Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-07
OF INTEREST TO LADIES.

Gold colored stockings are in high favor.
Shot silks and satins will be worn in the
fall.
Faille will be the leading dress fabric
next winter.
Long.wristed tan.colored and buff gloves
are ell the rage.
The short, glace kid glove is almost
thing of the past.
Confirmation dresses, to be in good taste,
must be very plain.
Burano lace cloth is very fashionable in
France and England.
Dresses all of one fabric are more in IA
vor than combination costumes.
A new Llama lace of very fine quality is
coming into use for black bonnets.
Skirts trimmed with lace, put on in half
moon shapes, will be very fashionable.
The new Suede gloves, with elastic
wrists, take the names OF giants Tannes,
the Bourse and the COppella glove.
1t is a fancy with French dressmakers
TO cut the bottom of the skirt int turret
blocks, and under these to place plated
ruffie.
The small colored baptiste pocket hand
kerchief, trimmed with lace aud worn in
front of the bodice, is pretty English
fashion.
A new London bonnet is called the Jum-
DO. The crown is of gold braid, plated on
gold cord, and the brim is thick, soft
plating OF cream colored velvet.
The frames of fine fans are of tortoise
l,.n -oaehar %
brown polished wood, sometimes vanished
and Ornamented with small pictures.
Heyper's Ba=ar says that independent
young women select some simple style that
is becoming to them, and have all their
dresses. of both rich and plain fabrics,
made by one pattern.
A pretty foreign fashion for small girls
is to dress them in pelisses of red Surah or
Turkey twill, entirely covering their white
dresses. With these they wear large wide.
brilnmed hats and little red socks, not
stockings.
The French way of making a crinolette
is to trim the back of closely gored skirt
with ruffiss having whalebone run into
their hens. The rutiies are embroidered,
and are kept in place by buttons, SO that
they can be removed and washed, and the
expansion which they cause is very small.
A truly sweet bonnet designed for an
Eaglishwoman by Partisan milliner has a
nest full of eggs on its brim, with the
mother. bird picking at spray of berries,
while the father opens his mouth to sing.
The next thing will be small model of
the historical pie and the four-and. twenty
black birds.
Large white Leghorn hats are trimmed
around the crown with white ostrich
plumes, or bouquet OF red and white
roses tied in with sprays of white lilac.
Within the brims are placed, near the edge,
a gold wire; within this wire gold lace in
the torchon designs is put on, and further
back, next the face, plaitings Of white lace
or puff of white null or white net.
Philadelphia, with characteristic enter.
prise, comes TO the front with a new socie-
ty, the avowed object of which is to wage
bitter and relentless war against the NUS.
ance of cigarette smoking. The demure
ladies of the Quaker city are the prime
movers in this novel crusade, and their
plan of assault is as novel as the crusade
itself. 1t is this They have registered
the most solemn vows not to kiss in future
any young or old man who is addicted to
this sort of dissipation. What the Phila-
delphia cigarette smokers will do remains
to be seen. The chances are that they will
wait until the first meeting of the associa-
ton is held and attended in a body. If
they should find the members Of the socie-
ty are of age or a style of beauty where
kissing, cigarette or no cigarette, would be
out of the question, they will probably de.
eide to stand by the weed in the cheap
est and most musty form in which it pre-
sents itself. At all events the question is
for Philadelphia an interesting one. The
city, as general thing, devotea its atten-
tion chiefly to questions 400 or 500 yesrs
old. The matter OF kissing is not alto.
gether modern, according to all the author
tiles on the subject, but it is the most mod
ern question which has claimed the stten-
ton OF Philadelphia for many day.