Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-02
THE LATEST FASHIONS.

Black is again leading color for dresses,
hats, bonnets and wraps.
Full leg of mutton, or bishops sleeves,
are fashionable for all soft, clinging goods.
Borders, or rows of ribbon. or insertion,
or clusters of fine tucks trim the skirts of
many gowns.
London will have none of orange colored
stationery-not that it hates Parnell the
less, but loves quietness more.
A discovery, due to the plentiful royal
deaths abroad is that diamond necklace
worn between two jet ones is strict half
mourning.
Seen upon recent hat Two birds, three
butterflies, two yards of ribbon, four of
lace, about ten of silver cords in rows and
rings and rosettes.
a new finish for sashes of silk or ribbon
is two bands of jet open work across the
ends, with handsome Jet fringe falling
from the lower one.
You can buy child's sash of washing
silk five inches wide and two and one-half
yards long for one shilling, but YOU must
go to London for it.
For morning walks or shopping thick
walls are allowable, but for all other occa-
siOns the sheerest dotted net, coming Just
below the chin, is the correct thing.
The perennial and superserviceable ier-
sey will be worn again, mainly in black
The pretty silk blouses are used instead
where a color would be in better taste
About the most comfortable underdress
for black lace gown is of the striped or
plaid washing silk, which is firm enough
to need lining neither in skirt nor waist
An easy mitigation of the new buggy
sleeve is to shirr it Just below the armhole
and set velvet or galoOn under the shirr-
ing, with another row Just above the cuff.
Round French waists, showing no darts
or side bodies, and gathered at the neck
and waist-line in front and back, are used
for all kinds of summer fabrics, silk, wool
or cotton.
Latticed borders of narrow black velvet
ribbon, laid over light cashmere, are on
dark cashmere skirts, and that part of the
bodies above the corselet also has this vel
vet trellis pattern.
Nail work-that is, driving iron, brass,
copper or silver nails so that their heads
will form pattern upon the surface-is all
the rage among London ladies. Plush is
the background oftenest chosen.
A new caprice combines surah silk with
cotton in the combination of costume.
The vest and front, or side of skirt of su-
rah, draping upon it the fine, new cotton
fabrics, which cost as much as the silk.
Vests of white tulle, outlined by braces
of handsome ribbon and finished at the
neck with frills of dainty lace, are among
the most useful of the confections vet de-
vised for turning a plain waist into
dressy one.
Short capes for driving are too short in
the back to conceal the taper of the waist,
but are pointed below the waist in front.
The shoulders are gathered high, and
epaulettes are made of double row of the
golden palms.
White shoes, either kid or satin, may be
cleaned by pouring on them benzoline oil
not benzine. 1t should be poured on
little at q time and rubbed off with a clean
rag. The oil is so highly infammable that
great care should be taken in using it.
Yellow appears in many ways this sea-
son, as entire gowns, and as accessories in
gowns of almost any color. Red in old
rose tints, Titan red with yellow shading,
and the less poetically-named brick reds,
are very fashionably made up in summers
fabrics.
Fancy vests and waistcoats are in as high
vogue as ever and appear in every sort of
guise on gowns of every sort. These addi-
tions are useful as well as ornamental, and
invariably add to the appearance of the
toilet. An effective style is the double
vest, in which the upper one Stimulates
low-cut waistcoat, and the under one of
some lighter material, reaches to the
throat.