The Opelousas courier., 1884-11-15

Small bustles only are worn

Popp2ol.
Feather fans for dressy occasions
are much used.
Zephyr gingham makes a cool dress
for very hot weather.
High boots are relegated to street
wear only for the summer.
Pale lavender is a favorite tone for
embroidery on black stockings.
Eseurial lace is, extensively used in
the trimming of white.dresses.
Low shoes for outdoor wear and
slippers for the house are the rule.
All sorts of combinations OF materi-
ais are permitted in costume nova
days.
Some underskirts have the panels
plated the reyerse way of the
fans. -...
New bangles have half Of the
hoops studded with rubies, emeralds
or diamonds.
Ginghams are fashionable for morn
ing wear, trimmed with quantities of
embroidery.
The most becoming finish for a shir-
red white null bonnet is to line the
brim with black velvet.
A few women in Paris are wearing
straw hats with square corners. They
are anything but pretty.
Some Of the newest straw hats have
broad rims and high crowns and are
worn down on the forehead.
The Fedora front appears on redin-
gotes and listers for summer wear as
well as on tea gowns in the princess
form.
Wrappers of null are made dressy
with Fedora fronts, Vatican backs,
and a profusion of Valenciennes or ORR
entail lace.
Rosettes and cockade of ribbon vel,
vet are seen on newly imported
Partisan cagrotis. Strings match the
cockade.
For travelling, tailor-made gowns
are exclusively worn Gray in sew.
eral shades and dark blue are the most
popular colors..
Mushroom-colored lace in the piecs
| is used for the .puffed p~etticoats OF
shot silks that have blue, red and
green chameleon hues.
Handkerchief made of fine white
lawn. with pretty and artistic borders
are fashionable. They are now never
worn stuck in the belt or bosom.
Burrs of different kinds are among
| the decorations used upon hats and
bonnets, those Of the chestnut, just
bursting, being mnch admired.
! One Of the new straw bonnets il
made Of the natural cylinder shape
straw pressed into shape, without
making the crown piece separately.
A very stylish combination in col.
ors is gray and terra Gotta. Designs
in terra Gotta on a gray silk ground
are in rich fabrics and are used for
parts of costumes.
Among the newest bonnets IS the
aManon," a jaunty little object with a
plated crown, and an oddly shaped
brim. 1t is made of straw, silk, OF
whatsoeverselse M may wish.
An oblong piece of satin or velvet
of a contrasting color to the dress
may be sewed in the front waist with
the sleeves. It should be about two
inches in the shoulder.
Pretty black. white and colored
satin afternoon tea aprons are Dor
dered with lace and decorated on enc
curved corner with a motif of en-
breidery or a painted design.
Brooches for bonnet strings and lar
ger hair pins for holding on the bon
net are made in the same designs and
are brilliant with Strass stones that
can scarcely be distinguished srom
diamonds.
Foulard dresses of pale China blue
satin. in a Powered design, are trimmed
with rufies Of creamy lace and oxy-
died silver buttons. The small bon
net is of fancy straw, trimmed with
the same soft shade of blue satin and a
little russell brown velvet.
For a brides trousseau q pretty ira
yelling dress Is of electric blue surah,
with a small mantelet Of the same
trimmed with pinked-out rufling.
straw bonnet to match with feathers,
and large bows Of surah ribbon fasten-
ed with steel darning needles.
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