The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-16
SUMNER STILES.

SUMNER STYLES.
Cotton crepe is worn over velvet or velveteen
skirts.
Moscow lace is the new name for old fashioned
tattlng.
Wash dresses will be trimmed with fancy cot
ton braid.
Ecru pongee may be trimmed with brown
MORE silk
White cloth dresses are trimmed with EN-
broidery or braid.
Black toilets of every description are to be in
great vogue this summer.
Black shoes and stockings are worn with the
white dress of the graduate
Cotton dresses are made in the styles of the
light WOODEN walking costumes.
Bright striped gauze ribbons in all the colors
OF the rainbow are seen for hat trimmings.
Fancy canvas scarfs are also very popular.
Rough straw sailor hats, with large, many
Topped bow of velvet ribbon in front, are fur,
nished by English tailors to wear with summer
WOODEN dresses.
The latest foreign fashion plates resemble car
features with their wing-like draperies. huge
bustles, and sharply pointed corsages and very
short, round basQues.
Sailor blouses will be made of wash fabrics for
children, the skirts very short and either gath
cred In or laid in side pleats and finished with a
hem and three rows of braid
The Recamer couture, lately introduced in
Paris bids fair to supersede the high figure eight
on the top of the head hair dressing and the cat
ogan look In the nape of the neck
More and more golden grow bonnets, hats
scarfs, accessories of the toilet dress trimmings
and broche stuffs of all kinds, either for dresses
or upholstery and house decorative effects.
Sterling silver monogram buckles are very
fashionable and can be worn with variety of
dresses. AT a recent wedding these were chosen
as gifts to the bridesmaids from the groom
There is decided revival of piques. The high
novelty in white suits is the tailor-ma pique,
trimmed with tucks and bound with braid,
after the manner of the tailor-made cloth suits.
Sateens with tiny flowers will be used for chill
dren's dresses. These little gowns should be in
Greenaway style, with a skirt gathered upon
yoke and finished with three narrow tucks and
hem.
Pompadour sateens and foulard cambrics worn
as French polonaises or corSages and tunics
over skirts of plain foulard surah trimmed
with pleatings of the same, will be one of the
favored toilets for afternoon wear all summer
Wash dresses for young girls have yoke
bodice belted and the skirt is plain and round
with tucks above the hem. The sash bow worn
at the back is made of the dress material, and is
tucked across the ends, which are edged with
embroidery.
With all the abundance of new colorings
white and black remain the standard choice for
general wear. Black silk is still the dress of all
others for general utility, while white suits, in
all their myriad forms, are again to predominant
on hotel piazZas and in bathrooms at all the
Waterlng places next summer.
An evening or dinner dress has underskirt of
cheap 97-cent black silk covered with net and
Oriental lace founces over this are deep van
dykes of velvet at sides and in front, with lap
over bands joining them together-short fold
drapery in front and deep frill puff in back; fit
ted corsage of black velvet, with front and sleeve
finish of the Oriental lace
A vagary of fashon-a revival-is to Irvine an
immensely long scarf of tulle or silk null high
up around the throat, fastening it there with q
large antique brooch. or long, slender lace pin.
This is then brought down to the belt, the ends
caught up gracefully and held under clasp or
buckle the billowy folds of the scarf being first
caught here and there, on their way down, with
tiny pins set with sparkling stones.
The Gladstone jacket is a stylish double
breasted garment made with two rows of buttons
in front running down in V shape from the
shoulders to the waist line, then widening again
1t is made of striped and checked cloths and
also of the tufted bourette cloth. 1t is usually
without trimming, but it may have border
passing around the hips, made of loops of half
inch braid placed tapping and lengthwise sep
arated by two straight rows of the braid.
For less dressy costumes the checked and
striped zephyrs, ginghams, chamberys and many
other varieties of washing materials such as
Oriental-pattern cambrics, lowered lawns, lin
ems, and cretonnes, will be very popular. These
are made up in the simplest manner, all lace
trimmings being excluded Ribbon garnitures
in the shape of belts with very long ends to tie
at one side and bows of the same to fasten the
drapings are used for the reason that they give a
CHEEKY finish and can easily be removed when
the dress is Numbered.
recent French fancy is the Chatelaine dress
which has plain round skirt, with no trimming
beyond broad band OF velvet put on plain
above narrow pleating at the foot. The over
dress is nearly or quite as long as the skirt. and
IS looped on one side nearly to the hip 1t NAV
be plain or it may be left open. and one of the
corners faced with velvet and turned in reyers
The bodice is a full round waist with Swiss pirdle
of velvet, and knot of velvet ribbon is set
where the skirt is looped. Soft wool is the an.
propriate material for this costume, or it NAV be
made In Surah or satin marvilleuse The ma
terial must be soft enough to drape easily and
gracefully
New York Post: Simple. chic and inexpensive
little French cap and gypsy bonnets are shown
which real ''oves" for those who are forth
nately fair enough to wear them. They are made
of white straw, and simply bound on the brims
and trimmed with white silk or satin ribbons
tiny strings fastening them under the chin at
the left side. A life like cluster of cherry or
peach blossoms spray of pale blue forget.me-
nots, bunch of delicately yellow daffodils min
ged with tender green maiden hair fern, or any
other single cluster of flowers of shade most
becoming TO the complexion, graces the right
side of the bonnet crown On the left pretty
arrangement of loops of white ribbon is made
the sole trimming.
White Dresses for Summer.