The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-10
The FASHIONS.
Styles that Are Declared to Meet the
Approval Of Well Dressed Women.

Styles that Are Declared to Meet the
Approval Of Well Dressed Women.
Artictic modistes and milliners have
been making experiments with the new
ohartreuse and absinthe greens, and
have discovered that they harmonic
very well with black, and with this COM
bination these very trying olors now
so fashionable are rendered becoming
to great many more people than could
otherwise adopt them.
Very many pretty suits are seen with
killed skirts of golden brown satin-fn-
ished surah, with pointed apron tunic
and back draping of canvas goods OF a
lighter or pale cream shade, the can
vas being very generally trimmed with
wooden lace. There are various mex
pensive materials displayed in the stores
which closely resemble the silken-look-
ing canvas goods now in such vogue.
| These cost only quarter the price of
the original fabric, but, like all very
cheap materials, there is a great doubt
about their wearing qualities.
Stripes are very popular again, and
some of the new patterns are exceed
ingly pretty. Plain goods generally ac-
company these fabrics, and the combi-
nation makes very effective gowns
particularly becoming to stout or short
wasted persons Satin, with raised
chenille stripes of several colors, looks
well if the hues be not too vivid. The
skirt is sometimes made of the stripes,
but quite as often we see the rule re-
versed, and the bodice and tunic are
striped, while the skirt is of plain ma
terial.
Neck Fittings seem to have taken a
new lease of life; they are mingled with
loops of very narrow gilt braid, and
prevailing taste for tinsel. Bonnets
glitter with tinsel cause and ornaments.
Tinsel threads are woven in fabrics of
satin. silk, wooden and velvet. We see
tinsel aigrettes and laces-tinsel every
where, in short, and never did we need
less acoustic assurance that ''all is not
gold that glitters" than ut the present
time.
A dainty little arrangement offered
among the many pretty wares at a fair
recently consisted of generous bow of
satin and Ottoman ribbon, from which
fell five long streamers of the same. At
the end of one length was fastened a
tiny pin-cushion; of another small
needle book; the third held pair of
fine steel scissors; the fourth thimble
i'm a case, and the fifth an emery-bag.
These various articles were made of the
~,l L.. lnfn
was designed to form useful and or
namental addition to the outside of a
understanding wicker work-basket.
Black will be in high favor for the
summer and autumn seasons, so prOphe-
sizes high authority across the water.
Many suburb toilets, both of heavy and
diaphanous fabrics, are being made of
this somber color, enlivened by black
and gold laces, panels, waistcoat. re-
vers, and cuffs of colored velvet bro
caded grenadine, or richest of all, a
profusiOn of jet mingled with black
lace. The magnificent beaded tabliers,
panels. borderings, edgings, ppliques
for skirt decoration, and berthas. fraises,
vest fraises, and plastrons for the bod
ice become more and more elaborate,
each newly imported set being more
intricate and artistic than the last.
Some very elegant and expensive cos
tunes are shown, made with the new
stripes of satin and raised chenille. with
artiStically fitted and draped French
polonaise above, made Of finest wool.
as delicate as yelling, these figured
with dots of raised chenille matched to
the leading color in the satin-striped
fabric. A number of these patterns
have the dots or other figures on a
large scale, but they are not as attract
i've to refined tastes as the smaller de-
signs, for out-of-door wear, though
they are often chosen for carriage and
house dresses.-M Y. Evening Post.