Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-11
Notes.

Straw color and olive are used III com
bination.
Etamine is trimmed with galloon or
with watered silk
Etamine with open-work embroidery Is
quite fashionable.
Light blue, ecru or cream fabrics have
stripes of bright red.
Satin duchess skirts are worn with bod
ices and draperes OF escurial grenadine.
Japanese fans remain in favor for dec
orative purposes.
Red straw hats are worn by little girls
at the seaside.
Mousquetaire gloves are preferred to
all others.
Cordurette IS the new material for in
fants' cloaks.
Ribbed silk high-necked shirts are the
best for babies midsummer wear.
Infants cloaks Of lordurette are made
in Mother Hubbard form.
Lawn and cambria dresses have the
skirts made with narrow Aounces, with
short drapery in front, that at the back
being pulled.
Little girls OF three years and over
wear pretty muslin caps deliberately
tucked, and with high Normandy crowns
and fluffy frills around the face.
The long and elegantly fitting Jersey
silk mitts are established in public favor,
outrlvaling the netted mitts rs giving
more protection to the hands and wrists
from the sun.
specially of the season are bouquets
composed OF delicately streaked and
tinted leaves, beautifully put together
and tied with bow and long streamers
of ribbon to form contrast of color.
Necklaces are worn over straight col
lars, and formed of pieces of chased
gold, fastened together by chains or gar
nets, which have the effect OF being sewed
on the dress. They are very handy, par
ticularly when made of black jet.
A dressy addition to plain dress-waist
is made by collar Of an inch aud a half
wide ruby velvet with picot edge, some
of the same ribbon arranged as gentle
mans tie between two jabots Of wide
Fedora lace, which fall together over the
| bosom.
Low shoes of all descriptions are much
worn ornamented with bows and buckles.
Some of the latter are of cut steel in oval
crescent and diamond shapes, or in an
tique designs studded with brilliants.
When bows are used they not infre-
quently match the dress of the wearer.
The tallor-made suit is fashion come
TO stay, though 1t varies In detail each
successive season. At present 1t affects
masculine style, in the standing collar
and carefully adjusted tie, the linen cuffs,
the white vest, The sailor hat, and the
gloves heavily stitched in the most APP
proved gentlemanly fashion.
Lightfabrics are unusually pretty this
season, canvas in new and varied forms
taking the precedence. For evening
white is general, but yellow follows close
in favor, and delicate shades Of pink,
blue, green, gray and peach blossom are
much worn and prove becoming. Hello
trope is also seen, but not In the shade
usually designated as such, the new tint
being a delicate mauve or pinkish shade
of lavender. Beige continues exceedingly
popular, and Is liked with accessories OF
dark green or brilliant red.
Skirts are drsped in various ways-oyer
plain or plated petticoats, for instance,
u skirt OF plain yelling Is dTaped behind
and plated on each side, opening in front
over petticoat embroidered in silk and
beads. Another is Of open-work beige
tissue, dTaped up with pretty passemen-
terle fastenings, over q pleated petticoat
In brown silk skirt OF plain blush
petticoat of bayajere striped yelling.
The crepe skirt opens in front TO show the
petticoat, which almost comes beyond the
edge, and still another skirt IL Of wooden
guipure, draped over skirt Of French
MORE
Plated bodices with fronts crossed
tichu fashion are verS pretty. A dress
after this style is OF surah in a
peculiar blush green combined with
a dentelle In rich cream The under
dress Of surah is made perfectly plain,
with high bodice, tis hit sleeves and
round skirt gathered al the waist. The
lace oyerdrehs consists of a bodice with
out sleeves and tunie skirt. The bodice
has plated fronts crossed at the waist,
and showing the darker sureh bodice AZ
the openingi the back Is plain, but also
open In point down the middle and I'm
ished in short square plated basque.
The tunic Is plated at the back, slit open
on the right side, and loosely draped and
looped up over the left hip. Many
dresses for day and evening wear are Of
surah or silk almost covered with dTape-
ries Of some OF the fashionable laces.