The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-27
NEW DRESS TRIMMINGS.
The Latest in Bead, Passementeries and
Metal EmbrOIderfes.


Metal EmbrOIderies.
Kid is used for the background of
many new trimmings, white, tan and
light Suede-color being wrought with
steel or gilt beads, and cut in slender
points, or else open diamond-shaped
bands of tan kid form wide galloon, on
which are set squares of dark velvet,
making very handsome trimming for
cloth gowns. Black trimmings will
again be used on colored materials,
furs, passementerie, soutache, and also
black lace being employed to tone down
high cOlors. In many trimmings other
colors are added, but the black note re-
mains, and is a stylish foundation for
one or for several colors in combina-
ton. The favorite designs for passe-
menteries of all kinds, whether of
cords, beads or of crocheted silk, are
vandyke points and gothic arches COM
ing up slenderly from a straight edge.
These points are placed at the foot of
the skirt. the straight edge below, and
trim the front of the corsage in two
rows pointing toward the sides They
form the collar, epaulettes and cuffs.
and are also placed along the edge of
the waist as ribbons and girdles now
are, some slight pendants being added
to each point to drOop over the hips.
There are also many branching leaf de-
signs, and all patterns are open instead
of being massed and close. as they for
merly were. Embroideries in flower.
vine and leaf patterns done in silk are
in the lightest colors-cream. lilac, pale
green, wisteria and mauve-to be APP
pliqued on the silks and velvets of light
evening toilets. The lilac embroider-
les are largely imported, as that is the
color of the season in Paris, and will be
much used for full-dress toilets during
the autumn and winter New guipure
trimmings that are like lace, yet are
not lace, have thick silk cords through
their meshes, and come in all the new
colors and black, in the slender pointed
designs, for trimming fine woods and
silk. Beads reappear in jet, gilt, steel,
and silver, combined with cords and
with bullion embroidery of twisted gilt
and silver threads like that
on military clothing. Black and
gold beads are together, and
black and steel beads have gold cord to
enrich them. Cashmere-colored beads
in branching leaf patterns have the
stylish black finish of fine jet beads
| along all their outlines. Vandykes of
black silk cord have beads on their
edges, while other points of great size
are entirely of braid and cord. The
metal embroideries show copper, gilt,
and steel combined with silk in Oriental
coIoring; in the favorite pointed de-
| signs, with pendants added to the points
| that are to be placed downward around
the waist of round and pointed cor
sages. Three or four points from pref
| ty shoulder trimmings, the tips Of the
points being drawn together on the
| shoulder seam, and the straight edge
| set on the sleeves, or this may be re-
| versed and the points extend down
ward Crocheted silk trimmings are
| new in colors and are shown in beauti-
| full designs selected at the Paris EXPOSE
ton, some of them being tone upon
/ tone, shading from light to dark, in
| flower and pointed patterns. The Escur-
| ial cord passementeries, with black
foundations, and either one or many
colors, are excellent for trimming
| either black or cOlOred dresses. Gilt
and steel are placed together in ex-
tremely fine soutache, set on edge very
close together in solid crescent and
| pointed patterns. Some of the steel
and silver braid trimmings are very
handsome. Those for evening dresses
are of white silver with gold edges, and
a few of the opal beads called angels
| tears are outside the cord. These are
in arabesque patterns, and there are gold
and Jet beads in similar designs. Panels
for the front or sides of skirts are in
Tour Eiffel patterns, very broad at the
foot, then sloping almost to a point at the
! top For wedding dresses are vandyke
points and arabesque borders made OF
white metal threads, twisted cords,
and some round pearls together. There
are also metal embroideries or gauze
and on silk muslin, those of white
silver on white n1Ousseljfse dc sole being
especially pretty. Fringes will be used
again, both in the light Chinese de-
signs of silk strands with deep meshes
at the top, and in heavier grelOts, part
ly of beads and partly of silks, for
mantle and cloak trimmings Harper 8
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