Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-06-09
SOME FASHION NOTES.

Leaders of fashion--ladies of taste and
refinement-have in no instance adopted
the crinoline of other days, which is said
to be in fashion at the present time; still,
there is no doubt of greatly increasing
fullness of skirt, which, if kept within
moderate limits, is far preferable to the
drawbacks and ungainly lank lines of the
other extreme. The modern crinolette is
universally worn, and is both useful and
graceful. The old-fashioned wire mon
strosity known as the hoop was neither.
Sloping shoulders are enduringly un-
fashionable. In days gone by their pos
session was considered indispensable to
establish any claim TO having good figure.
Nowadays fashionable women dress the
shoulders as much as possible to produce
the desired hight and squareness- -shirred
scarfs, high puffed sleeves, and even
beaded epaulets and floral garnitures being
set upon the shoulders to produce extra
hight. So it seems that even the standard
of the beautiful is regulated by the die
tates of fashion.
A novel dress-cap has appeared resem.
bling in shape the pictures of caps worn by
the Italian peasantry. The crown is some
what high and peaked, and the brim or
band rather wide. One of these shapes
exhibited is covered with black sprigged
net on fouplation of the same color. A
pale primrose crepe scarf is carelessly
twisted around The edge of the brim and
fastened down here and there by small
venomous. looking green insects of various
sizes, and kind which it would puzzle an
entomologist to classify.
New Parisian corsages show the fronts
continued in long panels, which reach
nearly to the foot of the undeskirt, after
the manner of the fronts of the old French
surtons, though fitting the form much more
closely. a handsome dress of prune col
ored satin, covered with tiny sbirred ruff
hes, has a corsage of darker prune.colored
velvet, the long panel fronts embroidered
with shaded silks of still deeper hucs than
the velvet. In the back the corsage is cut
into deep vandykes. underneath which is
set Louis Quinze scarf of the satin fabric.
The embroidery ON kid gloves is very
artistic and pretty this season; for exam
Pile, on brown gloves the small leaves and
buds shade gradually from coffee color to
palest yellow; on dark green gloves the
silk graduates from invisible or bottle green
to the soft hues of the tender leaves Of
spring; black gloves are embroidered in
contrasting silks of various shades, all alike
being shaded from the darkest to the
lightest tints of the same dye; and now
that shaded and contrasting colors are so
much in vogue, the new gloves will doubt
less be harmonious addition to the fash
ionable toilet.
A good way to freshen a round hat OF
straw which has become somewhat faded
or yellowed by wear is to sponge the hat
with diluted ammonia water and bit of
white soap to cleanse it thoroughly. When
quite dry cover the brim with figured net,
black or white as preferred. Languedoc
netting is pretty, and can be bought at
greatly reduced price, being little out OF
fashion. Shirr the net close to the band
around the crown, and leave the outer
edge nearly plain, simply vailing, but not
hiding, the straw beneath. An Alsatian
bow Of wide ribbon and cluster of bright
flowers will cover the crown.