Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-11
Fashion Notes.

hOuuu-cTOWn '1erry' TurDanS are IN
the list of new spring hats.
The close English couture still pre-.
walls.
Russell brown is preferable to gray
for brides travelling dresses.
jet embroidered Jerseys will be very
fashiOnably worn this spring over jet
trimmed skirts, and apron TUNES oil
black gros-grain silk.
Ad ustable trains for evening toilets
are some of them made with Vatican
fold. carried from the drapings of the
long skirt TO the back of the neck of the
bodice. They are fastened to the dress
and cOrsage by means of the new pat
ent safety hooks.
! We answer Yes TO the " New England
Lassie" VINO writes to inquire If il
would do TO wear stylish tweed tailor
made costume to church when she
comes to New York to visit. If she
imagInes that every lady who attends
service in New York is arrayed i'm pur-
pie and fine linen she will find out to
the contrary when she arrives.
/ Very stylish-looking promenade cos
/ tunes are shown made of olive or laurel
/ green bison cloth or French tricot. ele-
giant in fit and finish. the skirts plated
in Hat kits, alternating with eight-inch
wide panels. Above the full Bucking-
ham tunic is worn long French-Guard
coat with q narrow Directoire vest OF
/ dark-green velvet inserted down the
front, fastened with gold buttons. and
trimmed with dark-green braiding in
arabesque designs. A similar pattern
is worked upon the panels of the skirt.
An exquisite dress has the skirt OF
sheeny silver gray satin trimm ID with
wide tiounces of lace in duchesse point
and old Venetian patterns intermin-
| gled. Down either side of the front is
a wide panel of gray satin brocaded
with tiny bouquets of small, brilliantly
colored flowers. The.blossoms are mar
: velously beautiful in shading, with
many of the petals wrought in silver.
The bodice and train are of plain
satin, with on side of the train trimmed
with the cascades of the lace mingled
with French flowers exactly matching
those Of the brocade. Lace and flowers
/ adorn the neck of the half low corsage.
Ottoman fabrics have seen their hest
days, rs is evidenced b. their being of
1 fercd ut a great reduction from their
original prices. In their places are of
fered imperial cords with the Iep rum
ming vertically. These goods are very
/ handsome, and come in all the soft nei-
tral shades OF the season as well rs in
dark street tones. IRISH poplins are also
exhibited in rich colors of russell brown,
Quaker gray, invisible green, golden
fawn. marine blue, silver, ashes of roses
and deep ruby. Basket cloths, armures.
Trench tricots, bison cloths and fine
tweeds are again imported. all TO be
/ used in the creation OF the natty and
lady-like tailor-made costumes which
are now at the zenith of their popularity
in America.
Many skirts of plain WOODEN materi.
ais are combined with correspond no
substances in basket patters. Occasion.
ally 1t Is a lozenge spot or crescent. OF
some other set pattern worried in silks
OF mingled colorS. One imported COS
tune designed for afternoon ut the sea
/ shore Is made OF almond-colored Frenc!
cashmere over a skirt OF dark plume col
ored velvet The long apron overdress
and bodice are covered with darS plum.
colo ed flowers in detached sprays ap
! pliqued ut intervals over the entire sur
\ face.
A young lady at an evening party ir
] this city recently wore trained dres.
/ of cream white tulle, upon which an
pcarei not an inch of lace or trimming
I of any description, with the exception o
full plaitings of the silky .tulle. There
was not even a frill of lace to border
the square opening of the corsage, OF
lace rulfleS to edge the half-long sleeves
their place being taken by narrow
knife-piaitings of the airy dress fabric.
No flowers were worn, the mousdue.
tdire gloves and the dainty sandals wert
OF white Danish kid, AMI the only at.
tempt at ornamentation was magniii.
cent diamond crcss at the throat, sus.
pended from n delicate necklace O.
pearls, and n diamond saber thrus
through the coils OF golden hair, which
was arran sed la Gainsborough. The
young lady presented picture of fair.
g irish beauty and simplicity, despite
her diamonds.
Ring cloth is the name of a new.
sheer, black Sool dress fabric resem
bling nuns yelling. which will in a
measure take the place of black grena
dine the coming season. The cloth has
six warp, and is so delicate and
beautifully fine that the entire width of
the fabric. measuring forty-eight inches,
may be drawn through a finger-ring
Hence its title.
Chemisettes russo and guimps. made
of very white ''all over'' embroidery.
will be worn with zephyr ginghams,
sateens and French organizes In a
few French models of afternoon dresses
already sent over, the bordering to the
tunic and the sleeves, as we'll as the
guimps, are made of exquisitely en-
broidered French muslin, or of the Rus
sian embroidery. When used for chill
dren. known as point sans cnvers. OF
needle work having no wrong side