The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-04
Fashion Notes.

Dress bonnets are of medium size.
The new foule cloth comes in all the
;ich street shades.
Stylishly dressed children now weal
lace shoulder-capes instead of collars,
Heavy silks, woven in small matelasse
patterns, will replace to some extent
the plain Ottomans of the past season.
Velvet will be worn to the latest pos
sible moment, or until the heated term
shall render it uncomfortable, as it re-
tains, or rather has increased, its hold
on popular favor. '
Ladies who venture to adopt plaided
costumes avoid the corsage made of the
vari-colored material, and join to the
plaided skirts jersey bodice of mono
chrome color matching exactly one OF
the shades of the plaid.
Fans of tinted ostrich feathers,
mounted on tortoise shell, are still the
height of style for evening dress. They
are oval in shape and usually have q
brilliantly plumaged bird or cluster
of lilies or roses set in the center of the
fan.
Yellow, in q score of tints, ranging
from daffodil and primrose to citron
yellow of greenish tint, is color that
is now exceedingly fashionable in every
sort of dress fabric, bonnet material
and garniture, and in house-adorning.
in drapery, panelings, pOrtieres, lam
brequins and curtains.
Lace bonnets in black and cream
white, in modified poke shapes, are
among the attractive fancies in new
French millinery. Lace plaitings are
laid over the brims, which are first
covered with colored silk or satin OF
either bright or pale shades. Flowers
matching the hue of the silk founda.
ton are wreathed around the crown OF
massed at one side. mingled usually
with cascades of the lace.
The return to fashion of gros grains
and failles has met with. universal APP
probation. These handsome silks have
a richness of effect quite beyond that
obtainable bS any surah or merveilleux,
yet it is not to be supposed that these
soft, clinging silks are by any means
discarded; they are as much used as
ever, but they are employed in diff.
ferent manner, being used more as drap-
ings, plaitings of every kind, and
rlichings than for entire toilets.
Wood brown, several improved shades
of terracotta and crushed strawberry.
Presbyterian blue, intense, pale and
leaden looking greens, and porphyry.
shot with gold, are the leading shades
in spring and summer costumes. Fol
young ladies are new exquisite shades
of pink and mauve. White holds its
own still, for beautiful as some of the
new tints undoubtedly are, nothing in
all the range of cOlOrs can be made to
look more attractive and artistic thar
white, with lace adornings.
Many leading modistes have discon
tinued the use of gored side breadths
in their skirts; these, whether short OF
long, trimmed or plain, are now cut
with one center breadth; this is slightly
sloped-curved, more properly speak
ing-at each side toward the top only
The breadth on each side is the same
width at each end, but it is fitted to the
figure at the waist by two plaits il
each breadth. This, it is claimed. is al
improvement, as it causes the skirt tt
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nor cling too closely to the figure.
Satin is, and will be, very popular
Black satin is certainly no longer Sc
much favored for day wear, its place
this season being taken by gros grain
which is infinitely preferable in sun.
light, because devoid of any shiny ap
pearance. For evening wear, however
black satin yelled with black lace will
be very elegantly worn. There are also
imported superb looking black satir
toilets, cut in trained princesse style,
made of the richest quality of Turt
satin, with panier drapery about the
hips and slight drapery above the
tournure in the back, taking away the
Objectionable robe de chdmbre effect
princesse dress otherwise has. This.
with garniture of magnificent jet
beaded applique bands on the corsage
and sleeves, constitutes the sole trim.
ming.-M. Y. Erening Post.