Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-04-12

Il strange, but the dark red straw.. the old
gold straws. and the olive and bronze straws
are not IT all so loud and pronounced rs one
| would imagine, and in their quaint or pic
turesque shapes, with ostrich feathers for
trimming Of the same shade. and facing of
velvet or satin. are wonderfully distinguished
especially with light or cream colored dresses,
such As will be worn with them at garden
parties and the like. Hats were in the first
place protest against convensionaiity. and
| they have maintained their independence
Young women and women who are not Young
Will wear the Gainsborough hat and the
esthetic poke. who enter the severest protest
against any other departure from the strictly
conventional ideas.
| The large hats and bonnets are not, how
ever, universal. The small bonnets with
crowns of beaded or gold embroidered lace,
the fronts drawn or covered with lace similar
| TO the crown reappear, and there are also
many bonnets covered with black or cream
| Spanish lace-the garniture a cluster of rich
ly shaded tulips or large crushed roses
Ribbons are made expressly for the large
bow which is a feature of the modified poke.
and the genius in making and placing il is
exhibited in contriving that the scrawly de-
sign shall be clearly traceable in the large
loops and ends, if one has curiosity enough
to look for it.
For those who do not like the dark hats.
there are some lovely light MANILA straws,
which are faced with delicate shades. shrimp
pink, straw color. and pale blue. Pale gold
and cream. straw color and pale blue. the
faint pink known as shrimp and lichen green
1.-THE lightest shade), make lovely combina-
ton in rich trimming.
The New PARAsoLs.
De l.
the bonnets. They are large, they are in verv
high colors, some of them, though the major
ity are as ever in black. cream color. or the
shades of pongee. The new features are a
shirred ruff1e, lined and edged W it'll deep lace.
very original sticks of natural wood. Eng
lish ash, lockwood, twisted roots. bamboo,
and the like, and large spray of artificial
flowers attached as a supplementary decora-
ton TO the center of the scarf bow, with lace
ends, which ornament the top. Nothing
could be imagined more characteristic of the
fam bOyant character of popular fashion at
the present juncture than this great spray
of artificial flowers on the top of Il parasol
The materials are MORE antique, red, and old
gold, often covered as far as the ruffie with
handsome black Spanish lace; satin, satin
rhadames and narrow clustered striped satin
and MORE. Cream-colored surah is used for
rutfies, alternating with cream Spanish lace
These parasols have a very soft and pretty
effect, lined with pale pink, blue or straw
color. The flowers are bGttercurs and daisies.
shaded violets, yellow cowslips, lilies of the
valley. hedge roses. and the like. Some large
black parasols are made of satin and lace in
the same way and lined with heliotrope. red
or old gold. The flower garniture may be
Scotch thistles or variegated roses. Pongee
is always used for quiet summer parasols by
a very refined class of people. They are
lined with white or some delicate color, and
have deep border of Spanish point lace
The sticks are bamboo with a twisted hoop
handle.
PONGEE DRESSES.
Pongee is the one artistic material we al
ways possess, and there is nothing more love-
ly or more useful for summer costumes 1t
is cool, yet close, so that it does not need a
silk lining beneath. as do many of our sum-
mer fabrics; and. though pure silk it washes
Ike piece of white cotton cloth. 1t is easily
laid and kept in fold, vet drapes gracefully.
and has GOODNESS without the chill of linen or
thin lustre silks, and more firmness than the
gauze crepe materials which in silk are so
expensive as to be out of reach, and in cotton
are uncertain and every way detestable.
SUMNER TRIMMINGS.
Embroidery seems to take the lead of every
thing this year, particularly the handsome
open embroidery which so successfully imi-
tates the expensive needle-work embroidery
at less than half the cost. This is beautiful
trimming for white and also for thin black
dresses. 1t will undoubtedly be used for the
finest black grenadines, and the elegance
which it imparts to their appearance will add
to their popularity. Nuns yelling looks well
trimmed in this way, but the embroidery loses
much of its distinction by being executed in
white or in n contrasting color. 1t is most
distinguished when it is seen in white upon
white, in black upon black, in amber upon
amber, and so on, the work being thrown up
by the self-colored silk upon which the veil
ing is mounted.
Beaded embroidery has retired into the
background for the present. for which We
may be thankful. Brilliant as some of the
effects are, one may have too much of good
thing, and great plaques of beads in iridescent
colors upon black is a barbarity that ought to
be stopped by the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Eyesight