Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-21
FASHIONS WHIMS.
NUMEROUS POINTS FOR THE
LADIES TO CONSIDER.
the Year-Dresses for the Summer,
Robes de Mutt.

The dog-rose is new pattern for rich
white satin brocades.
Braided skirts are worn this season,
though not so much as during the past
months. Aeped skirts are fashionable
for ball dresses and street wear.
Checks are very popular this season
The newer checks are irregular or
broken. The sleeves of checked dresses
are made in gigot style and ended with
small cuff.
Gray and black form a stylish combi-
nation. Dresses for cool summer days
are made with gray skirts, around the
bottom of which from three to nine
rows of black velvet are placed, and
plain gray basques with black velvet
sleeves.
Seamless corsages-which, however,
are made to fit like a glove by some
fine, subtle magic of the modiste-are
in high fashion. Many of them are
yeritable cuirasses, devoid often of
trimming, and they fasten-heaven and
the wearer only know where or how.
The mystery to the uninitiated is how
the fair wearers get into or out of them,
as openings, fastening or slashes are
wholly invisible.
The short, rounding Spanish jacket is
more popular than ever. 1t is applied
to every sort of fabric, in ecru en-
broidery on cotton dresses, in rich passe
menteries on wooden, and guipure lace
and rich Persian and Spanish ap-
pliuues in silks and beading on velvet
or silks.
Laced-in girls will please take notice.
There is indication that the fashionable
she world in London is about to encour-
age the waist. Mrs. Jenness Miller has
met with a rebuff in regard to her bifur-
Gated skirt reform there, but the grande
danes have taken up the idea that lac
ing in the end promotes stoutness, and
the experiment of not lacing in their
daughters is now being tried, under the
rose.
Black lace over colored satin petit
coats and bodices is a revived fashion
that is destined to be popular this sea-
son. A rich toilet is made of black lace
sparsely spangled with jet over a foun-
'dation of trout pink satin. The hem of
the skirt has a wreath of pink garden
roses yelled by puff of French tulle
around it. The neck and the small
sleeves are bordered with small stemless
garden roses OF the same shade.
Fashionable Novelties.
A pair of bankers shears, with long,
slender blades and ornate silver handles,
are used for cutting coupons, and look
almost as sharp as the astute owner in
prospective,
Fences of birch bark, upon which are
perched robin redbreasts, are of colored
bronze, and are utilized as pen-racks,
and on some of them the ink-stand is
also combined.
The newest form of pen rack is made
of silver wire twisted to form initials;
among the favorite designs are two in
terlaced hearts suspended between slen-
der letters.
A silver tripod which might have been
the property of a prophetic sybil is des-
tined to no more mysterious purpose
than the holding of pens and pencils.
A paper-weight, worthy of more than
passing glance, is recumbent bear in
old silver, reproduction OF one of the
famous Barge bronzes.
There are pen and pencil holders in any
conceivable design; one OF the latter
can contain an entire lead pencil, which
is held in by spring.
A mucilage- bottle of silver and one Of
glass covered with a network OF etched
silver is of elegant design and workman
ship.
Silver paper-clasps for holding bills
are useful and substantial, as are also
the blotters, with tops of silver repousse
work.
Monogrammed card-cases for the
~chatelaine are very stylish, and silver
.bound ivorine tablets for memoranda.
Pencils to hang at ladys chatelaine
"or to be worn on gentleman's watch
aI,o,, do in, nov
A set of literary candle-sticks are Of
rather low shape with adjustable lips
which will hold any sized candle.
A superb ink-well is of cut glass of alb
normal size set in tray of silver with
edges in repousse work.
A check-cutter and rule of silver are
suitable offerings to railroad magnate
or a bonanza king.
Robes de Mutt.
Nightgowns deserve honorable men,
ton in the list of gowns, for so elaborate
and dressy are they that they are scarcely
,distinguishable from tea or matinee
gowns. The prevailing style of decora.
tion consists of narrow insertion, through
which baby ribbon is threaded.
Broad collars, frilled with exquisite
fine laces, gathered very full, turn down
to the shoulders, and white cuffs OF the
same fold back to the elbows, being tied
with broad ribbons of the same shade as
the narrow in the insertion. These
gowns open the entire length beneath
the lace frill, and another fall of lace
covers the hem at the bottom. About
the waist broad ribbons run through in.
sertion to gather the fullness in slightly
without confning it to the figure, and
xaie I'M bows in front, giving the appear
ance OF skirt and bodice loosely belted
The material is the finest sheerest lawn
Sometimes the cuffs are made straight
turning upward with a double hem O.
silk or batiste of some positive color
Joined on the white with narrow vein
ing of insertion, and again the color il
introduced in small embroidered flowers
or buttonholed on the edge of frilling'
almost as full as the lisse frills on para
soils. Pretty outside pockets decorate
the left side with the monogram or ini
tials of the wearer daintily embroidered
Lime a Turf Factor.
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