Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-23
THE FASHIONS.
Some or the Pretty Trifles That Pleas,
the Average Woman.

Some or tho Pretty TrIfles That Please
the Average Woman.
Graduating dresses are overturned
this year, as are also confirmation
suits.
Gauze and silk grenadine fans lead
in popularity just now.
Fine French cashmere dresses of the
color of red, known as sang de beuf,
and deliberately braided with black.
are favored by English girls for tennis
use.
One of the prettiest sights seen in
long tine wasa silvery- haired old lady,
in charge of the s.kitted goods booth
at a fair recently. She wore dress
of white nainsook, with a broad hem
and a few narrow tucks at the foot of
the skirt. Over her shoulders was
folded kerchief of dotted Swiss mus
lin, held by little bouquet of full
blown white roses. Above her crown
of wavy white hair was set a stately
looking Martha Washington cap. lace
frilled, and made OF dotted Swiss. She
was the ..belle of the evening"" aged
seventy-fve years.
Gauze, embroidered silk muslin,
Spanish Escur al and Oriental nets are
in high vogue for bonnet crowns and
hat crowns for dressy wear. Laces to
correspond trim the brims and wreath
the crown. Silk, of either pale or a
vivid contrasting color, forms the found
alton to these head coverings, and the
floral garnitures invariably match the
shade of the silk. All white hats are
very popular, and the flowers for these
are white moss roses, white lilac and
foliage mingled with white silk lace or
Spanish blonde.
Basques are short and jaunty. and a
little treble-pleated postillion, called in
Paris the birds tail pcstillion, is the
proper finish to the backs of corsages
made either round. pointed. or basque
shape in front. A pretty novelty for
vest, dotted all over with hoops made of
mother-o'-pearl beads. The vests are
made apart from the skirt. and to be
worn with different bodices. A yard
and quarter of silk or satin. pearl
beaded, will make pretty zouave
jacket. Silk gauze, brocaded with
small velvet flowers, made up in tunics
and corsages, are very elegant over
killed skirts of surah, matched to the
shade OF the velvet flowers. En- suite
are satin vests, dotted with tiny figures
in sapphire. emerald. ruby. or pearl
beads corresponding with the hue of
the skirt fabric.
Among the newly imported dust
cloaks and wraps for tourists are New
markets and pel;sses made of golden
brown, cardinal, nuns gray, and biege
mohair, cashmere. pongee, or serge.
The handsomest and most expensive
are embroidered. Very stylish wraps
are shown simply tailor-made, with
number of fine pleats laid from throat
to belt, both front and back In
front the pleats are held at the
waist line by a bronze or silver clasp.
Some of the Newmarkets are finished
with pointed hood, lined with striped
satin in gay colors. The cardinal dust
cloaks are exclusively for out-of-town
wear, and the most dashy of these are
loaded with pale coffee-colored lace.
Some very dressy toilets are made of
the plain and figured ''numette." as
nuns yelling is now called. One sty-
sh model shows tucked and killed
skirt of the plain numette with a deep
apron-polonaise above, patterned with
sprays of maiden-hair fern, the soft
green of the fern being repeated in the
ribbon trimmings, which were COM
bined' with those of hedge-rose pink.
Among the new lawn-tennis cos
tunes are some trim and graceful
skirts of dark blue canvas, killed all
the way from belt to hem. Above are
bodices of stockinette briar-stitched
with gold and cardinal silk, with belt
and pockets trimmed to match.-N Y.
Ecesaing Post.