The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-07-14
Fashion Facts.

formerly.
Etamine with wide meshes is combined
with wooden lace.
Beige and Corde de-la-raine are COM
bined for girls wear.
Cotton crepe cloth is almost as effec-
tive as the millinery crepe.
Transparent boanets, parasols and man
ties are the present falcy.
Natural flowers for millinery purposes
are much affected in Paris.
White and ecru cotton grenadines are
among the summer novelties.
Challi, etamine. foulard and India silk
are used for girls nice dresses.
Surah is employed for vests, plastrons
and panels on dresses of vigogne.
White dresses for home wear are In
general use by persons in mourning. !:
Camcl's hair cloth, in light colors, is
combined with bright-tinted surah. Z.
Dark blue is one of the most fashion
able colors this season. It is seen in all
shades.
Fine, thin twceds with tiny checks are
used as skirts, with drapery of plain
material.
| Tufts of colo-ed ribbon daintily put
together for the hair are to be seen on
every hand.
Coral, salmon, pink, heliotrope, dove
gray, violet and fawn color are the fash
ionable colors.
Three box-plaits in the front of skirts
are often seen. The present tendency Is
toward increacing fulness.
Ladies continue to wear little fancy
rings. set for the most part with very
small but very bright gems.
Long overdresses with scant drapery
are trimmed with large buttons or with
discs of passementerie braid.
Flannel and serge, in combinations Of
red and white and blue and white, are
favorites for seaside costumes.
Stripes are still in the ascendant and
are rlnged in all manner of styles
perpendicular, horizontal and oblique.
India muslin, with tiny blossom de.
signs. are made up over batiste founda-
tions corresponding to the ground tint.
Mortar-board and cooked hats are worn
abroad by young and pretty girls. The
styles are, to say the least, exceedingly
trying.
Paris modistes are trimming foulard
dresses with pinked founces of poult-
de-so:e in the several tints of the figured
fonlard.
Boots and shoes are now expensive ar
ticles, owing to the rich embroidery
in beads and silk with which they are
adorned. y.s>
In many cases the crowns of bonnets
are encircled by wr' aths of small flowers
with bows and ends OF ribbon or lace
falling across the centre.
There is ten !ency to- cluster rings
again, favorite being large colored
stone in the centre with small diamonds
set around it, or vice versa.
Paste pins and ha r ornaments are pro-
vided in many new designs, while
gemmed fre-fies and brilliant dragon
flies are placed prominently in several of
the bows and aigrettes.
Some loose wa:stcoats are made OF
folded crepe lisse to simulate the front
of gentleman's shirt, and are closed at
the side of the neck with a cluster of
picot-edged gauze ribbon.
Net flouncing is being made in all col
ors, and handsome designs arc wrought
out upon them. For instance, brown
ground will be powdered with cream
flowers, white with brown foliage and
flowers. ..... 20
Ornamental ha;rpins are now worn not
only to dress the hair at home, but on the
street to keep the bonnet in place.
When employed for this latter purpose
these pins are usually of gold or silver,
with tops plain sometim:s, but ostener
carved or decorated by knot or ball.
The pins are s:u k vertically into tho
hair at the back, and not through the
bonnet as an ordinary bonnet pin
would be.