Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-20
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ing dress.
Amber satin cloaks trimmed with Gre.
clan lynx are imported for opera use.
No dressy toilet is now considered COM
plete unless fancy muff Is added, match
ing the dress and bonnet.
Some of the wide fur bands worn on
promenade dresses measure nearly three
quarters of yard in width.
The most stylish round hats are tip tilted
over the forehead, the Langtry and the
odd-looking Phrygian cap being favorites.
rose, brocaded with four-o'clocks, are much
used for matinees, made up in Louis XIV.
style.
The new shades of blue, electric, cobalt,
royal, brakes neck, sapphire, hussar, gen.
tian aud Presbyterian are all to be found
in gloves and hosiery.
Wide, straight brmmed sailor hats of
plush or velvet, having the crowns COM
pletely covered with short, fluffy ostrich
tips, are very much worn by young girls in
their teens.
Lace fchus, rpffies and kerchiefs of silk
or null are not fastened up high in the
neck, but are arranged in V-shape, COM
ing TO a point in front, and thus revealing
bi. OF the throat, which is usually orna-
mented by velvet ribbon and jewelled
slide, or twisted row of pearl beads.
Narrow bands of fur are quite frequently
used as trimming for evening dresses A
magnificent velvet robe recently received
from Paris was further enriched by sable
fur trimmings, and a tea.gown of snow
drop cashmere was simply bordered down
the trent, around the bottom, and at the
throat and wrists with three.in bands OF
dark brown fur.
Flower ichus for evening wear are in.
creasing in popularity. For some time
past they have been made partly of lace,
with flowers as a bordering or heading to
the wide lace ruffles at the edge. Now
they more frequently form the whole fichu,
which almost covers the shoulders and
curves to the waist, narrowing off in front
in trailing ends of delicate vines and half
blown roses.
A very pretty walking dress is made of
dark green repped goods of soft wool. The
skirts are attached to jersey bodice, the
front of which is braided in military style
in raised design, which is broad just be.
low the throat and then narrowing gradu-
ally until it reaches point just below the
waist. Here it meets with wide design
in the braiding, which extends from hip to
hip. The effect is very becoming to slender
figures. The bodice buttons down the back.
The close sleeves are braided nearly to the
elbow. The skirt is edged with wide
ruche, above which are broad, upright box
plaits long enough to reach to the scarf of
twill, which is draped just beneath the
braiding above described.
The latest in the way of military novel.
ties is leather bonnet, much resembling
those of last year, made of kid. These
new head coverings might really hail from
the saddler's shop, but that they are most
of them decorated with pompons, feathers
and the like. The color of the leather is
terra Gotta. A few of the bonnets are ap.
propriatety trimmed with delicately.cut
leather lace in various designs, and the
only charm about these is that which con.
sistency imparts. Leather lace is also a
novelty. 1t has not met with the favor
that pack.thread lace did. It is not as
coarse or as unpliable as one might imagine,
and it has been used abroad, combined
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fancy articles, and also for dress trim
mings.
A lovely tea gown, representing the ge.
MUS of Hentenaar, is displayed by Broad
way house this week. Never did prin.
cess out of fairy story own a more exqui.
site and dainty robe. 1t is made of mauve.
tinted surah embroidered in silk, with
white and blush roses entwined in leaves
of palest gold. The back is cut la Wat
teau, with trailing vine of the embroid-
cry reaching from the top of the pleat in
the back to the foot of the trained skirt.
Around the bottom is wide ruche formed
of four separate strips of silk-mauve,
white, pale pink and pale gold-fringed on
each edge to the depth of two inches, and
then plated up together, the whole form
ing feathery mass of coloring, matching
perfectly every tint seen in the gown
itself