Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-19
happy homes. The northern section of the
State will have to wake up to her interests
and organizs also.
THE FASHIONS.


French dresses are again made with the
high pulled sleeve.
Summer and washing silks will be IN
| high vogue this year.
Facetted pearls are much used upon up.
right collars of silk evening toilets.
Strawberry velvet trims white costumes
of cashmere and vigogne and nuns yelling.
New fancy grenadines are heavily bro.
caded, and closely resemble brocaded silks
| and satins.
Pale mauve and pale yellow embroidery
on white kid appear as trimming for
evening toilets.
Lawn-tennis stripes display the new
colors of French terra Gotta, sorrel-grsen,
orange, strawberry, tomato.red, primrose
and bronze dor.
Sultan is the name of new dark red /;
pensee rouge an odd shade of purple; and
vert clair is another peculiar tint added to
the long list of green's.
Double or single pipingz of satin. in
white and colors, braided in floral designs
and deep-pointed edges, are used as head
ings to other trimmings under dinner and
carriage costumes.
The new coaching hats for the year in
ciude the Sir Peter Lely, Sir Joshua ReY.
noida ard other large picturesque shapes.
copied from the Flemish, Spanish, and
French pictures. Some of tae brims are
immensely wide, and have for trimming a
wreath of strawberries and green leaves set
into bed of dark wood-moss.
A new decorative effect is given to cream.
white grensdine dresses by trimming them
with an applique-wor Of large brilliant
leaves and flowers cut from rich brocaaed
fabrics. The outlines of the blossoms and
foliage are chsin.stitched down with white
silk. Florentine cut-work is appliqued TO
materials like India muslin, French or
Candle, and the like.
Every article of wear as the spring ad-
vances seems to increase in size, except,
perhaps, the boot. Plaids are getting
larger, .crinolettes threaten an increase of
dimensions, hats take on more circumfer-
enee, and the flower patterns on brocaded
silks, satins, and sateens are some of them
large enough to cover the back of any
ordinary-sized woman.
It is quite the fashion for ladies who
have a fancy for doing their own dress
making to go to fashionable dress-maker,
or, better still, TO an "artist who under
takes the construction of " tailor. made !"
dresses, and have what is termed "per-
manent pattern '-thatis, bodice of thick
linen cut TO the exact measurement of the
form and fitted perfectly. This bodice is
then all taken apart, ready to serve as a
pattern for all future corsages.
There is rage just now for the Oriental
table scsrfs, which are made of heavy
yellow fabrics, trimmed with Eastern EN-.
broideries, cut out of chair-backs made in
Cairo. There is a mania for Egyptian rib
boDs, in brilliant colorings and unique de-
signs, and incredible prices are given for
"real" Oriental laces ten inches deep,
which is really fine imitation lace artist
ically dyed in many different colors nicely
blended. Ultra fashionable women have
gone 80 far as to make up garden.party
dresses out of Syrian curtains but these
dresses, to do them justice, look better
than they read, if arranged by an artistic
hand that adds leavening OF yellow H.
dian silk by way Of finish.