Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-27
LATEST ABOUT FASHIONS.

LATEST ABOUT FASHIONS.
Fashionable ladies refuse to give up high
French heels.
Dogs, pigs and chickens are painted on
some of the new pongee parasols.
Saratoga bellies carry white lace parasols
and wear white Spanish lace peasant caps
in the afternoon drives.
Low-necked and short-sleeved bathing
dresses are much in favor this season at
some of the most fashionable seaside re-
sorts.
New French round hats have the crowns
entirely covered with white ostrich tips,
and the edges adorned with row of pearl
beads.
A novelty for trimming children dresses
is fine Hamburg embroidery, with mar
row edge of valenciennes lace put on quite
full around the scallops.
New night dresses of surah are i'm
ported, with shirEings over the shoulders
and upon the bishop sleeves. They are
also adorned with quantities of wash lace
and white embroidery.
Handsome Louis Quinze slippers are dis.
played, made of black satin, and embroid-
cred with an arabesque design in ruby and
steel beads. They have deep French heels
covered with black satin.
Among artificial flowers there is a great
vogue for cut silk blossoms, with beaded
or tinsel hearts, the bluebell, geranium,
hyacinth and polyanthus being all repro.
duced in this manner. The daffodil and
sulphur-colored hollyhock are also reigning
favorites, and are much used with dead
white silk upon leghorn hats.
Cretonne hats have received fresh i'm
petus from the insertion of rectangular and
oval medallions painted or printed upon
them in mystic blue. Two or three of
these patches are displayed on single
leaf, the side one representing landscapes
and the center pieces a figure group where
gold chain stitch is plentifullyiused for out
line.
a style of dress which has for some time
been confined to very small children is
now being adopted for girls of six or seven.
1t consists of a full skirt either gathered
plated to yoke of tucking and in
sertion. No sash is worn, but the skirt,
which may be either plain or elaborateiy
trimmed with embroidery and lace, should
flow loosely from the yoke.
Some of the newest striped silks have
handsome broad bands OF satin, separated
by ribbed stripes of contrasting color
These silks are usually made up with the
skirts, laid In kits the width of the broad
satin stripe, and left free at the bottom to
show the brighter stripe underneath. Thus
dress OF black and gold satin stripes has
the skirt trimmed with four deep straight
ruffies laid in plaits, with the black satin
stripe outside, the gold stripe being just
family seen in the interstices. The waist
and cuffs are plated in the same manner,
which. owing to fashion, can be thus over
laid instead of being made up in a plain
manner.
The most delicate Of the Spanish combs
are made of pale amber tortoise-shell, and
these in any shade of hair darker than
blonde, are exceedingly handsome. For
blonde or light hair of any shade the dark
or notified she'll is very effective. These
combs show many novel designs, among
them being richly carved oval bales, upon
which are wrought very beautiful and
delicate heads and other devices. Where
it is becoming it is very fashionable to
wear the hair in antique rOUleduc after the
fashion of the olden times, setting the
Spanish comb high among the coils of
wavy hair.
The fashion OF wearing zouave Jackets is
rapidly growing in favor, and stylish young
! ladies at the seashore appear at breakfast
in the jaunty roundabouts. The prettiest
/ are made of tinted surah or cashmere,
! edged with delicate lace quillings, border.
! ed with jdrdRiere embroidery or cut in
t iple pointed scallcps, and finished with
a button hole embroidery worked with
pale gold colored silk Others are densely
covered with Jet, steel or rainbow beads OF
various sizes and shapes. For evening
wear these jackets are made of black or
white Spanish lace, the designs being out
lined by cut jet or seed pearl beads.
A stylish and uncommon costume is
made of rose-tinted gray satin surah and
wine colored velvet. The skirt is of the
surah, trimmed around the bottom with
full pleated French ruche of the
sane, faced with the velvet A very
broad sash OF the gray surah is draped
over the skirt, and the cuirass bodice has
continental vest, shoulder cape, and
very deep cuffs of the velvet. At the
| left side of the belt is a silver chatelaine
| from which is suspended velvet mouchoir
| bag having handsome clasps made of old
silver medals with Greek heads. This ele-
CANT dress may be made of golden fawn-
colored satin de Lyon, and admiral blue
velvet trimmings with equally handsome
eject.
A stylish travelling dress lately noted is
worthy OF mention. 1t was made of soft
camel's hair of the pale brown shade
1 known as beige The skirt was round
and covered with kilt pleating, over
which was draped an exceedingly simple
tunic of Japanese brocade which was
caught together midway, on the front of
the skirt by large bow and floating ends
of brown satin ribbon. The jacket. cut
Louis NV. style, was made of the camel's
hair with wide revers faced with the
Japanese brocade, and was fastened up the
front with buttons of dead silver. The
hat of beige colored straw was trimmed
with an East India bird of brilliant plum
age, perched upon branch of brown
hazel nuts and leaves.