Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-06-08

something OF Interest for our Fair
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Kenny June in Albany Evening JournalI

Headers.
lIcnny June in Albany Evening Journal
Fashions are very decided and very strik.
ing this season, They astonish unsophisi.
Gated eyes and show that women are less
limid than formerly, possessed of more nerve
and "daic" to do what they would not have
dreamed OF a few years ago.
II have the courage to wear what suits mt"
said very beautiful woman the other day.
"That is all the difference. / do rot cory
other women. / goto pictures and art sources
for what are called my inspirations, and
whenever | see anything that suits me,
make note of it, and sooner or later put il
into my dress. In that way make fashion
instead of following it,"
All women have not this courage. nor this
opportunity but certainly the standard Of
Individuality is much higher, and the diver
sity much greater of late years than former
". This diversity is also happily tending
towards the establishment of more fixed laws
toward an understanding of what is best
suited for different ages and it may in time
will even-suggest without offence, what
is best adapted to different conditions.
"One has to die to do much before one
dies" remarked middle.agcd lady of posi-
ton and fortune in dry goods store recently
where she was buying prints and ginghams
VI have no use for these myself" she CON
tinued, "ior have to entertain, so much in
Summer that Unjust be dressed always for
company, but really enjoy buying them for
my daughters, and remember hair-stripcd'
blue cotton and corded pink Bingham that
| wore when | was girl with more peasurc
than silks or sltins.'
"Not excepting your wedding dress 7" was
the laughing query.
mot excepting my wedding Dress she
replied, "for the train was 50 long that after
my wedding day never wore it with any
comfort; and whether it was because | was
not to silk and satin born [confdentially
do not know, but certainly | like fine cottons
belter-at least in Summer"
| But it is n slkcn season; n season of mar
niiiocnt fabrics of much lace, Of bcwildcriru
masses, and of variety of color. Yet ont OF
the whole range the finest effects are pro-
duced by the use of single colOrs illuminated
by dashes OF dull red or pale yellow, or u,
the combination of black with white or whit,
with yellow.
a toilet prepared for the coaching parade
is OF electric bite satin, with bonnet tC
match trimmed with group of corn colOreC
feathcis; parasol lined with corn color
and long Swede gloves. An enormous bou
quot OF daffodlls will he fastened upon th,
front of the dress.
Another costume is mixture of straw
berry and crCam-strawberry surah trim
med with cream lace, large red silk paraso
lined with cream, and chip hat faced will
strawberry and trimmed with strawberry rec
plumes.
Black was . uniform for so long that it il
| rather curious to see it combined with the ar
reds or dull shade of yellow, and to Sc,
how vivid an effect is produced by lining
a group of feathers, or even branch o
roses, upon black costume. The value o
yellow in bringing out other colors is begin
ming to be well understood, and nothin.
prettier can be imagined for Springcostum,
than an electric blue surah with glimpses o
gold in the lining and bunch of buttcrcup
in the belt
Solid colurs, IL may be remarked, arc pre-
ferred on the richest materials for shor
dresses or costumes. Figures are disap
ptaring from secondary toilets and are ONLY
admissible in co,tons or the costly hrocade
used in combination with satin or lace.
These grand fabrics are growing more elc
CANT every day but there is oAe good side Il
this fact, aud that is, that the olstlicr more
artistic, more indvidualizcd they become
the longer they are kept, the more service
they are made TO pcilorm, 4 dress, tn
train OF which costs lim $50 to so pc
yard, and which Cn' not be duplicated, vii
not be thrown aisle. It is the limsy stuff
which are forever multiplied yet never adc
qua;c to any Office.
Red is used mostly ga raras rs and 70
children. In the dull at Shades il is tn
most fashionable lining both for black an,
cream. The Brighter tints are used soil,
with bamboo sticks without trimming excep
a gilt ring to hold the folds in position. Elm
broidered birds anu butterflies, artificial flow
crs and the heavy lined bows with end
which looked like clumsy ncclties have al
disappeared from the parasols of the presen
season.
Indeed there is praiseworlhy teudcnc
among really fashionable and refined peopl
to get rid of unnecessary rubbish and simpli
fly personal belongings as much as possible
putting into quality and finencss of workman
ship the money thatwas formerly put in to siz
and quantity. Manufacturers do not Away
realize this fact but 1t is a fact notwithstand
ing and one of the evidences is the qucknes
with which villa, is unnecessary is droppei
out of our environment. There are othc
reasons, too which enter into and modif,
the dress question. One is the oconomsin
OF space in great cities. Another, the grad
nal aggregation of social and other iuties,