The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-04-25
Zig LeaHes.

Oriental lace i, the favorite this season
among laces OF moderate price.
Next 10 lace, velvet ribbon is the trim
ming of the day. and is used in the greatest
profusion as fringes, in parallel rows, and
in bows.
Shoes without heels arc worn by small
girls and boys, and it Is the sensible AS well
IS fashionable custom TO use only the low
English heels for large girls and misses.
There il luckily not so much cutting up
Of costly msterisls into ridiculous and use.
less-looking figures called fans, leaves and
everything else minute and ungracstul, as
formerly.
In hosiery the new cream, fine Balbrig-
gan and Isle thresd, as delicate and al.
most as costly as silk, are to become fash-
ionsble for wearing with sll colored shoes
and light dresses.
Ladies who venture to adopt plaided cos
tunes avoid the corsage made of the vari.
colored material, and join to the plaided
skirts jersey bodice of monochrome COL
or matching exactly one of the shades of the
plaid.
Combination costumes continue TO be the
height of fashion, and but few of the new
dresses, excepting tailor made suits of cloth,
are of one material. Even where the color
is monotone. wool and silk, silk and satin,
or velvet in the same shade are combin-
cd.
Pinked ruches are much worn, and are
both scsnt and full, closely quilted, or put
on in VS. up and down the edge of the ga :
ment, to which they form border, making
sort of she'll trimming. Scme of the close
ly quilted ruches OF shot silk suggest full
wreath of flowers.
1t is quite tho fashion for ladies who have
fancy for doing their own dress making
10 90 to q fashionable dress-maker, or, better
still, to an 'sartist" who undertakes the con-
struction of tailor made" dresses, and have
Whist is termed a permanent pattern O.,
a bodice of thick linen cut to the exact
measurement OF the form and fitted perfect.
ly This bodice is then all taken apart,
ready to serve as q pattern for all future
cOrsages.
Transparent muslins are shown with
strawberries, rsspberries, laurel, and arbu-
tus blossoms, carnations, sweet brier roses,
and moss-buds in groups scattered on q
colored ground. Usually this background
is of pale tint, very delicate tea rose or
primrose yollOW DoiuB lhfOIib6 COlOI, Out
these bright-hued fruits and flowers lcok
very well against backgrounds of dark olive
or brown.
at children's parties the display Of best
quality satin and real lace Is something
wonderful. Mothers who do all this do not
think of what bitterness 1t may lead to.
Extravaganza il disease; the child takes
1t, suffers all her life. and often drives q
Young husband to distraction because he can
not keep up the simmer of silk and froth
of lace with which che was inoculsted when
she was young.
Some of the new patterns in straw lace
bonnets are almost as intricate and delicate
as Guipure lace designs. These bonnets are
light, airy, and very attractive. Their garn-
itures are correspondingly light and ether
cal. Soft tinted silk mulls and gsuzes are
used, as we'll as wresths of fine flowers
mingled with delicate vines. A pretty lit
tie French bonnet in the 'Olivis" shape, OF
pale cream-colored straw lace, exhibited this
week, is linsd with pinkish mauve faille,
and trimmed outside with q wreath of hello
trope blossoms and cluster of crushed roses
set at the left side. The last row of lace at
the edge Of the brim is studded with tiny
mock pearl and heliotrope beads, and the