The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-18
FASHIONS FOR MIDSUMMER.

plScult-color Is very charming.
Tam O'Shanter caps made of white embroid-
cred muslin worn by baby boys
The bodices of thin materials and summer
silks gathered or shirred at the neck and
waist line.
Breton and Swiss bodices seem to increase in
popularity and are exceedingly becoming to little
girlish figures
Tucked boices have lengthwise tucks, con
fined at the waist line by row OF stitching so
that belt is net necessary.
Little boys wear suits of corduroy or velveteen,
bat for very warm weather cheviot. white fan
mel, or serge are more appropriate.
For wash dresses, the linen lawns with black
figures in white ground made with a belted
waist and round skirt for old ladies.
Molevetecn is a new fabric. 1t is of cotton,
closely 1t has velvety surface, and is
said to wash well. 1t is made in colors ana
black and white checks.
revival of pretty style is clear muslin over
coors, primrose tints being popular The bodice
and underskirt is coored bastlste or SILK, ana
the muslin dress is worn over II with iace Fest
Handsomely dressed grey hair, with French
twist crown loops, and waves or Pompadour
ron needs only some she'll pins for ornament,
or low iewelled back comb for dress occasions.
High bonnets are worn. but they are not be-
coming to some faces and fashion dictates that
~ be in style one must be becomingly alfred so
that ladies are not obliged to wear high bonnets
Movenage scarfs of ecru or grey-blue etamine
printed with gilt heraldc figures are imported to
be used either as sashes or as shoulder scarfs.
passed plainly around the shoulders, and knot
ted or Tapped in front in fchu style
A new importation is white cambria and thick
lawn, yard wide, for morning dresses, with one
edge embroidered in colorS wide border or
daises. pink white and blue, with grass foliage
In white work. having a very French air.
Balmoral skirts of poppy red satteen are made
for use in the mountains and at the seaside A
single depassant, or foot pleating is their only
trimming. Black and red stripes. and white
with black stripes. are also seen in satteen skirts
The dress for dancing this season is cheap,
canvas grenadine with five pleated founces IN
abe front of the skirt, airy draped putiinGs at
the back, round draped apron, plain corsase
with full tulle kerchef softening its outlines,
and shoulder knots of white ribbon with short
ends.
Birds wings are much used on hats, and are
often striped or covered with gold Plain white
wings are arranged in erect effects in the folds
of white null which trim the black or white
rough ana ready straw hats, which are so
fashionably worn in midsummer with light
dresses.
The newest form of hat for children is the
mushroom which is made up III canvas OF the
mushroom tint, and has large flat crown, like
p mushroom. Colored Irvine cotton, or Bull
garlan crepe are also employed, with fulling of
lace around. Many of the hats have the fulling
of wide lace at the edge, which is allowed TO
dFoOp over the face.
Most convenient to slip on over corsage of
cotton goods are the Jerseys which are still
popular and come in every color and black.
Many are prettily ornamented with braiding or
beaded embroidery. or they are open in front
over a waistcoat differing from the Jersey in
color, and again they are made like the Norfolk
Jacket, with peat in the back and IN front
Basoues that are worn or soiled in the front
buttOuI fPeShpQpE haV-
ing narrow vest Of velvet, striped goods, or
or Of plain fabric, tucked horizontally, set in q
single piece down the front, and buttoned down
each of its sides. The material of the basque
can be cut down each side of the frayed 'front.'
and turned back to the form with interlning) a
place for the buttonhoes
The epaulette rufTles, heading the top of the
sleeve and sewed in with it. pretty with mar
row shoulders and childrens frocks. The
summer sleeve, laceS on the outer seam with
ribbon bows or silk cord over insertion is cool
and dressy. But the broad nursery collar of
wide lace embroidery drawn about the throat
is not generally becoming to young ladies over
six years of age, and little girls Of twenty-six
will bear this in mind.
Garden shawls of white embroidered muslin
and lace are worn with hats of muslin to cores
pond These shawls of sheer null doubled
and cut rounded in the middle, where they are
Just deep enough to reach from the neck to the
waist They are then sloped much narrower to
their pointed ends, and are two and a half yards
long when completed. A deep friil of oriental
lace edges them, and many have embroidery in
the back and near the ends
With the short basques worn it is diff
cult matter for those who have small hips to
keep the dress skirt from slipping too low down
and showing the belt and an ugly space between
the skirt and waist Toprevent this good plan
is to sew three fiat buttons the belt of the
skirt, and attach three loops to correspond on
the inside belt of the basque. The loops hang
just below the belt, and may be of narrow tape
or else small squares of the material of the lin
ing, with button-hole worked lenSthwise in the
middle Of each One is placed in the middle of
Che back, and the others are on the under arm
seams.
New York Mail aud Express: Crazy cloth is a
striking name for an innoc6ntlooking cotton
crepe. in cream and pale colors, winch hold the
place of cheese cloth and similar low cost goods
These deserve good reception. as all other ma
terials high cost or low which dispense with
hot laundry work. Welcome seersuckers grapes
and ruus which the wind blows smooth after
washing and welcome easy draperies depending
on tapes that may be let out and manged as
readily as much table linen. The crisp mus
sins and cambrics of too many women floating
idly and bssfully cool country piazzas carry
in their folds the breath hard drawn in hot city
lauudries of girls who toll between ironing table
and furnace midsummer moons, and somewhere
the white embrolderes show family the drops of
sweat fallen unaware from laboring brows 1t
is no hardship that people must work for bread
bnt they ought to be able to work comfortably
in conditions of health.