Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-02

Cockade bows are all the rage.
COlored straws are much worn.
Flowers are worn to excess on bOnnets.
New parasOls are very snowy and large.
Henry IL. styles are gaining ground in
Paris.
Black silk hosiery is excessively fash
iOnable.
Braiding is for morning and walking
dresses.
Black straws are more worn than COL
Ored ones.
|, Oriental colors in brocades are much
sought for.
Painted parasols for carriage use are
very effective.
Fancy checked and striped hosiery is
going out of use.
Some of the new lace mitts are ruched
with silk at the top.
Summer toilets are made dressy with
lace and embroidery.
The simplest forms of making up sum-
mer dresses please most.
For skirts of light fabrics pufings and
full drapings are most used.
ParasOls Of pOngee have scallOped bOr-
ders and tinted silk Innings.
a flower epaulet on the left shoulder is
pretty fancy of the moment.
Flowers and lace enter more and more
into the decorations of evening dresses.
Young girls will dress their hair close
in braids or torsades lOoped up in the
back.
The most fashionable stockings are of
silk or Isle thread in plain cOlOrs or
black.
One of the prettiest novelties in costume
is the basket OF flowers attached TO the
dress.
Black velvet necklets are worn high
about the throat and fastened by diamond
studs.
The couture Ia Chinoise is the style
adopted by the old aristOcracy in Paris at
present.
COIOrs are combined as much as possible
in the ribbon decorations of white house
dresses.
Shoulder knots and trimmings are re-
Yived, but they are becoming to slender
figures only.
Skirts for young women are covered
with tiny flounces alternating in embroid-
cry and lace.
Pinked out tiounces of silk are used as a
trimming for mantles, bOnnets. gowns
and parasols.
Brides dresses are demi-trained, high
in the neck, and with half or three-quar-
tiers long sleeves.
The gable brim bonnet is very becoming
when lace, flowers, or ribbon fill up the
peak above the forehead.
Pointed bonnet fronts, the large tOurn-
ures, and high shOuldered sleeves are
three features of spring toilets.
COckade bows in correct forms must be
of several colors of ribbon, many loops,
and few ends cut into cocks combs.
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tirely with buttercups, daisies, primrOses
and other spring flowers are in high favor
Parasol sticks are of medium size, of
ebonized and natural woods, the handles
carved, inlaid, or silver mounted, fanciful
or plain.
The dressiest mantles are of black satin
rhadames or brOcade handsomely trimmed
with lace pleatings and ruches, are very
short, and have high narrow shoulders.
An exquisite out door costume has
pale pink silk skirt, with double drapery
of soft POmpadour silk, edged with rows
of cream lace. Lace tippet and hat.
Another pretty dress is plain white
silk trimmed with thick ruche of white
lace. Overdress of white lace drawn
obliquely across the front and fastened on
the hip.
A handsome bridal dress consists of
train of white brOcade, killed skirt of
plain satin. with lace scarf knotted above
in front and extended at the sides to meet
the train.
New Overskirts have a gathered puff at
the top and side instead of being fiat
there, and are worn with very short
basques that rest on this puff, but do not
conceal its fullness.
Fans are to be worn suspended from
the waist and en- suite with the costume.
They are made of figured Saline, foulard
or Chinese pOngee, and are mounted on
bamboOs or cOlOred wood.
The travelling cloak for young ladies'
summer journeys is a cheviot Newmarket
closely fitted from neck to foot, with
checks of mingled ecru, garnet, brown
and olive. There is a pointed hood with
garnet silk lining.