The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-27
Fashion Notes.


The most stylish new spring mantles
are lined with watered silk.
Silk null promises to be favorite
material for late spring and summer
dresses.
Many summer costumes will be made
up in pink and black-a favorite COM
bination for that season.
A novelty in ribbons is the new repped
ribbon with edges of gauze. 1t is very
pretty and makes up well.
Mourning mantles are big capes of
fine, dull, black wool. They have deep
bands of Grape down the front.
A new round silver hand glass hus a
silver tennis girl by way of handle and q
tennis scene etched on the back.
Wraps, mantles and pe!erines will all
be very small, and late fashions show
them in immense variety of style.
Some very handsome bonnets of recent
manufacture are made wholly of velvet
flowers in soft and delicate shades.
New cloth robes for spring wear are
ornamented with woven embroidery in
single metal, as gold, silver, or steel.
Borders of woven embroidery in q
single metal, as gold, silver, steel, orna-
ment many of the new cloth robes for
spring.
The most stylish new silver has plain
FURNISHED surface, with the suspicion of
etching or chasing in narrow band about
the top.
Paris greatly favors the big ''comet"
rosette Of very narrow ribbon in several
colors as q garnishment for its spring
bonnets.
Light summer vests will have five
buttons and collar when cut single
breasted. When double, but four buttons
must be worn.
Bog-wood or dull jet is the only proper
deep mourning jewellery, but cut-iet,
black onyx and Grape stone may be used
after few months.
Spring hats have wide brims and low
square crowns, though there will bemany
styles and shapes. They will differ in
degree more than in kind.
Black will remain the leading color
for headgear, with green next and brown,
lead-gray, dull blue, old rose and cop
per shades about equal as thirds.
In straw bonnets Milan braids are
likely to be most worn, but Tuscan,
Neapolitan and lace bralds will be more
in favor than for several years past.
Cloths IN old rose, reed green, blue
gray and fawn color are being made up
as gowns for the buds and blossoms of
passage, now sojourning in the South.
The long gloves which accompany
short sleeved evening gowns are less
wrinkled on the arm than formerly, and
the wearer has variety of shades of tan,
gray and cream color to choose from.
The front of novel dress bodice was
made of large silk handkerchief, with
gold embroidered corners. 1t was fast
ened under the arms and knotted across
the bust, the corner being turned down.
ward.
The combination of green and black
has become somewhat tiresome it is so
common, and many ladies have substi-
tuted blue, of the same vivid tone as the
green, to combine effectively with the
sable hue.
Full toreador vests of silk muslin are
worn with cashmere dresses. They have
iabot of knife plating down the mid.
die, and similar plating is attached to
the highs standing collars and worn
turned down.
The English nainsooks and wool chal-
lis have a soft quality and are delicately
tinted, but the new American stamped
China silks and cheap challis have failed
to catch the we'll -modulated tones o.
color, graceful designs and fine texture
common to the imported material.
Ginghams opened the spring season
with flourish. Many city shop windows
are piled high with bolts of stripes and
plaids in every shade. Some OF these will
make charming house and street dress,
dignilied by a touch of velvet, or, even
better, made up with extreme simplicity.
A pink silk gown finished recently for
pretty young woman, Just out, was
trimmed about the top of the bodice and
down a broad side.panel of the skirt
with curling delicate green ostrich
plumes. Long feathers decorated the
waist, while short overlapping tips were
used upon the skirt.