Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03

rhadames. and narrow clustered striped satin
and moire. Cream colored Surah is used for
summer parasols on very narrow plnked-out
ruffies, alternating with cream Spanish lsce.
These pafasols have a very soft and pretty
effect, lined with pale pink, blue or straw
color The flowers are buttercups and daisies,
shaded vioets, yellow cowsips, lilies of the
valley, hedge roses, and the like. Some large
black parasols are made of satin and lace in
the same way and lined with heliotrope, red.
or old gold. The flower garniture may be
Scotch thistles or variegated roses. Pongee Is
always used for quiet summer parasols by
very refined class of people. They are lined
with white OF some delicate color. and I'd have
deep border OF Spanish point lace. The sSlckS
are bamboo, with twisted hoop handle.
PoNeEE DRESSES.
Pongee is the one artistic material we al
ways possess. and there is nothing more lovely
or more useful for summer costume. It is
cool yet close, so that il does not need silk
lining beneath. as do many of our summer
fabrics, and though fine silk, it washes like
piece of white cotton cloth. 1t Is easily laid
and kept in fold yet drapes gracefully, and
has coolness without the chill of linen or thin
lustre silks, and more firmneSs than the gauze
crepe materials. which in silk are so expensive
as to be out of the reach, and in cotton are
uncertain and every way detestable
For several years pOngees, in the piece have
been accompanied by an extra length en-
broidered for trimming. occasionally in a very
good design, but which greatly enhanced the
price. Quite as often. however the choice OF
celors. with embroidery. renders it unfit for use
Shades of amber. OF olive, of old blue. with the
minutest touch of red, are effective, and harmo-
nize with the general tone of the fabric: but
when the embroidery is executed principally
in red and warm browns. the cool restfuI
sentiment of the dress is destroyed A
pretty way of making these costumes is to put
q moderately deep knife pleating round the
bottom of the skirt Across the front lay
scant founce of the embroidery between two
deeper but scant and falling pufts OF pongee-
Above the upper one, and directly in front, lay
a small apron of the embroidery. and arrange
the small side paniers OF the basque. which
should be of the embroidery, so that q
festooned effect will be obtained. A fan shaped
pleating with embroidered border should be
inserted in the back of the basque and fall over
the slight, irregular drapery, which is short,
reaching only to the TOP of the Killed founce.
round shirred collar OF the embroidery
finishes the waist at the throat
Pongees make very cool and pretty wraps
for summer wear, and may be utilized with
white or any dresses with which the almond
tinted cloths may be worn. The simplest
form is the best. small rounded mantelet
which obtains a visite effect from strap
which is a continuation of the lower part Of
the shoulder piece. and whose opposite end is
fastened to the sides of the back, forming
with the shoulder piece a sort of sleeve, while
the back is held TO the figure without a belt
for the purpose A bonnet Of MANILA straw
open, faced with pale amber, blue, or shrimp
pink the exterior trimming cream lace, shaded
bronze leaves. cowslips, cornfiowers or hedge
roses-should be worn with pongee dressesS
but being a cool, neutral and artistic material,
do not wear with it beaded bonnets or un-
natural conventionalized flowers.
SOME NEW TRAVELLING DRESSES.
Some very charming travelling costumes
have been made recently for Southern trips
which are both useful and distinguished. The
dresses are fine camel's hair or Umnitza CASH
mere in very dark myrtle green, olive or
bronze. cut whole of course, of walking length.
and trimmed with open embroidery on the
material This open embroidery is very deep
in its greatest width but is graded suitably for
scant ruffies across the front, and to outline
basque or jacket if required. This simple
dress. which is all in one piece, is accompanied
by a cloak of Corah silk of the same shade as
the wool, which completely envelopes the per-
son. 1t is Mother Hubbard" or rather a
modification of that parsonage, with a belt of
ribbon which holds it in to the figure. The hat
is a fine olive felt or dark red straw trimmed
with feathers The dress sleeves are narrow at
the wrist, and the long lOose-wristed gloves of
undressed tan-colOred kid are drawn over
them, as the fashion has been for some time
past Some of the cloaks are made of camel's
hair to match the dresses and lined with Corah,
and this is undoubtedly a more useful method.
The ulsters or cloaks of fine twilled silk, how
ever, make lovely wear for warm weather
travelling.
For ocean travel dark blue and wine colored
cloth, with jackets in which are plenty Of
pockets, form the most suitable and becoming
costumes The large circular wrap Of the
same material which folds round and throws
over being lined with furry flannel, striped in
old gold or shaded in high color.
SUMNER TRIMMINGS.
Embroidery seems to take the lead of every
thing this year, particularly the handsome
open embroidery which so successfully initiates
the expensive needle work embroidery at less
than half the cost This is a beautiful trim
ming for white and also for thin black dresses.
1t will undoubtedly be used for the finest black
grenadines and the elegance which it imparts
to their appearance viii add to their populari-
ty. Nuns yelling looks well trimmed in this
way, but the embroidery loses much Of its dis
tinction by being executed in white or ia con-
trasting color. 1t is most distinguished when it
is seen in white upon white, in black upon
black in amber upon amber, and so on, the
work being thrown up by the self colored silk
upen which the yelling is mounted.
Beaded embroidery has retired into the back
ground for the present, for which we may be
thankful. Brilliant as some OF the effects are.
one may have too much of a good thing, and
great plaques of beads in iridescent colors
upon black is a barbarity that ought to be
stopped by the Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Eyesight JENNY JUNE.