Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-07-12
FASHIONABLE FANCIES.

SHRIMP pink cashmere, with a copper
MORE vest and sash, makes a charming
toilet for afternoon receptions.
The only new feature in chiIdren's
clothing is the substitution of narrow
ribbon sashes for the very broad ones
used last season.
DRESS skirts are wider, measurin o two
and one half yards around the bottom,
but the draperies are very bouffant, and
crinoline and stiff muslin are placed
under them over the skirt.
HE primitive palm leaf fan has sue
cumbed to the decorators art, and is now
colored sombre green or in dull blue and
ornameuted with aesthetic lilies or the
"gaudy leonine sunfower."
The fatty folded scarfs worn by gen
tlemen are much used by ladies with
their Norfolk Jackets and tailor-made
cheviot dresses. Those of foulard or
plque are most liked for the present sea-
son.
TERRA Gotta and rose are the new
shades offered this season in hosiery for
ladies and children. Solid colors are
preferred for general wear, with very
light cloalking or leaf embroidery ND
each side.
BLACK dresses this season are a COM
blnatlon OF several fabrics and have often
a color introduced. Velvet grenadines,
showing great roses or peonies of black
velvet on sheer armure grenadine, are
made up over geranium red satin, with
houpces of red Spanish lace.
The shape most generally adopted IN
the making of walking dresses is the
unique drapery opening over the apron
very much raised on the sides, with short
ends crossing each other either in fan
shape or long and forming long loops al
ternating with ribbon to relieve the sim
plcity of the material.
A PRETTY fancy is to wear a simple
standing or clerical linen collar, fastened
with a diamond or fine jeweled stud,
while below the collar is worn band of
black velvet on which is fastened row
of small gold coins or jewel ornaments.
This band fastens in the back of the neck
with small hook or baby lace pin.
The agreeable features of summer
styles are the prevalence of short round
skirts, the absence of bustles, The variety
in shapes of hats and bonnets, in cos
tunes and colors. A growing innovation
is the wearing of velvet in all seasons,
not excepting midsummer. There is an
endless variety of velvets, including
plain, pressed MORE and brocaded.
The fashion of "picture dresses is
daily increasing, and the result is an un-
usual demand for models of historic cos
tunes. A Catharine de Medici dress,
copied from the painting of her made by
Clouet, is made of white satin, and upon
the long train are large black velvet
flowers in relief. The petticoat, stom-
acher and ruff are dazzling mass of Jet
and steel beads.
The prettiest goods for evening dresses
are the printed and embroidered cash
meres in such shades as shell, salmon,
rose and shrimp pink, pale blue, old
gold, dead white and cream. Other
materials are silk tissues, raw silks,
grenadines, mulls and muslins. The
principal trimmings for these dresses
consist of lace and ribbons, while en-
broideries plays conspicuous part.
THE use of white muslin, organdie.
Victoria lawn, nainsook and other pure
white goods of this kind is objected to
by the esthetic dress apostles as insult
able for ladies to wear. They are too
cold in shadow and in sunshine are too
glazing. The only whites that should
be worn are the cream whites which do
not appear in the ordinary style of white
goods WON. White is only fit for babies
to wear, they say, and instance the fact
that the subtle japanese, who are ever
artistic, never made such ordinary white
goods.