The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-08-18
MIRROR OF TEE mode.
Now, Girls, Here Are Full
Instructions on the
Costume Question.
FEATHERS, FANS, AND FRILLs.
Summer Tea Gowns in Clear Nus
lin--Red Silk Scarfs Over Cream
COlOr--0wls Blink and Stars
Twinkle.

Velvet ribbon will be much used
for trimming during the winter.
Among the new autumn goods are
many beautiful brocades.
Ladies' cloth with woven border
of stripes is new.
Fringed lowered sashes have each
of the colors that are woven in the
ribbon repeated in the fringe.
A gold ruby eyed snake coils around
the head OF new shell hairpin.
Camel's hair in quite light shades
with preference for Suede and felt
gray will be worn for the first autumn
toilettes.
Wine colored velvet bretelles are
worn with gobelin blue and lavender
frocks.
Dark India silks with geometrical
designs in ivory white admit of being
trimmed with quantities of white lace.
The Oxford ties are supposed to be
popular because they afford glinpses
of the expensive silk hosiery in fash
ion.
Black satin makes such very be-
coming and dressy frocks that it has
been decided to revive it for the fall
season.
High laced bronze shoes, which are
worn with silk stockings of the same
shade, are popular abroad.
Long black kid gloves, with back
stitching of white, are the correct
wear abroad at present.
Exrahrn1v rNanoi1c lir~I,4 Io,1r
brown as well as black, cost only ten
cents in the big shops and twenty-five
cents at the druggists.
Some pretty house waists are
formed entirely of bands of embroid-
cred or tucked mousseline de sole al
ternating with others of pink, old rose
or Turquoise blue ribbons
Many of the full waists on thin
wooden goods have the necks cut
square and surrounded with embroid-
cred bands and filled in with silk.
Silver snake necklets, with brace
let's to correspond, are among the
curious fancies of the moment
Two pairs OF shoes to match each
costume has been the rule this sum
mer with dressy young women.
Summer tea gowns are made in
clear muslin, with insertion let in per-
pendicularly to bodice and skirt
alike. These are worn over colored
silk slips, and are trimmed with
number of ribbon bows to match.
Tailor made suits in process of con-
struction for autumn wear are set into
the belts in big box plaits and with
GOAT tail' bodice.
Mouse gray cloth capes with collars
and tabs Of black velvet will be worn
during the autumn.
Dark purplish red shades, such as
dahlia and rosewood, are largely i'm
ported in silks, ribbons and velvets.
The fancy now in London is to have
the name embroidered on handker-
chiefs in small printed letters in the
finest and most even way possible.
Wide scarfs of red silk are often worn
now over the full straight frocks of
cream colored India silk, the ends
reaching nearly to the edge of the
skirt.
Raised velvet borders in palm and
arabesque designs come on the new
black fabrics. 81
Hats made of striped and checked
cloths are said to be among the new
autumn headgear for young girls.
Russian embroidery in Oriental
colors has been used to trim some of
the lingerie in the trousseau of the
Princess OF Greece.
Clusters of field flowers tied with
fiuttering ribbons are scattered over
the creamy ground of some of the new
brocades.
The new gay woollen handkerchief
costumes are to be made up of eight
large squares of camel's-hair, of blue.
green or red, bordered with black in
irregular stripes.
Owls blink, and stars twinkle on
the new gold mounted gauze fans in
tended for evening use
Among the most expensive new lace
pins are those Stimulating Chinese
lantern with inlaid flowers and Celes-
tial figures of enamel
Some of the new tea gowns have q
hanging sleeve in points falling to the
hem of the skirt. formed entirely of
rows of lace.
A pretty afternoon toilette, noticed
during the week in Long Branch. was
of rather wide rose and black plaid
on white ground, the tabs OF the
small black lace fichu wrap falling to
the edge OF the skirt. The black lace
hat was trimmed with several short
rose ostrich feathers, and the pink
parasol was covered with black lace,
and trimmed with bows of the same
hue.
All the young women are bringing
home from Europe with them Roman
sashes, which are very fashionable
now, and can be bought handsomer
and to better advantage abroad.
A soft silk frock of the yellow gIadi-
ola shade, with long, scattered palm
leaf design just made, is to be worn
with scarf fichu of null and q white
straw bonnet, with only an Alsatian
bow of ribbon upon the front, and
three gladiola blossoms set under the
gathered lace embroidered briIn.
1t is thought that by another sum-
mer the fashion of wearing wide
brimIned felt hats, trimmed precisely
like the Leghorns, will become quite
general. as they came in this season
after every one had secured their
hats.
An elaborate soft gray silk frock.
just made up, had crossed folds of the
same covering on each side from the
shoulder seam to the belt. The small
V between them was filled with a
green velvet vest embroidered with