The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-01
Advertising Directory.
FASHION POINTS.

The loud rage is for gray.
Paniers only in full dress.
Girls wear pin-head checks.
Low bodices are much worn.
Black Chantilly lace is in favor.
Flower fchus are among the novelties.
The coarser the fcele lace the better.
Panier draperies are not put on walking
suits.
Heavy laces are more in demand than light
ones.
Large flowers on dresses and small ones on
bonnets.
Any neat utility costume will do for trav-
cling suit.
Cloth top boots will be much worn as the
season advances.
Buttoned boots are going out, boots that
lace over the instep are the style.
Small Jet beaded fanchon bonnets are the
rage in New York.
PONCE in ecrue shade and all colors is still
very fashionable.
Little girls again wear long curles down the
back, but not to many.
Black dresses are always in good taste and
are never out of place or season.
1t is now the fashion among the French ar
istocrasy to wear black silk underclothing.
The English walking jacket is the leading
outdoor wrap for Northern young ladies.
The long redingotes of the newest Paris
dresses are return to style in vogue here
last year.
Coifures are still made very low in the back
Of the neck, but great variety is permitted in
this detail of the toilet.
The mother hubbard, and Kate Greenaway
styles for little girls overdressers and cloaks
grow more in favor every day.
All morning toilets in Paris are Of very dark
shades of Carmelite, seal brown, indigo blue,
Russian green, and dark beetle color.
Charming toilets for the watering places are
made of Chinese Grape, plain brocaded, or en-
broided like the needlework on Canton Grape
shawls.
Sleeves of French dresses with stylish full
ness at the armhole have but one long seam
that inside the arm, while the outer seams be-
gins at the elbow.
The Langtry turban with soft pouf crown
and velvet brim, worn far back on the head, is
becoming tovery young ladies with small, re-
fined features.
White ilacs or clematis are used to trim
small black straw bonnets. Strait wreaths
of roses without foliage are worn on wide
brimmed garden hats.
The best dress makers still make the foun-
dation skirt very narrow and strait gored,
clasping the figure like sheath. The snper-
imposed draperies are then made full accor-
ding to fancy.
Aromatic ozonized cassolettes, or little sash
etes to carry in the pocket or hang around the
neck to preserve the wearer from infection, is
a London caprice which has not yet reached
America.
An hundred or more wagons filled with
plants and flowers, unload themselves every
fine morning in spring on the square, at the
end of Canal street, New York. They come
from New Jersey, Long Island, Staten Island
and elsewhere. These wagons are each
freighted with from 200 to 1000 plants, which
bring, all told, from $40, 900 to $40, 700. The
New York Tribune. in this connection, says
Perhaps it is too much to hope that the floral
adornments of New York streets will ever
equal those of European cities where the eli
mate is more kind. But every year the crowd
ed parts of this city are breaking into richer
bloom. The window boxes on Murray Hill
are in charge of professional gardeners, and
can hardly be improved. But the supplies
from Clinton Market reach the tenement
houses, where a ten cent scarlet geranium
will exercise gentler influence than ten dol
lar Croton can in a more aristocratic soil. The
corner flower stand no doubt exerts purify
ing and tranquillizing influence which its own
er does not dream of.
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