Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-26
THE LADIES.
Latest Fashion Votes

Latest Fashion Votes.
For indoor toilets lace is preferred to
linen collars.
White undeTskiIts should be worn only
in the evening.
High heels are no longer worn on evening
shoes, but are still used upon day boots.
Ladies' cards are of generous size, cut
almost square, while those for gentlemen
are narrow and short.
An opera dress of white satin has lace
and punches OF gold.colored ostrich
feathers. The mantle is of gold -coored
plush, lined with pale blue satin.
Plush is coming steadily back into favor.
Worth recently made dress for the Prin-
cess Of Wales and another for the Queen of
Portugal, both of them trimmed with plush.
Paris letters say that for morning wear
skirts are invariably made short, but after
noon, visiting and evening toilets are worn
longer than formerly, just resting on the
floor
Fancy stationery ia properly voted vul-
gar. There is nothing more genteel than
plain white paper and envelopes, and it is
still more "genteel and after the manner
Of the old school people, to use sealing
wax.
Among the pretty fans carried this sea-
son are those of q large oval shape made of
white or tinted satin, and covered with
row after row of painted lace. In the cen
ter is piaced a cluster Of pond lilies min
gled with fern fronds or smiiax.
A satin dress Of former season may be
freshened up again by being covered with
black tulle embroidered with let, or white
tule embroidered with very small white
very much the fashion and easy to prepare
ones self,
Comparatively few artificial howers, says
q fashion paper, are used on bail dresses
Just now. Instead, ribbons are cut into
sharp pointed ends and made into fanciful
roset5es for trimming, and only single
bouquet of natural flowers is added this
is still worn high on the left side, or else
just at the waist line.
The " masher" hat Is much worn. They
are nothing more than the hats OF soft
brown felt turned up, with TUT of feath-
era on one side, the brim bound with gold
braid, and two rows Of narrower braid each
side Of the broad band of velvet that en-
circles tae crown. On the opposite side
from the feathers is knot of velvet run
through large slide of Roman gold
Wide stripes appear to be taking high
rank in tie fashions OF the day, the lead
ing importing houses showing remarkable
choice of them. They are fashionable in
silk and satin as in other materials the
difference observed being that the silks are
principally in light evening tiuts, the wool
ems of darker shades. The stripes are
often three inches wide in satiLs, with an
alternate stripe equally wide dotted at in
tervaIs with tiny clusters of embossed
flowers in natural hues. Those striped
fabrics are still very frequently killed, even
for full.dre wesr, tie plain stripe show.
ing but little, being laid beneath the
flower btocaded one, which is fully dia-
played.
A new mode of utilizing the handsome
broad ribbons we see everywhere is as fol.
lows Take good length of ribbon, the
texture soft and fine, bring it round the
neck, and pin on the left side, under the
ear, with 4 silver bar or lace pin. Now
draw both ends towards the throat in the
center OF the corsage, secure there, and
allow The remaining lengths to descend
over the bust, so as to form the fashionable
bullying vast. This is done by turning the
ends underneath and fastening them with
safety pins. On little people the vest does
not reach below the sixth button, or there
abouts, but a more elongated arrangement
may be found more becoming to larger
figure. When the skirt or skirt trimmings
are OF velvet, the ribbon may be of the
same kind and color to correspond.
For walking dresses the short velvet
skirt, with velvet ruche around the foot,
and long French redingote draped above, is
still very fashionably worn. This costume
may be In two materials, or may be formed
wholly of velvet or velveteen. With
grand toilets, the Louis Ky. coat is much
worn, as is also the habit Polguac, with
long basque in front and habit basque at
the back. This coat Is worn over any ele-
CANT skirt, whatever the material or style.
1t is exceptionally elegant in white satin,
plain OF brocaded, trimmed with messy
ruches and full frillings Of lace. Ii Of
lllin white Lyons satin, these basques are
often exquisitely hand painted, or en-
broidered in several shades of silk in a
l4-tAlS y N-NSAELis eLl NoIA UFtI n ShiIt
matching one OF the oolora Of the embroi-
derry.
Royalty having very recently ordered
the wearingof IRISH popIins, says the New
York Post, has, Of course, brought these
neglected fabrics into high fashion once
again. The newly-imported popli1s are
scarcely TO be distinguished from some OF
the thick, rich-ribbed ottoman silks which
are so attractive, but wear so badly. The
makers Of the new Irish poplins have,
while retaining the desired quantity of
durability, succeeded in imparting beau
tiful sheen to the surface, and by rendering
the material soft and flexible, the require.
ments of present fashion for graceful bout.
FAINT drapings are fully met, The latest
high art tints are shown, as well as the
time,seasoued colors of golden fawn, gray,
msuve and silver, with which we are all
familiar. For bridal dresses where, for
the sake OF prejudice or economy, white
satin is dispensed with, white poplin is ex.
quisite, and really more becoming another
thing in its favor being that if at any time