The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-05-09

use still a moderate reed, put twelve to fifteen
inches below the belt.
Green i'm all shades from apple to serpent cop
per, terra Gotta, Indian and Siam reds, and
mouse gray ere the preferred shades of spring
wear.
Flounces arc very much revived, and may be
put on the skirt pretty much as you will, pro-
vided only that you donot let them go regularly
over il.
Full sleeves come more and more i'm fashion,
and among shapes the leg of mutton is the one
oftcnest chosen, especially for lace or other
thin stufis.
London dressmakers have revived the zebra
effect OF making many skirts with the fronts
quite plain and trimmed with fiat bands of con-
trasting color
For his India silk gowns Worth chooses the
most hamboyant patterns and makes them up
with full skirts festooned with lace, or else with
lace or silk flounces.
Dinner gowns for summer are made short,
and for white ones blonde lace over MORE, with
gold paSSementerie and standing collar OF gold
braid, is voted stylish.
The very latest brooch adaptation of the
superseryceable horseshoe is two shoes of
silver, whereof the smaller hangs from the
larger by golden nail.
The new straw embroidery is the most stylish
garniture for white canvas and crepeline cor
sages, though they may have bare suspicion
OF steel or gilt passementerie.
Picture dresses are the rage with fair Paris
iennes, and are copied 10 the minutest detail
from the first empire, the directory, or the
reigns Of the last three Louises.
Corsages run more and more to extremes, are
either short, round and very fully draped, or
else preternaturally long, straight, and slender,
both in outline and in ornament.
White blonde over a skirt of white MORE.
with many loops and big cabbage bows OF moss
green or bright yellow faille ribbon is a brides
maids gown that has the merit of oddity.
Ivory satin, faille, MORE or peau de sole,
either plain or in stripes, is the thing for styl-
ish spring wedding gowns, and the train must
be full and rounding with a veil shaped TO
match and almost covering it.
Gray suede or dull green cashmere is made
up into simple but stylish pOlOnaiseS, lightly
trimmed with the new steel gimp, and worn
over skirts of striped MORE or bengaline, whose
lightest moiety matches their hue.
If the bridesmaid be very little girl, as is
now often the case, she wears a quaint froek of
white or cream India silk, shocked with blue
or scarlet, and carries bunch Of roses much
bigger relatively than her small self.
Among the most stylish summer thin stuffs
are shot yelling, with inch-wide silk selyages;
canvas, with Paisley borders and crepons, and
crepeIines of wool and silk or linen wrought
all over with dots of self-colored embroidery
For very young women there are summer
silk made with gathered belted waist, long,
soft grdle to tie in front, and long curved dra-
perry falling over petticoat of white India silk
tucked and trimmed with wide Valenciennes in
sertiOn.
For evening wear the Diana bodice, of strong
silk glOve-ftted, with drapery of soft folds
and lace going from the left shoulder down
under the right arm and mingling with the
back drapery of the skirt, is both new and
striking
High and very stiff standing collars are still
the rule, TO which, however, there are same not
able exceptions in which the collar is not only
conSpicuOuSly absent, but the open neck
slightly pointed at the front, and a soft fall of
lace turned over and ending in a iabothalf way
to the belt.
4 noticeable Greek gown is of blue and
suede cashmere, with a slight vine Of gold en-
broidery upon one edge. The right side is of
falls thence in classic folds over the suede left
side, with the gold vine making the only
trimming.
The very highest novelty is silk embroidered
with wreaths, vines wheat-sheaves, what not,
in Vatican colors. Ii is wrought all along one
edge and trims the bottom of the skirt, which
has drapery Of shot yelling the collar, cuffs,
vest, and edges of the drapery, and also forms
the half girdle, which is sewed in under the
arms and ties over the loose vest very low in
'front.'
The very finest wool textures-cashmere,
drap d'ete, and so on-come in all the lovely
new shades, with wide silk selyages for COM
bining with silk of the same shade. Moire shot
silk or bengaline Is usually chosen, and over a
petticoat of il the wool appears as full, softly
draped polonaise in whose trimmings facings,
and accessories the silk re-appears.-INetc York
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