Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-06-21


ABLE sITfs-NoKNING DRESSES - EVENING
DRESSES, ETC.
SNAIL bustles. only. are worn.
DArsI ire the popular flower.
CHaTALAINE bags are coming In again.
TURKISH embroidery is used on ginghams.
PALE BROWN and gray are the fashionable
colOrs for dresses.
FEATHER FANS for dressy occasions win be
much used this summer
EscURIA1. LACE is extensively used in the
trimming Of white dresses
DoTTED Null trims many of the rough and
ready hats for summer wear.
A WHITE GAUzE VEIL Is the latest touch put
to gray travelling costume
CLOVER blossoms are much worn on bonnets
of either white or black straw
RED is exceedingly popular. Bits OF it are
seen on almost every costume.
CUFFS are very narrow. They are worn with
small stud-outtons of hammered silver
GINGHAMs are fashionable for morning wear
trimmed with quantities of embroidery
SILK GLOVES in pretty tan shades are worn to
the exclusion Of kid and undressed kid gloves
SOME OF the newest straw hats have bread
brims and high crowns and are worn down on
the forehead.
DOTTED MUsLINs trimmed with Oriental lace
will be Used for both morning and evening
dresses during the season.
BoNNETS for both morning and evening wear
are small. Gold and silver tinsel Is not as much
used upon them as formerly
For travelling, taiIor-made gowns will be ex-
clusiFeiy worn. Gray in several shades and
dark blue are the popular coors-
some OF the newest bOnnets for every day
wear have strings of white null, which are
fastened beneath the chin In bow.
HANDKERCHIEFS made of fine white lawn
with pretty and artistic borders are fashionable
They are now never worn stuck in the belt OF
bosom.
The HAIR Is now never seen coied In a knot
at the back of the head. 1t is brushed up and
careessly knotted on the top of the head and
Is worn without ornament of any kind.
The FASHIONABLE ENGAGEMENT RING is no
longer the single diamond splendidly set. 1t
has a row Of small sapphires extending ene-balf
way round, and on the other side a row of small
diamonds The sapphires are for good luck, and
the diamonds mean undYinG affection.
MUsLINs FOR MOURNING are revived in gray
and black, and show some lovely shaded pat
terms In rne woods the favorite materials are
nuns yelling in two grades. Cancels hair gren-
adine Is a fine open worked wooden material
that makes up In conjunction with surah gros
grain OF armure. and is durable as well as pretty.
The most fashionable dust-cloaks of the sea-
son are made of pOngee. gathered back and
front, alter the style OF the redlngOte. Except
Ing this, there is nothing to be purchased but
the large. loose dust-clOaks In coarse granite"
or hideous linen. This style Of cloak Is posi-
lively disnguring-they broaden the back and
yulgarize the whole appearance.
MORNING DRESSES Of gendarme blue and dab
LA red cambria have velvet collars trimmed with
cream or copper eotored lace. They are effec-
tive for lawn tennis, but not so youthful as the
plain Saline in biscuit tints, trimmed with cream
lace, over pleated skirts of alternating plain
and clustered stripes. Bedticking is fortunately
discarded for lawn tennis.
Travelling dresses Of light gray mohair,
trimmed with mOhair braid to match look we'll
are durable, easily kept Clean and make cool
and pleasant costumes. Hats of gray straw
trimmed with gray tips and several rows gray
galloOn. accompany them; and the material ~
also used for dust-coaks. The newest imported
dust-cloaks are OF waterproof silk, very light
and ideal garments for our hot climate In July
and August
MITTS are questionable this summer but
doubtless will be much used on account OF their
Goodness Unless one has really pretty hand
she should never wear mitts- They are ugly
looking things anyhow, and make an ordinary
hand look dOuby ugly. When they are worn
hands and nails are scrupulOusly clean, and the
latter highly polished. There are few things
more disgusting than to see woman dressed
to death with dirty nails.
AT THE FASuIONABLE WEDDINGS of the pres
ent season the bridesmaids have worn bonnets-
Charming bCnnets of white tulle with white
satin. and delicate marabout plumes fastened
with long, slender gold needles or pins and dot
ted with transparent flies. or touched upon the
edges with gold powder The brides dress is
trained, but the bridesmaids are always short
and the bOnnets are much more suitable than
the nOndescript way of dressing the hair gen.
orally adopted for church weddings.
DEMoREsT forJuly says: Some evening dresses
made recently to send to young society ladies
were ofEtriped nuns yelling of exquisite soft
ness and OF delicate creamy white overskirts of
silk TO match. and the trimmings were Of lace of
new and uncommon design. representing the
fronds of the graceful maiden-hair ferns; the
skirts had equi-distant groups of loose longitu-
dlnal folds, which again were crossed at inter-
walls by rows of clOSe-set gathers and the plain
parts between the gathered folds were cut at
their lower edge in long. wide points which were
bOrdeTed with Fittings Of lace. while below was
narrow fOunce, Killed and similarly trimmed
On the upper part Of the skirts was drapery
arranged as two feStOOns high on the right side
low on the left. ans very much pulled at the
back The bOdices were plainly made the
square-cut openings merely outlined with lace
and the long sleeves were finished at the wrists
with folds OF the material and ruf1les of maiden
hair lace The Only. additions were wristbands
OF rich ribbon with loops and ends at the side
A Hail AT san Pedro Su1a, Honduras.
From BlackwoOd's Magazine
The door which / shut In such haste was
thrown open. and the company walked in by
twOs and threes and then seated themselves
round the room. the principal ladies occupying
the rOching-chairs- Soon followed the music;
the musicians-three In number-playing some
selected piece, now entered, and they were
listened TO with marked silence to the end
could not help contrasting this politeness with
the rude inattention which / have seen dis
played in circles of far higher pretenslon dur
ing the execution Of instrumental music BY
some amateur, or even professional performer
In both cases the music seems to be regarded
solely as an aid to conversation. and the per-
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