Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-06-19
Fashion Notes.


Flower bonnets are again fashiona.
Die. those of white lilac, with plenty
Oh greenery, are among the prettiest
skeleton bonnets made of transpar-
emf gauzes or gold braid, silk chenille,
o1 DeadWork, in diamond patterns.
showing the couture through the OPEN
Mork designs which form the crown,
o'1 SHOWN by all fashionable milliners.
asse at present seems TO incline to-
Plicity. The wealthiest and most fash-
'cnaeie women wear but little trimming
on their street costumes: most of thee
oeng tabernacle, and altogether per
1ect an the matter of 1t and drapinr.
Very beautiful Venetian embroidery
IN pure white or tiesed floss silk is to be
used this summer for panels, vests,
SKIRT fronts, and tiounces, the bands of
tue all-oyer" work being twenty
tIones wide. In white cashmere, nuns
cieen, or Otton8sn silk of the soft-drap-
Mg quality, fr evening toilets or for
Maunees and Grecian house robes, this
tective.
Muslin bopnets and rosnd hats,
united and white, with full cap GROVES
and brims of pleated lace, appear
among other pretty novelties in MILL
merry These are intended for children
and also for young ladies wear at sum
mer resorts.
Fash.ens is ia extremes Just row.
Either the designs are immense, en-
.oracings tulips, peonies. roses. and
other flowers of exaggerated size, or
otherwise fashionable materials are
powdered with minute dots. tiny blocks,
cheek and hair stripes. This is espec-
laiiy' noticeable among the seasons inn
.portation 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 sunshade, carried by the
wearer of dark green foulard, polka
dotted with cardinal, was effective, but
these effects can not every extensive
.iy repeated. as red combines success
fully with but few costumes appropriate
tor the promenade.
The newest linen collars are cut to fit
very high, and are fastened close about
the throat with gem.set collar buttfy
of hammered gold. These are WI Is
quite above the neck of the dress$the
tucker of French muslin serving to fill
up the interim. Theecollars are finiA n
ed with bordering of fine embroidery
In Swiss or French Reedlework. More
expensive sets have wide Byron Collars
nearly covered with delicate embroi-
derry, and edged with Valenciennes lace.
but for general wear these collars are
finished with an edge of Irish point
lace. or of narrow but very fine
quality of tOrclfoR.
All the summer -bonnets are more OF
less transparent If of straw the braid
is looped, and so shows spaces between.
There are also veEy fine gilt wire bon
nets, which are semi-transparent, and
countless bonnets made of jetted net.
chen lie, dotted gauze. and lowered
tulle, which displays the arrangement
of the hair beneath. High square and
peak-shaped crowns alone are seen.
This is disadvantage which seems also
to have existed when Mrs. Tulliver, in
mill on the Floss, declared, " There s
never much pleasurevwearing bonnet
second year, especially when the
crowns are SO cha,aqg-never two sum-
mers alike" The pleasure of econom-
ical people, whO,choese to wear their
bonnets and hats into the second year
nowadays. is likewise somewhat dis
turbed by the unpleasant reflection that
the crown inevitably betrays the fact
of length of service, these being ex-
ceedingly ''changy" from even one sea-
son to another
There is masked, prevalence thus
far of brown and bronze hues, which in
innumerable shades and tones are ex-
ceedingly fashionable both in dress
and m llinery. Not only is bronze it
self prominent, hut ..all its kin, from
gold to every shade OF wood, nut, cof-
fee, cream, and seal brown. to say
nothing of pure yellow, eeru. fawn.
and ali colors showing a trace of a
gold or bronze hue, and particularly
the olive and nsastic hues with a CLINT
of gold in them which have so ragged in
the world of art and fashion abroad
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