Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-04-27
miscellaneous.
Fashion Notes.

Fashion Notes.
Coat sleeves take precedence OF all
others.
There is a return of favor to glace kid
gloves.
The skirts of street dresses are worn
shorter.
Simplicity is the rule in all spring dress
es for street wear.
Red, in subdued tones, is to be the fash.
ionable color in millinery.
White poplins are to be popular among
young women for evening gowns.
Bodices, pointed back and front and
unite long in the waist, are features in
spring costumes.
/ Straw hats heavily trimmed with cloth
pinked out on the edges are among mil
| linery novelties.
| Gloves are comparatively short for every
dav wear. Tan, with stitched backs, are
most worn.
Changeable Surahs are combined with
velvet broche Surahs in dressy toilets for
spring and summer.
New coaching parasols have gilded
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the shape of japanese umbrellas.
Children's dresses. for both house and
street wear. are in gayer colors than they
have been in two years.
Waists grow longer. basques shorter,
collars higher, skirts fuller, hats and colt
lures higher, dress less artistic.
Scarcely any costume is deemed COM
pete in these days without the addition to
the bodice of vest or Moliere plastron.
CoIored collars and cuffs are coming in
again for morning wear. They are to be
principally worn with flannel gowns.
The spring cuffs are exceedingly simple.
and nothing detracts more from style than
bunchy trimming about the wrists.
The parasol of high ceremony is of
transparent grenadine gauze, broche with
velvet, and trimmed with lace and jet
fringes.
Cresson green and pale rose and prim-
rose and pheasant blue or golden brown
are favorite color combinations in CO.'S
tunes.
Tailor made dresses are now in almost
endless variety, and are very different
things from those simple ones first made.
Bodices of ball dresses are sometimes
so low as to seemingly consist merely of a
wide waist belt and two slender shoulder
straps.
The high coiffures adopted for evening
toilets are dressed with feathers, jeweled
combs, diamond-headed pins, and strings
of pearls.
New lace pins are made of Etruscan
god in the form of circle, and have the
monogram of the owner in diamonds and
sapphres in the contre,
The old-fashioned knitted purse of our
grandmother's time is revived. Some of
the newly introduced kinds are exceed
ingly novel in shape.
There is at present a rage for the Eton,
Zouave and Greek jackets for house and
evening wear. The Greek jacket is espec-
tally picturesque.
1t is said that for summer wear light
fabrics will be made, with corsages pleat-
ed on the shoulders, crossed in front and
belted at the waist, the sash or belt having
long ends.
When lace frills are not used, folds of
silk muslin, three folds, or of canvas in
one or two layers, quite plain, or wrought
with gilt. are put in the sleeves and col
lars of dresses.
Some of the prettiest cuffs are made by
cutting the sleeves an inch and halt too
| long, then ripping the inside seam, turn
ing the extra length backward, and facing
1t with velvet.
The canvass stuffs are the novelties of
the season. but it is not probable that they
will take the place of the smoother WOOL
ems known as the meusseline delaine,
nuns yelling, albatross, etc.
We have reached the golden age in
millinery this spring. Nearly all the hats
and bonnets are trimmed with gold lace
or gauze, or have the precious metal in
terwoven into their corners and brms.
The folded surplice waists are seen on
lace, surah and wool dresses alike. Those
usually have three or four pleats in the
shoulder seams, and cross in various ways
in front, sometimes extending to a point
at the waist.
Ribbon garnitures will be worn in the
greatest protusion upon spring and sum-
mer toilets, especially the latter. They
are employed as stripes, placed horizon
tally or vertically on the skirt, as finish
to wide or narrow flounces, as bows and
ends supporting drapery. borderings to
tabliers, with butterfly bows down the
centre of either of these. as loop edgings
for basques. TUNES. and square-cut cor
sages-in every way. in short, that fancy
dictates. Lace will be equally used, from
leagues of the fancy" qualities put on
with prodigal hand from throat to skirt
hem, to few yards of the costly, real
patterns used only upon the corsage aad
sleeves Of rich and expensive silk or satin
toilets.