The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02
Fashion Notes.

Apple-green is fashionable color.
Full corsages grow more and more in
favor.
Fancy straws are plentiful in the new
millinery.
The nettcd silk cord is a new and
effective trimming.
Russia braid the collar, cuffs and front
of your next house-gown.
Plain white and fancy -colored hand
kerchiefs are both fashionable.
Cheviot homespun is fabric which is
greatly liked for its serviceable qualities.
The introduction of velvet millinery
for summer wear comes to us from Eng
land.
Some English women are being married
In colors when the wedding is an after
noon affair.
Galloons of metal braid are to be used
on hats and also for the binding of bon
nets the coming season.
Large designs are going out of fashion,
small patterns of braid and passementerie
put on by hand being preferred.
Costumes of plain black net either in
the Russian or Brussels weave will be
worn for mourning the coming summer
Flat braiding, executed with fine, fiat
Russian braid, is now general used, but
most patterns are wrought with two
kinds of braid.
The impossible flowers of shot and
shaded velvet or satin, with god or tin
sci hearts, are offset by others, marvel
lously natural.
Plaid Besgalines are used to good ad-
vantage in combination with the soft
wooden fabrics such as Lampas cloth,
Henrietta, Chudder cloth or India twills.
The gossamer bonness, albeit they
seem TO be made of cohweb tie with i
bow of watered ribbon, cost just as much
as if they were made of costly and rich
fabrics.
The dress Paris;ans prefer for the
promenade is q light cloth costume. 1t
may be richly braided or ornamented
with handsome embroidery, or it may be
quite plain.
Medicis belts are to be used in the new
suits. The girdle is made with apointed
front of pasteboard covered with the
dress goods, and the front half only stud
ded with opal, garnet, or jet beads.
New basques have pointed backs. stiff
ly boned throughout, and though there
is an effort to trim sleeves into untidi-
ness, the favorite mode is yet the natty
ruff of folds, held by closely strapped
bow.
Pilgrim dresses made of white flannel
finished about the feet with Moorish
border of silver lace are. very lovely. A
little girdle encircles the waist and
Marguerite pocket is worn at the right
side.
The new style in trimm ng bonnets is
with varied assortment OF colored
rosettes. These are made of fine lisse or
Grape, sometimes five or more of these
rosettes are seen on bonnet, and In as
many colors.
Some of the new bonnets of chantilly
lace are quite charming, this beautiful
fine lace always being a very attractive
one for such purposes; these bonnets
will be very stylish the coming summer
to match the chantilly costumes.
Linen lawns are in old fashioned polka
dots and figures of very small size, and
will prove as popular as they did years
ago, when there was no more desirable
summer costumes than one of linen lawn.
1t is like new each time it is Numbered.
Middle-aged ladies have their full dress
toilets of black velvet or moire cut with
a half-high corsage, inside of which is
gathered guimpe of black net or tulle
which comes up close about the throat,
where it is completed by high collar of
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