The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-19
FASHION NOTES.
Edicts Issued and Approved by the Load
srs of Metropolitan Society.

Edicts Issued and Approved by the Load
srs of Metropolitan Society.
Lace mitts are again in vogue.
The handsomest grenadines are
beaded.
Striped and checked materials are all
the rage.
Colored hosiery remains in favor for
gentlemen.
Lace mantles are profusely trimmed
with beads.
Snowballs make lovely trimming for
| q tulle bonnet.
Perfumed reticules and pockets are
among late fancy novelties.
Yellow and heliotrope are the leading
London colors this summer.
Black, white and scarlet are the pre-.
| ferred colors for tulle bonnets.
The new peach color combines ex.
| qnisitely with gold shades of yellow.
The Priscilla hat is exceedingly be-
coming to girls with long narrow faces.
| White frocks are not so much in favor
this year for festivals as formerly.
Gathered panels take the place OF
| plated ones on summer wash fabric
| dresses.
Spangled Grape fans in iridescent eff
fects come among other novelties in this
line.
| A tulle bonnet should be the lightest,
most cloud-like piece of headgear i'm
aginable.
Gentlemen's trousers are made a little
wider and with slight spring over the
instep.
The London turban is a favorite, but
for seaside, mountain and travelling
wear.
The Mikado Jersey has a white or
tinted waistcoat, covered with Japanese
designs.
Pongee combined with plaid Surah
makes pretty and inexpensive sum-
mer dress.
Large Gainesborough hats are again
in vogue, but they have very large,
high, conical crowns.
There is a new and delicious shade of
peach color that takes the bloom of
!. every other shade
Greenish gray tones are usedin fash
ionable furnishings. curtains, uphols-
terry and covers in rooms.
One of the prettiest hats for misses
takes the name of the Priscilla. 1t
has bell crown, and fiat, rather wide
brim.
Mirrors are now manufactured to fit
panels, mantel shelves and wall cabinets
in the wood finishings of fine houses.
Tulle bonnets-white, black, gray,
scarlet. all shades of red and rose color,
blue and heliotrope-are worn for full
dress occasions.
Ladies wear black stockings with
dresses of all colors as well as with white
and black frocks. but eolored hose are
not entirely out of vogue.
are very fashionable, and are worn in
,, combination one with the other, with
other colors and alone.
Yellow is the favorite color for tying
! back white lace or muslin sash curtains,
no matter what the colors of the furni-
ture of the rooms may be.
White ivory, and gold furniture up
holstered in brocades combining gold
. with pale shades of amber, pink and blue
is coming into fashionable favor.
Fans Of black crepe lisse. spangled
,, over with diamond dust Limitation, Of
course), are superbly effective with
, black lace dresses trimmed with cut
!, jet.
Cream scrim or cheese-cloth curtains,
edged with cluny lace and tied back
with ribbon to match the furniture, are
pretty for ladies' sitting room.
The business sack, the morning cut
away, the afternoon frock, and the
swallow tail dress coat remain four nee
essary articles for gentleman's ward
. robe effects.
The trimmings on tulle bonnets arc
sometimes simply rosettes of tulle
sometimes flowers, aigrettes. heads o.
oats, wheat and barley in steel, gol6
: and silver tinsel, sometimes feathers
but rarely ribbons.
All table-cloths, whether fine o.
coarse. heavy or light, look better wher
: spread over a cotton plush or felt cover
! that fits the dining table like glove
. being drawn with q cord run into (
. casing or hem under the edge of th,
= board. Red is the best color for thi
under cloth or cover.
!. The highest novelty in dress good,
Is the introduction of jewels, real o.
= imitation, into the embroideries scat
;, tered over the grounds. These EN-
: broideries are of gold, silver, cope
and tinted metal threads in subduet
tones, producing effects that can bette
be imagined than described. A ver
little of such fabrics make dress o
| r;1L satin or uolvot o11ita sunorh =