The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-06-27
Fashion Notes.

Flower bonnets are again fashions
bic. Those of white lilac, with plenty
of greenery, are among the, prettiest.
Skeleton bonnets made of transpar-
ent gauzes or gold braid, silk chenille,
or beadwork, in diamond patterns,
showing the couture through the open
work designs which form the crown.
are shown BY all fashionable milliners.
Taste at present seems to incline to-
ward rich material made in great SIM
plicity. The wealthiest and most fash
ionable women wear but little trimming
on their street costumes; most of these
being tailor-made. and altogether per-
feet in the matter of fit and draping.
Very beautiful Venetian embroidery
in pure white or tinted floss silk is to be
used this summer for panels, vests,
skirt fronts, and tlounces, the bands Of
the ..all-over' work being twenty
inches wide. In white cashmere, nuns
cloth, or Ottoman silk of the soft-drap-
ing quality. for evening toilets or for
matinees and Grecian house robes, this
trimming is peculiarly elegant and eff
fective. .r ....... ...... ..... .........-. /
Muslin bopnets and round hats,
tinted and white. with full cap crowns
and brims of pleated lace, appear
among other pretty novelties in milli-
merry. These are intended for children
anu also for young ladies wear at sum
mer resorts. .sr ! a.,-.-. u.. ....... /
Fashion is in extremes just now,
Either the designs are immense, en-
bracing tulips, peonieS. roses. and
other flowers of exaggerated size, or
otherwise fashionable materials are
powdered with minute dots, tiny blocks,
check and hair stripes. This is espec-
tally noticeable among the seasons inn
portation of French sateens. nr. /
Red parasols in satin and Turkey
twill are still in vogue: these. however.
only look well with an entire black
toilet. or in some very dark one, in
which there is some color relievance. A
deep red sunshade, carried by the
wearer of dark green foulard, polka
dotted with cardinal. was elective, but
these effects can not be very extensive
ly repeated, rs red combines success
fully with but few costumes appropriate
for the promenade.
very high, and are fastened close about
the throat with a gem-set collar button
of hammered gold. These are worn
quite above the neck of the dress, the
tucker of French muslin serving to fill
up the interim. The collars are finish
ed with bordering of fine embroidery
in Swiss or French needlework. More
expensive sets have wide Byron collars
nearly covered with delicate embroi-
derry, and edged with Valenciennes lace,
but for general wear these collars are
finished with an edge of Irish point
lace, or of narrow but very fine
quality of torchon. -.. r
All the summer bonnets are more or
less transparent. If of straw the braid
IS iooped, and so shows spaces between.
There are also very fine gilt wire bon
nets, which are semi-transparent and
countless bonnets made of ietted net,
chen lie, dotted gau e. and lowered
tulle, which displays the arrangement
of the hair beneath. High square and
peak-shaped crowns alone are seen.
This is "a disadvantage which seems also
to have existed when Mrs. Tulliver. in
mill on the Floss, declared, There's
never much pleasure wearing a bonnet
a second year, espec' ally when the
crowns are SO chanay-never two sum-
mers alike" The pleasure of econom-
ical people, who choose to wear their
bonnets and hats into the second year
nowadays. is likewise somewhat dis
turbed by the unpleasantreilection that
the crown inevitably betrays the fact
of length OF service, these being ex-
ceedingly '.changy'' from even one sea-
son to another.
There is marked prevalence thus
far OF brown and bronze hues, which in
innumerable shades and tones are eX-
eeedingly fashionable both in dress
and millinery. Net only is bronze it
self prominent, but al its kin. from
gold to every shade OF wood, nut, cof-
fee, cream, and seal brown, to say
nothing of pure yellow, ecru. fawn,
and all colors showing trace of a
gold or bronze hue, and particularly
the olive and msstic hues with a CLINT
of gold in them which have so ragged in
the world of art and fashion abroad.
N. Y. Ecen;nq Post.