The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-06-13
LATE FASHIONS.



to be the Mode.
Eton, Spanish and zouave jackets are
worn by young girls in their teens.
Golden oats and wheat are sold by
the head for bonnet and hat trimmings.
Red and yellow, golden brown and
tan are immensely popular spring
colors.
The Jersey is the best bodice for lawn
tennis, for it is game that is rough on
sleeves.
The Recamier couture requires the
use of a large old-fashioned comb of
tortoise shell Or jewelled metal.
China Grape and sailcloth canvas is
An admired frequent combination in the
trimming of French hats.
Red wooden lace trims admirably
dark blue cloth and blue wool etsmine
suits for seaside and mountain Wear
More and more marked grow the
differences between street and indoor
sfooks, morning, afternoon and evening
toilets.
English mohair fabrics, plain and
broche, are found in all the large retail
dry goods houses Id both single and
double Widths
Wells of tulle and crepe lisse in every
imaginable shade of color and black
are finely dotted with gold, silver. steel.
bronze or jet.
Even silver gray IAN be made loud
and striking by too free use Of bright
steel or silver braid, tinsel, fringe, balls,
embroidery, or motifs.
Morning dresses and elegant house
toilets are made dressy with profuse
use OF ribbons in bows, flots. cascades.
panels, and floating loops and ends
The height and trimmings N hats
and bonnets are as exaggerated as ever.
and yet comparatively few of these ex-
aggerated shapes are seen in the streets
as yet.
Inc french productions of silk hand
kerchiefs in Oriental eelofs and designs.
shot with gold Are utilized to an enor-
nous extent for trimming fine hats and
bonnets
More and more seljea Grow bonnets.
aats, sears, accessories of the toilet.
cfess trimmings, and broche stuffs of
all kinds either for dresses or uphols-
terry and house decorative effects.
Ribbons We're never more in demand
for decorative dress and futn,shing than
this spring
The kecamier couture, lately intro
duced in Paris, bids fair to supercede
the high figure on the top OF the head
hair dressing and the eatogan look in
the nape of the mech,
The newest silk hosiery consists of
lace-woven stockings, the foot and ar
kle having lengthwise clocks and en-
broidery up the sides in inch-wide
bands, leaving plain strip down the
instep, while the calf of the leg is en-
tirely lace Woven.
The skirt destined to summer popu-
larity is destitute Of drapefy or fiounces,
is gathered full in the back, pleated at
the sides, and plain in front, simply
hemmed or has hem and three two,
or several overlapping tucks or folds
above the hem.
Statesmen in the best houses now tell
ladies that sieteen, yards Of silk are suf-
hhisnt for dress this season instead of
the twenty, necessary last season, as
there il 50 Ihpca less drapery, less LOOP
Ing ana less flouncing and pleating than
formerly.
Very rich summer black dresses are
made of China Grape, embroidered for
the skirt, and oyerdresses Of black lace,
but the richer combination Is made of
Satin rhadames for the skirt and Under
dress, while the dver;iress is of black
llama or Chantilly lace. in the old pat
tt1ns and designs.
Short visite mantles with the sleeves
entirely of jet embroidery or jet net, and
the body of plain velvet, satin or glona-
dine hroche, are trimmed With let
frinses, Jet macaroons and motifs.
Sometimes the sleeves are of plain stuff.
while the body is covered With let bead
embroidery or net,
The printed Khyber cloths sold at
eighteen cents the yard are lust the
thing to combine with self-eolored veil
ings at fifteen cents the yard, for lawn
and garden party dresses. The beige,
twine-colored, and tan wooden laces
are the ctrrect trimmings for these
dresses, and cheap ribbons make them
dressy and chic
Bonnet scarfs of black, blue, green,
gray, beige, white, tan, and brown
barege, striped or barred across at
each end with various colors, in the
style of a Roman start, With gold lines
between those of color, trim many
pretty bonnets, and are also used for
neckwear and various toilet and doors
tive purposes.
The proper way to use golden grain,
oats and Wheat, in hat and bonnet
trimming is to put from three to six
heads of the grain in panache OF
ostrich feathers and bunch of gold
catkins, or gold or silk pompon, or, in
place of the feathers, close but tall
bouquet of flowers, mingled with golden
eatkins.
The newest silk undervests for ladies
have no cores set in for the bosom full
ness, but this is provided for in the
weaving, which shapes the garment
with a soft woven seam in such a man
ner as to define the exact shape.
Fastidious women edge the low necks
and short sleeves of these vests with lace.
Flower weddings are all the rage in
London. At these the bride and her
bridesmaids wear dresses representing
spring flowers, lilies, white roses. orange
blossoms or other white flowers being
the representative blossoms of the bride,
while her maids wear daffodil, butter
cup, jonquil, hyacinth, red or pale rose
or violet-colored frocks trimmed with
the flower to be personated. ~ Y
Sun.