The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-05-05
SPRING FASHIONS.
Interesting Information Regarding Te1e'


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Interesting Information Regarding Ts1esa
and Garnitures.
} Chenille-dotted etamine cloth-an
airy summer textile-win be a favorits
evening dress fabric the coming season.
Braid is worn on costumes. hats.
bonnets, wraps and jackets.
The short dolmans and visites made
of velvet, brooade, Ottoman and
Droche fabrics are again in fashionable
favor, both here and abroad.
Braided and plated hair is moro
fashionable than the former way of ar
ranging it in cells, and the rule holds
good when the couture is arranged
Iowa La Grecque-or high-a La jose
phine.
A very pretty and exceedingly ine1-
pensive bridal toilet recently worn con-
sisted of skirt of thin white foundation
satin, covered with deep founce of
Oriental lace, which was laid in very
wide kits from the pointed bodice to
che satin pleating around the bottom
of the skirt. The bodice and demi-
train were made of plain white gros-
grain silk. The elbow sleeves and
square opening of the corsage were
trimmed with pleating of tulle and
turn-back frill of lace as a heading.
The veil was of wide-hemmed tulle,
held by chaplet of white ilacs and
orange blossoms intermingled. Thirty
five dollars covered the entire cost of
the toilet, including the veil and
gloves, but not including the flowers
tor the hair, corsage and bouquet.
The full, fingered. tucked skirt. with
round waist, enhanced by pretty belt
trimmings of ribbons, Swiss bodices,
or girdleS fastened with handsome
buckles, will be favorite style for aft
ernoon dresses of muslin, foulard, sum-
mer silk and all white materials for
summer wear.
Scarcely any costume is deemed COM
plete in these DAYS without the addi-
ton to the bodice of a vest or Moliere
plastron. This is fashion to be rec
commended, as it is one that is univers-
ally becoming. The plastron is usually
of a contrasting material, and adds
greatly to the dressy effect of a cos
tune.
Braids of every description, basket,
Titan. Soutache, Hercules and diago.
nal. in wool, silk and mohair, will be
in great use as a garniture for spring
walking costumes. Diagonal tinsel
braid comes in black and various cloth
shades. and has woven through it
threads of gold or silver, which are
warranted not to tarnish, even under
the influence of salt sea air.
1 Tulips are much used for table decor
aeon just now. The colors are not
mixed; either one special tint is chosen
and pale cream yellow, but these are
kept distinct from each other when
placed in their several receptacles.
Nothing looks better for table decora-
ton than low, fiat dishes, covered with
dark green moss, with snowdrops, vio-
lets and crocuses embedded therein.
Flat effects are particularly sought after
Just now in the use of flowers and
foliage for the table.
Ribbon garnitures will be worn in the
greatest profusion upon spring and
summer toilets, especially the latter,
but an immense quantity is even now
being used by leading dressmakers on
costumes both for day and evening
wear. They are employed as stripes,
placed horizontally or vertically on the
skirt, as q finish to wide or narrow
fiounces, as bows and ends supporting
drapery, borderings to panels and
tabliers, with butterfly bows down the
center of either of these, as loop
edgings to basques, tunics and square,
cut corsages lin every way, in short,
that fancy dictates. Lace will be
equally used, from leagues of the
fancy" qualities put on with prodi-
gal hand from throat to skirt hem, to
Ia few yards of the costly, real patterns
used only upon the corsage and sleeves
of rich and expensive silk or satin toi-
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