, 1890-08-21
MOVES ON FASHIONS.

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fur shoulder-cape for evenings
Russian leather gloves, with thick
seams, have beon adopted for travel.
Some Of the crops and short whips are
finished with Dresden china handles.
Cornfiowers, heur.de-lis and orchids
arc used for decorating the picture hats.
Bonnets are as small and hats as large
as 1t is possible for woman to wear
them.
Even the dresses of toddlers uncertain
of locomotion brush the ground and
raise the dust.
1t is quite tho fashion to show pretty
to get sunburned.
A tiny nosegay secured in the bow Of
the bonnet strings is tho latest and
Frenchiest touch of millinery.
Fashion is going back to the plain,
straight pull back skirt with fringcd
ruche or knife plating round the bot
tom.
The so called cream breakfast coat is a
white flannel jacket made with loose
front lined with pale blue silk and
trimmed with gold braid.
| The sailor hat in white straw is selling
for cents. A drop in the price oi
blazers, shop made shirts and Gordon
sashes Is expected very soon.
Lace has always been regarded as the
very poetry of dress, and the tilmy,
dreamy facric is playing an important
part in the toilets of the season.
A good many of the girls who go the
pace are darting about with bare wrists
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tending over theee or four inches.
Gold is in favor There is rage for
gold lace, gold braid. gold passemen-
terie and gold ribbons. Gold dollars
have lost none Of their worshippers.
Sleeves in the cotton gowns are being
fashioned after those in mans shirt,
the wristband however, being soft
laundered and ornamented with fancy
jeweled buttons.
Dress material that sold as high as
S1.70 may be bought now for less than
half that amount There are severe
designs and quiet patterns in every line,
and these are the styles that withstand
the fluctuations OF fashion.
The summer belle, with her silver
mounted umbrella, shoe buckle and
chatelaine pin. and from nine to twenty
bangles on her wrist, may be likened to
| q study In silver. Next to sterling. pearl
jewels are most fashionable.
Another fashion that requires much
discretion 10 make it commendable is
the plain, tight, seamless bodice without
visible fastening. that molds perfect
figure to perfection, but is merciIess In
showing up every flaw and defect in an
imperfect form.
Some of the floral pedestals often
known as garden china in Mrs. Paran
Stevens Newport cottage are worth
500 each. On them are the stately
palms, tropical plants and beautiful hy-
drangeas which give life and color to the
broad Railways that bisect the lower
floor.
Mohair Is being used for bathing suits
and for those who are slight in figure
and like light suit this material can |
he recon- mended. 1t is inex pensive and |
clings less than flannel on being wet. I.
Some snowy surf dresses are seen In |
blazer fiannels. Unless the colors are |
fast the first dip will make them run.
Corselet bands of ribbon and corselet |
bodices are much worn, but the Swiss
belt rounded off in front with point |
behind is still more fashionable. The |
latter is frequently initiated in embroid- !
cry, as also the stuff belt, trimmed at !
both edges with stripes OF she same. the
sleeves and the neck-opcning Scing ornV
mented then in the same style.
In place OF rag-bag rag-basket has |
been introduced for the frugal house
wife. This consists of conrse cane /
basket, such as men use for waste paper, /
lined with chlntz and provided with !
pockets OF various sizes Tor the rccep.
taclc of odds and ends of stuff Along
hri tg "a f,f tIa.. las. g.
sewing'threads, darning.cotton and scis- |
sors.
Velvet sleeves have given way, now
that the weather has become warmer, to
those of silk and lace, but the sleeves of
ali mantles and costumes to be worn on
cold days threatening storm and rain, as
well as on cool evenings on the pier or
beach at seaside places, are made OF dark
or light velvet, sometimes agreeing with
the foundation, yet most often of q
much darker shade or black.
Sea bathing is the best kind oftonic
for those troubled with Indigestion. The
corpuient will find in the surf bath
valuable aid in the reduction OF super
tuous fat. There is POSITIVE injury in
bathing Immediately after eating and
only the strong should venture into the
surf before breakfast. Three hours after
eating is the right time for a bath, which
should never exceed thirty minutes du-
ration.
The lovers of masculine attire have
their shirts made to order by the regular
manufacturers and dealers In gentle
mems furnishing goods. This neither
garment is made exactly like mans,
save that 1t is open all the way down the
front, thereby avoiding the hair-muss-
ing that the struggle overhead would
cause. The prices are exactly the same
as the men pay, that is, cambrics are
made to measure for SO each or $24
dozen; French flannel range from So to
81, and silk from 50 to SO each.
BRIEF SOCIAL CHAT.