Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-07-22
PARIS
A View Of the Millinery and Costume
Affected by Fashionable France.

The instance OF the greatest ecoentricity !
have met with lately, seys the Paris CORE
spoudent of the London Telegraph, is the
wearing OF muslin sunboDneis In the Paris
streets. The foundatio is Of light blue,
pale strawberry pink or ecru, and the trim
ming spiral ruching Of white or tinted
lace. They are more in their places at such
= garden party as was given the other day
by a Iady of fashion, when with calico
gowns they formed the regIemeRtd're costume
well IN keeping with the menu composed OF
fried eggs, m~dfelOte, fTiedsdedu, and fromdee a
Ia crens-homely visnds served at Little
roupd tables, with affectation OF rustic sim-
plicity.
The new Henri ii hats and their prede-
| c~essors, the Girondins, have nothing objec-
tionably extravagant about them, II ouly
they we're q little more becoming. The
| stiffness Of the briu is very much against
| them. such as they are they represent a
| very important phase Of millinery fashions,
| but they cannot be compared to the feminine
| prettiness Of the czpote. Wings are more in
| favor than ever for their adornment, and
| stiff feathers mixed with the light plumage
| of the Tyre bird or secretary. Gray hats
| have white, dark blue, pale yellow, brown
! and fawn, q ,mingo pink. black iron gray or
| dove-colored wings. Even for bonnets dow
I ers are being superseded BY feathers; the
= cockateo resppears upon the scene, Tor his
(: white, pale, pink and lemon hues suit the
4 pI prevailing taste, and the plumasners do not
the Csinese, and 10 create birds out Of their
/. own fancy.
Yellow only appears psreuthetically on
the gowns, and then in It's palest shades.
| There is primrose in the figuring OF blue
satins, sulphur and maize among the duh
greens ana bright fawns of the w~oolens, and
a little golden yellow in the plAids OF the
zephyr and the blurred lines of the Limou-
i sine cloths. The passing fancy for gray does
I not exclude fawn from the field; the latter,
indeed, INCREASES in vogue as thin materials
take the plsce Of cashmere and serge cloth,
and lace grows more seasonable than braidine
in silver. Fawn is the prevailing hue In
many of the new canvas plaids, and large
fawn spots, shaded into spheres or moons In
their third quarter, are strewn over Whitley
] brown or hax-blue musiins and mousseline-
7 d~elaines. Blue holds its own against all com
p~etitors, especially as a. foundation FOL
s~ateens and veilings, and trawberry-red and
scarlet promise to be in great request fol
country and seaside gowns.
TOWNS
Some preference is shown for white ovel
light colors, both for elegant afternoon gown
and full dress, although not to their exclu-
sion. For the former, Vecugna cloth, white
yelling, mousseline-delaine muslin, Surah,
~taffetss and silk gauze-all OF which are
used plain or figured, alone or combined with
a small amount of color; for the latter, mus
lin, linen, thin Oriental and soft rich corded
Lyons silks. To these may be added thu
skirts made Of white lace and embroidery
and the latest fashionable revival, spotted
Swiss muslin. The Cowes yachting costume,
as produced by Redfern in white and blue
has met with much success here. Deep blu
cloth. almost concealed beneath horizonta
rows of white braid, sew very near together
compose the skirt, over which is draped
white tunic, the white sailor bodice beinI
trimmed with bias. A Portuguese royalt,
travelling in Italy wore a white cashmer'
dress and black velvet collar.
TIkTs.
Several French women OF fashion mani
feet a very decided taste for simply-mads
evening gowns of thick white corded silk
merely decorated with some good lace o.
white passementerie. Many OF the newes
Pompadour silks have white grounds. Arab
Persian and Tunisisn muslins worked with
colored silks and gold are in high favor Il
fdrape over white silk gowns. When colo
is preferred TO white the tints chosen for tn
last entertainments Of the Partisan seasol
were for the most part aurora pink. "Blel
de Roy,n gold color lin damask more eepe
cially) terrs-colts, Iceland sky-blue, pearl
gray, apricot trimmed with crimson), prim
rose and lilac Tor Westeria, as it is SON
times called now), ornamentsd with dAmssl
roses.