River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-09
Fashion Notes ana Hints.


While the within lasts there is a new
industry for some clever girls and
women In fashioning the clustered
loops, bows and Rosettes out Of two or
three shades or contrasting colors of the
very narrow satin ribbons. and arrang-
ing them for the ornamentation of
skirts, sleeves, bodices, or as epaulets
upon the shoulders. Upon one short
dress fer girl less than five feet high,
over four hundred yards NEARLY quar-
ter of a miie) of narrow ribbon is said
30 have been recently expended. a
vast amount of work is also put into
Tuehing (frayed otIt,l made very soft
and thick; into shirring; and above all
into embroidery. All high class modis-
ties have now what are known as mat
ural embroiders" in their pay, or upon
their staff of workers, who viii exc
cute to order any design, with or
) ithout a pattern, and produce some
exquisite effects.
The fashionable parasol for the coun-
try is of cotton, in handsome Saline and
chintz cretonne. They are not at all
cheap, but are considered stylish be-
cause they are ugly and have huge
twisted handles ia natural wood
Bright red parasols of large size are so
commonly seen upon the streets that
this may be considered their last APP
pearance, a sort of farewell season for
them. There is an immense reduction of
cream parasols, trimmed with Spanish
lace, ard thousands have been thrown
upon the market in consequence of the
threatened retirement Of this species of
dentelle and the favor bestowed upon
its successor-"Vau Dyke" guipure. But
real hand run Spanish lace is too effect
i've to be easily displaced, and there are
combinations of Spanish patterns with
guipure that are beautiful and will re-
main beautiful and desirable always,
Rich fancy silks and black and white
checks are high in vogue and they are
small checked silks with raised velvet
flowers upon them that are greatly adj
mIred. The checks are not used for
bodies but for skirts, the bodice being
of plain velvet, satin, or wool. With
shepherds check, black camePs hair
looks better for the Jersey bodice than
black silk, has more depth and is better
suited to the useful character of the
material. The velvet checks require a
velvet bodice, but such dress cannot
lie worn with any comfort in very hot
weather, although fashion persists in
asserting that this is the most ''velvet" of
seasons, and velvet does really enter
into q majority of the more elegant tot
lets either as part of the fabric or
trimming.
At the rooms of the society of associ-
ated artists at New York, may be seen a
pair of curtains that are certainly re-
markable. They are the work OF Mrs.
Wheeler, and the design consists simply
of jars, old blue and bronze, filled with
roses in every imaginable variety and
stage ofgrowth, painted in silk and crew
els upon silken canvas. But first these
roses were painted from nature, at St.
Augustine, with the brush, every rose,
every suspended leaf being a portrait
which was afterward embroidered in de-
tail and grouped with the needle. The
result is a marvellous mass of color and
form that seem to have the soul as well
IT'S the body of a beautiful rose garden.
Quite the prettiest and coolest Of. trav-
cling dresses are composed Of spotted
foulards--dots in two sizes-made with
pleated skirt or chemisette of plain foul
ard on the ground color and
with a plain fichu trimmed with lace.
The hat is of straw, the shade of the
silk, and is trimmed with cross folds or
half handkerchief of the dotted fabric.
Other very good designs are in plain
wool, dark grey, navy blue, or biscuit
brown, made with Jersey bodices, the
Jacket form outlined with velvet and
velvet upon the apron front; the bonnet
of black or cOlored straw trimme with
velvet and fruit-cherries or wild black
berries.
New features of lingerie consist of
straight, narrow collars and square cuffs
in lace and also in linen lawn ornamen-
ted in drawn work. Small round turn
over collars for morning wear are of
pale blue or pink cambria attached to
yoke and decorated with
a minute vine of needlew0rk. The
newest collar consists of a straight band
of velvet with triple pleating OF lace or
lisse set up on the inner edge and I"
jabot of lace in front. A pleated skirt
has taken the place of the vest and tins
is often Of lace or silk muslin.
Flannel for travelling or for seaside
appears more frequently in navy blue
and grey than in any other color. and is
always made mp with close sleeves and
close fitting Jersey bodice. The long
Sweck gloves, the Ruy Bias hat with its
aigrette of feathers, the soft leather
satchel and slender umbrella for sun or
showers, of twilied silk with natural
wood handle, are features of the toilet.