Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-06-06
THE FASHIONS.


Notes OF Interest for our Fair Headers
Flower bonnets are again fashionable.
Those Of white lilac, wa plenty of green.
cry, are among the prettiest.
Skeleton bonnets made of TRANSPARENT
gauzes or gold braid, silk chenille, or
beadwork, i'll diamond patterns, showing
the coiffure through the open-work de.
signs which form the crown, are shown
by all fashionable milliners.
Taste at present seems to incline to-
ward rich material made in great simplic-
ity. The wealthiest and most fashiona-
BILE women wear but little trimming on
their street costumes most of these be-
ing tallor-made, and altogether perfect in
the matter OF tit and draping.
Very beautiful Venetian embroidery in
pure white or tinted floss silk is to be
used this summer for panels, vests, skirt
fronts, and hounces, the bands of the
'all-over" work being twenty inches wide.
In white cashmere, nuns cloth, or Otto
man silk of the softly-draping quality.
for evening toilets or for matinees and
Grecian house robes, this trimming is
peculiarly elegant and effective.
Muslin bonnets and round hats, tinted
and white, with full cap crowns and brims
OF pleated lace, appear among other pret-
ty novelties in millinery. These are in
tended for children and also for young
ladies wear at summer resorts.
Fashion is in extreme Just now. Either
the designs are immense, embracing tu-
lips, peonies, roses, and other flowers of
exaggerated size, or otherwise fashiona-
BILE materials are powdered with minute
dots, tiny blocks, check and hair stripes.
This is especially noticeable among the
seasons importation of French sateens.
Red parasols in satin and Turkey twill
are still in vogue; these, however, only
look well with an entire black toilet. or
in some very dark one, in which there is
some color relievance. A deep red sun.
shade, carried by the wearer of dark
green foulard, polka dotted with cardinal,
was effective, but these effects cannot be
very extensively repeated, rs red COM
bines successfully with but few costumes
appropriate for the promenade.
The newest linen collars are cut to fit
very high and are fastened close about
the throat with gem-set collar button of
hammered gold. These are worn quite
above the neck of the dress, the tucker
OF French muslin serving to fill up the
interim. The collars are finished with n
bordering OF fine embroidery in Swiss or
French needlework. More expensive sets
have wide Byron collars nearly covered
with delicate embroidery, and edged with
Nalenclennes lace, but for general wear
these collars are finished with an edge of
Irish point lace, or of a narrow but very
fine quality of torchon.
II tha cup,p,o,
less transparent. If Of straw, the braid
Is looped, and 20 shows spaces between.
There are also very fine gilt wire bonnets
which are semi transparent, and count
less pohhets made OF Ietted net, chenille,
dotted gauze, and Powered tulle, which
d;sn,,, -" the arrangement of the hair be-
Meath High square .,,,.l .~d peRk-shaped
crowns alone are seen. This is dlsatt
vantage which seems also to have existed
when Mrs. Tulliver, in Mill on the
Floss, declared, "There's never much
pleasure wearing q bonnet a second year,
especially when the crowns are so challQy
never two summers alike" The pleas
IRE OF econorliCal people, who choose to
wear their bonnets and hats into the sec
ond year nowadays, is likewise somewhat
disturbed by the unpleasant reflection
that the crowr inevitably betrays the fact
of length of service, these ,eina exceed,
ingly 'changy" from even one season T.
another.
There is a marked prevalence thus far
of brown and bronze hues, which in in
Vulnerable shades and tones are exceed
ingly fashionable both in dress and milli-
merry. Not only is bronze itself promi-
nert, but all its kin, from gold to every
shade OF wood, nut, coffee, cream, and
seal brown, to say nothing of pure yell
low, ecru, fawn, and all colors showing Il
trace of gold or bronze hue, and partic-
ularly the olive and mastic hues with n
CLINT Of gold in them which have SO ragged
i'll the world of art and fashion abroad
The merchants are making brilliant
exhibition of costumes and fabrics of ba-
tiste, sateen, chambery, French cambria,
linen lawn, and other washing materials,
with India mule, China Grape, silk gren-
adine, and the like for more elegant toll
cts. The short costumes of fancy wool
len materials are, however, still indispen.
sable for excursions and for the promeu-
ade. For driving and paying visits,
where more dressy style of toilet is re-
quired, very charming and ladylike cos
tunes are made of Ottoman and foulard
in rather dark colcrs, such as dark royal
blue, garnet, golden brown, or laural
green, the monochrome fabric of the OF
toman silk and the foulard shot or dotted
with pale gold, deep garnet, pale blue, OF
dark brown. The drapeIy is fastened
with wide ribbon bows and ends formed
of satin the shade of the dot or other fig.
ure in the dress fabric, aud in many cases
there is an additional trimming in the
shape OF wide Spanish laces the color Of
the groundwork, and occasionally OF
French costumes it consists of coffee-co
ored lace, garniture exceeding fashion
able abroad.