The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10
THE FASHIONS.
Watered Irish popl!ns are achiev'
ing great success.

Watered Irish poplIns are achiev'
ing q great success.
English straw Turbans never go
entirely out of vogue.
White dresses are worn every
where, in town and country.
Little girls wear white dresses
made entirely of embroidery.
Embroidered crepe is among the
novelties for morning dresses.
Pink cambrlc dresses trimmed
with laces are very fashionable.
Several colors producing the eff
feet ofa mixture appear in many of
the summer taffetas.
Broad ribbon sashes are worn by
the million from the child of one
year to the matron of sixty.
Hugo cabbage roses are worn up
on the bonnet, at the top of para
sol, and as corsage flowers.
Cluster of large strawberries on
cream ground is one of the latest
designs for painted muslin.
Pale blue or pale pink muslin
dresses dispute the majority with
sprigged and polka-dotted patterns.
Colored silver brooches represen-
ting the natural tints OF flowers and
leaves are worn with morning dress
es.
Don't talk any more about over
skirt and looping, but of "drapery,"
which is the word circulated by all
first-class modistes.
Dotted and plain mulls will be
very popular this season; 80, also, the
stripped null in white. Tinted mulls
are not SO fashionable as white.
Bouquet pins, with projecting GEN.
ters Cor the stems of flowers, are
made of gold and silver, for fasten-
ing the corsage bouquet to the
dress.
Daffodils, dandelions, yellow tu-
lips and buttercups are the fashion
able flowers of the hair. White
lilies are the choice for house deco
ration.
Almond-tinted cashmere, adorned
with embroideries of red carnations
and ox-eyed DAISIES, forms one of a
number of elegant French tea gowns
just imported.
A gray linen dress with sweet
peas painted upon it, with the same
flowers on hat and parasol, was the
toilet worn by French Marquise at
the Grand Prix.
Irish point embroidery in ecru or
whittier tints is much used for turned
over collars, with a neck ribbon and
bow of colored moire. The cuffs to
match have smaller bows.
One of the newest conceits is to
trim the front of the skirt with two
plated puffs above a plated ruffle,
while the back is draped in puffs and
also finished with deep plaitings at
the edge.
The either Is becoming fashiona-
BILE in England since the eldest
daughter of the Prince and Prince
cess of Wales has popularized it by
taking lessons and learning to play
on it with great skill.
Velvet collars on cotton dresses
are incongruous and warm, yet it is
the whlm of the modistes to use
them, especially on very dark sateen
dresses that are worn an entire sea-
son without being washed.
A bonnet, made wholly of goose
berries, lately exhibited, met with
poor success, as did also one of plum
colored chenille, adorned with a
bunch of apricots. In the way of
fruit garniture elderberries, in su-
perb coloring, or pale-green grapes,
surrounded with silver-powdered
leaves meet with the greatest favor.
Small checked silks are made up
in many fanciful styles, and always
in combination with other fabrics,
plain merveilleux being the usual
choice. A skirt of dark royal blue
and white checked silk is covered
with wide plated fiounces, each
headed with narrow plating of
royal blue surah. The cOrsage and
Watteau over-skirt are of the plain
blue material, with cuffs, pockets
and pelerine of the checked silk.