The Opelousas courier., 1884-05-31
Fashion Notes,

Gay colors are the rage i Paris.
Moliere w~aitcoats will be belted in
future.
Tlae Anne Boleyn cap is the headdress
of the hour.
All sorts of redingotes win be fashion
able this season.
Dinner and reception toilets for young
ladies have demi-trains.
Long lace pelerines viii take the place
of ichus on indoor toilets.
Surplice waists will be used OF the soft
wool dresses of young girls,
Frills of lace down the corsage are con-
sidered more elegant than buttons.
Gray satin and gray velvet, trimmed
with steel, will be very fashionable this
spring.
Reception OF dinner costumes of cresson
colored stuffs and silver are peculiarly
novel and beautiful.
Coarse-meshed illusion, trimmed with
Grape, is the favorite material for even
ing dress for young girls in Paris.
Poppy red is the new color for the sea-
son. It is very bright and strong, and
can only be used in small quantities.
: Short capes with high shoulders, in
chenille marabouts of delicate shades, are
already being prepared as spring wraps
for young girls.
Dress bonnets In delicate tinted China
Grape, with gathered crowns, have a fiat
wreath of roses of the shade of the Grape
around the brim.
Square necks, not deep enough to be
yokes, are found on many youthful wool
toilets. They are intended to be filled by
a lace or silk guimpe.
Fashionable overskirts are now cut
with some squareness, and often have a
plain back breadth, gathered slightly,
and formed into one pouf. 4
Tho brims of nearly all the new straw
hats and bonnets are turned over o. the
upper edge, so as to avoid, If desired,
the use of any edge trimming.
Half a dozen or more tortoise-shell
hairpins set with o single Rhine stone,
| are very beautiful and fashionable orna-
ments for the half-high coil now In
vogue.
French miIliners import every variety
of shape in hats and bonnets, peaked and
square crowns, brimmed and brimless
capetos, half cottage bonnets, and large
mignons.
Lace stockings of very delicate hues
are worn over ~iesh-colored silk stockings,
and under a satin sandal of the same color
as the lace. They are very delicate and
very dear.
A girdle or q Swiss waist of white vel
vet makes the most pretty of ornaments
to wear with q white cashmere frock, but
a single gloveless partner means its de-
struction.
Clusters Of small spring flowers, sur
rounded by marabout plumage, are the
f~avorite ornament for spring bonnets.
The clusters are made up in slender
shapes, and the stems of the flowers are
rather long.
a cloak of d new design inteded for
spring wear, has the sleeves of a material
something like the goods called tapestry
this winter. The body Of the cloak isof
cheviot, and the lining is of silk match
ing the figures on the sleeves.
Flower and fruit patterns are not alto
gether pretty iii c~alicoes at the best, but
fruit dyed in four different colors to each
figure, q single grape being, perhaps,
blue, red, yellow and orange, is almost
too ugly to exist. The man who in
vented this pattern deserves severe pun
ishnnent.
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Chenille embroidery on fine cotton
stuff both IN ribbons and in wide pieces
has been imported By some of the mil
liners. IT is really very pretty and cool
for d umme bonnet. Cotton stuffs are
also worked On gold thread and look as
well al gold embroidery can look, the
transparent ground setting OF the bright
metal very well.
Ribbons Of changeable satin, with the
reverse side In solid color, are shown for
trimming summer bonnets. The velvets
are also changeable and some Of the vel
vet ribbons, are things to dream about
while they are uncut. In q bon
net their real beauty is lost, as
there y no room for the play of color on
the surface.
mm~ENM