St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-06-28
Fashions for the Season.

it will flourish more than ever upor
cheap grenadines and serviceable blacl
nantes. There are specimens of Jet
ted trimmings that are beautiful. bu
they are overpowered by a vast amount
of cheap and snowy beaded embroidery
upon lace, which, nauseous as il is
sounds as well in print as if it were the
richest and rarest of its kind The en-
tire Jetted front to a dress can now be
bought for five dollars, and ietted trim.
ming lace for fifty cents yard-a great
temptation to shine at small expense.
Red or gold. lilac or amber satin can
be bought with linen back for eighty
nve cents yard, and when the plain
front and basque are covered with lace
and the back draped, who is to know
| that 1t did not cost five dollars per
yard? But the jetted laces will be still
more popularity used for trimming thin
black dresses, grenadines, pongees,
nuns vailings and crepe de chine. Jet
ted fringes and laces can be employed
in profusion without taxing the strength
| of the most delicate tissue. as the beads
are hollow and the weight nothing in
comparison to that used a few wears
ago.
Crepe de chine is an expensive fabric.
and for this rich jetted ornamentation
has a special and elective affinity. Like
pongee. it requires lighting up in order
that its strength and beauty may be
seen, and fine jetted trimming
upon lace but upon the material, or in
the form of passementerie or fringe
fultills this office. The virtue and vice
of jet is its availability. 1t is used upon
all cheap mantels, cheap bonnets, bon
nets that are stretched upon blocked
frame, covered first with some high
colored satin at fifty cents ward, and
then with jetted lace. with border for
the brim and the edge behind. These
can be bought rs low as $3.50 each.
Biscuit tints are fashionable this sea-
son, as they have been more or less
every Spring for many years. They
always appear with the new importa-
tons. because they are used as mark
of distinction and in the making of the
most elegant fabrics abroad, and are
sent here with the natural idea that
they possess the same significance. But
this is not the case at sill. In Paris. and
to a less extent in London, black is the
badge of labor; it is the uniform of the
business and professional woman. while
the laboring populations are still more
widely separated from fashion and its
votaries. more especially on the Cont
nent. by the short stuff or cotton dress
and the clumsy and time honored Access
series Of their class. Abroad. therefore,
these fine tintS are a badge of distinc-
Il &l,, d. 4
|ogne are gay with the most delicate
tints, pale blue. sea shell pink. buff,
ecru and cream white, while the streets
Of the two great cities, English and
French. are black, morning and even
m. with the myriads of business and |
workers who form the same |
'ort of funeral procession from the era.
lie 10 the grave.
The straw bonnets are, as vet, quite |
secondary to the bonnets made up of |
gold embroidered tissues, or real lace
,ver satin, and trimmed with aigrettes |
hid gold ornaments, or with clusters of |
inc flowers. Gold lace over primrose
attn looks well, and fine real lace over
link. with aigrette of white marabout,
powdered with silver. 1t must be I'M
lerstood that gold lace in small designs
md of genuine untarnishable quality is
meant. The market is glutted with
oarse rubbish that it is an insult to
he intelli gence of the average woman
o make for her wearing. a novelty
n straw is hat with high crown,
nd brim rolled upon the edge. which
) enlarged in circular form upon the
ront. SO that upon the head it assumes
ne appearance of a bonnet The favor
e color in these straws is dull ecru
r light mulberry. Upon the mulberry
mt. darker shade of mulberry would
e used for velvet folds and facing, and
group of mushrooms in natural color.
dark ecru hat of this kind was seen
n Easter Sunday, trimmed with null
erry folds and facing and a group of
Tree mice. above which a cocks plume
vept over the crown.
Dresses of satin rhadames, covered
with lace f1ounces, draper
5 and cordages. are in the hands of
ressmakers. Black Chantilly lace is
'ed for entire dresses in Paris. and
ainless dresses, with Vatican like :
ace. made of lace over pale satin :
ladames, rule the day there One of .
e most striking novelties in new
brics is Chantilly silk; the ground is
ot in all colors, blue and pink, brown n
I'd gold. green and cardinal, etc. On :
is brilliant ground is thrown kind
raised embroidery in a messy, vel r
ty appearance, like en- application of q
ce. 1t is decidedly original and :
Wish. either in dark colors for visiting !,
stumes or in light shades for evening :
ilet.
Black gros grains are made up with
overdress that has the basque front O
ped TO long peplum pointed sides, Il
lille the back is in princess shape. a
ack velvet ribbon fastened in the UNI 81
r arm seam is tied on the front in a ii
int. and the peplum ends have each 81
large passementerie ornament. or n
e ribbon loops and floating ends. &
e fronts and sides of the SKIRT are 81
vered by a deep. sharply-pointed d,
ron, that has five wide folds turned X
ward across it, and on each fold is in
d row of embroidery or of lace. CT
r black satin skirt that is covered O,
two very deep llama lace tiounces, n,
d down each side by rosettes of black of
in ribbon; the basque front and
ncess back are made of black en- II
'idered China Grape, with a satin it,