Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-06-18
miscellaneous.
Fashion Notes.
Br.iding is very popular.

Braiding is very popular.
Feather fans are the fashion
Brocaded foulards will be much worn.
Gold braid is very stylish and much
worn.
Tortoise shell ornaments are again in
vogue.
Black silk stockings will be much worn
with white dresses.
Cigar and tobacco color is very fashion
able at the moment.
There is a tendency in all dress goods
towards the gay colors.
Tucks on skirts. draperies, sleeves. and
corsages are very fashionable.
English turbans and Fanchons divide
the popular favor of young ladies at the
moment.
The new Irish point lace collars are
two inches high. and stand up around the
neck in military style.
Lace rushes in the neck and lace frills
adorn black lace and black grenadine tall
mas, fichus. and perlerines.
Garne.s, crimson, in fact, reds in all
shades, will be the colors most used this
summer in facing hats and bonnets.
Satin merveilleux remains the favorite
silk for the Foundation of black suits in
tended for serviceable wear.
Red or green silk pompon trimmings
are fa-hionably worn on walking costumes
OF tweed or nun s-grav ladies' cloth.
Ivory-white Canton crepe for basque.
train, and lambrequin founces. and a
skirt of Terry velvet make an exquisite
combination for an dinner dress.
Summer cloth bodices cut out in pointed
tabs are worn with checked cheviot skirts
made in Scotch kilt fashion with drapery
high and full on the hips.
Red parasols will be u.ed more than they
have ever been before. Water silk, satin
and even velvet parasols are made of dark
garnet with frills of black Spanish lace.
The Vatican back is very much used,
and very much admired for indoor dresses
of crepe, nuns yelling. SOFT silk, and for
richer dinner dresses in Ottoman silk and
brocade
One of the handsomest silk costumes
yet shown has. at the bottom of the short
walking skirt. three gathered flounces, land
each nounce has three rows of narrow
black velvet ribbon run ON near the lower
edge.
Thread lace flounces, or imitation OF
thread lace. and the old fashioned Llama
laces nearly cover skirts of satin surah-
red, green or yellow-to be worn with
black grenadine polonaises, trimmed with
colored surah.
The killing of skirts or Ottoman silk,
grenadine. satin or nuns yelling has a
row of tucks or rows of narrow velvet
ribbon above the wide hem that finishes
the lower edge, and this border is required
as a neat finish.
New market coats of cheviot have an
epaulette cape with stuffed roll above
the shoulders on the cape. Plaits are
down the middle of this novel garment,
beginning on the shoulders, and are six
in number, meeting in the centre.
Simple dresses OF dark green Surah have
deep plaitings on the skirt edge with eeru
lace. The basque is fitted in Jersey style
and the ecru lace forms a yoke-shapped
collar The small bonnet is of green
straw trimmed with Marshal Neil rose
buds.
1t is the fashion of the season to use
figured goods for the lower skirt and plain
goods for the waist and overskirt. The
exception that proves this rule is when
Vatican overdresses are made OF gray
figured sateens with plain skirts tlounced
with lace.