took that name.
In Michigan etiquette permits bride to
be married without gloves" which in
duces an editor to remark Precisely
the way she handles her husband
Very few grenadine dresses have silk
skirts, though most of them are usually
lined with this material. Skirts of velvet
or satin bring out the designs better.
Embroidered muslin is in great vogue
this season over color which displays its
beauty to great advantage. Quantities of
| lace and ribbon are used in their orna-
mentation.
Flowers are worn in great extravaganza.
Some of the daintiest little bopnets i'm.
aginable are covered entirely over with
flowers, daisies, pansies, violets, or other
small blossoms. Comparatively little
foliage is used.
Lace jabots, reaching from the throat to
the foot of the dress. are worn down the
front of evening toilets. Underneath each
wavy fold is placed tiny cluster of flow
ers corresponding with the floral garniture
worn upon the corsage and in the hair.
Stamped velvet or plush is most fash.
ionable just now for covering table tops.
Sometimes two or more colors are put to-
gether patchwork fashion. If the table is
square the center is of one color, the four
corners of another, and the intervening
side pieces of third.
All dresses are made short that are
not intended for very dressy purposes.
Short dresses are made of all satin for af-
ternoon visiting and receptions, and also of
satin and brocade; or they are trimmed
with rich embroideries, arranged in snowy
single sprays, as crochetted ornaments were
formerly.
1t is rather sad to think that CLUTTER
cup yellow has become butter color
but it is a consolation to remember that
the abbreviation was done in England.
Had the United States shortened pretty
epithet in that way what an outcry there
would have been about the coarse taste
prevalent in new country.
The beaded mode of ornamentation has
attacked the wrists of kid gloves. 1t de-
serves to be elassed with the painted and
open-work and lace-adorned gloves, all of
which are in bad taste. A hand looks the
best always in a perfectly plain glove, and
no other so well enhances the beauty of
one of symmetrical shape.
In ancient Greece the women counted
their age from their marriage. There are
lots of single ladies in this country who
propose doing the same thing 1t is 80 long
since they were born that they have en-
tirely lost their reckoning and given up in
despair. They are eagerly looking forward
for an epoch to count from.
The fashionable lace of the moment is
the Spanish, wrought in designs of satin
like spar, or mock pearl, or mock opal
beads, with dainty trimming of flowers or
feecy feathers. Among the most elegant
head.dresses of the moment are the black
Spanish lace, some of which is in rich de-
signs of French cut jet beads and bugles.
Not few of the latest models in dresses
have the bodice and draperies of wooden
material, and only the foot of the skirt
trimmed with Surah or satin the collar
and facings of the bodice are also of the
same. This is also the case OF self.colored
materials and figured or striped ones; the
latter are used for trimming, while the
foundation of the dress is self colored.
The three daughters of the Princess of
Wales differ widely from each other.
Louise, the eldest, is the Parisienne, gay
and affable, with her mothers grace and
features. Victoria resembles her father
she is proud and reserved, with culti-
waited intellect and generous heart. The
youngest, Maud, looks like her grand
mother, the Queen, and is good.hearted
and serious.
There is an attempt to introduce shoes
turned up at the toes, like those seen in
the pictures of the princes who were
smothered in the Tower of London by
their crook back uncle. Those who adopt
this medieval fashion will deserve to be
treated like the princes in the Tower.
Nun s-vailing is lovely and desirable in
plain colors, but in stripes manufacturers
seem determined to kill the beautiful ma
terial by combinations painful to the eye
and unbearable to the complexion. In
stance a ground of dull, dirty brown, ON
which are stripes of sickly green and faded
red.
Madame de Girardin, the widow, who
was for years separated from her husband,
is now in Paris, and has instructed counsel
to dispute his will She claims half of the
property. Some knotty legal questions
are expected to arise, and NJ. Alexandra de
Girardin, from delicacy. it is said, has left
the magnificent mansion in the Rue de la
Perouse, Paris, till the ownership shall be
decided by law.
Large fans are made of cretonne, with |
ivory or mother of pearl sticks. The figures |
on the fan are in vatican designs, and are
outlined with chain stitching in fine gilt |
threads. There has been revival Of |
feather fans. Some of the handsomest are
of shaded ostrich plumes. Fluffy little |
fans of marabout feathers are used, though |
the new fans are noticeable specially for |
their huge size. a border three inches |
wide Of marabout or ostrich feathers finishes |
some fans.