Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-03
Fashion Notes.

lE 1om the New York World.i
One of the prettiest of the many bonnets
| shown in the shop windows of the milliners
| on Broadway ives made of exquisitely fine
| lace straw, pure white in color. The brim
had loosely gathered puff of pale yellow
| Grape, and white Grape lightly embroidered
in gold thread formed the garniture; one
large, pale yellow orchid formed the crown
fastened in the knotted white Grape in front.
These orchids were made of Grape and were
absolutely works of art, so closely did they
simulate the fragile sp1endors of those queer
tropical blossoms.
The Louis Quinze jacket is familiar to eve
rybody, but this season sees it made more
fetching than ever by the splendor of it's
waistcoats and the rich lace3 used upon it..
Around the neck is sewed frill of lace that
falls over the turn-down collar, and then is
brought down in jabot over the buttonholes.
Full frilIs of lace are the wrist finish and
falling as they do over the hand make it
seems much smaller. A handsome one hes
just been taken to Newport for a well-knoWn
woman there. The skirts to be worn are of
small pale tan cloth, with white MORE pan
els embroidered in gold. The jacket is of
tan cloth lined throughout with old rose sat
dered MORE and the ample fills of duchesse
lace as delicate as hoar-frost.
The empire coat has its limitations. It
can only be worn by women who are deci-
dedly slim and who have what Worth credits
to all American women, the art of knowing
how to put on theft clothes. Mrs. Potter has
been wearing it very successfully over at the
Grand Opera House es Pauline. The coat
has tails that reach to the edge of the skirt
in the back and hang straight and long,
while the front is cut off to about the waist
line and closes in double breasted fashion
over a long waistcoat of heavy brocade. For
the coat proper a plain color is used, the
tails are lined with light shade of silk end
the waistceathaB light background with a
Vatican pattern upon it.
Here is tea gown that ives made for the
beautiful M15. Potter Palmer, of Chicago.
1t is of creamy-wnite crepon, which hangs in
such soft, artistic folds, and is rather mod
elled after the Recamier style, but with res
ervations of modernness. It is high in the
neck and the sleeves are loose and reach to
the edge of the gown. just in front. at
| the top of the corsage, is large black bat,
| whose wings are made to extend to the
| arms ON either side. It is made entirely OF
| jet, and smaller bat. just at the waist
line, is placed es buckle might be. The
| effect is very peculiar, as may be imagined.
| The Connemara cloak which Mrs. Corn-
wallis West introduced in London year
| ago has at last been doniciled on this side
| of the Atlantic. In England, however, it
was most frequently seen of rich scarlet
cloth, the shade of fox hunters "pink, but
while that harmonizes well with the dull
| tones of the English atmosphere, it was soon
| found to be quite impossible under our gilt
tering skies. So far the American expert
-ments in this direction have been conf1ed to
| dark blue, brown, gray and black. Women
who are either short or stout must escheW
| them in any color, for only the tall and slen-
| der can caK1J off it3 multitudinous folds
l with grace. It is always a part of the we'd
| ding outfit of the Irish peasant girl, and is
1 made of the finest cashmere the country af-
fords. 1t is made in many plaits from the
shoulder piece end wraps in -volumlnous
folds about her, defying storm and cold and
| lasting lifetime. 1t IS counted vulgar to
use clasps with this cloak, rs it should be
| tied with ribbons, knotted in long loops at
the throat just rs the Irish girl wears hers.
Undraped, kr;fe-blade plated skirts are
still fashionable for evening wear. One of
| the most novel of these toilets is made of
black point d'esprit, ve1J economical mate
rial, almost e9 light as tulle and much more
durable. Mounted on an underskirt of su-
| rah that is also kpife-plaited and worn with
very wide sesh and low bodice. this makes
a very effective evening gown. The Dress
| makers set this skirt on the edge of wide
yoke, and the soft sasn is twisted about the
| hips and knotted in big bows behind This
sash is fastened in its place go that it is not
necessary to arrange it anew every time the
dress is worn. Some of the young women
wear low surah bodice with full shirred
one of net over it, which is gathered up high
| in the throat and on the shoulders. The
| sleeves are full plated like the skirt and
| with Eve bands of ribbon holding it close to
the arm below the elbow. There are many
white ones made in the same way, with
white, old rose or linden green ribbons.