The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-12
Fashion Notes.


Foulards have delicate designs.
White lace is much used for trim.
ming.
Embroidered cachemire bands are fash.
ionable.
Jet increases in favor, both at home
and abroad.
Summer silks have hair lines, blocks
and small checks.
Grenadine ribbons are checked and
barred like canvass.
Cashmere or serge overdresses are worn
with velveteen skirts.
Printed crepe de chine has sprays OF
delicate tinted blossom.
Pongees have stripes composed of mar
row lines Of soft colors.
Striped grenadines have crescents of
tiny, bright-hued flowers.
Beaded cuirass bodices in rich designs
are worn over the dress bodice.
Gauze ribbons, striped and figured ARE
much used for millinery purposes.
Colored mantles are worn and are
trimmed with profusion of beads and
lace.
Fans of crepe are powdered with bril-
liant spangles in all the co!ors of precious
stones.
Beaded galoon belts corresponding to
the trimming of the bodice are worn with
round waists.
Pocket-kandkerchiefs have very mar
row hens, not more than quarter of an
inch in width.
Surah silk has broad stripes, plain
stripe alternating with one with maur-
esque designs.
Black guipure and French lace and
ecru net will be used for overdresses for
colored dresses.
Tucked and paneled skirts with polo
naises or pointed bodices are the favorite
styles for making up foulard silks.
Crowns show great indulgence in the
way of hair dressing, as pyramidal, me-
dium and low crowns are imported.
Epaulcttes will be worn on day and
evening dresses, and are formed by
placing the trimming upon the top Of the
sleeve.
The designs for dresses require much
material. The draperies arc long and are
looped high at the sides, showing much
of the underdress.
Black tulle embroidered with cut beads
resembling precious stones is novelty.
The beads initiate topazes, sapphires,
emeralds and garnets.
Imitation veined cornelian buttons set
in silver as medallions, or in ball form
with only one eye of metal for sewing on
the same, are used on the handsomest
tailor made suits.
A novelty in Partisan fans is a large
letter in the centre of a gauze field. The
letter is covered with diamond dust, and
the effect is made still more brilliant by
the ground of the fan being black.
Coquettish little carriage sunshades
seem like collection of bright-winged
butterflies. These are novel in having
telescope handles, and are mass of lace
and pretty silks and satins.
Redingotes of cloth reach to the knee
and are braided. The cuffs, collar and
'brandebourgs" are in different colors OF
shades from the cloth. Some in blue are
faced with red and have gold buttons.
Princesse dresses of silk covered with
lace are worn. Thus silks that have seen
service may be made to do duty as hand
some dresses if they are we'll yelled with
the beautiful laces now so fashionable.
AS both Bayadere and Pekin or length
wise stripes are in fashion, both slender
and stout women can dress becom-
ingly this season, the slender wearing
the Pekin and the stout the Bayaderc
stripes.
Jewelled dresses, brought out only for
millionaire's wives and daughters, have
the entire front of black net studded with
square stones initiating emeralds, sap.
phires, rubies, pearls, diamonds, and
other stones, while smaller stones of the
same kind are scattered in design like
embroidery all over the net.