The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-06-09

DrtSS DOnnetS are Oh meulum Size
The new foule cloth comes in all the
rich street shades.
: Stylishly dressed children now wear
lace shoulder-capes instead Of collars.
Heavysilks, woven in small matelasse
patterns, will replace to some extent
the plain otfomans of the past season
Velvet will be worn to the latest pos
sible moment, or until the heated term
shall render il 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 a 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 a
brilliantly plumaged bird or a cluster
of lilies or roses set in the center OF the
fan.
Yellow, in a 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 or
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
richness OF effect quite beyond that
obtainable by any stirah or fnerveilleux,
yet 1t 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
rtichings than for entire toilets.
Wood brown. several improved shades
of terracotta aud crushed strawberry,
Presbyterian blue, intense. pale and
leaden looking greens, and porphyry,
shot with gold, are the leading shades
in spring and summer costumes. For
young ladies are new exquisite shades
Of pink and mauve. White holds it
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 than
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 III
Improvement, as it causes the skirt h
sit straight, and neither 60 In point.
nor cling too closely to the figure.
Satin Is, and will be, very popular
Black satin is certainly no longer <
much favored for day wear, its place
this season being taken by grus 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 vii
h. very elegantly worn There are Ala