The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-08-13
FASHION NOTES.
Scarlet bonnets are fashionable.
Wide sash ribbon is in demand.

everywhere.
Some long silk gloves are puffed from
the wrist up.
Plaid ginghams come with embroid-
cred flounces.
Two kinds of straw mixed in the same
hat is very ugly.
Dressing sacques are very elaborately
trimmed with lace.
Small blush roses are embroidered all
over pale blue chambery.
Yokes are Immensely fashionable both
for young ladies and little girls.
White poke bonnets and parasols are
painted to match the dress panels.
Old-fashioned plated shirt fronts are
once again becoming the wrinkle.
Long Chantilly lace scarfs are fash
ioned into mantles, to be worn with black
dresses.
Fedora front redingotes and garments
for little girls are as popular as for grown
up women.
Lace ruf1les should trim light summer
silks, foulards, all India silken stuffs,
and surahs.
High buttoned boots in French or
Dongola kid are the correct day wear for
little women.
Little girls carry parasols ornamented
with one or more Kate Greenaway figures
on the cores.
Pongees come with very elaborately
embroidered fronts or panels in dark and
bright colors.
Ladies' high walking shoes have the
uppers in red and the vamps in black al
Ggator skin.
All white goods are being sold at great
ly reduced prices, and offer bargains to
housekeepers.
Ribbon beds on lawns are usually cir
cular and formed of concentric circles of
foliage plants.
Tucks are alternated with lace or en-
broidered founces, and continued up to
the waist or skirt.
Wreaths of grasses dotted over with all
sorts of gay insects are worn on country
hats by Parisians.
White Chinese silk dresses, embroid-
cred in gray and blue, are pretty, but un-
assuming lOT evening wear.
Real duchesse or point lace is mad G
over transparent frames is the popular
wedding or reception bonnet.
Manila is the latest color in vogue.
1t is shade lighter than ecru, and is
tastefully mixed with all other colors.
Straw sailor hats with large, round
crowns drawn in ribbon bands the size of
the head, are fashionable for little boys.
Many of the new white dresses for
misses are made with the new shirred
waist, known as the Josephine Waist. "
The jacket or casaque opening over
the waistcoat or gathered or plated
plastron is decided feature in early
summer suits.
A large blue rough-and-ready straw hat
has poppy-red Grape punched around the
crown, with number of wings in front
of the same color.
Flat scarfs, like those worn by gentle
men, are patronized this season by ladies
who wear them with tailor-made SUITS
which are open at the throat.
The largest number of wash goods
dresses made up in one particular style
are those in the form of what are incor-
rectly called Mother Hubbards.
Wide leather collars and cuffs with the
edges studded with steel are intended to
be worn on the coats of small boys, who
have belts and pouches to match.
Some jerseys cost hundred dollars,
but they are masses of beads and en-
broidery with lace stripes, and are not
an 1,ratfiar altar oil fban bot
only few dollars.
The momentous question of the femi-
nine American mind at present is not
whether to vote or not to vote on the
coming presidential election, but how to
keep the hustle in place.
The fancy of wearing a velvet basque
with a white or light goods skirt is not so
conf Nle for the heated term as that
of y muslin or lace spencer with col
oreo or black silk or wool skirt.
Very wide sashes are again in vogue.
They pass around the waist and are tied
in big bow in the back. They are
specially pretty with full tucked skirts
and full waists with or without yokes.
Big gilt darning- needles and big gilt
headed pins are the latest fancies in bon
net and hat decoration Two are thrust
diagonally through one side of the crown
and at right angles, forming a sort of
cross.
The Circassian jacket, quite short at
the waist, square cut in front, opening
over Russian waistcoat and belt, and
worn with full trimmed or untrimmed
skirt comes to us among other Partisan
novelties.
Pelerines are made of the same material
as the dress. They are cut high, though
not exaggerated, on the shoulders.
Many have long panels down the front,
shirred at the ends and finished off with
ribbons and tassels.