The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-20
FASHION NOTES.
The Peculiar Feminine Vanities In Vogue
in the Metropolis.


in the Metropolis.
All shades of green are in favor.
Skirts are no longer made narrow at
the top.
Fancy mock jewels are more worn
than ever.
Waistcoats, real or simulated, are
very narrow,
1t is fashionable nowadays to be I'M
fashionable.
Byzantine models are sought for in
fancy jewelry.
Mantelets and short visites are equal
ly fashionable at the moment.
Brocaded stuffs grow more and more
in vogue as the season advances.
Braids, galloons and strings of big
beads are the favorite dress trimmings,
Skirts, tunics and polonaises are all
made with pleats or gathers at the waist
line.
Two fabrics are generally used in the
small mantelets and visites now so
much worn.
Fan-formed bows of etamine canvas
or scarfs of gold-shot stuffs trim most
hats and bonnets.
Peasant waists, with lacings in front
over full white muslin waistcoats, are
worn by little girls under seven.
Long travelling dust cloaks of mohair
and pongee will be the favorite overalls
of lady tourists this summer.
Polonaises remain in vogue in spite OF
all the efforts to introduce more fanci-
full novelties in the form of basuues and
tuncs
Wooden, glass. porcelain and lead,
or imitation lead, beads of large size
are the latest novelties in dress trim
mings sent out from Paris.
Simple muslin dresses have a v.
tucked piece back and front on the full
waists and full gathered skirts, falling
below the belt at the waist line.
Corsets and petticoats, at the present,
combine to set off the slenderness of the
waist to the greatest advantage by ex-
aggorating the size of the hip.
Mantelets are smaller than ever, and
have very high shoulders and such
ShortnesS of sleeves that they are little
more than shoulder capeS with long
tabs in front.
ChantillY, the most beautiful of all
| black laces, is fashionable for scarfs,
mantelets, tichus. and tunics or polo.
naises to be worn over silk dresses,
black or colored.
European and American manufactur.
ers of dress fabrics are learning the
value of gold introduced in small Guan.
titles in broche and all fancy stuffs,
whether of silk, wool, linen, cosmos. or
cotton.
Among new fancy materials are
found bengalines, glace mohairs, Grape
yeilingsr brocaded and grain de poudre
Examines, and silks embroidered in
broderie de Persane, in which small
quantity of gold is introduced.
The use of jute Cosmos in textiles
intended for upholstery and house
draperY is creating a revolution in this
class of manufactured good. Thus iute
veIours fabrics are more attractive than
silk or wool, as durable or more so, and
far less costly.
Long country walks, garden and
lawn parties, and seaside rambles will
soon be the order of the day. and for
these pretty and suitable suits and
toilets are in course of preparation in
all the large and small dress and millin-
cry stores all over the city.
The height to which hats and bonnets
have attained is astounding. Every
week new shapes are brought out, and
Excelsior seems to be the motto of the
manufacturers and milliners; for, no
matter how high the crowns, the trim
mings tower still higher
The pouf at the back of the skirt is
going out of fashion, but slowly. 1t is
retained on dressy silk and etamine
costumes, but for light. and especially
wash fabrics, it is discarded entirely,
the skirts of such frocks being simply
gathered or pleated round the waist and
falling loose over the steel wired tour
nure.
An exquisite toilet for visit of cere-
mony is made by combining pearl gray
faille with printed chally, the ground
color of which must be of the shade of
the silk and the figures in Oriental
cclors and designs, the trimmings gray
lace and gray silk fringes, and loops Of
pearl gray and nasturtium red ribbon,
the combined colors of the printed
chally producing the ruddy effect of the
nasturtium shades.-N. Y. iSu1