The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-06-01
The "Jersey" silk gloves are PIE

mousquetaires in the race for the
shoulder" Pretty Isle thread Jer-
sey gloves range in price from 90
cents to So per pair. While gloves
are very long, sleeves for full dress
are exceedingly short.
High sleeves and high collars, tn e
long pointed basque and the robe
cut away from the hips remain the
feature in summer styles. Lace upon
day dresses is very popular. Striped,
checked, shot, and repped silks are
much worn so is velveteen and vel
vet brocaded grenadine. The Jersey
cloth costumes are very stylish. A
tan colored stockinet dress has
pointed skirt with a satin killing
eight inches wide around the bottom.
The overdress is tunic shaped, with a
tab bow Of satin at the back.
Linen band collars have two but
tonholes near the upper edge, through
which narrow ribbon is run and tied
in long Topped bow.
This is ribbon season, flats, bows
and rosettes being worn on all parts
of the dress, the bonnet, and the
wrap or mantle.
Little capes and small mantles are
the rage. There is tendency to
wear colored mantles in preference
to black this season, or black velvet
cause mantles, lined with color, but
all black nantes are by no means
discarded. Mantilas will be worn
this summer, but they differ in shape
from the old mantilla which was
high on the arms; these are really
only large points and can very well
be utilized for over skirts. The pre-
vailing characteristic of one of the
newest models of nantes, known as
the "Contessa," is much shorter at
the back than in front. The materi-
ais for one of these mantles may be
of broche, silicienne, grenadine bro
che, or velvet gauze -; either of the
latter would be lined with silk or
satin. The fronts are mantelet
shape, long, and forming point in
the center. The sleeves form pop
lum point at the sides, and are fitted
to the shoulder by seam shaped to
the upper part of the arm-hole. The
back seam is shorter, and has a CEN
ter seam carrying it to the waist.
The wrap is trimmed with very ele-
CANT .passementerie pendants and
hanging cords, and bordered with a
silk ruching heading fall of real
black lace.
Colored lace is much used for trim
mings OF garden-party toilets. 1t is
made in gray, olive, terracotta, cop
per, strawberry, dark green, and in
fact, nearly every shade. This trim
ming 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 of a bodice.
Basques more popular for these dress
es are 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 so in
dispensable, just below the waist.
To ladies residing out of this city,
hints concerning colors and COM
binations are oftentimes as important
as information concerning fabrics,
trimmings and other accessories Of
the toilet. Most leading houses take
the utmost pains to give gratuitous
information by mail upon compli-
Gated points which perplex a pur-
chaser to whom the goods and tie
ground is unfamiliar.
Recently friend of mine in pass
ing through the city, desired to visit
the great drygoods bazaars for a
days shopping. 1t was a stormy,
snowy, disagreeable day, and, her
time being limited, not much was
accomplished. Since then she writes
from her home in Ohio, as follows !;
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