The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-13
LATE FASHIONS.
What the Ladies of the Metropolis Assume
to he the Mode.


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 large old-fashioncd 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 etamine
suits for seaside and mountain wear.
More and more marked grow the
differences between street and indoor
frocks, morning, afternoon and evening
toilets.
English mohair fabrics, plain and
broche, are found in all the large retail
dry goods houses in 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 can 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 of hats
and bonnets are as exaggerated as ever,
and yet comparatively few of these ex.
aggerated shapes are seen in the streets
as yet.
The French productions of silk hand
kerchiefs in Oriental colors and designs,
shot with gold, are utilized to an enor-
nous extent for trimming fine hats and
bonnets.
More and more golden grow bonnets,
hats, scarfs, accessories of the toilet.
dress trimmings, and broche stuffs OF
all kinds either for dresses or uphols-
terry and house decorative effects.
Ribbons were never more in demand
for decorative dress and furnishing than
this spring.
The Recamier couture, lately intro
duced in Paris, bids fair to supercede
the high figure on the top OF the head
hair dressing and the catogan look il
the nape of the neck.
The newest silk hosiery consists of
lace-woven stockings, the foot and an
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 drapery or flounces,
is gathered full in the back, pleated a,
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 sixteen yards of silk are sui.
fcient for a dress this season instead OF
the twenty necessary last season, as
there is so much less drapery, less loop
ing and less flouncing and pleating than
| formerly.
Very rich summer black dresses are
made of China Grape, embroidered for
| the skirt, and OverdresSes of black lace,
but the richer combination is made of
satin rhadames for the skirt and under
| dress, while the oyerdress is of black
llama or Chantilly lace, in the old pat
terms and designs.
Short yiCi+a ,opt1oC tlo I'll
entirely of jet embroidery or Jet net and
the body of plain velvet, satin or grena-
dine broche, are trimmed with Jet
fringes, jet macaroons and motifs.
Sometimes the sleeves are of plain stuff,
while the body is covered with jet bead
embroidery or net.
The printed Khyber cloths sold at
| eighteen cents the yard are Just the
thing to combine with self-colored veil
ings at fifteen cents the yard, for lawn
and garden party dresses. The beige,
twine-colored, and tan wooden laces
are the correct 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 scarf. with gold lines
between those of color, trim many
| pretty bonnets, and are also used for
| neckwear and various toilet and decora-
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 a 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
| catkins.
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