The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-25
A FEW FASHION NOTES.

Velvet jackets. sleeveless, of course, are worn
with lace dresses.
Dresses entirely of black lace over red silk are
seen at all of the watering places.
Sheer null chemisettes, with nautical folds or
tucks. are worn with summer silk dresses. /.
The pierrot is the name of the new large coll
lars seen on Paris made costumes OF cream white
serge
Although it has been predicted that hats and
bonnets will be less towering they still retain
great altitude.
Linen plush is new material and will be used
for dressing gowns and trimming 1t resembles
ITS WOODEN prototype.
Combination is still the order of the day. No
matter how severely plain the dress may be
there Is touch of some other fabric or color 20
eniven It,
Jackets of all nations are again in fashion.
One can choose from the Turk, the Spaniard,
the Japanese, or from the French of two CEN
turtles ago.
The latest fancy for summer travelling dresses
Is pale gray alpacas. They are very cool and so
wlry that they will not crumple easily and do
not hold the dust.
Rather more progressive than our American
artists is the English milliner. who has just in
troduced political bonnets,a made and trimmed,
says the Queen, for ladies bent upon canvassing
at the forthcoming election.
The newest Partisan sleeves are cut from ona
ploc0, 50 as 10 III quite SDugly, out DdlI as long
again the arm They are gathered at the
seam, which is arranged we'll underneath, so
that they will wrinkle the arm like long
glove of Suede kid.
Six out of ten of the elegant white toilets which
are again the rage this season are cut with a
round waist, mace very plain in the beginning.
but dependent for dressy effect upon the host Of
graceful lace accessories. berthas, aceedged
nuns folds of the diaphanous goods crossing
each other over the breast, or other like trim
mings.
Unlike other articles of feminine attire, ladies'
riding habits have undergone but little altera-
tion either in style or color, for many seasons
The most fashionable habits are made either Of
very dark green black golden brown cloth.
They are still made indignantly short and thus
prove far less graceful than the sweeping folds OF
the habit skirts formerly worn.
Among effective summer dresses are those of
regular old-fashoned Dolly-Varden patterned,
orgaudie lawn, with delicate grounds of pink,
buff or pale blue, strewn with roses and other
gay blooms. AS these fabrics are not warranted
to pass the test of the laundry. and as they cost
but little yard, the French caprice is to trim
them with black lace and make them wearable
for one season alone.
Embroidered robes in colors and in white have
never been more universal than the present year,
but there are signs of the day of the sere and
yellow leaf with them The India linen I'M
trimmed, or finished with a simple tuck or two
or edged with delicate needlework is at once bet>
ter taste and safer style for future purchase.
Nalnsooks and cambrcs vary little from year to
year. but the variety of fancy fabrics has de-
cidedly interfered with their use the present
summer.
In silk fabrics the pongee more than holds it's
own 1t looks cool and it is COOL the coolest Of
summer materials, very possibly. 1t is an alb
surd way, though. that people have taken up of
trimming it with hot and sitting yelvets. The
pongee is neutral sort of fabric and needs color
to brighten it, no doubt But why choose velvet
pongee ITSELF some self covered, more lighted up
with dark blue garnet or brown in loose flower
sprays, with great circles of fluffy chenille are a
deal more appropriate with the mercury in the
ninetieS.