The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-09-02
FASHION SPRAYS.

Set is more fashionable than ever.
Hanging pockets are in high fashion.
All red parasols grow in popular favor,
The return to polonaises is fixed
fact.
Queens gray is a new shade of this
color.
Pale silyery pink is much worn at
watering places.
Shot or changeable materials are again
in high favor.
Fawn and porcelain blue make an ad-
mirable combination.
The most fashionable colors for trav-
cling suits are chamois and fawn.
Embroidered collars as large as the
old-fashioned tippets are again worn.
Shirred null garden hats take prece-
dence of all others for country house
wear.
Gloves are worn over the tight sleeves
and bracelets and bangles over the
gloves.
White costumes are worn out of doors
as much as they are indoors in the cour-
try.
Flowertabliers and flower fringes were
seen in various forms at the last Queens
ball in London.
Oil silk bathing caps are now given a
brim stiffened with willow split in the
hem on the edge.
The silk and Lisle thread buttonless
long gloves 50 much worn now take the
name of Jersey gloves.
Straw fringes and ornaments initiating
birds, butterflies, agraffes, ETC., trim
many fashionable hats.
Large hats and poke bonnets of Ma
nilla straw are riyaling the porcupine
and rough and ready straws.
Shell pink, precisely the color that
lines the conch shell, is the popular
tint of this color for evening wear.
Stockings are made more decorative
with embroidery, lace insteps, and gold,
silver, steel and bead work.
One black and one deep cardinal red
Lisle thread stocking forms the "real
fashionable pair" at the moment.
Tulle bonIets, edged with fall of
lace around the shirred brims, are pretty
summer novelties in millinery.
The same increase in the cost of chill
dren's dress that there is in that of
grown-up people is feature of the day.
Outside pockets attached to the dress
are no longer fashionable they must be
detached or detachable and hanging.
Flexible cloth, q species of stockinet,
has recently been introduced, and will
in the fall be extensively used for cor
sages of dresses.
Tounures are coming back with a
vengeance, the protuberance beginning
not at the waist, but a considerable dis
tance below it.
Silver gauze is the rage in Paris,
where it is draped over satin with sill
yer leaves or ornaments, and with silver
Jerseys for corsages.
Bats, mice, beetles, and even little
shining golden and silver worms, appear
among the flowers, feathers and ribbons
that trim bonnets and hats.
While the Partisan costume designs
are lengthening the waists of dresses,
those of London are reviving the short
waists and other styles of 1912 to 1925.
Sashes and neck ribbons of Roman
scarfs, having all the delicate tints in
them now so fashionable, have the merits
of being becoming, crushable and wash
able.
Hats in the shape of an upset basket,
full of flowers, tightened over the ears
with q wide ribbon, are pretty and
unique for completing toilets of wash
materials.
White lace stockings are worn over
colored ones of silk or Lisle thread
matching the dress for evening toilets.
The low slipper displays all the lace in-
serted in the instep or up the ankles.