Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-13
THE SUMMER FASHIONS

WHITE AND BLACK DREssEs-rHE SKINNER
NovELTIEs-MouAIR cLorHs-rHE RAGLANs
ETC.
NULL SCARFS are new
WooLEN GAUzE in lace designs.
WATERED IRISH PoPLINs are out
FACE Wells for dressy street toilets
tCRU PoNGEE may be trimmed with brown
mOire silk.
WASH DRESSES will be trimmed with fancy
cotton braid.
OTTOMAN RIBBONS are largely used for trim
PARAsoLs match the costumes with which
they are worn.
PoNGEEs are embroidered with flowers in the
natural coiors.
WHITE CLOTH DRESSES are trimmed with
embroidery or braid.
BLACK SILK remains the most useful and
convenient of toilets.
CHENILLE NET Is USED for Overdresses II
u made in all colors.
LIGHT TAN-CoLoRKD giants de Suede are
worn with all dresses.
BLACK AND WHITE STRIPED SILK and satin
are very popular in Paris.
BLACK, GRAY AND SHADES OF BROWN are
the leading colors in hosiery
MORE RIBBONS are preferred to satin for
trimming changeable fabrics.
CLARET VELVET Is USED for collars, cuffs
and revers of gray wooden dresses.
SHIRT FRONTS ARE PLAIN, and are made OF
three and four thicknesses of linen.
DRAPERIES ARE LoNG AND FULL, and are
different on the sides OF the costume.
BLACK SHOES AND STOCKINGS are worn
with the white dress of the graduate.
BoNNErs SEEM TO HAVE REACHED their
greatest height-for this sc ason, at least.
JET AND OTHER BEAD EMBRofDERIES are
worn TO excess here and on the other side.
TAN-cOLoRED UNDREssED KID GLOVES are
worn by fashionable men well as women.
CHANGEABLE SILKS are as fashionable as
ever in Paris, but they are not worn here to any
extent.
LACE OR EMBROIDERY, or both, must adorn
every dressy toilet this summer, is the decree of
fashion.
STRIPES OF ALL KINDS are very popular, and
form part or the whole of many dressy street
and house frocks.
CHANTILLY LACE is decidedly the most fash
ionable of black laces just now, and is used for
mantillas, scarfs, fchus and tunics for wear
over silk dresses.
ALL TRANSPARENT FABRICS, silk, wool linen
and lawn are in high vogue, and many Of them
are made over colored Innings.
BLACK FRENCH CAMBRIC, warranted not to
rub off, makes most comfortable lining for
sem-transparent black dress.
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.
SMALL PEARL BUTTONS, the size and shape of
pea. with holes deeply sunk in them for sew
Ing on, are the highest fashion tor wash dresses
ALWAYS BUY A good quality of Bingham,
batiste or percale. Poor qualities will not en-:
dure the frequent contact with the laudress
hands.
DIVIDING THE HoNoRs with Spanish lace, we
ind the Marquise which is especially popular,
terms.
EVEN SILVER GRAY can be made loud and
striking by too free use of bright steel or silver
braid. tinsel, fringe, balls, embroidery, or
MoRNING DRESSES and elegant house toilets
are made dressy with profuse of ribbons in
bows, kots, cascades, panels, and floating loops
and ends.
EVENING GLOVES are made with the hand,
as far as the wrist, of kid while the long arm
consists OF silk net. embroidered with gold,
silver or silk.
BRoCADED MORE ANTIQUE is again fash
fonable fabric for elegant toilets. In white
these superb materials are much used for
bridal toilets.
MArINEEs ARE STILL TRIMMED down the
front with full jabot of lace, open over a bro
caded plastron, and are edged on either side
with full friliS of lace.
RED SILK CREPE Is a favorite material for
trimming dark blue alpaca, and is introduced
In tiers of fans placed overlapping each other
down the left side.
GILDED AND SILvERED WIRE FOUNDATIONS
are again used for tulle bonnets, and are first
covered with net the color of the tulle and on
this the tuile is arranged.
NANTES FOR WARM WEATHER have the
back and front of velvet and the sleeves of
beaded grenadine. They are trimmed with
lace frilis and jet ornaments.
THE HEIGHT AND TRIMMINGS of hats and
bonnetS are as exaggerated as ever, and yet
comparatively few OF these exaggerated shapes
are seen in the streets as yet
SASHES OF SURAH SILK, deeply hemmed on
the sides with invisible stitches, and fringed at
the ends, are considered more stylish than rib
bon Sashes of the same width.
TIE RECAMIER COIFFURE, lately introduced
In Paris, bids fair to supersede the high figure
on the top OF the head hair dressing and the
catogan look in the nape OF the neck.
SWISS GIRDLEs, pointed above and below the
waist, both in front and behind, are made en-
tirely of Jet beads, or of those in colors or in
white, illuminated beads being most effective.
kILDA HoNESPCNS are not dyed, but come in
light sand tone; specimen of this dainty
cloth is so beautifully made that 1t feels almost
like unsiiffened silk 1t is an imported fabric.
THE RAGLAN AND NEWMARKET are out in
their usual popular styles, single and double
breasted, and are shown in a variety of English
goods, corkscrew cloths, cheylOtS, striped and
plain.
THE ECRU EMBRoIDERIEs AND LACE that
trim dresses form the brim of bOnnets that
have plain gauze or tulle crowns, or else this is
reversed and the embroidery forms smooth
crown.
THE NEWEST CoLoRs are rubis cabochon
(carbuncle red, malachite "a shaded green like
the stone, violet Eveque, Louis green, Louis
gray. emerald, chocolate, loutre and violet de
Lorraine.
DRESSES made OF crepe de chine must be very
bouffante To look well. Buttons tor these dainty
dresses can be small crochet ones or plated
silk buttons. Many OF the dresses are laced in
the back.
SPRING AND SUMNER travelling dresses of
cheviot, serge, alpaca and tweed are tailor
finished and are trimmed with braid or stitch
ing: navy blue, dark gray and brown are the
the prevailing colors.
BLACK is always much worn in Paris in sum-
mer as well as winter. Black lace toilets are
extremely fashionable. The bodice and foun-
dAtion skirt are OF lace tuie. and all the trim.
innings formed of lace hounces.
THERE II A FASHION of wearing moonstones
for bridal jewels The moonstone is a lucky
stone. Fine moOnstones are somewhat rare and
expensive. Those of fine quality have "a lumin-
Gus beauty which is eXqusitely soft.
A CHARMING NEW THRoATLEr Is formed of
circular folds of the gold tissue called tricotine
covered with perpendicular sets of narrow
gled with "A beaded trellis work aud drops
The SKIRT destined to summer popularity is
destitute Of drapery or flounces, is gathered full
front, simply hemmed or has hem and three
two or several overlapping tucks or folds above
the HEM
BLACK JERSEYS, so called, Of sewing silk,