The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-06-20
Fashion Notes.

Plumes are not generally used this
season.
Flower trimmings are fashionable for
dressy evening toilets. . 49,.
Olive velvet is combined with certain
shades of gray with excellent effect
Crosswise trimmings made of light
felt are among the novelties in mil
linery. IT,
Flower bonnets will be again worn
the coming season for very dressy oc-
casions.
Stuffed birds are no more seen on
elegant head gear, simple feathers only
being used.
Embroidered China silk fchus, with
long ends deeply fringed, are very stylish
for summer wear.
spangled crepe de chine is seen in some
of the elaborate evening dresses for the
CAV season at Bar Harbor and Newport.
The striped mulls prove a novelty, and
summer fabrics of cotton have rival in
this material that will prove formidable.
Plaid silks, in which white predomi-
mates, will be much worn the coming
season, with fancy guimpes or elaborate
jerseys. --..-
Little children wear quaint little
Shaker bonnets pique or drawn lawn.
The little drawn hats are also very pretty
and becoming. .
Pretty gowns for misses are of white
camel's hair, striped with gold galloon,
or of white cashmere, striped with velvet
in blue, brown or scarlet.
Colored nuns yelling, as well as white
and black, has wide selvage edge which
forms trimming for..the costume both
on founces and on the drapery.
Chatelaine bags, so convenient and
pretty for shopping purposes, have again
come into use. They have real silver
fixtures, and are quite luxurious.
The fancy for putting large girls into
loose frocks with short waists and big
turned-down lace collars, makes them
look like babies under a magnifying
glass.
Point desprit in color makes more use
full dressy costumes for evening wear IN
summer than tulle, and may be had in
various colors as well as in black and
white.
Bronze shoes with light colored CATERS
are very stylish for summer wear.
Leather color, pearl gray and white duck
CATERS will be worn with summer Co.'S
tunes.
Some of the most elegant sash ribbons
come in lengths of twelve yards, which
make lust three full sashes; by conse-
quence the purchaser gets four yards OF
nothing.
English straw bonnets in poke shapes,
with borders of small daisies or button
pinks, and trimming of tulle, are among
the most serviceable and elegant of all
the summer headgear.
Chamois gloves made on the Barritz
model and stitched in white are very
stylish for every day wear for either
shopping or driving, and have the ad-
vantage of being washable.
Henrietta cloth and India cashmere
are far and away the best stuffs for street
wear, and their variety of tone, tint,
making, draping and garnlshing is
simply too tedious to mention.
Hooks, eyes, lacirg, buttons-any
fastening that remains apparent-aree
now hopelessly passes, the effect aimed
at being that OF the flower that has
grown in, and out of, its sheath.
Garni, the new stuff for children's
hats, is a shirred cambria, with embroid-
ery added, and when soiled the whole
thing can be sent to wash and come out
span new with very little trouble.
Hat brims, ten inches wide, appear in
London parks, but as they wrinkle up
and dow and all around, so far there
has been no need for the police to inter.
fere with them for stopping the way.