The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1882-1884, 1882-08-24
FASHION FANCIES.

gaining ground again.
Chenille bids fair to have long
run of popular favor.
Louis XIV. dresses are in high
favor for garden parties.
The fashion of boutTant sleeves for
! full dress is gaining.
: High pleated collars resembling
cOllarettes will be much worn.
Very few lirst-class society women
OF New York wear tournures.
Old tapestry shades of color are
most in favor for summer toilets.
Wooden dresses, to be tasteful,
should be made as plain as possible.
Floods and cascades of Oriental
7 lace are worn on every dressy toilet.
Chemises are made with V front,
to be worn with V-fron dress bodies.
The lace fichu, SO popular this
summer. will be reduced to full
ruche by fall.
Lace and embroidery remain the
favorite trimmings for all kinds of
dresses.
Ficelle net will cover the collars
and cuffs of many dressy costumes
in the fall.
Magnolia white is charming tint
for the rich silks and satins of even
ing dresses.
Most evening dresses worn at
watering places are white, pale blue,
or shell or shrimp pink.
The wraps adopted by young
American girls abroad are of mascu-
line cut and tailor finish.
Pompons and ortrich feathers form
the trimmings of the largest number
of summer dress hats.
White blouse waists are worn I'M.
der long, loose Jackets for seaside
and mountain fatigue costumes.
Imme use hats of drawn or shirred
Grape. null and yelling are worn at
European seaside resorts.
Large foulard fans, used instead
of parasols and matching the COS
tune, are the latest Partisan novelty.
The princess pelisse, long over
garment OF India pongee, is useful as
travelling cloak. 1t is bordered
with chicoree ruche.
The favorite glove and long mitt
of the dressy girl is of silk or un-
dressed kid in Pompeiian red or
deep terra Gotta color.
Nothing more hidious can be con-
ceived than the boutfant tournures of
crlnoline which the French modistes
are bringing in vogue.
The sash panier. terminating be.
hind with long Hoped bow, is more
popular than the festooned drapery
that curves upward in front.
The half-ftting princess dress,
with its superimposed draperis,
founces and trimmings, holds it's
ground for children's dresses.
The striped cadet-blue ginghams,
with plaitings showing the darkest
stripe ON top of each pleat, are pretty
for morning dresses in the country
White pique waistcoats, with col.
lars rolling over the velvet or cloth
collar of tailor-made jackets, arc
much worn by young girls on the
other side.
Light ecru canvass boots and
shoes, foxed with yellow leather. are
worn for mountain climbing, and also
do duty for lawn tennis aud croquet
wear.
White dresses have occasionally
the entire skirt covered with mar row
fiounces of Oriental lace. The
ba sque is then trimmed with lace
ruff1es and cascades.
Even Worth has gone stark mad
over that ugly modstrosity, the
tournure but he has little influence
over the English aesthetics and their
Amefic all cousins.
1t Is proposed that ladies' shall
adopt the Turkish style of wearing
their wells next winter that is over
the mouth, chin and nose, instead of
the ey es.
Ivory white surah dresses for sum.
mer evening parties have the skirt
covered with flounces of Venetian
embroidery, initiating the designs of
old point lace.
Large collarettes and shoulder
capes of lace and embroidery are
much W. n. A new fancy is to dec
oraf profusely all around with
in ribbon.
popular dresses for
ternOon at mountain
shmere, in any of the
les Of color, With
sash bow Of
IS material is
V. white and
kes of steel.
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