The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-03-11

'oStps' Aoi NiOIn q Dldck lace bonnet and
mantle would complete charming sum.
mer outfit. Figured materials are not,
however, as rule, accompanied by plain
fabrics for combination, this season.
The figured stuffs are more often used for
the entire dress. Especially is this the
case with figured satines, and cottons of
other kinds in stripes and flower designs,
Try to geo plain piece for combination
and you cannot match the shade. even
when both are black or brown, much less
when selected from the vast field of stone
color, biscuit" color, ecru, tan and the
rest. The differences are so minute
growing out of division of shades
that it is only by comparing one discovers
there is difference.
OLD FASHIONED IDEAS
seem to prevail more and more. There
Is revival of the useful beige materials
OF figured de laine," of spotted checked
and embroidered muslins, of folded neck
erchlefs tucked in the bodice of the dress
of full sleeves tied in above the elbow, o.
braces" as a form of trimming fol
basques and bodices, of figured cottons
silks and woods, made into gowns, while
the "cross-over" bodice, the straight skirt
the belted in waists, the little fichu, tn,
long mitts, the drawn" bonnet-all O.
which have been more or less in vogu,
for years-promise to be among the lead
ing summer ideas. 1t is ''ideas" which
are just now the rage. The most effective
toilet worn at recent magnificent enter
tainnent was of rich, white satin fran
Gals, trimmed with black fox and strings
of pearls. A walking dress, on the con
trary, shows leather corslet, apparently
studded with nails, as an accompaniment
to a cloth costume matching in color
Dark velvet bodices, beaver-brown anG
copper color, are high style, with skirts OF
white tulle, the bodice edged with darl
Roman pearls, but showing no lace mex
the skin.
Low NEoKs.
Of late the low bodice has been restored
to almost its old supremacy in evening
toilets. 1t is becoming as absolutely
"full dress " for ladies as the swallow.
tail" coat for gentlemen and the ma
jority are cut "round," which was al
very well when the shoulders sloped of
over the arms but is not at all becoming
now, that the sleeves are brought up t.
the top of the arms, and the distance an
initiated between it and the edge of the
bodice.
Tulle skirts and toilets have been, here
tofore, mainly confined to the young la
dies of a family, but English influence il
seen in the dark tulles, plain and en-
broidered, with velvet and satin bodices
which have been worn even by chaperones
These tulles' are often made over satin
the other shades over pink, tea rose ovel
canary, black over orange, or narsturtium
the bodice of satin matching the founda
ton skirt, and rarely displaying any or
nament save row of colored pearl beads
upon the edge, and festoons of the same
or group of feathers upon the shoulder
The skirts are made skirt upon skirt, anC
are draped off from the front, not loopeC
up, in all sorts of pretty, graceful ways
with few flowers, however, and not mucl
in the way of ornamentation, excep
feathers, with Rhine stone clasps, o
beaded agrafis. Some ladies take tn
cheap tinseled ornaments sold at the fame,
stores for the decoration of plaques anc
baskets and apply them, giving thei
toilets the appearance of peranbulatin
scrapholders.
THE USE OF BEADS
is the most curious feature of the time
it would hardly be correct to say of tn
season-for they have been used for sey
eral seasons past, though not until latel
in the "rosary forms and they will b
still more prominent in the season tt
come. The prevailing styles are rosar,
and pearl beads, the former colored IL
every shade to match millinery, as well
dress fabrics the latter colored, also, bu
not to the same extent, the natural color
and carving still maintaining the lead
The use of them is likely to b. much NOR
extensive than beaded embroidery trim
mings, because these latter are costly; an
the larger beads can be employed effec
lively in outline, and other ways, by ladie
who have not time or skill for embroidery
Semi-precious woods are being sought TO
close granting, in the making of fine rosar
beads, and the new cherry buttons, some c
which have made their appearance upo
rich, imported costumes. But the diff
Guilty is to find tools or machinery to CT
them. Nothing more beautiful than tn
agatized and jasperized woods recent
discovered in this country can be foun
in the world and there are forests of then
But so far the wood has been sent TO Oberl
stein, in Switzerland to be cut, turned an
made into objects of use or ornament, b'
0t he iSif oobi ,o
or workman here. There are fortune
however, in the utilization of these beal
tiful woods for clasps, buttons, bead
writing table knick knacks and other az
cessories.
INEXPENSIVE SPRING OUTFITS.
There are plenty of opportunities fo
the acquisition of a wardrobe costing yer
little money, by those who know how t
take advantage of them. Materials wer
never so low in price as now, and the va
riety has become so great, the confusio
of ideas SO universal, that even the cor
ventional woman, who Away wants tn
''latest" thing, gets mixed, and finds
hard to distinguish between what was tn
novelty of yesterday and what the noVelt
of to-day, particularly as the new thing q
to-day was the old thing of yesterda,
Under these circumstances. with the yer
best intentions of sacrificing herself
cost and fashion, the conscientious lad
sometimes finds herself pleasing herse
in an economical and highly satisfaction
way. Doubtless she feels that such pu
chase carries sense of inadequacy to hi
position and principle, for when it is a.
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