Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-07
FASHION NOTES.

Embroidered Swiss muslin dresses bid
fair to be the favorites this summer.
Fashionable parasols come in the bright,
fashionable eolors-champignon, famingo
and crab red, pheasant blue and chaudron,
or copper
The short mantelets with long fronts and
dolman sleeves of plated lace, reaching to
the elbow only. are the most graceful wraps
introduced for years.
The nobbiest of seaside suits is composed
of red serge skirt. of accordion plaits, worn
under polonaise of gray blue serge, with
parements, cuffs and a collar of red and
blue shot silk.
Big gilt darning needles and big gilt pins
are the latest fancieS of bonnet and hat dec
orations Two are thrust through one side
of the crown .diagonally and at right angles,
forming cross.
Plated skirts of all kinds, fine medium
accordion, round, box fan, shell and organ
pipe. clustered, reversed and sometimes
with each end slaShed and turned up 10
form loop, are much worn.
Combinations of velvet and silk, Otto
man or Rhadames, in all colors. with trim
mings of Aurilac Lace form some of the
most elegant and costly costumes of high
ceremony for the coming season at Saratoga
and Newport.
Linen lawns have both dark and light
grounds pale blues, grays, pinks and dull
green's, and alss pure white, on which are
scattered big blossoms, clusters of fruits,
Indian and Persian designs, and rustic
scenes and figures in miniature.
The handsomest travelling raglans of
EnOliSh cloths hin
velvet and broche, satin and silk, lined
throughout with satin, come.in all the dark
cloth shades, and are eagerly bought by
fastidious customers at prices ranging from
$50 to S75.
By way of dainty little petticoats for the
demi-saison a great deal of surah is worn
slightly quilted and lined, and also of arle-
quin, a silk and cotton tissue, in multi-col-
ored stripes. The petticoatis cut into long
peaked scollops, under which Is slightly
gathered founce of lace or of plated
surah. 1t is coquettish and pleasant to
wear
Fashion has gone wild over lace this sea
son, and it is impossible to use too much OF
it in either black or white Chantilly and
guipure are the fashionable black laces &C
cording to authority, and fashion maya
zines declare that Spanish lace is out of
style; still the fact remains that a good
deal of it is worn while the newest designs
i'll black grenadines of the summer are es-
curial lace patterns.
In spite of all the ridicule, says fash
ion writer, that has been showered upon
esthetic dress, the leaders of that renais-
sance may congratulate themselves upon
having left a permanent mark upon the
fashions of women's dress that will proba-
bly, survive many a decade. Greek pep
lums and Greek SUPPLIES, esthetic and ar
tislc tea gowns, reappear with emphazied
effects from season 10 season.
The handsomest dessert plates of ROYAL
Worcester, painted by Pillsbury, sell for
1915 per dozen Each plate has a rose de-
sign different 10 the others, but the same
description of plates painted By the best
French artists sell for $500 per dozen. The
kettledrum and tea sets of cups and saul
GERS corresponding in richness but varied
III design, that go with these fruit plates,
cost from $50 to 500 per dozen.
As for white dresses, nothing finds more
favor. No lady of fashion dreams of taking
less than half a dozen to watering place,
and twice or thrice that number is not I'M
usual for those who can afford them. In
all these, moreover, no two are alike the
y " Illlc lluSr
lin is tampoured in design of cherries all
over the bodice and draperies; three deep
tiounces to match, trimmed skirt and mar
row edge, in the same pattern, the corsage.
A dress for visiting recently out in Paris
is composed of pistache green satin, dotted
with creyette colored chenille, the front of
the skirt forming three large plaits which
reach to the puffs on the hips large draper
les form the outskirt and fall in plaits over
a border of fringe of marabout chenille
with small crevette colored balls of silk ;
the body in plain velvet of the pistache
shade, with a gilet of plaits resembling the
pannier of the skirt, and made of velvet dot
ted with crevette color. The body is fixed
in front over the dotted gilet and termi
mates at the back by long puff which falls
on the skirt. Casque 10 match in plain
pistache velvet, very short at the back and
long i'll front, also trimmed with marabout
fringe