Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-07-16
THE FASHION.
Latest Things in ssOshOns Clothes.

The season at the Shosh'ne emporium
 notwithstanding the bacKwsrdness oi
 sprln {, open up with many charming novelties 10 dress. Leaders of fashions
 are not confining themselves in any way
 to prevlous styles. but are aiming al
 startling changes and entirely original designs. The Louis the XIV costume in buckskin, and muskrst edRings, will be
 a favorite among the older and more
 sedate sQusws and the loose travelling
 suits made of wagon covers, with dash
 of axle grease and seal brown tar will be
 much worn before 1t is discarded. A
 redingote of sntiqusted logcabin bed quilt and draped at the back with loops of foulard horse hair or fsille loops of rawhide lariat. will be ID favor with old
 and swayback squaws, who are in half mourning.
 The blue cavalry overcoet cape will be worn during the cooler evenings by giddy young squaws, with such other gew gaws as their fancy may suggest. Middle aged Sboshune matrons will also wear, during the coming season for morning, buffalo robe draped from the shoulders and held in place with iron picket pins Afternoon costumes will be more daz- zling and will consist of flour sack bodice, fastened with metallic pants buttons of the time of Henry VIII and festooned with spstter work of alkali mud and such other bric-a-brac Gs Indian taste may suggest.
 Ball costumes will be as heretofore very attenusted and very sparse. The infantry pants so commonly worn through the day will be exchanged for cavalry pants for kettle drums, and ar tillery pants for shosnOne hops. The trail will not be in vogue this year. the nearest approach to it being the table cloth costume held in place with em- bossed safety pin. The more frolicsome belles, however, will wear blue mosquito halt hose. This will be the favorite evening costume
 Novelties in jewelry and ornaments of all kinds will be in great favor. Neck laces of tin tobacco tags strung on cop per wire will be quite common, and bears claws alternating with the back teeth of amateur stockmen, and strung On the E string of violin will be worn as midday costume.
 Crinoline IS once more recognized among the ton Of the ShOshone society, and the hoopskirt will be adopted there as a croquet spit as soOn as the weather moderates little, SO that there will be no risk in wearing it. Older matrons still wear the hustle, and when worn out side pair of artillery pants 1t makes unique and attractive promenade cos tune.
 A daughter of Sore-Eyed Pelican is making large number of mashes this spring with a striped corset which she wears at all receptions and dress parties.
 A new caprice for morning wrap will be an imitation army overcoat with door mat drapery. This will be worn too on picnic excursions, in search of pitch pine logs for the morning fire.
 The hair will be worn plain iD most cases, with bandoline buffalo tallov and tar. The time-honorsd hair of the tribe, consisting of en specim-ns of the time of Queen Elizabeth, will be shown on all occasions.
 Prudish old maids, with no special at- | fractions of form or feature. have recent ly severely criticised the costume adopt | cd, during the present month, by a bevy | of ShoshOne bellies, which consists of an | alpaca umbrella and dash of red paint | While the suit is, of course, open to sd- | verse criticism, it displays the figure | better, and is far less expensive than the | Jersey or pull-back of the Dale-face.