Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-06-14
Fashion Items,

Gold braid is popular trimming.
| Black silk stockings and long black
silk Jersey gloves will again be worn
| with toilets of white.
The new plaided zephyrs, cool and
bright, will be a fayorite material for
children's dresses for seaside wear.
Imported matinees of pale daffodil
yellow are deliberately embroidered in
clusters of Strawberries and foliage.
! Yellow in lawn-tennis costumes is
leading color. and is highly effective
combined with moss green or Egyptian
red.
Pretty tea aprons are made of Oriental
net, with ruffles of Oriental lace over
strawberry surrah, and also of ticelle
lace over pale blue satin.
| 1t is not believed that the rose and
the lily can be improved by painting,
but fahsion is doing similar thing in
dying the pearl. This gem is now
tinted in all the new shades to match
dresses they are intended to embellish,
the colors ranging from the palest
cream and mauve to the deepest dyes
of brown, green, and olive.
Some of the ''simple and elegant
tailor-made costumes cost one hundred
and twenty-five dollars each, and
''dressy' French morning robes can be
had for the same modest price, the
latter being marvellous creations of
finest cashmere or merveilleux, the entire
fronts being mass of silk embroidery,
waves of lace and flowing ends of satin
| ribbon.
Evening dresses are made with an
amplitude almost recalling the days of
| <Rn f,r1f FOL
| lished by French decree is confined
wholly to the back, the front and sides
| falling straight enough. Some of the
newest white skirts to be worn next the
dress have single embroidered tlounce
going all the way around the foot of the
skirt, but in the back they are founced
nearly to the waist, each rutfle being
starched very stiff when Numbered.
| Dancing dresses. of which softly hang
| ing merveilleaux silk forms component
part, are sometimes arranged with
| graceful drapery of the silk crossing
the bodice diagonally, from shoulder to
waist, and then forming panier, while
at the other side lighter material, like
tulle or gauze broche, is draped panier-
wise over the surah. Often q garland
of field flowers borders the edge of the
tulle panier. 1t is not easy to describe
this new and pretty style, which is re-
markably effective.
Sleeves for full dress are still exceed
| ingly short, and the gloves very long.
| Skirts remain short enough in front to
display the embroidered stocking as
well as the sandal. Boots are seldom
worn in the evening, and undressed kid
is the favorite material for slippers,
most of which have painted designs on
the toes and occasionally along the sides
as well. A pretty foot looks prettier
with fiat decoration on the slipper
| than with rosettes, buckles, or any
other trimming that interferes with the
| delicate contour of the foot.
A lovely toilet of "second" mourn
| ing worn at a reception recently was
made with deep Spanish lace tlounces
| over slip of white ottoman silk, and
| trimmed plentifully with white flowers.
| The blossoms were those of the syringa
shrub, whose creamy-white petals were
uncommonly effective against the in
tense black background of lace. The
| slippers were of black satin, embroidered
in lilies of the valley, and the gloves. of
| finest black silk, reached far above the
elbow. Diamond ornaments were worn
with this exquisite dress, with syringa
| flowers in the hair.
| Colored lace is much used for tn
trimmings of garden-party toilets. 1t
is made in gray, olive, terracotta, cop
| per, strawberry, dark green, and, in
fact, nearly every shade. This trim
ming looks best when put on rather
full. and at its poorest advantage when
turned up from beneath an edge and
| laid fiat, as occasionally is seen on the
basque of a bodice. Basques more
| popular for these dresses are sharply
| pointed in front, cut away on the hips,
| and made square at the back, where
they are heavily trimmed with ribbon
and lace, in order to give the punched
out effect, now SO Indispensable, just
below the waist.
Just now the spring weather is bril-
liant, and General Park affords quite
study in color, the gay costumes and
red and yellow parasols presenting a
marked contrast to the faint, delicate
green of the foliage. Yellow is GER
tainly the rage, but when this color
breaks forth on a parasol its becoming
ness is question. Pale shades of yell
| low, especially when worn in the
evening, or when toned by soft waves
of creamy lace, are beautiful but to
| hold yellow above the head for the sun
to shine through on a bright spring day
is a trying test for even a dairy-maid'
rosy bloom, and total ruin to any ord-
nary complexion.-N. Y. Erening Post
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