The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-03-03
THE LATEST FASHIONS.
Useful, Elegant and Comfortable Day and
Evening Toilets.

Useful, Elegant and Comfortable Day and
Evening Toilets.
Cloth redingote costumes are orna-
mented in many ways, but layers Of
scalloped bands Of cloth are perhaps in
most fashionable style of trimming.
The bands are in the same or in differ
ent colors, and form a very light and
pretty garniture, like rows of leaves
falling one owe the other.
Again, these costumes, if of light
hued cloth, are ornamented with a
kind of network of fine bead cmbroid-
cry, which is employed for the plastron
OF yoke, the collar, pockets and pare
ments. An irregular fringe of balls or
pear shaped passementerie drops is
sometimes added to these ornaments.
A long ~polonaise of Pompaaow peas
de sole on n pale pink ground is lovely
for evening wear. This polonaise is
draped from the shoulders. and fast
ened %diagonally from the right Shout
der to the left hip; the fronts open here
over a lace skirt mounted on a pink
satin foundation skirt, bordered with
a plating. A narrow %coquille drapery,
ending in a point tipped with a pink
passementerie tassel, falls like 4 sash
end over the lace skirt, and ribbon
bows are placed on the shoulders and
on the left hip. The corsage, open
front and back, is filled in with a
draped chemisette of lace mounted on
a lace collar.
In many handsome costumes most
noticeable are the panels formed by
different styles of plating. One fancy,
which is best for skirts of faille or
MORE silk, consists Of q panel of mar
row, deep, close plaits. terminating
rather mor than half way down the
skirt, and falling thence in a full. un-
restrained mass; passcmenterie pend
ants Or loups Ut ribbon mark the linz
where the plaits end, and loops of rib
bon, a cascade of lace, or some mate
rial of different texture and color,
spring from beneath the loose end Of
the panel, and fall to the edge Of the
skirt.
Exquisite dresses for evening wear
show a panel of gauze or lace, n
mented with loops of ribbon, sprays of
flowers. or the lovely plumes of mara
bout feathers.
The newest box-plaited panels are
folded to the edge, where they are cut
in swallow-tail shape, a fan plating Of
silk or lace emerging from the spaces
thus cut in the velvet or plush plated
panels. In some models for mid
winter the ends of the plaits are orna-
mented with fur, with passementerie
or bead applique, or with fine m
broidery. The plaits may also be
separated throughout or divided at the
ends only. and each plait divided into
a passementerie cup. Three Of these
plaits, with a small space between
them, placed on each side of q skirt.
form very stylish panels.
Most convenient to Indies who have
partly worn or outgrown waists, is the
fashion of wearing q corsage in diff
ferent material from that forming the
skirt. For theater, opera and dinner
some most beautiful bodices are made
Of u richly colored velvet or plush.
handsomely embroidered all around
with gold, bronze and colored beads,
and are opened in front ove a plastron
of silk or satin entirely covered with
the same embroidery. The neck forms
a small V, and is edged round with a
small Medicis collar Of the embroidered
velvet lined with the embroidered silk
to match the plastron. Elbow sleeves
of the same embroidered velvet are
made quite tight to the arm, and from
the elbows to the wrists wide, full
sleeves of the embroidered silk or satin,
and gathered into the wrists by gold
bracelets. This bodice, which is partly
Venetian and partly Asiatic in style, is
made in all %colors, but in light shades.
The plastron should be of a different
color than that Of the bodice itself.
Pale green velvet, for instance, may
have a cream colored plastron, and for
a pale blue bodice nothing can be pref.
tier than q silvery gray. while with
bodice Of garnet plush pale pink is per.
fectly lovely. -Ladies' Home Journal.
Mi. Oldboy ian antiquated bache.