Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-17
FASHION NOTES.
Corded aatin is the newest material for
bridal toilets.

dresses are more in demand than ever this
season.
Wide collarettes and turnover cuffs of
Venetian lace are much worn with dinner
and reception costumes.
Ruff, fraiseg and ruches for the neck are
very high, very full and very deliberately
adorned with pearls or jets.
Half cintures of narrow satin ribbon are
worn with Grecian house-robes, the long
loops and ends to these reaching nearly to
the foot of the skirt in front.
Paris made gants have crest or mono.
gram worked in delicately.shaded silks on
the upper part, near the top of the glove.
The design IS then outlined In fine beads of
pearl, amber or gold.
A very fashionable material for dressy
home toilets is cTeam-whise serged flannel,
trimmed with long loops and ends Of white
MORE or satin ribbon. For young married
ladies' this fabric is made into tea gowns
and Grecisn robes, with trimmings of lace
and white silk embroidery or braiding,
The tnnic or scarf to the dress-skirt is
shorter than it has been worn of late, COW
ering the upper part of the skirt only, and
draping in the back in poufs, more or less
dropping, but showing greater portion OF
the trimmed skirt than formerly. OF
course this style Of draping is suitable only
to skirts cut short.
Society girls have little fiat sachets of
silk OF satin, delicately scented, and dec
Grated with bit OF their own hand paint
ing, either floral or comicsl. These they
suspend from the waist by knot and ends
Of narrow ribbon. Into this case they slip
the card on which is printed the order of
dancing. Down the back of the case are
fastened small loops OF ribbon, which serve
to hold tiny pencil.
Plain dark velvets are good deal used
for ball mantles and opera cloaks. A very
superb one, lately sent to California, was
made of the darkest shade of plum color,
cut in lopg sacque shape, and lined
| throughout with satin of piDkish msuve
/ tint. The trimming was composed of bands
of very fine chinchilla fur. A second wrap,
made blythe same firm and yet on exhibit
ton, is of dark laurel green velvet in
dolman shape, lined with palest gold color,
and edged with dark ostrich feather trim
ming.
With the quaint cross-stitch called Rus.
sian embroidery, now so popular, marking
of every kind is very fashionable Some
| fine sheet and pillow linen lately added to
/ tTousseau by prospective bride have
| the monogram worked on the edge of each
/ slip and sheet in colored cottons to match
the prevailing tints of the several rooms
| they are intended to adorn. Very long
| spindle. shaped letters are considered most
! correct for bed and table linen, forming a
| bright patch of color wherever seen. Tor
chon lace is durable and inexpensive ad i.
/ dition to "best" bed linen, and gives the
charm of finish when used to edge the
broad hemstitched upper borders of sheets
and edges of pillows and shams.
An exceedingly elegant evening dress
for a young lady is made of cameo-t tinted
or pale banana yellow satin surah, the per-
| fectly plain princesse front simply edged
with wide fringed ruche In the back is
sash drspery, caught up with the light
poufs of the tournure. The bodice is cut
! down in the neck about FIVE inches, front
/ and back, with an upright frill of rich lace
! tackled to the edge. Close to the border OF
the opening is set a band of fine pearl
beads, this holding the lower edges of the
neck ruche. The sleeves are half-long and
| finished with double frills of lace. A clus-
ter of pale pink oleander blossoms is set on
the left side of the corsage. This is a
most chaste and dainty toilet, refreshing
to the eye from the absence of profuse gar.
niture.
Black cashmere, if of good quality and
all wool, will bear washing very well. Rip
up your old dress, and, after brushing out
the dust carefully from the pieces, prepare
a wash for it thus Pat piece of ammo.
MIA the size of big black walnut into a
quart of water. When the ammonia is
completely dissolved, dip the cashmere into
the solution piece by piece, rinsing it
through the liquid, and washing and rub
! bling thoroughly those parts that are greasy
or much soiled. Hang up each piece sep.
arately to drip. Do not wiring the goods.
) When dripped and half dry, rinse again in
clear, SOFT warm water, and hang up again
to dry. When nearly dry, iron on the
wrong side. Be careful not to wiring or
crease the cashmere at all during the pro-
cess, and when finished it will look almost
or quite as good as new. Be sure to wash
your hands with toilet soap of good quail
ity, and after drying them use little
glycerine and rose water mixture on them
before going cut into the air. a mixture
of pure white glycerine and rose. water in
equal parts should be on every lady's toilet
| table. Eloise will find it necessary to rip
! up any wooden dress that is to be dyed or
washed.
Tulle, null, India gauzs and other light
and airy fabrics are in great demand for
fancy dress and dancing toilets These
| diaphanoua fabrics come in all the high art
tints, as well as in some of the exquisi e
oli-fsshioned shades, particularly those of
rose color and lilac. Among the first are
materials with odd market gardenry titles,
like sage green, gooseberry green, tomato
red, crushed strawberry, and host of
others that look prettier than they sound !;
at all events, there are shades to suit every
| taste aud complexion, from Quaker gray
and sornbre brown to periwinkle pink and
heavenly blue. A pretty girl may
make herself look Ike an angel in. say, a
toilet OF white India silk muslin embroid-
cred with silver and plain girl-it there
| be any Ia these Unised States of America
can lock as pretty as she can in pink or
canary silk null, msde up ever surah, with
garniture blossoms, if the toilet he of the
pale yellow hue. a pretty and becoming
toilet for girl with fair complexion and
! dark hair and eyes, has Z short skirt and
/ Marguerite bodice If terra Gotta surah,
With killed rufiles and overdress of tulle of
the same shade, the bodies beiag yelled
with the same, and garnitured with pale
Isabella roses. Lastly 10 dress of nuns
gray silk gauzs, over a prineesse slip of
silver satin, the drapines caught up here
and there with silver thistle blooms. An-
other fashion is the wearing of plush jack.
ets Of every color over skirts of the light
est description, the latter mode being more
general than when the bodice is as described
above-for fancy dress occasions.
cav, it's dweadful, said the Prince of
/ Wales when he heard how Mrs. Laugtry