The Osceola times., 1883-05-19
FEMININE FANClES.
Gossip About the Fashions and Other
Matters of Interest to the Ladies'.


Shoes to match dresses grow in favor
Dados in wall papers are going out OF
use.
Gliding in wall papers is more sub
dued
White kids are revived for evening
dress.
The simpler the hair-dressing is the
better.
Embroidered pongee robes will be
much worn.
The ugly fashion of red wells has not
yet gone out.
High shoulders are now the rule in
spring wraps.
Cotton fabrics will be much worn
this summer.
When false hair is worn it must not
be perceptible.
Bangs and crimps are worn further
from the eyebrows.
Old rose or ashes of roses, is the rival
Of strawberry pink.
Lace and embroidery are equally fash
ionable for trimming.
Gloves and mitts contrast with instead
of matching costumes.
Colored mantles are not in good taste
for any but carriage wear.
Pongecs are the correct thing for sea-
Id nj trataripn.niaPa vaar
A poor little bride nearly cried her
ewes out because her bridal veil did not
originally belong to her grandmother.
You must have the walls Of your halls
covered with pictures now-portraits OF
YOU great-grandmother's sisters nieces,
ifpossible.
Tiny frogs are the latest thing ,n lace
pins. They are quite naturu. lookinga and
sell at a higher price than whole dozen
of the real article.
Mr.. Dudes new tennis suit is quite
too lovely for anything" and when he
puts it on he will look more like first
class idiot than ever before.
1t now turns out that many Of the fam
cy costumes worn at the Vanderbilt ball
were hired. "Wen, | do declare Did
you ever hear of such a thing"
The silver dog collar on the outside of
waist collars has already become com
mon." II has been worn SO much that
the silver has become tarnished.
Advanced dudes now say that they
are reading law" because it sounds nice
and disabuses folk of the idea that they
spend all their time in the nursery.
Summer dress goods are exceedingly
beautiful in nearly all materials, and il
will be Flora McFlimsey's own fault if
she does not look "awfully stylish"
Imitation "Jack" roses are made up
into efiective-looking punches for dudes
to throw at the big feet of their favorite
actress when they 90 to the theatre.
Tight-fitting waists are to prevail in
summer as well as in winter costumes.
II is to be hoped for the sake Of the ladies
that the thermometer will not go high.
Enormous brass candlesticks are now
used for "mm tum" dinner parties, be-
cause they are said to be English. They
make the table look as if it had been ar
ranged for wake.
MiIady's equipage becomes more and
more like Lady Gumdrop's in London.
and Jeems and Thomas up on the box
look for all the world as if they had Just
walked over from Hingland.
al guess, Mary" said Mrs. Parvenu to
her daughter, that Wen give Fanny
Snoeks for n wedding present one of them
real genuine Indian camel-haired shaw Is
what's advertised in the papers"
At n reception the other evening one
of the ladies present wore a black velvet
dress on which were sixty solid gold but
tons down the front. Everybody knew
they were solid because she said so.
MA" said Mary Parvenu. "they say
young Mr.. Fiddlestick embezzled; what's
that ?" "Oh," said Mrs Parvenu, its a
sort Of embroidery on paper like what
artists does in Rome and other French
cities"
The polo hat in straw comes for Young
ladies of the "I-want-to-be-conspicuous"
kind. and will probably be in high favor
Ut illt NtdNlAlt anu NuiilHltE FtSHEtS. II L.
not an article of head-gear TO be serious
" recommended.
Lace Sacques, that were once the rage,
are to come into fashion again this sum-
mer They were always pretty and stvl-
ish when worn over light-coiored silks.
and no doubt the ladies will hail the re-
vival of them with delight
Old-fashioned silver card-cases, such as
our dear old grandmothers used to carry.
have been revived by the "elect." Mrs.
Sivermine has had one made of gold.
and goes around declaring that it is the
kind her ancestors used to carry.
Musical instruments are now utilized
for household decorations, the supply OF
other things having been exhausted
One Of these days old silk hats and dis
cardcd Arctics will no doubt be hung
around milady's rooms as objects Of big
otry and virtue.
"What nice potatoes !" exclaimed Mrs
Parvenu at dinner party the other day:
how do you boil them-put milk in ~
Il have never made inquiry of my chef
rs TO his mode of preparing vegetables, -
replied the hostess. Haven't vou?r
went ON Mrs. Parvenu, "why, | always
used TO fuss round the kitchen when we
had folks 10 take dinner with us" A
quiet Beethoven laugh without words
went all around the table.