Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-05
FASHION HINTS.

The mushroom and 1aastic shades, -cseda
green's, grays ocean and gray blues and
several ugly smoke tints, are the most
fashionably worn in summer woolens at
the East, combined with velvet or Shot silk.
White flannel suits made with a sailor
blouse and kilt are very dressy for little
boys to wear in the country, They have
no trimming of any kind. Shirt waists are
also worn by the youngest boys, with a kilt
skirt Of plain or blocked flannel These
waists are tucked back and front, and are
made of percale, either dark blue, or else
white, with colored stripes, horseshoes,
Crossbars, jockeys, birds, or animals printed
upon it. Very plain pique suits made with
kilt are also much liked for the warm
weather.
Trained skirts, or adjustable trains, worn
over or added to round skirts are increas-
ing in number every day. sThey are, how
ever, worn exclusively indoors, or for cere-
monious toilets at weddings, receptions and
formal dinners. No long skirts are allow
able TOR the promenade, although numbor
of society ladies have appeared in demi-
trains at church. Trains upon the street
are not likely ever to again be adopted at
all events, not while convenience, taste and
cleanliness are deemed worth studying
New York Post.
A pretty summer costume is made as
follows: The skirt Of golden brown satin
merveilleux laid in double box-plaits, with
princesse polonaise above of cream-colored
mousseline de sole printed with brown
flowers, and trimmed with cream and
brown lace jointly, there being a ruffle of
each where this decoration appears. The
bonnet Of straw is covered with cream lace,
with group Of brown butterflies perchcd
on an aigrette of pale cream tint Brown
silk gloves meet the elbow sleeves, and
brown silk hose with bronze Langtry half
shoes, complete the harmonious details.
French dresses are now almost without
exception made up over what Partisan mo-
distes calls fausSe jltpes, or false skirts e.,
those made of inferior material This
foundation skirt is then faced up about one
third of its length with the dress material,
and the trimmings are then added III the
shape of knittings, peliSses, founces, and
other drapinge AT this moment there are
two leading types of skirts-the one, plain
at the front and sides, with all the bouffant
effect carried to the back; the other, a fully
trimmed skirt, covered with ruffies, plated
OF plain panels, drawn pufings, and the
like. Of course in the latter style, the full
ness is at the back, however expansive the
trimmings may be elsewhere Albany
IN. Y Journal.
When Romeo exclaimed Oh, that ]
were a glove upon that hand !" he was
doubtless thinking great deal more of the
hand than of the glove; and if we could
imagine modern Romeo apOstrOphizing
modern Juliet, we may be sure he would
prefer TO see the hand without any glove at
all. Some curious revelations have lately
been made as to the amount of torture
ladies undergo in the effort to wear gloves
that are too small for them, and, oddly |
enough, the disclosures have taken the |
form of defense Of the glove trade against |
the charge that 1t cannot produce gloves |
that will fit the average hand No doubt il |
ID trHe that great many gloves appear |
when worn, to have been constructed with |
out the least possible reference to the anat- |
omy Of the human hand.
1t is not upon her handsome bonnets that |
Kate Field brides herself Her particular |
vanity is her elegant foot-gear. She has |
her shoes made in Paris, and they are mar
Yels of exquisite workmanship. She has |
very small feet, and she dresses them in the |
oostliest material. One large trunk is de- |
voted to boots gaiters and slippers, and |
these she has i'll every conceivable style, |
from alligator shoes reaching high above |
the ankle to delicate kid slippers that a |
Cinderella might envy Miss Field SAYS
she never had a corn in her life, and this
she claims is due to her care Of her feet.
American shoemakers, she declares, insist
upon squeezing the foot, thereby destroy
ing the naturally graceful shape of that
member and subjecting person to perma-
nent torture from excrescences. My shoe
maker i'll Paris makes and sends me two
pairs of shoes every month. ] will not
wear a shoe that is ripped, torn or worn
out, because this is sloyenly; and will not
wear mended shoe, for patching a shoe
destroys its symmetry, and is apt to occa-
sion an unnatural pressure upon the foot"
Miss Field has a number of curious shoes;
one pair of feece-lined sandalettes, pre-
sented her by Sig. Castelar, pair of lace
slippers, q gift from Sir Charles Dixie;
several Chinese shoes, japanese sandals and
Turkish slippers. Knowing her humor for
these things, Governor Murray, of Utah,
recently gave her a pair of high-topped |
boots manufactured from the skin Of the
Rocky Mountain sheep and lined with the
fleece Of that adyenturesome animal.