Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-05-25
THE FASHIONS.
Som ching OF Interest for our Fair
Headers.

from the New York Evening Post.l
Gold braid is q popular trimming.
Black silk stockings and long black silk
Jersey gloves will again be worn with toilets
OF white.
The new plaided zephyrs, cool and bright,
will be a favorite material for children's
dresses for seaside wear.
elbow in lawn-tennis costumes Is lead
ing color and is highly effective combined
with moss green Or Egyptian red.
Pretty tea aprons are made Of Oriental
net, with ruffles of Oriental lace over straw
berry surah, and also of ncellc lace over pale
blue satin.
1t is not believed that the rose and the lily
can be Improved by painting, but fashion Is
doing a similar thing in dying the pearl.
This gem is now tinted in all the new shades
to match dresses they are intended to embel-
lish the colors ranging from the palest cream
and mauve to the deepest dyes OF brown,
green, and olive.
| Evening dresses are made with an ampli-
,ude almost recalling the days of crinoline
Happily, the fullness established by French
decree is confined wholly to the back, the
front and sides falling straight enough. Some
OF the newest white skirts to be worn next
the dress have a single embroidered flounce
going all the way around the foot OF the
skirt, but in the back they are flounced
| nearly to the waist, each rufllc being starched
very stiff when laundried.
Dancing dresses, of which softly hanging
merveilcux elk forms a component part,
are sometimes arranged with graceful
irapery of the silk crossing the bodice dag
onaly, from shoulder TO waist, and then
forming panier while at the other side q
lighter .tulle, like tule or gauze broche is
drapcd panier-wisc over the surah. Often
a garland of field flowers borders the edge OF
the tullc panicr. 1t is not easy TO describe
this new and pretty style, which is remark
ably effective.
| Colored lace is much used for the trim
mings of gardcn-par,y toilets. 1t is made in
gray, olive, terIacot,a, copper, strawberry,
dark green, and, in fact, nearly every shade.
| This trimming looks best when put on rather
full and at its poorest advantage when
turned up from beneath an edge and laid
fiat, as occasionally is seen on the basque oil
II bodice. Basques more popular for these
dresses are sharply pointed IN front, cut
away on the hips and made square at the
back, where they are heavily trimmed with
ribbon and lace in order to give the punched.
out effect now Indispensable, just below
the waist.
| The nantes for spring and summer weal
are decidedly shorter than those of the win.
ter; the prevailing characteristic is theil
being much shorter at the back than in front,
us illustrated by one of the newest models
known us the "Contessa." The materials fol
one of these mantles may be of broche sill
icicnne, grenadinc broche, or velvet pauze
either of the latter would be lined with silk
or satin. The fronts are the mantelet shape,
long, and forming point when 1ointed in
the centre. The sleeves form poplum poin,
at the sides, and are fitted to the shoulder by
seam shaped to the upper part of the arm
hole. The bark seam is shorter and has {
centre scam carrying it to the waist. The
warp is trimmed with very elegant passem
enteric pendants and having cords, aut
bordered with silk ruching heading fall
of real black lace.
Every day brings out more costly ant
deliberately embroidered fabrics for evcninI
wear. Some exquisitely beautiful materials
embroidered by hand on large open silk can
vas, arc vcritablc works of art. These ar
chiefly used over silk or satin, or palest tints
the embroidery adjoining the fronts and side
Of the skirt, or nicely introduced into tn
drapings and arranged upon the panels.
dark violet velvet and tan-colored silk
trimmed with this canvas embroidery is mad
in this way. The bodice and court train ar
. Of the violet velvet and the front of tn
petlicoat is of rich ottoman silk OF cream
tan shade, with double box pleating aroun
the edge lined with the velvet. Over th
petticoat is draped the canvas embroidery, u
which are worked rick dark brown leave
l and buds with mgnonettce and heliotrop,
shading on their edges into pale brown an
, old mauvc.