Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-17

ter to one in the former style. 1t is also
more comfortable and it is adapted to both
day and evening wear.
The low couture consists of braids and
twists arranged to fall low enough to lust
escape the collar and is then brought to
the crown OF the head, and presents tidy
and most graceful appeara nee.
This simple mode ornamented with shell
combs or pins is equally suited for home or
street, and for full dress occasions, when
adorned with jeweled pins, feathers,
aigrettes, or flowers, becomes an exceed
ingly stylish headdress Just now flow
ers, suggestive of the fair spring season,
are much worn in the hair, although some
still affect bows of ribbon, but for the even
ing, flowers are by all odds the most beau
tiful, and for young ladies, nothing more
appropriate can be selected.
Both the high and low couture are in
high favor in Paris and London, and are
more elaborate than the American STYLES.
Partisan modes, by which the world of
fashion was once ruled, however, no longer
lead and our ladies find more uiet tastes
better suited by those designed by compe-
tent artists in our midst.
Fashionable bonnets can only be worn
to advantage with a front piece, and the
back couture reaching to the nape of the
neck, the bonnet or toque being supported
with shell comb or other ornament
placed in the top of the hair.
The styles in front pieces or bangs are
more numerous than ever, and foreheads,
whether broad, high, narrow or square.
may be fitted with suitable shape, or the
natural hair banged in most becoming
way. A coquetish wavy bang, with Just
suspicion of parting on one side is much
favored by merry young maidens, as it sets
off pair Of roguish eyes to perfection.
Very young ladies wear the front hair
in a curled bang, and the back either
waved over the shoulders, or braided
loosely with bow of ribbon Just below
the crown of the head and another at the
end. For the 'buds," the hair is mostly
waved with small curling tongs on the out
side, at the sides and top, and then combed
together at the back of the head, twisted
in figure eight and placed lengthwise.
The ornaments for this couture are two or
three shell pins.
The color of hair still remains an item
of fashion, and ladies who few years ago
held up their hands in horror at the bare
mention of hair-dye, now have their locks
transformed from one color to another
with complacency, if not sang troid.
Blonde or golden hair is always in
tensely admired, and continues to be the
popular color, those who are not blessed
with the sunny tint finding no difficulty
in obtaining the desired shade by means
of that remarkable mixture, the golden
hair wash
1t was thought that the red brown, or
as it is styled in London, the bronze
brown, introduced by the charming Patti,
would prove a fashionable craze, but ladies
do not find it particularly becoming
color, and very few have submitted their
tresses to that change.
White and gray hair is as popular as
ever with elderly ladies, and many ex-
quisite heads of gray hair are constantly
seen, which dressed in one of the late
styles give an unmistakable dignity to the
wearer. Ladies whose hair is just begin
ming to turn, and is gray in streaks, cover
their iron touched locks with bangs and
braids of beautiful silver gray which,
greatly improves their appearance.
Hair nets, IN cap shape, are still much
used and are to be recommended to all
who wish to keep their waves or curls in
shape, particularly in damp or breezy
weather.
The mode of the season, just out, is the
couture artistic" which promises to be-