The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-04-20


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Rep effects are very noticeable among
1854 ewspfns silks s3 sgfgrv<sS E1g
ssSs-es sLooking-glass beads. toned by soft,
milky opalescent tints, are used in large
quantities for both dress and millinery
garntures.
4. e China silks are shown for young girls
evening wear in scattered patterns of sim
gle blossoms on white ground. These
new silks are exceedingly picturesque
and pretty. -t, .=
- The excellent wearing and washing
ess@s and also very effective Galatea stripes
= popular last year are to be worn again
- .a. this season-not the old bed-ticking blue
$50 and-drab-striped patterns, but those re-
sgsas senbling the newer tckings which shows
stripes of mixed colors Torchen or
other linen laces win be used for trim
- So ming these, SO that the whole may be
ass,saa Numbered together. III.
Novel ornaments for bonnets and hats
are of gold, silver or amber, and include
birds. clasps, cresents, silver ferns, this
ties and antique medaions, connected
~. by tender chains, long pins and peniards
. with odd Roman or Grecian heads, and
stars moons aud fishes in fine filigree.
Five differently shaped pins are some
times thrust into the crown and trim
mings of one French capote.
= al sza6.sV Very large handkerchiefs for the
Shoulders, made of twilled silk. bordered
with lace and embroidered in small corn-
pact bouquets in the corners, or other
"a. wise adorned by trails of flowers painted
- On the broad hens, are to be worn as the
&season advances. L ~ss7S
Old-fashioned trnkets are now much
sought after, and old gold or silver
brooches, buckles, clasps or chatelaines,
having any look of antiquity about them,
command very high prices. Very ele-
ssassgs..g giant jeWeled chatelaines are much worn
,&z-Ss7 with Handsome evening toilets, these
being utilized for fan and programme
attachments. Chateaines from which
asthswatch is suspended are not. fashion
- worn with full dress toilets even
wren made of heavy materials.
A very beautiful dress for a brides
maid is made of white China Grape en-.
.sss .broideredsin gold over an underskirt of
white Turc satin, which has full triple
box-paited ruching of the same around
the bottom. = lined withag gold-colored
satin. Falling from the peaked bodice
in the back is a long Grape train edged
e with tiny Grape Fittings headed by a
band of gold embroidery. The bodice
opens in front over a gold-embroidered
chemisette. and the drapery is held by
Tiny buckles in filigree work.
.ssz4sss1zss Many ladies have gradually overcome
their first prejudices, and are adopting
many of the ideas of the aesthetic 'ssect,' y
(which at first they wholly ignored. High
rufs, Medici collars, antique brocades
s-,asss J. and moires, farthingaies pulled sleeves,
and the sharp pointed, stiff whale-boned
bodices getting to be quite general;
and added to the rapid extension of pam
.@ssS niers over the hips, will, ifthese fashions
ss 60 on unchecked, make our fashionable
s4E DANES and bellies of to-day look like re-
agss.s suseitated Elizabethians.
Is ~ - Information comes from celebrated
e modiste that Mother Hubbard mantles,
81 made entirely of black lace, will be worn
- - the coming summer. They are, it is
a a said, to be made, not of piece lace, but
of that about five. inches wide, laid row
sssss upon row, killed or otherwise. This
~ mantle, with a black dress of silk or
5ss satin, and lace bonnet relieved with flow
- ers, will form a very elegant costume.
1851 Black slfrah half-length NANTES of the
shape just alluded to viii be very fash
s~5@ ionable for spring wear, and are elabo-
3 sSss rately trimmed with chenille applique
bands and rows of rich black lace.
New lace collars for dressy wear are
made mp IN the d uphin, Robespierre,
Huie d& Rome Stuart Girondin, j or
CHARLES ID style, according to fancy,
and are 81 equal ysfashionaBls, the es-
sential point being that they shall be
very large These shapes are particularly
becofning toslender ladies. Women
with high, bread shoulders should avoid
80 AoQsRidAR collar, as well as too high q
ruchesol fraise..s The style most becom-
ing TO these are delicately-made Van
dyke collars, or the pointed collarettes
81 - and fchus, which can be arranged so as
to leave a bit of the throat under the chin
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