The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-28
The FASHIONS.

Mechlin lace is used for trimming costly
lingerie, to which its fine delicate mesh is
well adapted.
Cotton and muslin balayeuses are to be
replaced by silk or a tnick-colored zephyr
embroidered in white.
New lace-trlmmed handkerchiefs have
quarter-inch hens, and are edged with inch
wide Valenciennes lace.
All women wear tightly clinging gowns
and bodices that mold the figure. Few
women look well in them.
Turquoise and jet is the latest fashionable
combination. 8odices and the fronts of
skirts are frequently embroidered with
them.
Wooden muslius are taking the place of
the organizes. Some resemble Nottingham
lace, Others are striped or plaided. All are
stylish and durable.
Among the most popular wedding pres
ents are vinaigrettes, with large dull gold
tops, bearing The brides monogram set in
diamonds and rubies.
The new make of shirt is more ladylike
than the stiff mannish front, and is ar
ranged all over with small inch vide box
pl eats drawn in at the waist beneath a
belt.
Corselets are made in Swiss belt fashion.
with slight points below the waist, and
much longer points rising on the chest in
front and between the shoulders in the
back
Cairo embroderies are novel and beauti-
full, and promise to be largely used on win
ter dresses. on vests, cuffs, pockets, and
senorlta jackets. The gold aud silver boleros
already In. use are more effective. The
workers as we'll as the wares are to be i'm
ported to England.
Soft twill silk pettiooats in deep red, scar
let, or old pink, or any preferred color, are
made with five bias rutfies pinked out on
each edge aud gathered full These petit
coats are very light in weight and hav
superseded lace-trImmed China silk skirts
fer both house and street wear
1t is prophesied by the seers that long
gold chains are coming in again. The new
ones are set with pearls by way of variety.
ana certain great duchess has set the seal
or popularity upon them by appearing in
one, which many of the fashionable women
In London are hurriedly copying
New pocket handkerchiefs are embroid-
cred In flowers in their natural colors
and each of the owners initials are wrought
in different colors Very Frenchv indeed
are those OF sheer white linen, edged with
deep real lace in black and with black lace
butterflies or bees appliquet on the linen
The princesse polonaise has come to STAY.
but can only be worn with pleasing effect
by those of well-formed figures. A polo
naise OF belge-colored cashmere has gath
ered epaulets of bronze silk, on which are
knots of ribbon, and vest, sleeves and skirt
panel OF figured silk canvas in tones of
copper, bronze and beige; the hat of bronze
velvet is trimmed with wreath of shaded
velvet zinnias, and a cord of bronze and
copper edges the brim-
The odor of white flowers is for some
unknown reason supposed to be more
delicate than that of colored flowers
Toilet tables, therefore, are crowded with
white violet, white lilac, white heliotrope.
white laburnum and other pdrfu,us blancs.
Some women carry this delcacy of senti-
ment to the extreme of not considering it
good form to use tinted perfumes, although
the silver-topped TASKS may be of a ruby.
amber or opallne CRYSTAL
A special whim of young beauty with
chestnut brown hair is to ALWAYS wear n hot
the exact color of her hair; for instance.
with one of her new visiting gowns-of the
new dark ashes-of-roses cloth, embroidered
at the hem in delicate purple violets, pans
les, yellowlsh grasses and ferns, intermixed
with gold threads-she Will wear
small che'tIut-brown crepe tooue.
enclfced by wreath of many com
plicated twists and Quirls of colored silk.
which harmonize in tints with the embroId-
cry of her gown. With pale sea- blue cash
mere calling dress, made with plain skirt
and vest of gray kid. embroidered in blue
end oxidized silver threads, she wears a
bonnet made of loops of brown velvet and
small compact wreath of pale sea-blue
berries intertwined with shaded gray leaves:
strings of gray velvet fastened at the back
of the bonnet with a jeweled butterfly of
sapphlres, set in silver.