The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-07-15
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Ecru is the leading color for summer
wear.
Figured tissues have plain materials to
correspond.
Striped silk skirts are worn with over
dresses of wool.
Lavender and white are worn for deep
mourning fo- house dresses.
Embroidered crepe isse founces are
in demand for dressy toilets.
Black surah Norfolk jackets are
trimmed with garnet galloon.
Jerseys of silk tricotine are worn with
skirts of every sort of material.
Fine white null dresses have alternate
tlounces of lace and embroidery.
Black silk dresses may have revers,
vest, collar and cuffs of black velvet.
Fashionable ladies now correspond
upon parchment paper with blue ink.
Miss Nellie Brightman is leading cdi-
torial writer of the Duluth daily Neaos.
Plain surah and foulard are combined
with tartan plaid of the same materials.
Linens for summer wear have thread
like stripes, dark figures or small checks.
Ribbons for sashes are of satin-faced
velvet and double-faccd satin with picot
edges.
Tailor made costumes of light weight
cloth or serge have short jackets of the
material.
Bodices with surplice fronts have plas-
irons of velvet, or folds of white muslin,
silk or Grape.
Colored velvet mantllias with beaded
sleeves will be worn this summer. They
are in subdued tints.
Ribbon is employed for the adornmcnt
of India silks, India batistes and striped
and checked cambrics.
Vegetable ivory buttons with tiny
sprays Of blossoms painted on them, arc
used for cotton dresses.
Gold or silver braid embroidery is en-
ploycd to make tailor-madc dresses. 1t
forms panels, collars, cuffs and vests.
Beaded plastrons or cuirasses are worn
with silk or woolcn bodices. They must
correspond with the color of the bodice.
Contrasts in color are not in as great
favor for costumes as formerly, unless the
second color be in stripes, plaid or
check.
Sky-blue is never out of fashion. The
new blues have grayish tint, although
the latest variations of this color is as
dark as sapphire.
A New York woman who is fond of
notoriety has had the hoofs of her horses
gilded, and they create sensation when
driven in Central Park.
Coaching coats Of drab cloth have
seams like those oiEllhen's coats and have
large white pearl buttons engraved with
scenes from coaching life. ..
Black lace dresses will. be worn at
home this season. Their place in the
street will be taken by black ctaminc,
canvas and lace grcnadinc.
Domestic surahs have become almost as
standard as domestic cottons, and are
made up plainly, or with little lace,
passementerie or embroidery.
Silk or wool piece lace ana open worn
materials are worn over every description
of silk, be it striped, figured or plain.
This will be pleasing news to those. who
have passe silks that tare not in plain colors,
for a plesehta5ts Il :ette mgy be made at
home at trihiIg expense. J,..s.s
Striped skirts are untrimmed, although
they may be varied by breadths of plain
material. The overdress will then be of
the plain material and the bodice COM
bination of the two, according to fancy.
If the bodice be plain the vest or plastron
is striped, or if Of the striped material
the trimmings are plain.
Mrs. Marry Pollard is called repre-
sentative woman of Maine. She lives in
Skowhegan, and superintends farm Of
200 acres. Last summer, besides doing
her housework, she made butter and
cheese to sell and picked and canned
more berries than any one else in that
neighborhood. - Through haying she
MIXED four cows every night and took
all the care of the pigs and hens. She
lives five miles from the church, but she
goes there regularly every Sunday. She
reads the papers daily, and is wcll-in-
formed and vigorous old lady.