The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-07-04
FANCIES FOR THE FAIR.

IN fashionable London there is noted a great in
crease in the number of ladies who drive gigs.
WELL KNOWN actress, Mrs. Kendall, was pre-
sented at Court recently, her ehaperone being the
Counties Rose.
WHEN Mrs. Dorsey, in her bOuntful display OF
bad taste thanked God" for the verdict Ingersoll
is said to have looked Ike a sour mash.
THE Augusta. Ca, Chronicle inveighs against
the familiar and disgusting style OF taking ladys
aTm-''s bad custom imported from the North"
"HooTs and gloves that fit, and pretty hand
kerchief." answered a French woman when chal-
lenged to name three essentials OF elegant COS
tune
1t Is rumored in London that the QUEEN viii be
called upon to welcome another grandchild before
many months have passed. whereof the mother
Will be the fair and gentle Princess of Wales.
A DOCTOR thinks tight lacing is public beneht
because ii kills of the foolish girls and leaves the
wise ones to grow into women. The survival of
the httest, or rather the litter of the corset.
Catch
The newest linen collars are merely a straight
band OF doubled fine linen. with narrow scallOps
and embroidery along the upper edge. These are
worn outside the dress collar, and there are two
lengthwise buttOnholes in front through which
narrow ribbon is passed and tied in bow, and
below this may be added two fan pleated ends OF
null and wide lace.
NILE. JULIE. a French model. is described as
possessing slight, slippy inquire, a wellset little
head on an unusually beautifully neck, gray eyes.
blonde hair rather Ia GTeuze, and the little feet
and dumpy fingers with the pointed tips and IN
small, long nails that are so common with the
Partisan model. she has TASTE for dress and
knows il and shows it.
TIE young lady who two summers ago would
jump over tea.rail fence in her zeal TO avoid a
little garter snake now ercircles her wrists and
even her dainty neck with realistic representations
Of the most venomous reptiles. The gentle maiden
whose voice when she discovered a spider re-
sounded like the shrek OF tug whistle, differing
only in being keyed about two octaves higher, now
wears monster specimen OF the same tribe at her
throat without linching. II her hair ardieial
butterflies caterpilarS, beetles etc, are allowed
t. establish their headquarters.
WASH materials are made up il what are called
',grandmothers' dresses. with belted waist gath
cred skirt aud overskirt, for country wear.
These are worn alike bg stout and slender figures,
but for the latter great sash is made OF the ma
terial, passed around the waist and tied in large
loops with hanging ends behind. There are four
straight breadths in these skirts when finished at
the foot with simple fiOunce, or else there may
be Eve breadths OF soft fabrics, like null, with
tucks below the knees, and no h0unce. Similar
dresses of Surah and of India silks have the whole
skirt tucked around from Just below the hips to
the foot. The skirt Is gathered to the belt, with
fitness in front and the sides, though there is
necessarily greater fulness behind. The waist is
in fan shape, gathered to belt without lining, or
else it may be a surplice waist, gathered on the
shoulders in front, Tapped at the belt, and worn
with fichu or handkerchief. When the figure is
too full for sash of the dress goods ribbon three
inches wide is used, and Is tied on the left side
with bow and ends; or else a belt is covered with
the dress material. and fastened by a rOsette OF
ribbon velvet, from which hang long ends.