The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-13
A FEW FASHIONS.

Draped polonaises ant ocerdresses, with basque
bodices. are in equal favor.
Egyptian and Oriental lace are used for hounces
over colored and white dresses.
Tussore, pongee, and alpaca dust cloaks are
frightened by hoods lined with Persian striped
surah.
new color is called blackberry" 1t is of
theprecise tint of the newly-ctushed berry and
will be beyond the recognition of most persons
as anything but purple.
Collars are SO high in linen says the Boston
Courier, that they are appropriately called "cut-
throats, and the young women who wear them
look as if they had chronic stiff neck.
Serges for children are made with blouse
bodices and box plated skirts These frocks are
useful for seaside wear and are made with
square collar and cuffs of striped flannel.
There is literally no end to the tints and tones
that each color is made to express in the new
ribbons of satin, eros grain satin striped with
velvet, which the kinds most used in dress
garnitue. although MORE ribbons in plain colors
are in steady demand.
Some of the new wooden lacss are of very fine
quality and are quite glossy Lace for millinery
purposes is often edged with wire so fine that it
cannot be detected. This wire prevents lace
from becoming limp and clinging, and enables
lace bonnets to preserve their pristine freshness.
In place Of running steels in dress skirts of
thin material. they are now put in the castings
of petticoats, which can be under the
white skirt beneath such dresses as are too
transparent to allow the use of steels, and this
tournure petticoat Is put on over the hustle OF
braided wire.
New York. adopting what she thinks are En-
glish fashions rules that no ornament shall be
worn when one is in the saddle; but in London
color is allowable in breast-knot and handker-
chief, and women permit themselves to wear
both white and scarlet jackets and many sorts of
pretty chemsettes
But few of the really fashionable American
ladies wear the silken undergarments such as
chemise and drawers. However. one house in
New York is constantly filling orders for such
Injuries or folles. which are in soft wash silk,
such China. pongee. foulard and American
wash silk manufactured specially for such pur-
poses.
The coolest and most appropriate hand-cover-
ing to wear en- suite with elegant black lace
dresses are long black lace mirts, which reach
considerably above the elbow. The palms and a
portion of the backs are in Melted silk on some
OF these mitts; the remainder Is of lace. On
others the entire mitt is of lace in thread, imi-
tation thread. Chantiily, Spanish, and other pat
terms.
White and cream colored India musins, semi
diaphanous in quality. will be much worn by
ladies, married or single Many of them are
delicatey en- brOidered, others trimmed with q
profuson of lace. An exquisite tint may be
given to such toilets by undertakes of colored
muslin. sateen, or fine batiste The effect is
much higher aud more airy than when the under
dress is Of silk or satin.
For young girls there seems to be a growing
Partially for yoke bedces. and original effects
are produced by velvet runners through bands
of open mesh insertion, embroidered stripes
alternating with those bordered with briar
stitching. and also yokes of surah in pale cream
color, dotted with colored silk figures 10 hand
embroidery. Upon Jokes of pink organdie, eoru
chambray. pale blue sateen, and the like, is
wrought dainty needlework that initiates the
multi-colored Russian embroidery popular for
cushions, etc., the only exception being that the
work is executed with fast-dye cottons, and not
with silk floss
| The most sensible style Of dress is perhaps
that adopted by the lady inclined to embonpoint.
| who discards any and everything that will in
crease the appearance of size from under her
| corsage which fits if her form had been mold
| ed therein. She generally wears all through the
| summer gauze or gossamer vest. either low OF
| high in the neck, with short or halfong sleeves
| under her corset protecting the latter with a
| corset cover, which may be as plain or elaborate
| as the wearer desires and can be en- suite with
| drawers and shirt under petticoat il the light
| weight flannel is not worn beneath the tournure
and then the outer or top underskirt may be u
| the same materials as the corset-coyer and the
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