The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-02
Late FashiO 4 Notes.

All Italian bonnet braids are of deer
yellow tint.
The feur-de-lis is a favorite design
upon crea:n-colored sateens.
Some of the new spring walking coats
of black velvet or satin have high fiarine
collars, closely covered with large jel
beads.
Some of the new bonnets of lace straw
are wonderfully delicate and airy, and
are studded on the brims with mock
ruby. pearl, opal or large jet beads.
The new ficelle lace, which has sud
denly become so popular is made Of
cream white or pale yellow linen threads
and is used to garnish dresses and wraps
Is well as bonnets and round hats.
That damasse silks have lost theil
former glory is proved by the fact that
merchants have placed quantities of very
handsome patterns upon the ''bargain
counter" marked at uniform price OF
one dollar yard.
Handsome Biarritz gloves of very fine
addressed kid, to be worn with full
dress, have wide satin bands at the tops
delicately embroidered in tiny clusters
of rosebuds, Or painted with monogram
or crest in gold or silver.
Long mousquetaire gloves of white
Danish Kid, embroidered in silver and
jet beads. look exceedingly well with
evening" dress worn in second mourn
ing. the toilet usually being of combi-
nation of black and white, or Silver-gray
and black, with lace garniture of white
or black.
A new hat. styled s'Over the Garden
WALL" is essentially the young ladies'
hat of the period. 1t has an enormous
brim, to De tilted over the eyes and bent
up at the back. 1t is denied in on the
crown, and trimmed round with cas-
cades of ficelle lace, a huge cluster of
amounted crimson roses end two small
suntlowers.
Very large handkerchiefs for the
shoulders, male Of soft tWiiled silk, bOr-
dered with edelweis lace and pointed on
the broad hens with trails of delicate
flowers in water colors, will be worn this
summer over the pretty dresses of
f1ower-brocaded muslins and satins made
with pointed waists and full pannier
overdresSeS.
Little princeSse bonnets made entirely
of flowers are again in fashion. Among
the prettiest are those made of white
lilacs mingled with pale pink hedge
roses, or those of white wood violets with
trailing arbutuS blossoms intermingled.
These dainty little capotes are particu-
larly appropriate at weddings, either for
the bridemaid or lady guest.
One of the principal features in dress
trimmings this spring is the garnitures
made of cut-out edges, dents of various
shapes and sizes, or round, square or OBJ
long scallops. ''Dents de loup'' are
lined and turned back to show the bright
color underneath. Some of these are
made quite broad, and not only trim the
foot of the skirt, but are set in full
double rows around the edge of the
long pointed bodice in regular Eliza
bethan style.
been added to the ever-increasing store
of fine drapery in which all housekeep-
ers delight. They bid fair to rival the
five o'clock tea cloths, many of which
look far too beautiful to set lunch upon.
Very pretty and comparatively mex
pensive table covers are made of ordi-
nary brown linen, the corners embrOid-
cred in crewels. with handsome bord-
ering made of sage-green satin, finished
with an edge of ficelle lace.
Lea !erS OF fashion-ladies of taste
adopted the crinoline of other days,
which is said to be in fashion at the pres
ent time; still, there is no doubt of a
greatly increasing fulness of skirt. which,
If kept within moderate limits. is far
preferable to the drawbacks and un-
calmly lank lines of the other extreme.
The modern crinolette is universally
worn, and is both useful and graceful.
The old-fashioned wire monstrosity
known As the hoop was neither.
slipping shoulders are enduringly IN
fashionable In days gone by their pos
session was considered indispensable to
establish any claim to having a good
figure. Nowadays fashionable women
dress the shoulders as much as possible
to produce the desired height and square
ncss-shirred scarfs, high pulled sleeves,
and even beaded epaulets and floral
garnitures, being set upon the shoulders
to produce extra height. So it seems
that even the standard of the beautiful
is regulated by the dictates of fashion.
A novel dress cap has appeared re,
sembling in shape the pictures of caps
worn by the Italian peasantry. The
.crowE is somewhat high and peaked,
and the brim or band rather wide. One
of these shapes exhibited is covered with
black sprigged net on foundation of
the same color. A pale primrose crepe
scarf is carelessly twisted around the
edge of the brim and fastened down here
and there by small venomous-looking
green insects of various sizes, and of a
Kind which it would puzzle an entomol-
ogist TO classify.
New Partisan corsages show the fronts
continued in long panels, which reach
nearly to the foot of the underSkirt. after
the manner of the fronts of the old French
surt6ut, though fitting the form much
more closely. A handsome dress OF
prune-colored satin, covered with tiny
shirred rufiies, has a corsage of darker
prune-colored velvet, the long panel
fronts embroidered with shaded silks of
still deeper hues than the velvet. In the
back the corsage is cut into deep van
dykes. underneath which is set Louis
Quinze scarf of the satin fabric.
The embroidery on kid gloves is very
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