Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-07-24
Fashion Notes.

The newest canes for gentlemen have
hammered copper heads.
Raw silk and pongee redingotes are worn
by many fashionable women.
Ivory white and fcelle gray is the favorite
combination of color In laces.
Pale sea-green silk dresses are. the summer
evening dresses par excellence.
Ladies' of delicate build are wearing their
sealskin sscques at the seaside.
A scarf arranged as a pearline is a favorite
summer drapery for the shoulders.
Long-wristed mits and mousOuetaire
gloves are worn almost exclusively.
Glover blossoms and cowslips figure
among new flowers in corssge bouquets.
Nearly all shoulder capes have a thick
ruche OF lace CT material around the neck.
The cossages of some very handsome cos
tunes are lsced up In front instead Of bu.-
tonipg.
Pale nuns gray is certainly a very popu-
lar color in The fashionable world iu5t at
present.
BalbriggIan stockings abound in various
tints Of red, old gold, amber and blue In all
the new shades.
The latest summer mantles are Of fcelle
lace, over Canton Grape or thin silk Cf the
same gray color.
Fantastic hats shading the face, with In
denied bfims of large size, will be much in
use at the seaside.
Tue long redlngote is worn over a skirt
trimmed with only one dounee or a heavy
ruche al TIRE bottom.
The bell or sash no longer de fines the
waist line, tut is placed at the bottom of the
long pointed eorsage.
Madopolams is the new French fabric fer
washing" dresses. l is stamped with fig
ures In bright eolors, Or else is plain cream
white.
The kilt p'eatcd fl 7unces placed at the
bottom OF some pointed bodies are re-
markedly becoming 10 both slender aud full
figures.
Venetian lace IN patterns Ike those of
rose point IS the mos elegant trimming for
the Canton Grape dresses worn at summer
receptions
Large Lsg1orn hats, with white and vel
low qmee, are more popular, bee iuse they
can be worn with eos um IS OF any of the
colors now In vogue.
Sweet CIR; rs it wicked to sing that song
on Sunday" Brother jack "Yes, it IS
wicked to sipg it any day." "Way?' "Be-
cause 1t makes people swear"
White Chudda cloth dresses, with old blue
or dull red velvet collar and cuffs, are worn
at summer hotels by ladies' whose fair COM
plexion will admit such trying toilette.
Just as beaded trimmings are losing favor
and are about 10 be relegated to the Indians
who frs wore them, it is announced that
real gold beads, real turqU0ises and pure
amber beads are In vogue IN Paris.
Small boys wear scarlet coats Of hussar
cloth over their White kilt quits at the wa
terlng plscess There arr frogs of black
cord up the front of the ilcket. A red
Turkish ftz completes the costume.
Among other fancies is that OF fastening
the eoIsaae with tiny. bullet shaped but
tons, set on less than au inch apart. The
button holes are made by machinery. Some
times there is double row OF buttons.
The English lawn tennis hat is of feath
felt In some 9 'thetic shade Of color, while
on Il IS painted or embroidered a huge
poppy, peony, daisy or SUN bwer. IL is
turned up in wideawske style in front.
Tea gowns have Vatican overdresses o.
large agured fOulGrd, with q skirt OF Gre
vette shrimp e0lOFed satin trimmed with
puffs aud white lace. Bows Of dark red
velvet ribbon trim the corsage and sleeves
For bright brunette, gray and scarlet Is
often 8 very becoming dress, and for a rosy
blonde, gray silk, satin or muslin, toned with
Olack Ve!VeJ or lace, or Wnlte lace Tor even
lug dress, with ping roses for garniture, is
certainly In excellent taste.
A Nav York girl, working in a shop at So
per week, had $500 left her by an aunt. She
spent SIS OF it in one dress, and used the
remainder Of It in lace at S12 per yard. This
shows how foolish women are 4 young
me1 IN elnilar elrcuhs stances would have
got drunk and gamb!e1 the money away.
SIX young wCmen who not loug ago were
bride maids at fashionable wedding IN
New KorE have Lad tLeii photograph taken
together, and the picture is on exhibition at
fashionable resort. Ten young men were
observed the other day peeriGg through ten
pairs OF eyeglasses at the double bevy of
graces.
A perfectly dressed woman is said to be
6 sQitsDly dressed woLao, and Girl with
very few dresses may look far better dressed
than her sister with Just the same number
by the instinct which tells her which is
fittest to wear. Iadeed, one OF the worries
Of narrow income in the matter OF dress Is
tu8t It often forces one to be Overdressed
from ones not having what an old lady once
called "between gowns" or being obliged
TO wear light coi0r5d dress when dark
one would be m ore liable, or vice versa
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