Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-07-18
NEW o FASHIONS.
Summer OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
plications-Styiish C0lOrs.

EDITOR MISUNDERSTANDING var
ieties of white wool show that we are
to have a white summer, as also a
wooley one. Then again, what soft
prettinesses may not arise from an at
ter wearing OF the commencement
dress; chosen originally in terror OF
some grim professor, then modestly
giving a change from other things mor
ornate. A change from silky crinkle,
satiny simmer, the shine of tissue,
expensive China Grape or tulle, so east
ly worn out. In the more dressy styles,
tulle, indeed, plays an important part,
frequently adorned by chenille loop
ings, pendent fuchsias, gilded wheat,
silvered oats and the like, and usually
as an over-dress upon silk or satin. A
offering summer, moreover, we are
TO have. The glitter of gold, which
shows itself everywhere in millinery,
attaining a climax when hats are en-
tirely of gilt; in trimmings, when they
are stiffened by it; in materials, when
it shows in straight warp or wool,
winds among brocades or comes in dot
tings even on thin cotton goods. Pre-
valence of yellow is akin; a bevy OF
ladies' now being often a very yellowish
affair, and some genius would do well
to compute the various shades. Some
a bright copper, others pale, but all
more yellowish than pure yellow. Nor
let us forget the glitter, and, sometimes,
the jingle of jet. 1t is a jetted sum-
mer; many are the jet bonnets, many
the broad collars, the waists, the apron
fronts, the interspersed trimmings Of
jet, and many is the dress of waning
newness, freshened once more by COIL
venient coverings of jet. Extremists
have great opportunity, and go jing-
ling along, or in the quiet of church
time disturb their neighbors. Led
away by glitter and jingle, however, l
have, perhaps, too much neglected the
subject of
wHITENESS.
1t is a topic vast and various. Not
dead, chaIky whiteness, but white del
icately tinged with cream, OF where
we see a purity, it is in some soft fabric
which takes its tone from near sur
roundings and loses thus a characters
tic stare. Yielding mulls, gently fall
ing nainsook, silk null, surah silk, or
the family of sprigged or dotted mus
Inns, capable of such innocent coquetry.
The laces of the day give finish; bows
answer unto bows, or by tucking that
ornament economically, the straight
skirt, may some gullible youth be be-
trayed inso visions of Arcadian life in
a cottage. One goes not astray in
choosing white, and for morning, let us
not forget the time-honored cross-bars
that meyer grow old. Hamburg EN-
broideries are a supreme modern in
yention, as regards white dresses in a
gradually ascending scale, reaching
styles fine enough for the finest goods.
Fashion runs, moreover, to lightness
when not to whiteness, and the most
insensible bachelor might be struck by
the great number of light colored tot
lettes. No material prettier or mor
inexpensive than pale. colored mohair,
bestrewn by springs in natural hues
and brought out by Lord u Taylor,
(where bargains are always to be had)
for thirty-eight cents per yard.
JUST so.
Safety pins were never in greater
demand, since the complications of the
present costume require often such
nice adjustment that an inch or two
makes direst confusion. AS when a
proud succession of puffings meant to
hang directly in the back, gets fatally
twisted to one side; as when some one
of them gives way and goes struggling
off, causing ruin to the fair fabric. My
friends, it is a complicated world we
live in this summer. This must hang
the other way; this must puff this Way
and that must puff that way the other
must 60 the other way, and some other
thing must 60 some other way. DO
not attempt to get along without a
mirror; the longer the better. Stand
not hurriedly before it; turn round
and round, and, if possible, have
a trusty friend to look at you as YOU
turn round and also help to turn you
round. 1t is, moreover, a colored
world we live in. DeIicately blend
your tints, chief among which are the
yellowish, running from pale ecfu to
deep copper. Greens, many, and run-
ming almost into light yellow, descend
ing through grades of olive, reseda and
myrtle. Blue, to some extent, from
dark navy to lighter shades tinged with
heliotrope or pale, dull varieties, Red,
very popular, from exceedingly bright
to pale Or dull brick red; usually as a
combination brown and its first cousin
bronze, much worn Heliotrope has
bloomed out rather Unexpectedly. Pale
pink for dressy goods, and brighter tor
touches in millinery.
Lucy CARTER.