Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-23
Fashion Notes.

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White chemisettes are again in favor.
Bonnets of rough straw are worn to ex-
cess.
Dress skirts are more full than for.
merly.
Velvet neck bands with throat bows are
much worn.
Bonnets entirely Of Jet are in high fash
ionable favor.
Yak and Chantilly lace take proceed
ence for trimming.
Clasps and buckles of rhinestones are
used profusely on evening dresses.
Gray costumes have panels or tabliers
of cut beads corresponding exactly in
tone.
High collars are trifle less choking
this season by being turned away in
front.
The most fashionable combination Of
color in millinery is heliOtrope and moss
green.
Woven tucks in wooden robes are
among the attractive novelties OF the
season.
Wide collars of solid jet accompany
some of the thinnest costumes for the
summer.
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braided with floral designs in contrast.
ing cOlors.
Lace dresses, black, white and cream
are the most elegant wear for summer
evening festivals of all kinds.
Lawn tennis and yachting dresses NJ
white flannel are made decorative with
feather stitching in bright colOrs.
Hats to be very stylish should be half
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heavy ribbon, no feathers being used.
Large Leghorn hats for summer wear
will be trimmed with grasses, in which
peoples and small English daisies appear
here and there.
The small white vests, with high collars
and regular scarf ties, are almost univer
sally worn with walking dresses by fash
iOnable young ladies.
The fishwife poke OF this summer has a
spray of flowers or leaves and flowers
tucked under the point, but this arrange
ment is not generally becoming.
Among the new trimmings this season
are yokes, waistcoats and collars of silk
cord woven in lace patterns, and intended
to be lined with bright-cOlored silk.
Dotted veiling or gauze is used ex.
tensively for trimming hats, and is pass.
ed over flowers and birds. Feather
edged ribbon and satin combine prettily
with it.
The upright linen collar, with ends
slightly pointed and rolled over, is again
presented, while the English collar, with
ends tapping, is also regarded still fash.
ionable.
White silk net and Brussels net are
among the verv fashionable and pretty
materials for bridesmaids' wear, and will
be extensively used for ball dresses in
place of tulle.
Some exquisite scarfs for neckwear are
OF soft China crepe deliberately and
beautifully embroidered. These are in
three-cornered shape, and are worn in
kerchief fashion.
Independent collars of bright colored
velvet are favored and some Of these are
embroidered with small beads and edged
with large ones. A bow finishes the front.
same color as the collar.
Among the newest ornaments for the
hair dare rosettes Of ends OF ribbon cut
in swallow-tail points and fastened as
hair-pins. Large rOsettes of the same
stvle are worn at the belt.
Silver jewelry will meet with increased
favor as the summer advances. Brace
lets. lace pins, combs, watch fObs, dog
collars. lOUse HlIuleb, TAU Chains OF Cuaba-
lains will be much worn.
Lavender with palest pink, seafoam
green with violet, pale yellow with OLD
blue and pale blue with bronze brown arc
among the newest and most artistic com.
binatiOns for evening dresses.
Some Of The newest walking dresses are
MADE with perfectly PLAIN skirts, full
drapery and pointed bodices. Gray and
fawu are the usual colors, and on grace.
ful figure they are most becoming.
The newest hosiery ~ in small checks
OF two or three tints, such as black and
white, black aud yellow. garnet and pale
blue, and crimson and olive. Silk clocks
are embroidered up the entire length.
Half squares Of fine white tissue with
inch-wide hens upon them are worn in
the house about the shoulders by young
widows. Small half squares OF the same
material are worn upon the head, with
handsome cut jet pins placed back OF the
ears to secure them.
A pretty corsage front has a piece OF
lace beginning at the shoulder seam.
and rounding about the arm-sIze and
over the chest TO the seam under the arm,
10 simulate a short, zouave JACKET. This.
with narrow Moliere vest Of lace be.
meath the regular dress waist OF other
material, makes an airy and becoming
corsage decoration for summer evening
toilets OF mauye, surah, primrose silk, or
l. al IL.