Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-08-03
The Fashions:

Sealskin pushes and heavy pile
goods are spoken of as among the
silk materials likely to be used for
fall hats.
For embroidery the very best
crewels are the cheapest. Inferior
worsteds will not wash, and the
colors come off aud fade
Instead of the fashion journals
bringing out most of their plates
with long basques, the most fash
tOnable women wear corsageS with
out basques, or very short basques.
Elegant wreaths of wheat or eea
grasses are found in the rich and
varied collection of hat ornaments
and make effective and not very
costly trimmings for rough-and-
ready hats.
The prettiest flower-bonnets are
made of rose-petals sewed on by
the footstalks to the bonnet-frame.
Two shades of red or pink or pale.
| pink and white petals are the pre-
ferred combinations.
The gorgeous blue and green but
terf1ies of the tropics are often
mounted on pins for hair orna.
mepts, but beautiful as they are,
they are only dead specimens,
more fragile than the most delicate
flower.
White leghorn hats covered with
rows of pearl-beaded Spanish lace,
and trimmed with four or five short
ostrich tips and cluster OF jacque-
mipot roses to brighten the whole,
are exceedingly stylish for summer
wear.
The most fashionable American
women wear very simple ceffures,
with the coil low in the back, and
fluffy but fiat front hair-the only
ornament being a long, low COMB
with riviere of diamonds for its
heading.
Large French linen pocket hand
kerchiefs used in the morning have
narrow hens of gay coIors, or else
the entire center of the handker-
chief is in blocks of ecru with
white, while the corners are tipped
with red or blue.
Black or gray cheviots, or other
flannel finished stuffs, are used in
mourning for travelling dresses;
also, the smooth, finished tamise
cloths. For best dress in sum mer,
black sewing silk grenadine is worn
as mourning, trimmed with Grape
and with plaitiDgs of the greDa-
dine. Grape wells are not worn
when travelling.
Sashes are quite taking the fem
mime fancy. Sometimes they are
of the trimming and sometimes of
the material OF the suit. Most
white dresses are finished with a
sash of the same, more or less
trimmed across the ends, in large
DirectOire bow at the back of the
waist. Costumes of light wOolens
are ornamented with plaitings of
the same and a sash of rich surah
that harmonizes with its color.
Nothing in the way of sum mer
dresses is more beautiful than the
new colored lawns, muslins and or
CANDIES, which have, for the most
part, bordered patterns, of great
beauty and originality of design.
The delicate grounds of blue, rose,
gray. ivory, white, pale green aud
buff are sprinkled all over with
Japanese designs, while the bor-
ders match in a larger and more
defined style of coloring and de.
sign.
Lace, except to the most prsc.
ticsd eyes, fell under suspicion
until the taste for needlepoint re.
vived few years ago. This revul-
sion Of feeling is by no means
likely to iDjure the manufacture of
machine-made lace, which, consid-
cred as "quillingn or other trim
ming of the ruffled or plisse kind,
may do as we'll as needle or bobbln
work. What is gained is re-
vived taste for the superior kinds
of needle-point. which partakes as
essentially of the character of art
manufacture as the finer porcelain.