The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-06-22
FASHION NOTES.

Dung girls dress their hair close in
bradS or torsades looped up in the
ba k.
The most fashionable sto kings are
of silk or Isle thread in PLAIN colos Or
black.
Flowers and lace enter more and
more into the decorate rs of evening
dresses.
The prevailing colors in furniture
call for brass, mahogany and Louis
XVI. styles.
Colors are combined as much as pos
sible in the ribbon decorations of white
house dresses.
One of the prettiest novelties in
costume is the basket of flowers at
tached to the dress.
Shoulder knots and trimmings are
revived, but they are becoming to
slender figures only.
Brides dresses are demi-trained, high
in the neck, and with half or three
quarters long sleeves.
Neuralgia hood is the appropriate
name bestowed on soft black plush
hood, lined inside and quilted.
Novelty trimmings of printed cotton
sateen bands, with grounds of indigo
blue and Turkey red, are used to trim
buff Tussore silks, the bands being
applique to the silk, with gold braid
or cord.
An exquisite toilet for rosy bru-
nette is of olive vigogne, with silk
galloon trimmings in old gold, worn
with an old god straw hattpale gold
feathers, ami golden brown velvet
lining in the hem.
The Chinese and japanese styles of
headdress are in high vogue among
ultra fashionable New York women,
and the stars and heads of the pins
they use to thrust through the top
knots are often studded with diamonds,
rubies and pearls of rare value.
A new development of the jersey is
an open lace work, tight-fitting bodice,
made in all shades, for evening wear.
1t is without sleeves, and is intended
to wear over another basque, buttoning
up at the back, with quantity of
small silk buttons, jersey style.
Spun silk stockings of all colors,
embroidered with gold-col red silk, the
favorite pattern being cluster of
wheat ears, which extends up the front
of the stocking for nearly half yard
in length, are popular. Thread hose
of all hues, eXquisitely embroidered,
threlten to supersede Balbriggan.
Among the most costly fabrics for
summer evening toilets are zephyr
broca1es and brocatelles, with bril-
liantly colored exotcs on dark grounds;
magnificent Indian tissues, woven with
threads of gold or silver; heavy otto
mans IN all the new artistic shades;
lampas, with satin stripes figured with
velvet flowers and damasks, with huge
single flowers or bouquets in clusters,
raised on sheeny satin grounds of
rimrose, pineapple, cinnamon and
golden brown, tearOse, shrimp pink
cameo, mauve and endless shades OF
green.
A pretty and serviceable fabric fol
adjoining summer dresses of white
organdie, French muslin, and the like
is new very sheer cambria, with a
solid embroidery covering its entire
surface from selvage to selvage, the
embroidery being done in exquisite
Swiss, Venetian, old Flemish and Irish
point patterns. This material will bt
used for jersey-cut bOdices to be at
tached to skirts covered with rutiles
embroidered in a pattern to correspond
the joining of skirt and bodice bein9
concealed by sash drapery of eX
tremely wide MORE or satin ribbon
Children's entire costumes will be mad,
of this elegant material.
Many of the new parasols of silk ant
satin are lined with Watteau-patterne
foulards, with laced arranged on tn,
outside in fan plaitings. These ar,
especially designed for garden part.
use, coaching and like occasions, ant
not for the promenade. Other styles
are of broche satin, edged with mara
bout, and all are large and coup-shape
with the flaps on each gore arranged
in the same way as last year. Thu
prettiest sunshade seen thus far thi
season was one covered with biscuit
colored broche satin, wrought spar
ingly here and there with gold EN-
broidery, and bordered with wild
band of feather trimming of the sam
color. 1t was lined with the new
China blue, and made perfect hi
of color.