The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-16
Fashion Notes.

The white cloth petticoat is one of the
novel styles which seems destined to be
most popular.
White pilot cloth dresses. gold
braided. with jockey caps to match, are
in high fashion. -.
Velvet flowers on summer hats and
bonnets seem rather an unnatural combl-
nation, yet they are stylish. ......"
Telegraph blue is one of the new
shades which vie with the already pop
ular gobelin and porcelain tints.
The fashion Of trimming hats from
behind still continues, and if not very
artistic or be- oming it is the mode.
The chambery gauze and cambrics are
in gay figures this season, color being
everywhere in both groundwork and de-
sign. .-...
The kilt skirt appears again in the
washable costumes for summer wear and
hangs on yoke from the waist half its
length.
Real blues will be worn the coming
season. and some with changeable
effect have q cross thread of cream color
or white. -
rarasols are in Che greatest possible
variety and gay and gaudy to the last de-
gree, even outshining those of last season
in their glory of color.
Small black mantles of Bengaline, silk
or embroidered cashmere, trimmed with
metallic cord passementeries. are worn
with dresses of all kinds.
Pretty costumes have the skirts of
striped silk with O polonaise of cash
mere, the latter draped in four points
or opened in front or at the back.
Young ladies now wear their short
cloth Jackets unbuttoned in the street on
fine days, and have single fresh flower
thrust through buttonhole of the front.
A wreath of fine blossoms, forming a
sort of garland makes pretty trimming
for lace or Grape bonnet and where a
color is used in the bonnet white flowers
are used. . - ...- ...
The silk warp Henriettas and mohairs
are among the most stylish and desirable
of all the stutfs shown and shed the dust
perfectly, which is alone q sufficient rec
ommendation.
In everything flowing lines and long
soft curves have decidedly the call; by
consequence, costumers now study the
Greek statuary in the Louvre quite as
sedulously as do the artists.
A Paris fancy for turbans and toques
is to make them of rough fancy braid
interviewer with gold thread alternately
with embroidered bands of silk or surah,
matching their ribbons in color.
Tulle, net, lace, silk k-muslin, all appear
in new hats for driving; and, airy as
they be, are garnished with thick ribbon,
or shells of narrower lace and towering
clusters of the softest ostrich tips.
Among the daintiest and most desirable
of summer materials is the new mohair
cnallie, with almost the lustre and soft
ness of China silk, along with the same
graceful patterns and delicate hues.
The Russian bang and the Recamier
curls are at this moment rivals in fash
ion; the former is very pretty for face
of regular features while the curls soften
any face and are never unbecoming.
Narrow colored ribbons, with picot
edges, are sewn flat, in rows, upon the
figured challies now so much worn.
Narrow moire ribbons are used in the
same manner to trim plain cashmeres.
The fashion of wearing mask wells
tightly drawn over the face is very bad
one for the eyes, and instead OF the
dotted red lace there are sheer silk
bereges which are stylish and are to be
found in any of the new tints.
Many of the new parasols of silk or
satin are lined with Pompadour foulard
silk, with lace or net puffed or futed
on the outside. Other styles are of
moire, bordered with white satin bands
and white lace. These are especially
designed for garden parties but not for
promenade.
Nearly the most popular hat of the
season is the turban, which is made of a
big fat piece of straw that looks like a
pancake. 1t is plated and drawn over
a soft crown and encircled with puf or
roll of velvet or silk. Loops are set
hlgh IN 1ronC anu ciuster VI ho"eiS -
frequently added.
Fashion prophets declare that silk is
again to become as generally worn as it
was before iute and other nefarious ad-
mixtures shook our faith in and prefer
ence for this elegant material. The price
of the best brands of silk is rising, and
it is officially announced that it will be
a long time before these can be pur..
chased at the wondrously low rates at
which they have been sold for many
years past.