The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-24
FASHION POINTS.

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city in colors.
A return to the great popularity of polka
dots is imminent.
Dotted Spanish lace chemisettes are made
in pomPadour squares.
Ecru Venetian embroidery is used on black
velvet and satin dresses.
Feather hats and bonnets are morbund.
Paris has condemned them.
Garnet Scotch ginghams, checked with
blue, make pretty summer dresses.
Box plaitings are superseding flat plaitings
and killings as dress trimming.
Crushed roses without leaves are massed as
side panels or borders on tulle dresses.
Moss-green bonnets, trimmed with pale yell
low and gray tips, are the newest fancy.
Moresque and Oriental laces rival in popu-
larity the Spanish, Barcelona and Burano.
Low English heels are now used on ladies'
walking shoes-a great change for the better.
Owing to the mildness of our winter light
wraps and Cashmere shawls are much worn.
Long, slender, bugle-like beads of ride
scent hues are set at intervals over new faille
bonnets.
Sunhower yellow, eglantine pink, and pale
sea- green are three aesthetic colors in high
vogue.
Nuns yelling is equally becoming to old
and to young women. 1t is the very stuff for
children's dressy suits.
Butterhy-wing poufs in the back, formed by
the scarf employed for the tablier and hip
draperies, are much worn.
Basques are shorter in the skirt and are fire.
quently pointed in front and drawn up in the
back to form the pouf.
Among new pongees the plain white goods,
striped horizontally with hair lines in lace ef-
fects, are the most unique and novel.
Costumes accompanied with outside wraps
of same material are generally made up very
plainly; the buttons, however, are very beautl-
Trianon fans of black and white feathers
alternating, having handles Of Oriental jet set
with pearls, are in fashionable keeping with
the black and white effects in dress.
One of the prettiest lace pins in diamond
jewelry is a reap-hook set in graduated stones,
with serpent, also in diamonds, turned
aroudd the blade, its eyes being small rubies.
Chemisettes of striped and dotted percale
are very fashionable for morning wear. They
have a double-breasted front fastened with
gold buttons and English turnover collar, with
cuffs and buttons to match.
In spite of the high looping Of back and
side tlraperies, the costume of the season de-
fines the human form divine as much as ever.
The effect is still of a princes robe or forreau,
whether the dress is short or trained.
The hair is worn low on the brow, either in
a curly fringe or waved. Behind it droops in
the nape of the neck in coil, in loops, or braids.
Flowers are sometimes worn in the hair in the
evening in small quantities.-just one large
flower or spray near the left ear.
Edelweiss is pretty new lace, which takes
its name and design from flower that grows
in the alps, the pattern somewhat resembling
the Moresque designs. 1t is of creamy tint,
and has fine and delicate mesh. The lace is
a very appropriate and desirable one for trim
ming white nuns yelling, and sold by the
piece it makes an inexpensive yet very effect
i've garniture for these most beautiful of sum-
mer toilets.
New handkerchiefs are imported in silk and
fine French muslin, with serge polka dots en-
broidered on cream-white grounds, showing
wide borders plainly hemstitched. Others have
woven polka dots Of pale blue, cardinal, or gray,
with solid borders of color to correspond.
These dainty mouchoirs will be the kerchiefs
par excellence with fashionable ladies as well
as with gentlemen, and in effect are in keeping
with the dress fabrics and dress accessories, all
Of which show evidences of the polka dot fe-
yer, which has broken out afresh.
Striped flannel costumes will in great de-
gree take the place of suits made OF mono
chrome color, which have been worn for SO
many seasons past. Prettier and more etfec
tive, however, than either alone would be,
combination of the two-for instance, an I'M
derskirt of royal blue and old gold striped fan
mel of the smooth finish of ladies' cloth, with
Watteu tunic of royal blue flannel, a Jersey
bodice of the same shade, and graceful little
Moorish coat, basque cut. double breasted,
and fastened with gold buttons in old medal
designs.
A unique dress, made for a lady in New
York, who is of an aesthetic turn of mind, has
the court train made of darkest green vel
vet, lined throughout with old gold of the
deepest yellow shade. This is made up over
a petticoat of pale gold satin, embroidered
around the bottom with a single row of dark
green rose leaves devoid of blossoms. The
The Louis XIV bodice of the green velvet is
laced up in front over a shirred waistcoat of
pale gold satin. Around the throat is Med
10; fri IF wide GOLD lace with deem collar