Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-11-27
FOR TIE LADIES.
THE LATEST DETAILS FROM TIE
PARIS FASHIONS.
Points of Value in Household Econ
omy-Questions Of Good Health
Art in the Home.

One point is certain in the French gowns
of to-day, all the draperies are long, and 1t
would seem that no two are alike. a good
deal OF fine corduroy is used in the way of
plain full skirts. French women show a
strong partially for tailor-made dresses,
and in these dark blue and gray mixtures
find favor. There were never more beauti-
full fabrics of which dresses could be made,
and stripes are decidedly in the ascendant.
But what variety Of stripes there are on the
velvet. plush and fashionable Siciienne
grounds The Cluny frises are the newest,
the patterns borrowed from the time OF
Louis XIV. 10 Louis XVI, ard the color
ipgs too; the greens and heliotropes so
finely toned down with vieux rose and
blue in close conventional frise designs,
like lace. But, except this particular class
of stripes, I think that the striped gowns
are more made for the English than French
markets. for they affect broad and decided
checks in Paris. Some of the plaids in
brown. red and gold are wonderful, but be-
ing combined with true French taste, they
make beautiful gowns. In some OF the
most successful efforts OF weaving there is
an adnixture of frise plush and velvet OF
one tone. or of two shades Of the same.
If Won wander about in the Boulev;Tds
and the adjoining streets, where pretty
tempting tribes are displayed to encourage
Notwithstanding, you will think, be
much astonished at the universal use of
tulle in all the adiuncts of the toilette for
evening wear Whether it be flowers or
feathers, they are all yelled in tulle, but
MANIPULATED with such true French art
they cannot fail to De charming.
Very pretty dressingjackets are made IN
two colors one forming a loose vest in
front. They have hoods at the back lined
with the contrast, for hoods would seem
to be essential 10 fashionable dressing;
thew are worn on dresses as well as out
door jackets
Feather stitching is not only introduced
on flannel. but on silk and satin for the
most elaborate dresses.
Buttons appear on most gowns, and are
of very large size. Smoked pearl with the
patterns in relief find favor. Quite the
newest have q square of plush introduced
into the metal, and sometimes decorated
with figures in metal applique.
French bonnets show many wonderful
novelties, and are of a most ambitious char
acter, proudly up-reariHg toward the sky.
Graduated beads border most of the edges
of the brims, but these beads or balls are
sometimes made of feathers-quite new
idea sometimes of foreign seeds. The
feathers simply cover cork foundation,
and in metallic greens are exceedingly
pretty. Another novelty is bonnet COW
cred with fat, coin-shaped tlligree buttons.
The strings are only about two inches and
a Quarter wide, and mostly have picot
edge.
The new ribbons are silk or velvet, often
both, with reversible Sides but their chief
variety is in the edge, nearly all being
either picot or fringed. Some are striped
with thick cords, some with plush, but bro
cades are few and far between. One point
in their favor is that the silk is tough and
good-wearing. The heads of birds and
even of beavers nestle among loops OF this
ribbon, and much osprey, for this South
African bird is now so greatly in demand
that the supply is hardly equal to 1t. Moth
ing would seem to be more fashionable,
either for bonnets or evening wear, than an
osprey aigrette. Ostrich feathers are now
forming the entire bonnet, quite novelty,
and seven or eight tips do not seem to be
considered too many for the side of what
appears to be quite small bonnet till you
see il on the head, when it towers high
above the headgeaTs of a year ago. The
shapes are not large. 1t is the mode Of
trimming that gives the hight.
There are many pretty colors-Mode,
which is the tone of ycllowish sand, the
yellow dominating; peach and petunia
have assumed new tones there is brill
liant yellow called Cleopatra, and poppy
color that insensibly makes you think of
sunshine; Flame is not quite so brilliant,
but admits of most artistic treatment,
Faded blues, pinks, reds, vie with Labra-
dor, a blue-grey Pacific, q faint gold;
Lemon, which is Eau de Nil with a new
name Baltique, a not too brilliant blue;
Lynx, and all the shades of dust, sand and
mud, in which French taste would seem to
reVel, and no wonder, seeing what Won
derful background they make them for
subtle touches of brilliant colorings.-
Letter IN CasselFs Magazine for December.
ART IN THE HOME.
1t will interest embroiderers to learn that
the old-fashioned cross-stitch, the same
with which our grandmothers used to
adorn their samplers, is coming in again.
The Decorative Art Society is probably at
the bottom Of this revival. 1t has intro
duced old Dutch embroideries which
abound in this particular stitch, and thus
it is that we have it in elaborate embroid-
cries as well as in the more simpler work.
But it must not be COMPOUNDED with the
use to which it was put few years ago in
the monstrosities which paraded under the
name of "worsted work That sort of
thing happily is now but memory.
The cross-stiteh as now applied is capable
of producing the most beautiful and refined
effects. Take for instance sheer loosely
MI, al
pattern is embroidered with cross stitch in
Dale blues, screens and dull reds. What
could be more effective for chamber drap-
eries?' The material, colors and stitch may
be repeated in the toilet sets, tides and all
other bits of portable drapeTy. The towels
and bed linen may also be adorned in the
same manner, either with design or with
the simple initial or monogram.
For the establishment of dining-room
1lapery It is unequaled in suitability, and
here the same range of choice in design
presents itself. The Dutch aud Germans
portray upon their napkins, table cloths
and doilies all sorts Of grotesque figures
and groups, and the same fashion is OBJ
tanned largely upon this side of the water,
to the exclusion of the floral designs that
have been so long the mode. TIE oppor-
tunitv for individual taste in this sort of
thing is unlimited, and as nothing Is too
startling or odd for the fashion, no one need
fear of going sstray in this particular.
The wooden canvas is much used for
sofa pillows, chair-stripes, table-covers,
portieres, and, in fact, for almost every
purpose to which embroidery can be ap-
piled, with the design worked upon it in
cross-stitch with crewels or silk. The
former is undoubtedly the more appro-
pirate.
But with the introduction. or rather the
resurrection of the cross-stitch, q new ap-
plication for it has sprung up. 1t is used
upon dresses with excellent effect. The
French, who are always foremost in any
thing which will set off the beauty of their