Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-05-09
WOMAN AND HOME.
Hobbies of Fashionable Ladies. 1.-The
Antithesis of Don't"
Hints Agreeable, Disaxrceable and
Indinercnt-..What Women Are
DOing-- Fashion Notes. Items
and Paragraphs.

Pink is favorite shade for bonnets for
evening wear.
Drapery for tailor-made gowns is still
made very long.
Finger cosy" is the latest name invented
for ladies' muffs
Ladies i'll Paris are wearing modification
of the Old-fashioned girdle.
Few Of the gray dresses, now so fashiona-
bic, are trimmed with colors.
Short dresses are popular for evening wear,
even when the wearers do not dance.
The newest gossamers fit the figure closely,
like an ulster, and have coat sleeves
Children's dresses are all made loose about
the waist in the late revived English styles
The new gloves have fewer wrinkles on the
wrist: tan and cream white are the favorite
colors.
Parsian modistes, with their love of BIZ
zarre effects, are combining fur and lace as
dress garniture.
Caps of plated lace, puffs of tulle, and
gauze, and beaded net are added to the
sleeves Of half-high corsages, to give the
high -shouldered epaulette effect.
The most fashionable fur capes are those
made of monkey skin and black fox. Some
Of the former have little chenille ball bor-
ders. These capeS make an reflective addition
to toilets of black silk, satin and velvet.
Among the pretty fans carried this season
are those Of large oval shape made of white
row of painted lace. In the centre is placed
cluster of pond lilies, mingled with fern
fronds or smilax.
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lllow-shamS, in accordance with the new
fashion Of having colors in bed furniture, are
made with square of blue, red, or pink satin,
edged with a wide lace insertion, a narrow
strip Of satin, and an outer border of lace
four or five inches wide. The satin centre
may be either painted or embroidered.
A useful and even tasteful cover for the
marble slab of the sideboard is made of a
strip Of canton flannel just the width Of the
slab 1t should be long enough to hang over
at the ends four or five inches. Trim the edge
with white or colored ball fringe, and, if you
wish, a row of Kate Greenaway figures may
be outlined at each end Line the flannel
with firm white cotton cloth or with turkey
red calico.
Handsome cushions add to the beauty Of
the willow or rattan chairs so generally used
now. These should be of the exact shape of
the chair seat, and not more than about four
inches thick; if covered with plush put about
five buttons on each to keep it in shape. If
these bright cushions are used the ribbons in
the back are not needed, and as they soil and
become wrinkled SO soon, it il a good idea
not to put them in.
Modern coiifures are in striking contrast
with those Of earlier dates, when men as well
women seemed to vie with each other as to
the quantity I'VE will not mention the quail
ity) of hair they could pile on their heads.
La lies hair-dressing has become one Of the
fine arts. The coiffeur of the present day
studies the outlines of the head with a view
to general effect and contour of arrangement,
using only the best French hair, for it is nee
essary, with the late styles, to have a few
short curls at the back. The front, also,
should be made Of natural curly hair, so it
can be arranged becomingly to the face, be-
sides being always convenient
Wide stripes appear to be taking high rank
in the fashions::of the day, the leading i'm
porting houses showing remarkable choice
Of them. They are fashionable in silk and
satin as in other materials, the difference OBJ
served being that the silks are principally in
light evening tints, the woolens Of darker
shades. The stripes are often three inches
wide in satins, with an alternate stripe
equally wide dotted at intervals with tiny
clusters Of embossed flowers in natural hues
These striped fabrics are still very frequently
killed, even for full dress wear, the plain
stripe showing but little, being laid beneath
the fiower-brocaded one, which is fully dis
nlaved