The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-06-12
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Drab white is the newest shade of this
color.
Red remains the dominant color of the
season.
Iowa has a smaller proportion Of
women in prison than any other State.
The French theory of all summer ma
terial is that they should be made up
without lining.
Gold gauze ribbon galloons are quite
new, with chess GARD designs formed
of bronze beads.
Transparent bonnets of embroidered
gauze, or gold network, are the features
of the summer season.
A lovely evening dress is OF black lace
with design in gold and silver tinsci
scattered over the front, and all the rest
in lace.
There are many ways now of brighten.
ing black dresses, the easiest being a
vest front in colors and lace, gathered
or beaded.
The Archduchess Maria Theresa OF
Austria has passion for manufacturing
jewelry, and labors under the instruction
OF working jeweler.
In Chicago the ma jority of the law re-
porters are women. There are forty en-
ployed in the city court house, and they
earn from six to fifteen dollars a week.
A new style of oruamentation for black
fans consists of small etched landscapes,
with moon shining down INTO limpid
water and rejecting the trees in its
depths.
Paper slippers, sandals and other GOV
pripcr for bo foo I,4o l., -,
which paper appears in now inventions,
an Eng lishman having patented a system
for their manufacture.
Dress gloves have arms of applique
gauzc embroidered upon net, reaching to
but not above the elbows, and finished
with border of appliqucd lace to match
and bow of satin ribbon.
The deposed empress, Eugene, zoe,
shopping in London when she wishes to
procure anything. just like any lady of
limited means, and ncr mourning gown
and long Grape veil do not preserve her
from being run after and stared at by
crowds of people.
The newest jacket shown BY the lead
ing ladies tailor Of Fifth avenue, New
York, is of white cloth trimmed in a
crack artillery rcgimental braiding and
buttons, with gold soutache cord formed
of four strands of cord, two gold and
two of dark blue gray shade.
Charming effects are made in summer
costumes by the addition of the velvet
bodice in modified Swiss style These
have double points and are ut the longest
part not over quarter of yard in
length. They may be made in any color
which is harmonious with the costume.
A pretty trimming for black costumes
is in the little pendant balls of cut jets
which are seen among the new trimming
this season. These arc sewn at intervals
all over the front breadths Of the dress,
and have a brilliant and pretty effect
without being too heavy for summer
wear.
SHRED hats promise to be more fash
ionable for garden and country uses than
any other and are made OF colored or
cream Grape in a cottage or poke shape
as is most becoming. These hats com
bine two very essential qualities in sum
mer hats, one of VIII CHI is lightness ana
the other prettincss.
A pretty and tasteful dress for young
girl may be made from unbleached or
brown linen combined with Turkey red.
The skirt may be wholly of the Turkey
red or may be of the linen striped with
the red. The overdrc.s and blouse waist
are of the linen, finished with the red,
broad red sash completing the effect of
the costume.
High, white washing dresses, and
others in thin, black materials OF cream
nuns yelling, are made with gathered
bodices, high, beltcd and short-slceyed,
or with sleeves to the elbows. The short
sleeves are a revival of fashion of thirty
years ago and convenient, because it ad-
mits of the wear of long gloves, reach
ing above the elbows
An exquisite little bonnet is made with
crown composed entirely of petals of
the white rose, while the brim is formed
of the brown. green thorn fretted STEMS
twisted and plated together The floral
trimming consists of some giant migno-
nettc, copied to a marvel from nature,
and white rose or two. The back of
this bonnet is finished off with a gath
cred binding Of moss colored ribbon
velvet, and the bow in front and the
strings are of the same. A line of pale
gold lace intervencs between the plated
rose stems and the hair, imparting a
lightness of effect that is very becoming.
Gallons are still much employed, but
with fresh varieties of combinations.
Vests or jackets, capes and short visites,
are entirely covered with mohair galloons
about one-third of an inch wide, put on
lengthwise at regular intervals; one of
the edges of the galioon is headed or
outlined with gold, the ends are fringed
out Arabesques or JaAanese patterns
are drawn over and cut out from some
other material. They are then placed
over the outlines prepared and worked
on in applique, with an cdging of fine
soutache all round. These patterns may
be OF color differing from the mantle
matched, for instance, to the dress with
which it is to be worn.
Revolutionary survivors.
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