Daily globe., 1883-07-20
Fash ion Notes.

Plaids and chess board pattern goods
are all the rage.
Dust gray is the fashionable color for
travelling wear.
Wings, crests, and breasts of birds trim
many seaside hats.
White stockings are worn only by brides
and bridesmaids.
Low shoes, tied across the instep, are
worn with black stockings.
Short pelerines with long tab-like ends
in front are much worn.
For the chamber, linen canvas slippers
without heels are cool and pleasant.
The shell-shaped straw hat meets with
only limited amount of popularity.
Jerseys are much worn, but only for ia
tigue, shopping, and travelling costumes.
Short bodices, with long points back and
front, grow more and more numerous.
Very low cut slippers, with tie across
the instep, are the favorites this summer.
Large collars, tichus, and shoulder capes
are worn with almost every toilet at the
seaside.
Black stockings are worn with dresses of
any color and on all occasions by both
ladies and children.
It is said that there will be as many pos
itive colors worn IN the fall as intermedi-
ate or mixed shades.
Parasols, sunshades, and umbrellas are
in general large and OF every possible silk
or cotton material.
The newest French dresses have narrow
skirts for the foundation, upon which are
superimposed full draperies and tounces.
Soft twill plaid silks make elegant
skirts worn under crepe de Chine or Indian
cashmere polonaises or basque and drap-
cries.
White and cream lace dresses made short
are the correct wear for both day and eve
ming entertainments at watering places.
Anything like regularity in the arrange
meHt OF drapery or dress ornamentation
is now considered the opposite OF good
taste.
Canvas laced shoes, foxed with yellow,
blue, or brown leather, are used for walk
ing in the country, and they are the best
shoes for the beach.
The mosl fashionable Parisians are
we lring the basket drapery on the hips
known as the Marie Antoinette paniers,
and a close narrow skirt below.
Ornamental pins or brooches in fanciful
designs are used to fasten the end of the
periline over the left shoulder, or to attach
bow or boquet at the same point.
A pretty novelty lace pin is in the form
of mandolin in old silver with strings
and frets of gold, and a pink enamel rib
bon attachment studded with small dia-
monds.
White and black French Iaces woven
precisely like those that intimate Chantil-
| ly are the novelties for lace dresses. They
are made up over inexpensive white or
black satin Surah.
Birds and feathers are preferred to
| flowers this season for bonnet trimming,
but flowers never go out of fashion and
| are always the most tasteful trimming for
full dress summer bonnets.
Autumn dresses are already in the hands
of dressmakers, the materials employed
being very good English velveteen and
light wooden fabrics. The velveteen forms
the short narrow plain skirt; the wooden
fabric is used for the tunic, polonaise, or
the bodice with paniers.
Those large but light parasol handles,
so useful for summer travelling are made
out of cabbage stalks grown in the fields
of Brittany. A particular kind of long
stalked cabbage or collard is left in the
ground to grow higher and higher for two
or three years, the leaves being carefully
stripped from the stalk, which, becoming
very tough and strong, is then used for
the stick of one of those large parasols
called the Jersey sunshades.