The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-07-15

Late Fashion Notes.
Velvet is to constitute one Of the most
fashionable of summer trimmings.
Next to dark green and royal blue, the
favorite color for street wear is the new
shade Of golden brown.
A lace pin with the wearer's monogram
in tiny diamonds and emeralds is among
the elegant novelties in jewelry.
Feathers and flowers are used in pro-
fusion by French modistes, and painted
ribbon and painted lace add greatly to the
elegance of dress bonnets and hats.
Black velvet dog collars, fastened
under the chin with tiny gold or silver
clasps set with mock gems, are worn
| with both day and evening costumes.
The daisy family in natural and I'M
natural colors-blue or silver gray, for
instance-large, medium and small, are
very popular garnitures this season.
Long redingotes of thin cloth, with a
number of small capes on the shoulders,
and several pockets with flaps covering
them, will be much used for travelling
and country wear.
Plain, close fitting sleeves for home or
promenade dress, buttoned up the back
of the arm to the elbow, are more favor
ed by fashionable ladies than sleeves cut
in any other style.
The skirts that are worn under tunics,
panniers, or polonaises, must either be
perfectly plain. or literally covered with
trimming; there is now no s'mezzo-ter-
mine" 1t is also a necessity that the
skirt, when plain, shall be rich and
handsome in texture
To have the hands loaded down with
great number OF heavy seal or even
| jewelled rings, is considered to SAVIOR too
much of the swell mob and the doubtfuls.
The most elegant, refined, and also
wealthy people now display but few
| finger rings, and those only of the most
valuable description.
Resada or mignonette, lime blossoms,
silver-green, silyer-gray and violet, are
colors to be very fashionably worn this
summer. A new shade, called 'sChinese
Pheasant" has made its appearance, it
being the hue of this bird S neck feath-
ers. II combines admirably with black,
and is very popular in feathers and rib
bons for bonnets. The shade is lighter
than old gold, having a touch of pale
amber in it.
A novel decoration for sunshade is a
tropical bird, neither too large nor yet
too Insignificant in size; the plumage
must be gay. This tiny effigy may be
| placed with outstretched wings, as on
the point Of fight, or may appear as il
poised for momentary rest on the top
or side of the shade. A large, brilliant
beetle is sometimes fixed in a similar
fashion, but the bird is the most effect
i've. A very life-like little orange-and-
black Indian bird, perched on satin
sunshade fiounced all over with black
lace, is one of the prettiest specimens of
pathological garnitures among a vari-
ETY. exhibited.
Rows of jet are now wrought in dress
materials, the most effective Of these be-
ing open-work silk grenadines, with
floral designs worked in jet. These
handsome fabrics make up very richly in
| combination with black satin or MORE.
A model made of this beaded grenadine
has black satin-striped MORE under
skirt, with a very wide fringed ruche
around the bottom through the feathery
centre of which glitter floral ornaments
and pendants of jet. The tunic and
bodice are fully draped with flowing jet
fringes, and about the open square neck
and upon the elbow sleeves is set a
smaller fringed ruching, also frightened
with special ornaments ofjet.
For the country and the seaside, for
church, as well as for evening dress,
white is this summer to be uncommonly
favored. For church the choice is. of
course, light woollen fabrics-nuns' veil
ing, vigogne, and summer cashmere and
the like. Toilets for this purpose are
invariably made with trimmings of the
dress material alone For other occa-
sions are Indian and French null, batiste,
French barege and Algerian silk gauzes,
to be worn over underskirts of satin or
surah; gauze de Chambery also remain
ing among the most fashionable of trans
parent tissues. Ivory and cream white
are the tints preferred, and lace to cor
respond is profusely used in the trim
nlings. In evening dresses of white
yelling, or cashmere, much Oriental lace
and floral garniture is employed, but
when the Grecian style is adopted, it is
done SO to the exclusion of fancy trim
mings of any description, and with its
simple but artistic drapings caught up
with gold or silver cords; the effect Of
this fashion of dress is very chaste and
beautifully z. Ecening Post