Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-30
FASHION POINTS.
Notes for the Consideration of the
Ladies.

Ladies.
Blondine is the captivating name
given to delicate shade of brown crepe.
The stiff Oxford sash will be worn as
finish for the neglige waist SO much
admired just now.
A Paris correspondent says that
'young and pretty women wear no
wells whatever with their best toilets"
A small. close, cap-shaped, brimless
bonnet is made entirely Of gold lace,
and, not being lined, is nothing more
than nominal covering for the head.
The trimming of velvet and black velvet
strings subdue the effect.
An afternoon carriage wrap in empire
effect, has tight-fitting yoke of pink
embroidered in white and gold, and on
this is gathered full founce of white
crepe over pink, reaching to the hips.
Two long scarf ends, finished by tassels,
extend down the front.
Crepe lisse ruchings wilt as easily as
rose petals, and they are superseded by
fiat and narrow bands of silk either of
cream or some faint tint outlined with
rope twist of silk or pleated cord of
gold or silver. Flat neck dressing of
every description obtains at this season.
Small, close-ftting toques are worn by
both matrons and misses, and it must
be conceded that nothing is so univer-
sally becoming. Flower toques, although
pretty and light. have been vulgarized
by the cheap ones worn by shop girls
and domestics. Ii adopted by exclusive
women, they must be of some expensive
blossom which cannot be simulated by
the low-priced florist.
The 'fop" is large leghorn fiat left
to 'fop," or made to follow many de-
vious ways and turns. 1t is generally
faced with velvet or gauze and trimmed
with gauze or velvet ribbons and flow
ers or feathers, but the prettiest of them
are trimmed solely with garlands of
flowers and the facing of velvet. These
are most charming hats for young, fresh
faces, but entirely inappropriate for
"belated damsels" past the blush of
youth, who, however, occasionally per-
sist in wearing them.
The old-fashioned organdies are COM
ing in again, silk chine borderings ap-
pear on many of the woolens, and some
of the newest nuns veilings have seal
loped borders edged with fringe, for
fringe is to be much worn Pretty flow
cred foulards, fowered delaines, the
new flowered piques in cream and
white, are now being made up in guam
titles. Spots are more in favor than
floral designs for thinner materials, and
spotted sunshades to correspond are the
correct adjuncts to these toilets.
japanese cottons deserve attention as
distinct class of fabrics, unobtrusive
in coloring, durable, and needing
neither starch nor ironing, no small con-
sideration in ordinary families in warm
weather. Cotton crepes, 80 inches wide,
have a finish like soft wool in fine blue
or red stripes on white ground, or mix
lures of the two in dainty effects, at so
cents yard. The cottons are like firm,
wiry batiste cloth, substantial and
woven in quiet colorings-tea gray, dark
! ecru and slate, with fine lines and cross
bars, faint red, blue and green or hello
trope. 1t is substantial as poplin and
requires no ironing.
| Among the summer dainties are pretty
garden tichus and half shawls of white
silk muslin and lace, to be worn with
shirred hats to correspond. These wraps
are of very sheer quality, and are just
deep enough to reach from the neck to
| the waist, and measure two and three
quarters yards in length. Some of them
nave SCdfl-lTOIllS W kIlOC lOOScly, OlllcIS
slope to pointed ends. A deep frill of
rich lace edges them, and the more ex-
pensive tichus in crepe de Chine, with
silk fringes, have a French hand-em-
broidery in silk at the back. The mus
lin hats en- suite with the muslin fchus
are wide and fiat in shape, much like a
medium-sized leghorn hat, and are
trimmed with lace, long jewelheaded
pins, and pink or pale-yellow roses, or
simply with the tulle scarfs.
Some of the new shop fannels are
made with derby jackets and shirt
waists OF twilled surah, in white or in
one of the shades of the two-toned dress
material A loose silk belt in many
folds, reaching nearly to the arm-pits,
matches the shirt fabric. This belt
fastens behind, but the folds are run
through an immense long buckle OF gold
or silver, which crosses the waist dag
onally in front. The skirt has the deep
Highland kits, and is full and straight
in the back.
An immense butterfly of black velvet
embroidered in gold and gold beads is
designed for the front of a low bodice
one pair of wings being made to fit into
the waist line, while the body of this
exaggerated specimen of the species is
intended to finish the point below the
waist.