The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-06-10
For the Fair Sex.
Yellow flowers trim dark green ana

Velvet strings and FeiVe' aisa'ia"
bow trim new bonnets.
visites made of India cashmere
shawls are favorite wraps.
White suits for summer arc of wool
in preference to lawn.
White net embroidery Is used ioI
neckties and chemisettes.
Soft toques Of wool like the dress sr1
worn with travelling dresses.
Alnvia Is the name given to new
and lovely shade of yellowish pink
In Paris children's stockings mus
match their dresses; this is obligatory
Long stocking mitts will be much
worn with light costumes in mid
summer.
The designs and colorings of new
stockings are artistic in the highest
degree.
Natural flowers have entirely sup
erseded artificial ones for trimming
dresses.
The newest clouh goods have round
spots as large as the palm of a lady's
hand.
Mother Hubbard styles are now
confined to morning wrappers and
night dresses.
Fruit and flower designs in close
printed patterns appear on new Isle
thread stockings.
The favorite blue for children's fan
nels and eheviots is the old gendarme
or china blue.
Simple house dresses now in prepar-
alton for early spring are made chiefly
of soft wool materials alone, Or they
have q moderate combination of silk
surah or a fine cord lustrous gros grain.
The latter fabric, having been laid
aside for satins and lustrous surahs, is
once more being used, and, consider
ing its durability, ladies of good taste
wear it in preference to any other ma
terial in the house.
Among the special novelties for sea.
side wear are costumes of cheese-cloth,
with bonnet and parasol complete.
The DIR, sses are trimmed with kite
founces marrow across the front, al
ternating with pleated ruff1es of lace,
which are placed partly under those of
the cheese cloth. The heading is
band of what looks like embroidery,
but is in reality an application of ere
tonne, outlined with buttonhole
stitch. This is repeated three times
across the front aud also upon the
basque, hat and parasol. The fine
lace pleatings also reappear upon
every part of the dress. The costumes
are imported complete. Chene silks
have taken the place of wha! has been
known as summer" silks-that is the
small checked and striped silks.
There are checked washing silks still,
but they have not the cachet of the
newest thing. India pongee has ex-
perlenced an enormous revival, due,
perhaps, to the trouble of procuring
other art materials. Pongees we have
al Says-it is not extravagantly light,
and it is one of the coolest, cieanest
and daintiest of summer fabrics.
China crepe if revived. but only for
few, for it is to costly for wear by the
many. A few pieces of tefra-cotta red
have been ca erly bought up to be
made into country house and fete
dresses trimmed with white, and
worn with white lace hat and parasoI.
The Tussore silks are fine and soft
very cool, and with their India tints
and ctineing quality make aesthetic
dresses. In washing materials the
new satinets have easily taken the
first rank. The gowns are well COW
cred with lovely and most original de-
signs, and though some of these latter
are bizarre, there are enough of those
that are both pretty and original to re.
deem them. The new rose design has
dark grounds-olive or chocolate-and
some dull china blue. Upon these
are shaded roses, Mareschal Neil
dark red and others, with brown stems
and fading foliage. There are also
Kate Greenway patterns, the quaint
designs of little folks, which are so
well known, furnishing the border
ings to small leafy patterns. The mar
row chene-striped ginghams, with
linen finish are among the nrettiast
and most suitable materials for sum.
mer morning dresses. They are made
WITH killed front, draped back and
shlrred basque bodice or blouse waist
and trimmed with Madeira embroi.
derry or Belgian lace. Very useful
summer skirts are made sbor, of
somewhat coarse but churaba kind of
French batiste, fiounced, 6nisbed
with a drawing string at the hack 81
as TO mass the fulness into a Sosn;sb
nounce. Above this series of rpff4a.
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