The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1885-07-17
Eashinnahla Fancloa.

Yellow in all shades still remains popular.
Nantes are very email, and as light as poss-
ibIe
Feather fans are popular this season, and are
particularly attractive with dressy toilet.
Thread laces for trimming are embroidered
with eottoh or chenille for contrasting color.
Nantes are made of black silk network, I'M
lined and threaded with beads, edged with
fringe.
Swiss girdles, pointed above and below the
waist. both in front and behind, and made en-
trely OF jet beads.
Wool canvass costumes are very stylish, and
are mostly trimmed with wool lace matching
the dress in color.
Byron collars of solid jet with two scaris OF
beaded net to tie below the throat are made to
wear with black dresses.
Silk hose in pale creams, blues, pinks and
in black are to be worn with slippers and low
cut shoes this season.
Green is the predominant color, its only real
rival being the lovely cream tints which Will
reign throughout the summer.
Skirts are made much less narrow at the top
than they have been for some time. Many are
gathered or plated round the waist.
The demand for Oriental, Spanish and Els
curIa lace is still undated, although these are
| dividing lonors with the various colored WOOL
| laces.
Beaded nets for the fronts of dresses were
| never more beautiful. The designs are varied,
| frequently floral, and often tiny birds and but
terfes are traced together with foliage.
In millinery, primroses are a novelty, and
meadow grass very pretty with field dais'es IN
| natural coors. Mustard and cress, and butter"
cup yellow look well upon black, and brown
| hearted msrguertes upon mastic tnts.
| xho ftop ohoirc n
| the fashionable drawing-rooms that 1t is hard
| to tell which is the chair and which is ribbon.
| One who sits in one of these chairs makes all
enemy of the family Springfield Union.
Black lace jackets are revived, and are now
| made of piece lace cut with darts and side forms,
| precisely as basques are. One OF the prettlest
of French thread net has five deep points on Its
edge, covered with lace, laid in accordion pleats
A palm fan Of jet is above each point.
The most stylish collars and cuffs are cut
with square ends. Plain dark red ones are
worn with house dresses. Striped, spotted and
seIf-colored collars are all worn some OF those
| of rcd or gray linen have bands of gold tlnsel
stitched upon them, which are dressy and efts-
| tive. The tinsel is easily removed when the
linen needs washing, Handkerchief are very
| snowy and are sold to match the cuffs and col
lars.
In place of white collars and cuffs, velvet
bands encirce the wrists and neck; these have
more of novelty than beauty to recommend
them. Ordinary crepe lisse and lace frilling are
| out OF date and continue 10 be replaced by
| many novelties. Bands OF cream etamine,
shaped somewhat like upright linen collars,
| embroidered in cross stitch, with red and blue
| ingram cotton or silk are the latest. These are
very stylish. Bands of colored satin, just APP
pearing above the dress collar and below the
sleeves, are fashionable, and bands OF gauze,
threaded with gold or silver, are very becom.
ing to the face.