The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-11
sEAsoNABLE FASHIONS.

A New DIX correspondent writes:
These are the days for the wearing OF
cambrics, organizes, batistes, lawns ging-
hams, null muslins, and gauzy fabrics in
general. Beautiful as are the toilets for
grown women, these materials are seen to
the most striking advantage when made up
in the Kate Greenaway and Mother Hub
bard styles for little girls. The few hot
DAYS we have had have brought out the
children in their summer flnery in swarms.
They fit all over Central Park like brilliant
butterflies called into life by the warmth of
the sun. for the season of somber colors for
the little darlings is over. In their quaint
poke bonnets and their shirred Mother
Hubbard dresses, they look deliciously alb
surd, comically pretty, and extravagantly
picturesque. Not that they have aban-
doned the Princess form of dress entirely,
but even Princess dresses are modified by
shirring, and draperies, to bear a resem-
blance to- or convey hint of, what is evil
IDENTIFY the favorite style of the season.
Even in these new old fashioned dresses,
the tendency to combine two cOlors in one
garment is displayed. Little fairies of two
| to four years as well as larger girls, are
| seen with pink, blue and mauye lawn and
null frocks made with deep shirTed yokes
and no waists the whole fullness of the
| long skirt flowing unconfned from the
woke to the ankle. The long sleeves are
| of white null, shirred above and below the
elbow, leaving puff at the armhole, one
| at the elbow, and a ruff1e at the wrist The
poke bonnet of fine Leghorn, light Pana-
ma or Fayal straw, is trimmed with one
| long white feather, or a few white silk
| pompons, OF with puffs and puffy bows of
white null, edged with fine Valenciennes
! or the finest limitations of this favorite lace
| = or 70
are wore with kid shoes that match the
color of the dress; or if the stockings are
colored they match the dress. The shoes
may be either white, buff, bronze, or
| black The girl six years
of age has her jocky cap, in shell
pink or pale blue satin. The feather caps
are real models of elegance; in some, blue
peacocks feathers form the crown, and
| golden tinted "eyes" the peak, the same
combination being managed with different
hues of lophophore plumes or those Of the
partridge and swan. Toques in quiet gray
| feathers are frightened up by a powdering
are often stylishly entwined with wells of
harmonizing gauze, bordered by shaded
| gold lines.
| The new diamonds have given an i'm
petus for the choicest trinkets. Every
| pet flower of fashion is copied in the
shining crystals, besides the crab, lizard,
beetle, owl, and eagle. The butterfly
| displays different colored stones on every
division of its blazing wing, the
sword fish glimmers with green
eyes, and the miniature parasol has coral
or turquoise knob. Master Frog looks
really pretty in diamonds as he quivers on
fallen bulrushes. aud the peacock, jewelsd
like the butterfly. makes quite a queenly
/ ornament
A skillfully executed brooch displays the
word Porte" in crystal letters as gradu
ated background to a bar of dead gold,
| whereon "Bonheur" is inscribed in black
| letters.
| Padlocks have long been pendants for
| bracelets and necklaces, but it is only late
ly that the idea has been completed by
the addition of a tiny key, which is either
placed in the keyhole or left dangling from
the gilded chain. This freak is repeated in
| the oval lock and key lockets of plain whit
| ened silver