The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-06-23
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
laces remain in vogue.

bridesmaids dresses.
A child's dress may be becomingly
grotesque, but lady's never.
The fashion of making short mantles
Of two stuffs is almost universal.
Piques for children's wear come in
clustered cord, repped and sprigged
effects.
Bourette and plaid 'gingham frocks for
little children have baby waists and white
guimpes.
Flounced India mall dresses have
French bodices edged with frill below
the waist
Cream and beige are the favorites
for Egyptian laccs, but they come also
in colors.
Few women can venture to dress out of
the conventional style without looking
ridiculous.
Picturesque short waist, full-skirt
trocks are in favor for both large and
small girls.
Flowered foulard and plaided and
checked summer silks are made up into
little girls frocks.
Notifications of the toilets of the Louis
XIV, Louis XVI. and Henry II. periods
are popular in Paris.
Large girls dresses are only slightly
different from those worn by their older
sisters and their mothers.
The low price of Egyptian lace makes
it possible for any lady to have an all
lace dress at reasonable cost.
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.black, dark blue or drab brown, no mat
ater what the color of the frock.
|. Null dresses have skirts with bands of
deep insertion between clusters of tucks.
The bodices have yokes and sleeves of
Rll-over embroidery.
White moire parasols edged with deep
falls of pure white Valenciennes lace are
nsed by bridesmaids when the wedding
is in country church.
White dresses for girls from twelve to
sixteen years of age have three embroid-
cred flounces in front. The back drapery
Is tucked and is very long.
Morning robes of yelling in any color and
any shade, from pure white and cream to
black, are trimmed tastefully with cas-
rades and falls of Egyptian lace.
Summer dresses have one long flounce
Of all-over embroidery over a narrow en-
broidered one, and have round bodices
with yoke and sleeves of the ''all-over."
All-over tuckings are of plain nainsook
or Of lace, and, in every imaginable de-
sign of clusters and combinations, are
extremely simple or elaborate to any de-
gree desired.
According to DR.. Mary Walker, there
are three times as many women in the
the world who wear trousers as there are
men and women together in the United
States and England.
The fashion of presenting bridesmaids
with presents has taken curious form in
New York, where it is said that one
bridegroom intends to present the brides
maids with very lovely parasols.
Engagement rings should bear in plain
script the initials of the engaged people
and the date. The old form, ~. S. II.
to NJ. @. K, is no longer used, but in its
place appears 'From j. S. II. to- NJ. C.
H." the date following.
"Chambermaids" in Mexican hotels
arc male Indians, termed mazos. They
are deft and quick, and will hire them
selves to stranger in the capitol for So
a week, giving their employer undivided
and very welcome service.
IT is said that the fashion is to wear
the jewel of the engagement ring toward
the palm ul&il the wedding day, when it
must be turRed to the gaze of the world
for the first tnne. This may answer very
we'll for fashion, but will never be in.
dulged in by the newly engaged.
There is Washington Territory girl
who seems to have peculiar notions of
breach of promise cases, for she threatens
to sue her own father for breach Of
promise. She explains that the old gen
tleman first gave his consent to her mar
riage with her lover and then withdrew
it, and that, in consequence, her beau
| got tired of waiting and has gone of
with another girl.
"There is a perfect rage" says the
London Queen, 'for wearing flowers in
the hair. Flower aigrettes are the fashion
of the moment, and all other forms of
ornament are at proportionate discount.
A tuft of osprey is introduced among the
natural blooms, and owners of single
! diamonds have an opportunity of dis.
playing them as dew drops sparkling or
freshly gathered roses or lilies. On the
cors9ge, too, large sprays of flowers and
foliage are arranged, and long, rich
trains ornamdht the skirt.
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