The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-08-31
Fashion Items.


Embroidered crepe is among the nov-
elites for mourning dress.
Pink cambria dresses trimmed with
lace are very fashionable.
New French cabote bonnets are GOV.
cred with white elder blossoms.
A new and very handsome shade Of
cardinal is much used for children's
dresses.
Clusters of large strawberries on q
cream ground is one of the latest designs
for painted muslin.
Almond-tinted cashmere, adorned with
embroideries of red carnations and OK
eyed daisies, forms one of number of
elegant French tea gowns just imported.
Bridal dresses are again being made Of
white gros-grain and repped silk. They
are deliberately trimmed with elegant
white silk embroidery and lace, and the
regulation orange blossom is now min
gled with white roses, geraniums and
lilies.
Large square neckerchiefs Of fine silk
muslin, wrought in delicate sprays of
apple and hawthorn blossoms, small
blush roses, or trailing vines OF honey
suckle blossoms, are worn over sprigged
or white muslin dresses with charming
effect
The long. gracefully -draped redingote,
buttoned to the throat with frogs and silk
cords, and parting midway Of the 'front.'
breadths over a skirt of a contrasting
material, is favorite style in the forma-
ton OF travelling dresses of the very
latest importations. 80
The most becoming and elegant head
coverings for full dress occasion or for
church wear this sultry season are the
airy little princesse bonnets covered conn
pletely with white or tinted flowers, and
fastened under the chin with BRIDES lace
or scarf strings. Many of these little
cap bonnets have the small delicate bios
SONS partly yelled with beaded Spanish
blonde. -
For infants dresses are embroidery
patterns manufactured in imitation Of
Venetian point.of every color. A dainty
robe is made of cream-colored creponne.
finished by a deep flounce of baby-blue
satin, completely covered with fiounce
OF pale blue Venetian point lace. With
unbleaehed fabrics ficelle or pack-thread
lace in Venetian designs is much used
a trimming which is now considered the
height of elegance.
Slippers for full dress are cut exceed.
ingly low and adorned with buckles of
Rhine pebbles. They are made Of fine
French kid Of every fashionable shade
of color, but black is the most seen.
They are also made of satin or silk to-
match the toilet. Charles TX. shoes. 4
with straps across the instep, are shown
for demi-toilet, and in black satin are
new slippers Ia Chinese, the pointed
toes embroidered on the tips with silver
threads and laced over the instep with
silver cords.
The-pretty Alsatian peasant hats are
very much worn by young girls. Some
times the flat, velvet-lined brim is ca,lobt
up lightly at one side, but it is gener-
ally worn in genuine peasant style, and
Lhe Wreaths OF flowers on the outside are |
made to match the color of the lininus.
A sweet little hat in this STYLE is of dark
green straw, faced with pale pink sarah
and trimmed outside with wreath of I
pink oleander blossoms caught together |
It the back with bow and long ends of
lark green satin ribbon.
Yellow is a color that seems to be I
growing in favor, especially in the do
main OF millinery, yellow Spanish blonde
ind pale yellow satin ribbon being much
Employed as trimming. mingled with
mail yellow sunfiowers, primroses and
Fellow water-lilies. Openwork lace
traW bonnets are much trimmed with
.uches and plaque of yellow lace, and
ioffodils, wall-fiowers and other bios
oms OF that tint are used in CONJUNCTION.
Many OF the bonnets are lined with black
.elyet, making them very becoming to
he wearer. adding brillianey to clear
md improvement to dull complexion.
Every well-regulated parasol now dis
lays its colors by bow of ribbon tied
ear the handle, or branch of roses or
ther flowers set near its top. Heavy
liver handles beautifully carved are in
Ugh vogue. as are also those of mother
f-pearl and onyx, with the handles in
he shape of shepherds crook or a
,hinese cross. The most expensive of
Il, however. are those of pearl or silverl
ct with gems, matching in hue the diff
srent toilets with which they are worn
for example. white satin parasol
ned with pale blue has the handle Of
liver with the owners monogram setip
earls and turquoise stones. This is to
9 carried with a toilet of cream-white
,ulard with tunic and bodice of the same.
rocaded with pale blue forget-me-nots !
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