The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-08-01
Personal Adornment.


Cheese-cloth costumes, trimmed with wide
torchoI, lace, make pretty morning dresses
for country.
. Classic and asths.ic styles of dress are still
affected by many fashionable ladies b tn here
and abroad.
Shoulder cspes matched to the dress and
finished with rufis of Oriental or other
fancy lace are much WORD this summer.
II is now quite the fashion 70 hand paint
your given name upon the hsndle or panel
Of your parasol, your pockesbook, glove top,
etc.
Lace ties have given place TO plsasings of
lsce, rising from within the straight, high
dress, and cost collars, soft lsce RULES and
esScsded jabots.
Berthes of lace ere draped around the
shoulders, and sre pinned In easy drsperies
ar folds, and bows and flowers are placed
where the folds are secured.
Shoulder capes are now popular, snd some
OF them are very pretty. A novelty ID Of
pansy-patterned foulsrd. The shoulders are
formed by seams and the vsndyked edge is
bound with satin and rests on a satin killing,
which also finishes the neck and is carried en-
ca cad, down the front.
L;sle thread, cotton, or silk gloves in black
or very light colors are favored for morning,
tiavehng. al country or seaside wear. For
visliDg and afternoon walking tan-colored
STtdish kid gloves are used, while for even
iyg and full dress occasions pearl gray
~ odith kid gloves and silkeR ui;tens are in
favcT.
Pocket hsndkercbieis, with colOTed muslin
hoGsrs, plain or o7nsmented with delicate
lit le iiowers, ale fashionable, also those with
full b. Tders, bUttonholed in Undul4ting pat
terms, with close-worked dots Of color. Even
ing hsndkeIehiefs ere vandyked and baton
holed or are all lace, With veSy minute cam
bric center.
Black toilets, especially in siry fabrics
over either black or bright colored foanda-
ton, are now in the height of fashion.
Such dresses are of black Chantilly, Spanish
lace, brocsded grensdine, or silk gsuzs, trim
med With pleated hounces alternating with
ttoso of lace. Some Of the imported dresses
6f black, lace xnd other disphanous isbrics,
are trimmed with exquisite silver psssemen-
ieiies ard ornaments forming pendsntfts!
the ends OF narrow satin ribbons upon the
tsblier and scsrfs, and at the edgeS of the
cIenelsted bodice. Silver lace is also used,
and the drsperies are held with silver buc kies
in fhgree in old Roman desigps-
Nattccats Ol atInOeI every shapo an1
material are exceedingly fashionable. but
this style of bodice demands the m Dzt care
ful at and finish, otherwise their introduc-
tion will often mar the good effect Of an
otherwise stylish toilet. Amstear dress
makers and ladies who can not command
the services of the best modistes would do
better 10 limit their desires TO tho=e added
trimmings which, thoagh less aspiring. are
| quite Is fashionable and much more easily
slrs:ged. For example, suppose perfectly
plain cloee-htting corssge. On this may be
placed q plastron of satin or Lace. eithe, long
or short, wide or narrow, SIS Is Dest suited 70
the figure of the wesrer. SHRED silk 6 shus
edged with lace are also easily adjusted, and
. number Of these in white and pale evening
shades makes a pretty vsrie.y for brighten
| ing single dress OF black silk or sstin.