Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-28
FASHION NOTES.

New grenadines are in Spanish lace pat
terms.
Black dresses are again in high vogue
abroad.
Corn blue is a favorite color for new dress
woolens.
Jagged, ragged lodged founces and rib
bons are coming into vogue.
Great quantities of natural or artificial
flowers are worn on ball toilets.
Buttercups and blackberries are the
latest Partisan combination for bouquets.
Ginghams are introduced the designs
are chiefly dark grounds, with floral figures.
Ruby-red and myrtle-green are favorite
shades in dress goods for late winter wear.
Percalesar are brought out in plaids, stripes
and figured patterns; colors are very bright.
The Lenox" jacket is one of the most
convenient and pretty styles of wrap for a
young girl.
As many as six different colors appear in
some of the new Ottoman ribbon cocks
comb corsage-bows.
Cloth for pelisses is seen among the new
spring goods with rough finish in the new
shades of corn blue.
Extremely pretty embroidered silk, mus
lin, Grape and gsuzes are employed this
season for evening and ball dresses.
For dinner parties, pink and black
dresses, in Spanish style, are exceedingly
popular with young ladies of the brunette
order of beauty.
New brocaded Ottoman silks have for
designs sprays of flowers worn with their
fruits, strawberries, blackberries, plums,
pears, apples and Mandarin oranges.
There is no happy medium in the fash
ionable fan. It is either extremely large
or extremely small In the latter case it
is usually of tortoiseshell, point lace or
amber.
A cunningly- shaped little poke bonnet is
novel design for breastpins. It is made
of tinted gold, and blue or red enamel is
arranged like ribbon around the minia-
ture crown.
The Connaught jersey is to be worn
next spring it is said. 1t is OF dark ribbed
wool, and is trimmed with braid arranged
across the front in hussar stripes. 1t will
probably be initiated in cheap stuffs so
quickly that it will not long be fashionable.
Among other novel dress fabrics is ma
terial known as radamis, material slightly
figured on one side and plain on the other
something like fine tricot, but not limp.
These goods are to be made up very plainly,
with slight trimmings of velvet upon the
tunic and bodice only.
There is great improvement IN the
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stead of the plain, unpatterned surfaces
we have been long familiar with, this use.
full and economical material can now be
purchased feeked with colors, and even
decided patterns are sometimes woven
into it.
The double-face Velour is dividing the
honors with silk-plush and turcomans for
portierres and hangjngs this season. Silk
tapestry and satin daniask are being used
for covering wall spaces, and are very ef-
fective, giving tone of age that is CRATE
ful to the searcher after antique represen-
! tations.
A "daisy" costume recently made for a
Boston young lady elected all manner of
slang comments from her little brothers,
but it was pretty nevertheless. 1t was
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yellow and broeade dotted with daises.
The waist and underskirt were of the lat
ter material, the draperies of the former
bordered by a little wreath of daisies cut
from the brocade and held in place by the
smallest OF small yellow silk stitches. A
bouquet of daisies at the left hand side of
the square neck and daisy bracelets in sill
yer finished the costume, with which were
worn long gloves of the palest yellow.
Among the costumes recently made by
Felix for Partisan brides outfit was q
visiting suit Of dark violet-blue velvet, with
cuirass waist, having Venetian lace cuffs
on its narrow sleeves, satin draperies in its
skirt and bonnet of plush and satin. A
black velvet dress with great train had
two waists, one high and one low, and a
black satin apron covered with vermicelli
pattern in velvet outlined in beads. A
Spanishlace bonnet with shrimp. pink feath.
ers and damask mantle fringed with che.
nile completed this array. Among the
Jewels was a bouquet of wild roses in dia-
monds, SO arranged as TO make earrings, a
brooch and sprays for the hair if desired,
and there was also complete set of anne
thysts.