Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-15

Some of the latest fashions at the East
are these:
Underskirts of velveteen will be much
worn this autumn beneath tunics and polo
naises of tweed and cheviot
The hair arranged a La Pompadour il
again in high vogue, and has been adopted
by the few ladies to whom it is becoming
and also by many whose appearance il
greatly mars and "ages."
Princesse dresses in pale pink or pale
blue velvet are very much worn abroad fol
reception dress. These have the entire
fronts, high-standing Medici collar, and
bodice-revers elaborately worked with
white silk embroidery, partly covered with
small pink pearl beads. Dark ruby and
deep royal blue velvet dresses in the same
style have embroideries wrought in silk a
shade darker, with the designs outlined
with ruby or silver beads.
New bonnets for autumn wear are al.
ready displayed in bewildering and ele-
CANT varsity OF styles. Dainty and IN
common models in dark English braids
and felts are shown, the former hand
somely trimmed with richly -colored fall
velvet crowns and puffed velvet brims,
with trimmings of fluffy feather.tip and
ieweled ornaments, the garnitures for these
showing decided tendency to high-art
shades and mixtures.
Dresses of nuns yelling and other semi.
diaphanous fabrics will be worn for many
weeks yet, under jacket bodices of plush
or velvet. With costumes of this kind
the little French cspotes are adopted.
These have a putting of velvet covering
the brims, and are trimmed with shaded
wallfowers, dark China asters or crimson
roses-not mingled, but with a single kind
on hat. The flowers are set around the
crown as a half wreath, or in one large
cluster Just above the left ear.
Coaching hats this fall are to exceed in
style and adornment anything of this kind
ever yet displayed. They are TO be tri-
umphs OF real French art, and to SAVIOR de-
cidedly of the picturesque and historic.
Sir Peter Lely, Reynolds, Vandyke and
Lorraine hats of dark velvet have
deep collars to correspond, also
made of velvet and adorned with
Innings and embroidery of pale
gold. These hats are to be loaded with
long nodding plumes, and many Of the
handsome gold ornaments to be used are
studded with real gems.
A lady in New York not long since ap-
peared at an evening party wearing a
corsage bouquet composed of large white
Extraordinarily white, for they had been
colored the most delicate pink and blue
tints imaginable. Painting the lily "
had been outdone, and those flowers had
been dyed through the stems, which had
been placed in some chemical preparation,
which they had absorbed without either in
jury to the lily or its perfume. This idea,
it was stated, was recently intro
duced by the Princess of Wales, who car.
ried bouquet of lilies similarly treated at
the Savage Club bali. OF course this at
once set the fashion for coloring white
flowers, the process of dyeing giving them
a new and uncommon hue.
A pretty dress for young girl, just
made for autumn wear in the country,
is composed of dark-blue serge with double
box plaits from the waist. These are left
loose few inches from the bottom. form
ing founce which falls over narrow
killing of dark red serge. The bodice
consists of cut.away jacket opening over
blouse deeply shirTed around the neck
and again at the belt where is fastened a
knot of dark blue satin ribbons faced with
red. A cluster of wider ribbons holds the
boufant draperies at each side. An
other dress Of dark green nuns yelling
has hollow plaits of the came from belt
to toe, with dark cardinal serge set between
each plait a broad scarf drapery of the
yelling covers the hips and forms slight
tournure in the back, and the dsrk-green
Jersey is cut out square in the neck, and a
plastron of the crimson serge, laid in
plsits, is let into the opening.