The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-20
Fashion NOTES.

American styles are popular IN Euro
pean cities. f a
Printed mnll dresses are the novelty
for watering place toilets.
Costly satin fabrics, brocaded with
clusters of walnuts, are imported.
Entire suits of Jersey cloth, with shirt,
boys.
The Iraperies form the tournure q
hustle of dresses sent out by the best
dressmakers.
The newest notion in sleeves is to have
but one seam, and that on the outside OF
the arm.
A happy combination for carriage
costume is of bottle green and dark gar
net summer silk.
White yelling, white crepe, and white
foulard make pretty coaching and garden
party costumes.
The latest styles of rattan baby car
riages are those which are canoe shaped
and of the natural wood color
Dressmakers even such as Worth and
Dusuzean, can no longer make The
fashions" for English and American
women.
Linen galloon, colored India cottons
leather, and Irvine are combined in move
trimmings for seaside and mountain
dresses aa
The trimmings of coaching costumes
of solid foulard, yelling, or crepe should
be of gray figured or lowered silk tapes
try stufts.
Summer NANTES offer but little variety
in shape from those of last season; they
are demi-pelisse visite, and mantelette ol
scarf mantle.
Groups of tucks on fluenccs, placed OF
near the bottom and above the hem. art
in favor, whether the f1ounce is pleated
or gathered.
Dotted and tambour muslins, worn
over color with yards oflace and ribbons
for trimming, are among the prettiest OF
toilets for the seaside.
| Gold basket-straw bonnets, trimmed
with fame-colored lace and fancy silve
straws and velvet intermingled, are the
newest fancies in French millinery.
Stiff upright collars are much worn
and Irish lace is stiffened and backed
with linen to keep the same form, cuffs
of the same material being worn to cor
respond.
Crossed-barred muslin. striped dimity,
and nainsook with twilled stripes are used
for the white aprons that are now made
long enough almost entirely to cOncea
the colored dresses worn by little girls.
An exquisite toilet for rosy brunette
is of. olive vigogne, with silk galloo1
trimmings in old gold worn with an old
gold straw hat pale gold feathers and
golden brown velvet lining in the hem.
Novelty trimmings of printed cotton
sateen bands. with grounds of indigo blut
and Turkey red are used to trim buf
Tussore silks, the bands being applique
to silk, with gold braid or cord,
Em5roideries for trimmings are nt
longer so often in strips it is becoming
usual to have large conventional or FREE
designs worked upon breadths of tin
material to serve as tunics, panels, o
drapcIy.
Thick embroidered muslins with sprig
or navons are preferred for dresses tina
are to be worn over white petticoats
but the open Irish point patterns ar
nsed where Slips of colored satin sural
are worn underneath.
The Chinese and Japanese style 0
head-dresses are in high vogue anon
ultra-fashionable women, and the star
and heads of the pins they use to thrus
through the top-knots are. often studde'
with diamonds, rubies. and pearl of rar
value
The prettiest sunshade seen thus ia
this season was one covered with biscuit
colored broche satin, wrought sparingl
here and there with gold embroidery
and bordered with wide band of feathe
trimming of the same color. 1t was line
with the new China blue, and made a pei
feet bit of color .-. -. - e.--