The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-23
FASHION NOTES.
The Trifling Things That Please ThS
Who Would be Well Dressed.

The Trif1ing Things That Please Those
Who Would be Well Dressed.
The jersey is worn only for demi-
toilet.
Canvas and lace-woven stuffs are all
the rage.
Tucked skirts are much worn here
and in Europe.
jersey webbing cloth is used for many
bathing suits.
Bathing suits grow more fanciful
from season to season.
Copper. steel and lead tinsel brafds
trim many seaside ramble suits.
The scarf of gold shot etamine is the
favorite seaside hat trimming.
The pretty Gretchen dress for little
girls is as popular this as last season.
There is a steady tendency TO return
to the style of dress of fifty years ago.
Tinsel cord is to take the place of
tinsel braid in dress and millinery next
fall
Fancy red bathing suits brought from
Paris are occasionally seen on our
beaches.
There is a tendency to retain the pouf
and looped skirt drapery by Paris dress
makers.
Short jackets. opening over full baby
waists, are worn at seaside and country
resorts.
Mitts are not worn with dressy cos
tunes this summer. They are rele
gated to the house and negligee toilet.
The Princess or Gabrielle form of
dress for little girls is mOribund. 1t
/ oap not c11ry-iua another. SaaSOn
Double folds of canvas etamine, in
stead of linen collars. are worn as neck
lingerie with travelling suits.
Fashions in dress are more various
and individualized in Washington than
in any fashionable city in the world.
Red and blue remain the favOrite
colors for combination in seaside wraps
and frocks for ordinary wear along the
| beach.
Color on the edge is considered the
proper and desirable thing in percale,
linen, or lace collars and cuffs, for tray
cling wear.
Some ladies prefer a red silk ban
danna kerchief, or one of plain Turkey
the head when bathing.
Sashes of MORE, surah, and all sorts
of soft. crapy silken and wooden stuffs
are in high favor, and are worn in al
most every style preferred.
Colored and white lawn collars,
pleated and soft Numbered, not stiff
with starch, are taking the place of
white linen bands for travelling and
morning wear.
Bathing caps and hats are in fanciful
shapes, and are variously of red and
white-striped wool, gossamer rubber
cloth, gray or black, and red or yellow
oiled silk and coarse straw.
The latest fancy in bead ornamental
ton is to put pendant strands of copper
or lead beads or porcelain limitations of
the same on red serge and red flannel
| Jackets for seaside wear.
Baby waists gathered on to yokes and
belts at the waist line, worn with full
gathered or pleated skirts, which may
be tucked and trimmed with embroid-
cry. but not founced, are the features
of little girls dresses.
American bathing suits are very plain
blouses with medium length skirts and
half-long trousers; dark blue and gray
are the preferred cOlOrS, with white or
red braid for trimming. Serge flannel
is the material.
The dress skirt. when not draped, is
now generally sewed on the bottom of
the bodice, whether it is round or
pointed, and pleated are less fashiona-
bic on the other side than those that
are shirred or gauges on to the waist.
UndresSed kid or Suede gloves in tan
shade remain the favorlte wear for
dresSy toilets, but fine silk gloves in tan
shades are also worn with such dresses,
while fine Isle thread gloves are con-
sidered the correct wear with wash
fabric frOcks, no matter how handsome
the make or material.
As rule, hats for the seaside are
fantastic and eccentric to the last de-
gree, but some are seen in simple round
shapes of white. soft japanese straw.
trimmed with only scarf and bow of
white or tinted null or lace and fast
ened with gilt pins.-N. Y. Sun.