The Republican journal., 1885-06-25
Fashion Notes.
Red remains dominant color.

Red remains dominant color.
Watercress green is gaining favor.
Gentlemen wear very small scarf pins.
Young ladies wear jackets more than man.
ties
The present is happily called velvet season.
Coored handkerchiefs match collars and
cuffs.
Stripped, spotted and self-colored collars are
worn.
Mexican feather work is used on dinner
cards.
Round hats show lower crowns and smaller
brms.
English girls have taken kindly to Swiss
bodices.
Woolen bunting is cheap and popular this
season.
Pretty chocolate sets have teak wood handles.
Beads with satin finish look like strings of
pearls.
Tea gowns are, If possible, more elaborate
than ever.
Pink tinted granite paper is the novelty in
stationery.
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and ribbons.
Small bonnets will be the rule throughout
the summer.
Limousine mixed with plain stufs make
lovely toilets.
Canvas scarfs will be worn about the neck
for tennis use.
The most dressy parasols are gauze on mus
lin foundations.
Corsages of gold and silver tissue are worn
with tulle skirts.
Coaching parasols of ivory satin have gold
or brown borders.
Linen goods, batiste and percae have POM
padore designs.
Corded pique has again made its appearance
in the counters
Large poke bonnets will divide country hon
ors with shade hats.
Rhinestone. silver and tortoise shell pins are
worn in the back hair.
Bonnets, as rule, are very simply trimmed
with cluster of velvet loops.
Flowers in clusters are used on bonnets
sometimes in place of ribbon loops.
A bonnet with crown of poppy petals is
trimmed with poppes and grasses.
Silk handkerchief bonnets are again worn in
Paris; they are in the capote shape.
Velvet is greatly used for trimming all ma
tera>, even the washing fabrics.
White and cream sltins are embroidered in
Chinese silk, with shaded roses and birds
Tinsel will be very prominent in fans as we'll
as in any other department of dressy acces
SORES.
Lead beads. which are Of true lead color,
are mixed with jet and made up into frnges or
galloons.
favorite fringe is in the form of vandykes,
made of threaded head beads, with pyramid
shaped pieces of jet.
Bullet buttons, made of a composition to re-
semble onyx in all its colors, are used for cot
ton and stuff dresses.
Some of the new ta5iers for evening dresses
are made of network of pear shaped chenille
of uniform cooring and shape.
For millinery there is new gold gaoop
about one inch wide, with straw beading inter
mixed with silver tinsel loops.
A lovely applique for a ball dress is Mar
guerite. the leaves in pearls the bloom with
each petal formed of distinct pieces of velvet.
jet collars are worn either lust to encirce
the neck, or border heart shaped opening to
Il demi-toilette gown. They are kept out with
wire.
Some of the new fancy galloons are inter-
mixed with chenille of oriental coloring, hay
ing the designs interviewer with tinsel and
cord.
Gimps and galloons in jet and other beads
have the tasseS or drops falling from them,
not from the edge alone, but from the entire
surface.
In millinery, Il gold gauze or net is used
which is placed over velvet, and the meshes
are open that the pile of the velvet comes
through.
The very newest gaoons show Indian and
Persian designs in relief of velvet or frise
silk combined with an applied work or EN-
brodery.
Brown is very fashionable color, and some
of the best dresses in this color are trimmed
with bronze galloons and fringes; the latter are
tive inches wide.
Wells are secured by pins beneath the bonnet
before the latter is put on. They are no longer
knotted at the back, aud the hair is left per-
fectly exposed.
Brading is much in vogue, that, even for
midsummer, small wraps of army blue cloth
will be worn covered with brading in black
mohair braids.
Among light silky materials, the toile du
Louvre grows in favor; it is foulard of soft
hued bouquets over moss, cress, brown and
dull red grounds.
Trimmings of velvet, brocade and other
handsome materials are again carried down the
centre of the backs in elegant imported French
costumes.
Velvet leaves are raised and outlined in beads
for galloons to be used on dresses; brown
leaves in two shades are intermXed with blue
satin beads.
A bonnet of chanilly lace has IA square
crown, rather high brim and very narrow
sides. and is trimmed with tuft of graceful
mmosa blossoms and leaves.
For bodices. a beautiful material has been
brought out in woven beads, the foundation
either grenadine or finest silk the beads do
not drop when the stuff is cut.
| A lovely style of dress trimming has poppies,
green leaves, and blue corn flowers over and
on white crepe, each being put on separately
| the Whol" forming a delicate mass.
| Cream yak lace dresses are made of raw silk
| with loops of more and velvet ribbon; they
are very stylish and look cool and uncommon
| they are entirely of lace over silk.
| pointed capote of black straw has the
crown covered with black ace embroidered with
| gold. The brim has quilting of gold lace, and
bunch of small pink and white roses forms the
| trimming. 1t has no strings.
| An evening dress of pale blue satin has the
| skirt covered with perpendicular putfings of
| white silk muslin, and trimmed with wild roses
and marguerites. The bodice is of velvet bro
caded with wild roses and daisies in their natur-
| al tnlors.
Arrasene embroidery makes rich and styl-
| ish trimming for the pale-tinted cashmere loose
| robes The work is quickly done, and small
flowers of brilliant colors, mingled with mosses
| and fine green leaves, produce very beautiful
| effect upon pale cream or beige ground.
| Most of the new sunshades are Of very large
| size. Some are in pagOda shape, others flat
Some are unlined, with gilt ribs conspicuous
! others have coored Innings in monochrome OF
| spot silk. And again there are parasols with
several tiny tfounces put on inside, the outside
| unadorned.
| Nuns yelling dresses, with cascades of Egypt.
| Ian lace, set between the fan or box pleatings
| in the skirt, and forming the vest in the cors
| age, are being made for evening. Still more
| elaborate and costly dresses are made of white
china Grape, or suran, handsomely embroider
| ed.
| Black lace jackets arc revived, and are now
made of piece lace, cut with darts and side
| prettiest. of French thread net, has five deer
in accordion pleats. A palm leaf of jet |,
above each point.
There is disposition among Paris modistes