The Opelousas courier., 1884-12-13
Fashion Notes.

Fashion Notes.
Spangled fans are again in fashion.
The favorite shades for Suede glove
are mushroom browns.
An article with Oriental designs or
colors is fashionable.
New lace parasol covers are made in
the ACCORDION style.
Ropes of pearl and other beads are
sold for hat trimmings.
Even girls of sweet sixteen wear
little Fanchons and capotes.
Orange, ochre and terra Gotta are the
co, '. most in demand in silk stock
ings.
Brocaded grenadine can be had o
of all colors outlined with s%elf-colored
beads.
Silk canvas and chenille openwork
Jersey bodices ere imported for evening
wear.
New Moliere vests Of jet beaded lace
are made owe a lining of red, yellow
or white silk.
A pretty hat is of grey satin braid
faced with deep red surah and trimmed
with wild roses.
Valenciennes lace is a more dressy
trimming on Swiss muslin dresses
than the Oriental lace.
A new light grey cloth dress, made
with a polonaise, is heavily braided
with silver on the vest and panels on
the skirt.
Fashion demands either immense
floral designs on dress materials or else
minute dots, tiny blocks, check or hair
stripes.
Muslin bonnets and roand hats, tint
ed and white, with fullcap crowns and
brims of plated lace, are pretty novel
ties in millinery.
Gowns of shot glace silk are made up
| in combination with velvet striped silk,
and worn with a mantle of velvet of
the color of the stripe.
The old-time "pinking' with notched
and scolloped edges is revived for the
founces of chameleon silks that change
from one color to another.
Very beautiful Venetian embroidery
in pure white or tinted floss silk is used
on summer costumes for panels, vests,
skirt fronts and founces.
The newest linen collars are cut to
fit very high, and are fastened close
about the throat with a gem-set collar
button of hammered gold.
Red satin or Turkey twill parasols
are still in vogue, but. they only look
well with some very dark toilet in
which there is some color relievance.
White Chinese silks embroidered in
gray and blue are the most quiet and
unassuming of evening dresses, but are
very pretty and exceedingly expensive.
Dresses of black sewing silk grena-
dine are ~profusely trimmed with escu-
rial lace flounces and have a vest. and
a petticoat front placed over red satin.
The Tam o'Shanter cap is the most
popular head wear for tennis players,
as it is not only becoming to all fresh,
young faces, but is never an annoy
ance to the player. .
Ruby and pale pink, gold and russell
brown, pearl gray and crimson. togeth-
er with every shade of yellow, are
among the prevailing colors in change
able silks.
Skeleton bonnets made Of transpar-
ent gauzes or gold braid, silk chenille
or bead-work in diamond patterns
showing the couture through the open
work designs which form the crown,
are fashionable.
The most elegant costumes imported
from the Gtelier of Worth and other
Partisan dressmakers this season have
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been of black satin draped and cover
ed with wide 6ounces aud scarfs Of
real Chantilly lace, and finished witt
long-looped sashes and bows of broad
velvet ribbon.
Full Moliere vests of solid embroid
cry, which meet with favor this sea
son, are held down at the waist-line b,
half girdles of ribbons. These ar,
buff, bright pcppy-red Of blue, and ar,
aewed in at the under-arm seams, ant
tied over the vest In a cluster Of lon,
loops and end