Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-11
THE FASHIONS.
FEMININE GARMENTS TOO LOVELY
Fur ANYTHING.
Some of the More Interesting Fan.
cies of Present and Approach
ing Styles of Dress.
From the Chicago Times. I

lea gowns become more and mora elab
crate. Formerly of one color or two dis
tInct shades of one color, the tea gown O
to-day is made sometimes of three con
trasting colors and of as many different
materials.
Besides elegant hats and bonnets, French
milliners are tempting their customers
with other beautiful trihes-for instance
dainty show is made of floral garniture.
for ball toilets. These are very attractive
and also very expensive, being of the mos
perfect variety of blooms and foliage manu-
featured in France. These are deliciously
tinted and perfumed, and comprise specia
skirt and bodice devices mingled with Ions
graceful bronze and pale green grasses ant
loops and ends of watered ribbon. A SCI
! OF these include two long skirt garlands
shoulder sprays, corsage bouquet, and {
smaller cluster for the hair. These trans
form the simple tulle or lace gown into ar
exquisite toilet, says writer in the New
York EreniHg Post The flowers are sucl
marvellous limitations of real blossoms thai
1t IS only their perennial freshness which
betrays their artificial nature.
Tweeds Of every description, checked
plain and plaided cloths, and striped
woolen materials in endless variety. NAV
be seen in all the leading shops in color.
schemes and combinations never before
introduced. Dresses now made of these
comfortable winter fabrics can be worn fan
INTO June with perfect comfort. and it is
! indispensable that they should be made
IN great simplicity. These wooden mate.
rails really require but little draping OF
garnishing, the stylish effect of a gown OF
this description depending entirely upon
Its perfect tit and finish.
Fashionable modisteS are sending out
very elegant gowns for visiting and high
tea wear, showing a combination of MORE
with two kinds of velvet, of heavy-corded
silk combined with Henrietta-cloth, and
also the very handsome veIvet-striped
failles, combined with plain faille and
plain velvet Gray in many exquisite
shades, moss-green, copper-color, dahlia
/ and bronze are the prevailing colors in
such suits, and there is usually a contrast
ing color, or at least bright shaded lines OF
color to relieve the deep dyes. Elegant
striped fabrics will play conspicuous part
IN most of these gowns. and they are made
especially effective in basques when ar
! ranged to taper at the back forms and to
| slope diagonally on the sides to a point in
| front
The economical serge gowns, which hold
| their own through every change of winter
fashion, are very generally decorated with
Z
serge. A young lady recently walked
down Broadway attired in dress of brill
liant green serge, with white cloth skirt
and tunic trimmings braided over with
pale gold and terra Gotta in soutache. The
dress was evidently new, and the wearer
possessed magnificent figure, but the eff
feet was far from pleasing, for in the first
place the sudden contrast WAS too conspic-
nous for the street, as the gown caught
the eye from long distance, and on a near
inspection the colors failed to harmonic.
Many new stylish shades are noted this
season in this very useful and serviceable
material, among others the fashionable
golden bronze shot with gold.
There Is great diversity in the list of
sleighing hoods this winter. The Russian
hood of sable, cut up in the back to show
the coil of hair, is the most expensive, and
the English hood of bronze plush, lined
with elder down and trimmed with bands
of golden-brown beaver, is the most pro-
tective. The picturesque Normandy toque.
made of various kinds of fur, is high
peaked on top, and has a pert-looling
cluster Of upright quill-leathers set on the
left side. There are also comfortable
sleighing hoods FIR elderly women, made
to come well over the head in front, and
lined with quilted satin. The hoods are
OF plush or shot velvet, and have bands
and deep cape of black fox or monkey
skin. There are also youthful-looking
hoods of white broadcloth, dotted with
black, blue, or brown chenille, and trim
med with pinked ruches of the same The
hoods are lined with satin the color of the
dots, and fastened with watered-ribbon of
the same shade.
Ribbon is used this season with the ut
most protusion. Many dancing dresses,
composed Of delicately-tinted Pompadour
net, have the entire front formed of length
wise rows of ribbon run so close together
that one would scarcely suspect the means
by which the effect is produced. The new
the purpose. This sort of ribbon is used
for making the pretty neck Filings now
worn. The ribbon must be qnite wide,
and the shot or noire ribbons are most ap-
proved. The neck band is doubled to
within half an inch of the upper edge.
Beneath the chin the ribbon in its full
width is made into loops There are then
three loops and an end falling right and
left-they being all nearly of the same
length. Very easily made are the ribbon
braces combined with lace, that may be
worn over any simple high bodice. The
strand of ribbon is formed into very long
V, which terminates in series of loops
and ends at the waist, with a full, softly
falling bow on one shoulder. Cream-white
lace is iaboted very gracefully down the
outside of the strand, mingling with the
loops of ribbon at the belt
a new device for a brooch is in the
shape of a solid gold or silver shield stud
ded with diamonds. The brooch at the
back is emheilished by number of nipple
ments of warfare spear ak, arrow.
sword and rifle in solid metal matching the
shield.
At church wedding this week the bride
was uiesSSu III Slnple lOlleJ OF Wnlte
corded silk in princesse style, the bodice
laced up in the back and cut square in the
neck both front and back, with point lace
at the edge of the opening, headed by
narrow band of pear pasSementerie. Her
ornaments were pearls and diamonds. Her
three bridesmaids wore. variously, gowns
of tea-rose, apricot and rosy lilac MORE,
made with pointed Josephine bodice full
undraped skirts, and excessively wide
sashes of Lyons satin. They carried large
inverted George Ill hats of satin of the
same shade, crushed fiatat each side edged
with lace, and filed with roses and maiden
hair fern. One of the guests, a brilliant
looking brunette, wore dress of heavy
black corded silk made in severe simple
ity, the bodice cut in deep V in the neck,
front and back, this edged with massive
cut jet passementerie A girdle of the
same went round the edge of the pointed
bodice. She wore q diamond necklace
and diamond hair ornaments, and carried
a fan of black ostrich feathers Her gloves
were black also, and covered her arms sew
eral inches above the elbow. What gave
striking effect to this somber gown was
tiny pair of Roman red Charles TX. shoes,
laced with black silk cord and deco
rated with cutjet embroidery over the
instep. A lovely trained toilet of lilac