The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-07-01
FASHION AS 1T FLIES.
Some Of the Latest Novelties for tina Feminine
TaSts.
Midsummer Toilets Where the 'Mother
Hubbard is Appropriate-Fancies.

ployed Printed muslins. long discarded,
are coming into fashion again. The designs
are extremely beautiful, and the texture soft
like null. The patterns are mostly sprays of
flowers most exquisitely copied from nature
the wild hedge-rose, delicately tinted; the
blue corn-fower mixed with ripe wheat ears.
the Haunting scarlet poppy; the dainty hell
trope; the golden-hearted daisy. and the
sweet forget-me-not among the favorte
blossoms-pictured in all their natur al tnts
on grounds of ereamy-white, pearl-gray
pale-buff, or the fainteSt shade of
primrose. These muslins are made
quite simply. many without any overdress;
the skirt put on in plaits, very full al the
back, much smaller at the sides and almost
plain in front; the skirt can be trimmed with
several narrow rufiieS edged with lace, or
tucks are pretty; the bodice with the back
plain and the front full. Sometimes this
front part forms a gathered plOstron; some
times the fronts arr plated and crossed one
over the other at the waist under a round
belt. Wide SaShes, tied baby-fashion at the
back, have come into favor again, and are
worn over wash dresses. For the daytime
the bodice with croSs-plaited piece has a piece
let in between. 50 as to be completely high,
and finished with small, turned-up collar
in front. Full sleeves are worn upon some
of the thin summer dresses.
"A very pretty costume is made of pearl
gray yelling, brocaded with pattern of pur-
pie violets, made with full blouse bodice.
gathered round the waist with a wide sash of
purple gros-grain ribbon loosely tied in long
loops and ends at the side; the skirt is loosely
draped into puff at the back, and into
deep STANDPOINT in front. over an underskirt
of purple surah. trimmed round the edge
with three very finely plated ruffies; the
bodice quite high, and finished with
small turned-up collar of purple silk; the
sleeves are gathered rather full on the shout
der, arr finished below the elbow with turned
up rey1rs of the same.
Jennie June thus defines the fitness of
THE MOTHER HUBBARD GOWN.
Several correspondents have written asking
an opinion on the Mother Hubbard gown,
an d the reason for the disfayor with which it
hao been treated. The general sentiment on
the part of these ladies is in its favor, and one
remarks that it is modest convenient and
sanitary and she ''hopes never Ia he with
out one or more for indoor wear" This SEN
timent j. cordially Endorsed. The objection
made to the Mother Hubbard, and the storm
OF criticism it has excited in some places, and
oil the part of some persons who know moth
ing and care less about dress. has been caused
by the ignorance and folly of some young
women who take a simple. loose gown. only
suitable for the house, make it up in thin.
perhaps transparent material, and parade il
on the street. This was done last summer
in town and city streets, and one could but
respect the feeling that prompted indignant
parties to make public protest against it,
The dress demanded for the streets nova
days is close. dark, unobtrusive. Even i'm
warm weather a soft color a shade of color
is chosen-nothing striking, or can be blown
about by the wind Belted in and made of
clio nj No arH
not he Objectionable tor the street on the
score OF indelicacy, but the general sense re-
quires Il neat-fitted garment which has not
80 much the appearance of deShabile and in
formality. and there is no reason why the
general sense of fitness and decorum should
be outraged in this way more than in other
things There is nothing absolutely wrong
in carrying an apple and munching il on the
street, but no lady would think of doing it,
1t ought to be understood that because a
design obtains certain vogue, ii is not evil
dence that il Is adapted to all purposes and
all occasions, or that the one new dress of the
season must be made up by it, Women of
taste strictly adapt the style of their dresses
to its purpose and mark the difference "a dis
tinctiy as possible The house dress. the
walking dress. the full evening dress. the din
ner dress the theater dress each one possess
e. a character of it, own and Is instantly
recognized 10y the initiated as if it were la
beled
new element has entered recently into
the dress of our large cities which must be
taken into account. \ new class of structures
lave sprung up, ot enormous size and
height which contain hundreds of apart
mentS" each one AZ roomy a. small house
and many of them lifted above the noise and
tumult of city streets into the upper air over
the heads and over the roofs of ordinary NOR
tails. Here thousands dwell who formerly
lived in close rooms or hiyed in boarding
houses. Not poor people by any means.
but artists cashiers. professional men and
women, and those who earn living ny the
new decorative arts. This mode of living re-
duceS the number of women who used To
have To walk in the streets for their breath of
fresh air for the little change in the monotony
of their daily lives: and being all the time
i'm sight. i'm the street or at the boarding
house table, their dingy suit of WOODEN or
wel-wom silk became a. familiar rs car
tracks.
But now. a before remarked. many of
these women have been taken out of this
dead level. are inhabitants of an altogethf-
new world and no longer need the excite
ment of the streets and sidewalks, have vi
fact. an absolute distaste for them. Air tlEy
get of the purest: views OF the most pictlff-
esquc Not being obliged or wishing TO
leave their own immediate surroundings, &h
has naturally suggested itself to make their
dress harmonize with their freshness and
beauty. W nat l. called the nOu>elndlu :
dress takes on a new attraction when the
| tucked skirt and bclted waist * made in soft
| smOke-gray or blue-gray wool, and enriched
| with little hand embroidery executed by
| the clever fingers of the wearcr. Even the
Mother Hubbard dress i not out of place in
| these eyrieS and it is quite in order for a
| specially pretty and sanitary dress To he in
| vented for the lady residents of these modern
dwellings in the air.
FANCIE>.
Bullet buttons, made OF a composition TO
resemble onyx i'm all its colors, are used for
cotton and stuff dresses.
There are ladies. and fashionable woman,
too. who utterly refuse to tinsel, high
hats or bonnets, bustles or high coiti'ures, bnt
they are the exception, not the rule.
The June flower wedding is the fancy of the
passing moment. One flower only is arranged
| in masses of decorative effects. other flowers
forming dashes of another color at remote dis
tances and long intervals.
A dress of fawn-col0red nuns yelling has
kit-plaited skirt. two short scarfs crossed
forming the front drapcry, that of the back
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