The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-10
NECK DRESSING.


This has become a very important
part of the toilet, and very properly, for
it helps greatly to give it character.
The large collars are the most simple
means of efecting the object, and are
now made in great variety of styles.
The most artistic are embroidered upon
German linen and edged with linen lace
three inches in depth. These are for
morning wear at home or when staying
at country house. The form is simple,
round, deep, with straight sides and a
narrow upright band at the throat,
which is embroidered also and edged
with a narrow lace.
They have been made during the
winter IN plush and velvet and eifi oFoid-
cred with gold thread and floss, and
edged with cofee-colored lace. They
are used to finish cambria morning
dresses, edged with lace or narrow ruff
fe, and they are, above all things, kept
upon tiny lots of children, making them
look, with their Van Dyke heads as if
they had all stepped out of canvas.
The neckerchiefs, with deep double
lace ruffies and jabot finish in front, are
used as much as ever, for they have be-
come popular with vast number of la
dies who find them great convenience
in dressing up plain silk and satin dress
es. The fashionable lace used in trim
ming them is the fine limitation Mech
| lin, the best imitation of real lace that
has ever vet been made except by the
new invention, which is said to perfectly
reproduce the bobbin handmade lace,
and which has not as yet appeared in
the market. The machine-madc Mech
lin is not cheap. A lace not more than
three inches in width sells at from 81. so
to So per yard, and an inexperienced
woman might well suppose herself to
be purchasing what is technically called
"real'" lace.
High dresses are cut trife lower now
than formerly and the band at the throat
is often omitted. This is particularly
the case with indoor dresses, which are
then finished with fall of Whit lace
put on full and turned over, one end
forming jabot in front.
Linen cuffs (inside) have DISAPPEARED
and there are outside cuffs for which,
however? thare is less demand than for
the large and small linen collars. The
narrow standing collars still used for
walking dresses are straight or slightly
rounded band attached to a yoke, the
upright corners held together with a
gold stud or button.
BONNET TRIMMINGS.
The new spring bonnet has hardly as
yet made its appearance, but the popu-
lar shape will be the old English, the
modern "Cabriolet." The cottage shape
and the capote have also their admirers,
but the capote is principally made in
fabrics to match costumes, and, being
small, is capable of being made sort of
jewel upon the head. & very peculiar
one worn recently had the form of a
brown, luminous beetle. 1t was all
beads and scaly material like brown
cloth of gold. Another was of feathers
made from the breasts of ducks. In the
narrow interior of the brim the feathers
were scarlet, deepening into wine-color.
Dark-mixed straws will be worn large
" this season, trimmed with low bush
| leaves and berries. Fruits will, from
present appearances, quite take the place
of flowers, or will be mixed with small
blossoms and flowers. The small blue
German grape appears in clusters, and
might be mistaken for our own blueber-
ry. Some of the sprays are tangled up
In very wildwood fashion, and these are
the most desirable. JENNY JUNE