The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-07-21
Fashion Items.

Inc new plaldeu ZepnyrS make Jaunty
tennis costumes.
Flowers are extravagantly used on
dressy bonnets and hats of every de-
scription.
A suggestion of silver throughout an
entire black costume gives a beautiful
and uncommon effect to this sombre
dress. This combination is charming
in "half mourning.
Wide sash ribbons in gold and white
or silver and white are in high fashion
for evening wear. Quite often length
of it is used also for waist-coat to be
set inside the cutaway bodice of plain
silk.
The pretty shoulder cape for summer
use, to be made of goods matching the
dress, just covers the shoulders, comes
down in front to the belt and from
thence the sash ends are carried to che
back and tied or simply crossed and
fastened with a knot of ribbons or a
pin. Both cape and sash ends are
edged with a ruffle of Oriental lace,
which launders the best of all the fancy
laces except Torchon.
The boutfant skirt is surely gaining
ground in America, but it is a matter of
congratulation that the crinOline proper
is kept in allegiance. 1t is true that
many of the otherwise best-dressed
ladies wear the tOurnure, but instead of
rampant steel, they content themselves
with boX-plaited folds of very stiff
muslin or crinolette, fastened low on
the inside of the dress skirt in the
back. 1t is considered exceedingly bad
taste to wear the tournure high up to
the waist.
Among the most elegant toilets for
afternoon wear are gL0ce silks and fou-
lards in pompadour and old chintz pat
terms, made up over thin silk or batiste
skirts. The sash and ribbon trimmings
worn with these match the hues of the
chintz or brocade. The designs and col
orings of these materials successfully
rival the more expensive slken tissues.
Shot silks are also exceedingly fashion
able, and made up handsomely in COM
bination with plain silks and satins,
brooches and velvets, plain and figured.
Tiny lace caps are now worn at din
ner parties, made perfectly flat. These
caps measure but little over five inches
across the widest part, and generally
consist of lace only laid in creamy folds,
but not sOfull as to conceal the patterns
of the lace, which must be very hand
some, and the lace itself must be very
rich. In the center of the cap is set a
tiny bunch of fine French flowers or
buds. Wide collars of old lace are worn
to match The effect of these dainty
head-dresses is often very charming, it
requiring pretty young face or pretty
old face to make them success.
Among the many novelties in the way
! of wraps for watering place use are
Louis XVI. pelisses of Chinese silk,
which, in common with other novelties,
will have its votaries and detractors.
The garment is most becoming and APP
propriate to tall, slender figures, and is
generally chosen in pale nuns gray OF
ecru shades. The light washing silk of
which these pelisses is made has one
great advantage-the dust does not adj
here to it, so that, if desired, brighter
shades may be selected (of which there
are many deep red among the rest)
without fear of the color being dimmed
by long, dusty ride.
Sleeveless aGkatb va and ada h23Siddees of EN-
broidered velvet, brocade or of gros
grain silk in pale blue, mauve or shrimp
pink, hand-painted and edged with lace
will be very fashionably worn over even
ing dresses of white lace, embroidered
muslin, yelling, batiste and other light
! fabrics. A number of these little sleeve
less affairs, which can each be made
with yard and half of material or
less, are pretty and inexpensive, sup
! plying decided change in the appear
ance of the same white dress. With
| plenty of ribbons matching each Jacket,
to fasten upon the skirts the effect is
quite magical.
There seems to be no end to the
variety of high-priced, heightened,
high-colored parasols. A large-sized
one, opened to private view from among
a multitude just imported, was made of
strawberry SATIN trimmed to the depth
! of twelve inches with three rows OF
bright gold lace. The ferule was sur
rounded with a wreath of brilliant
! flowers, showing gold and dark red
| peoples, bright blue ragged sailors, and
dark green leaves. The lining was of
gold-colored satin, with hand-painted
| Greenaway design executed on one of
the panels. Loud as this was in
style, it was positively quiet and plain
compared with many of the other sun
shades exhibited.
Silk tulle dresses will be very much
worn this summer. They are no longer
in pure white only, but tints and shades
of every kind are used. These perish
able but lovely creations are mostly
trimmed with long trails and garlands
of flowers, leaves and grasses. Gauzes
with stripes of satin, brocaded with tiny
| bouquets of roses, are also in vogue for
evening toilets for young girls. They
make up usually with the skirt covered
with series of narrow founces, with
the stripes running transversely, while
the corsage is made with the stripes set
perpendicularly. Narrow Valenciennes
lace edges the flounces the half-long
sleeves, and the triangular-shaped
opening in the neck.-M Y. Evening
Post.
"A man who was cutting turf on
Munjoy Hill, Portland, Me-, few days
ago, turned up with his spade metal
bar which, except for a glisteDing point
where the spade struck it, looked like