The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-09
FASHIONS FOR THE LADIES.
Leather beds are worm wien Jerseys.

Leather belts are worn With jerseys.
Ribbons are used to excess on white
dresses
| Chicken-down yellow is announced as a
| later tint of that shade than primrose.
| Purple violets and barbes of Valenciennes
! lace trim the fine Milan straw bonnets de-
| signed for elderly ladies.
Cockades of ribbon in two contrasting
colors, the ends of the loops cut into cox
combs, trim many bonnets
| New kerchiefs for the neck with mouchors
| to correspond, are made of pale yellow wash
| ing silk, embroidered in gayest colors in de-
| signs of bees, humming- birds, roses and buds
| and large butterflies with brilliant colored
wings.
Lace founces are much in fashion. In some
of the most stylish dresses such trimmings
begin by very deep hounce at the bottom
and graduate upward until at the waist it is
J less than an inch in width. Gold thread is
often run through both white and black
| lace.
Colors are combined quite as much as ma
terials. The following are some OF the most
harmonious combinations: Moss-green and
red GOLD, yellow gold and orange, garnet and
aurora borealis red, dregs-ofwine-red and
old blue, maroon and old pink, prune and
pale mauve, and with all these all shades of
gray, which are once more in great favor.
| Considering how universally tight sleeves
much variety the dresSmakers contrive to
make in them this season. For instance, one
| fashion plate gives ten different styles, all
| equally tight, but entirely different in effect
some reaching to the elbows and terminating
| in an open ruffle; Others with insertions;
Others, again, to the wrist, finished off with
lace, or trimmed with narrow puffs and ruff
filings, edged with fringe or pleatings.
A dress is to be exhibited in London, en-
broidered with fine wire thread, so arranged
as to form myriads of tiny ineandescent
lamps, and connect with conducting wires
| terminating in the heels of the wearer. The
dress does not attract attention until the
wearer places her heel upon one of the small
buttons in the floor, contrived for the pur-
pose and connected below with an electric
| generator The effect is magical; the whole
costume bursts into dazzling brilliancy, and
| remains so as long as the wires continue in
| contact with the electric current The
| patentee hopes to have this costume or some
modification OF it, adopted for the stage.
| The simplest form of making up summer
| toilets is relief to the costumes overaden
| with trimmings A dress for morning wear
, to be much in vogue this summer among the
most thorough in taste is of nuns gray .Hol-
land, severely plain in style, with long jersey
/ gloves of nuns gray silk drawn over the close
sleeve, and reaching quite to the elbow. The
| prineesse bodice fits the form perfectly, and
| at the belt is worn a chatelaine and watch of
silver. Silver bangles and a silver lace-pin
are added. The hat is of gray straw, faced
with pink or crimson, and trimmed with
! gray Spanish lace and a cluster of blush or
| jacque roses. The gray silk parasol is per-
fectly plain except its bright lining of a hue
matching the color of the garniture upon the
! hat.
| In ordinary hosiery there is nothing supe
rior to the hair-striped, plain and ribbed in
regular made cotton or Lisle thread. These
wash and wear we'll, which cannot be said
for all or the more fancitul kinds of hosiery.
| 1t is fashionable, however, now to match the
hose to the shade of the dress, or else to use
red or black, and in the former we find all
the new and fashionable shades in terra
Gotta, red raspberry and crushed rawberry,
as well as the old favorites, wine ana garnet.
Pure silk hose in these rich new shades are
extremely beautiful and women who can
afford the luxury may be pardoned for in
| duiginG in them; they are infinitely richer
aud more alluring than the soft daintiness
of cream and pale tints. Black thread and
| spun-silk hose are coming into general use,
and are particularly admired for children,
with white or terra Gotta suits. For ladies
| they are most useful for wear with black
toilets, as black cotton is so harsh as to be al
most intole cradle. Black spun-silk are warm
for ocean travel for those who cannot stand
WOODEN hose, and there are many who can
! not, and we advise trial of them.