St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-09-22
Fashion Items.

The old-fashioned Garibaldi waist is
being revived.
Pulled bindings of velvet or satin
n!pon the edges of Langtry turbans and
the brims of bonnets and large round
hats will be in great use this autumn.
The newest tennis hats are made OF
gray satin open-work straw, faced with
cardinal, and trimmed with peacock
feather ends and sea-gulps wing.
Dark red walstcoats and revers,
closely covered with gold braid, are
considered very stylish. A silver gray
dress embroidered in silver, with white
watered silk vest, likewise embroidered,
is a unique and delicate-looking dress
FIR special occasions, but one that soon
bears its date.
Monograms are now embroidered in
very heavy work, but are small in size
They are executed in comparatively
plain style, without any arabesque or
floral device surrounding them. Hand
kerchiefs in shot muslin are carried
with dresses of the same material, and
are worked with one of the brightest
'colors of the muslin. The effect, how
ever, is not good, and colored and fig
ured handkerchiefs, like colored silk
underwear, are merely a passing eccen-
tricity of la mode.
The cream spotted n,uslins, printed
with sprays of scarlet or pink geranium
blossoms or lunches of small china as
tiers, are much worn. and are usually
cut la Vatican. They are both quaint
and pretty looking, and, if properly
made, look IS if they had just been
taken out from between the lavender
and pot-pourri of your grandmother's
chest. When not in Vatican style
these dresses are made short wasted,
sash tied around the waist.
The usual eccentricities are showing
themselves in parasols. Some are made
of straw in the same way as round hats.
They are then adorned with flowers, a
favorite garniture being a border of
hanging peoples, the stalks showing
very effectively. Crimson-tipped dali
sizes and stems are also used. They are
flat, like the Japanese sun-shades of last
season. Some are made of colored
straw. but the s.chicest' are white.
Worth is making up brocaded pushes
for the next season in pale nuns gray
and dark laurel green, in combination
with heavy9ottonan silk of the latter
shade, and also in sapphire blue and
dark amber plush combined with dark
blue ottoman, etc. These dresses are
made short, with graceful pouf draper
les of the ottoman in the back and
double apron overskirt in front, COM
bining the two fabrics. The jackets
are of the brocaded plush, with vests of
the silk, fastened down the front with
buttons initiating real gems. 7aR
Casaques are now made of fine stock
inette cloth, which has the advantage of
fitting the figure very closely. The
most popular shape of this garment is
double breasted, and has small, stand
up collar and reyers like a gentleman's
coat. The skirt is draped on the tips
like q panier-polonaise, and is made
very bunchy and full low in the back.
The collar, cuffs and pockets are often
finished with velvet. and sometimes
with jetsas well. There is also the in
evitable sash in the back, from which
no outdoor garments for feminine wear
seems able just now to escape.
Exclusive milliners are making
use of brilliant Turkish embroideries Of
silk, on net or null, to trim hats or bon
nets Just now; but unless they are skill
fully adapted they are not nearly as sue
cessful as they are when employed by
the dressmakers in trimming the dainty
cream-colored and pink-tinted Grape
dresses so much the rage this sultry
weather. These embroiderles come by
the yard, in the shape of tiounces and
bands. and when used for dresses are
set upon thin silk foundations: and so
bright and gay is the effect Of the blend
ed colors used in the embroidery that
no other garnirure of flowers, ribbons
or lace is necessarily I. EUening
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