Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-16
NEW FASHIONS.
New Styles of Dresses for the Ladies
Fresh from Paris.

FRESH lIOm dfJes
LONDON Dispatch of August 7th.l
One or two large houses are filling or
ders for Americans who are forced to buy
autumn outfits in July, but on the whole
the shops are deserted. A few melancholy
chiffrons are thrown over chairs or neatly
folded up, and drawn blinds give general
impression that summer vacation is the
time for wearing pretty toilettes and not
! for buying them.
The tickle goddess has wandered from
Paris and is now amusing herself in casino
or villa, and her followers are wearing her
emblems in their individual manner and
with more or less originality. There is
one new jacket in the style of Louis XIII.
which is favorite, and is the first of long
cloaks and wraps which, it is said, are to
be worn in the late season. The short
Jacket is to be rejected Tor the coat with
skirts, which are awkward to wear and
will never be so liked as the trim little
jacket which goes with every costume.
The coat with skirts is made double
breasted, with broad revers of steel fray
cloth with lapels halfcovered with silk,
like mans coat. 1t may also be made in
velvet, richly embroidered, for visiting
and housewear but it cuts the height of
the figure and is easily made ungainly.
New little jackets are being made of silk,
gray, black or dark color, with satin dot of
the same color They match the costume,
and are usually made without sleeves to
add to the convenience of wearing them
over fancy dress sleeves. A pretty dress
for irouuiRe is made of straw-colored silk,
with changing reflections of blue strewn
with small bouquets of blues in two shades.
The front skirt is of guipure lace, very
open in design, over foundation of blue
silk. The front corsage is covered with
plastron. The guipure is fastened to the
shoulders with bows. The sleeves are of
lace, with high cuffs. A blue silk hat of
white straw is covered with blue cornhow
ers and wheat of pale yellow. The parasol
of dark blue silk is recovered with white
guipure, and the handle is tied with bows
of straw color. A fresher and simpler cos
tune is difficult to imagine Black lace is
much used in trimming light silks, and
crepons Of delicate shade are applied as
embroidery or plated into jabots and
founces around the bottom of the skirt
Another new style, which is to be a
standard model for autumn, has a straight
skirt, but not at all in fourreau fashion,
having far more fullness 1t is trimmed
with several straight bands of velvet CON-
mencing at the waist and extending down
the skirt The corsage has deep cape of
velvet of darker shade than the silk, or
rather, it should be said, the effect is of
an under body of velvet with deep corse-
let of silk coming up to the arms, almost
meeting in the back over the velvet, but
showing wider opening in front. This
corselet is edged around the top with
handsome passementerie, and friIled
ceinture of velvet passes around the bot
tom of the corsage and fastens with
large rosette in the back. The sleeves are
still made large and full and of contrast
ing colors, but it is no longer fashion; it is
more of habit, and the most elegant
dresses have trimmed sleeves, but nothing
conspicuous. A return to fiat sleeves is
predicted Everyone will soon be wear
ing close-ftting or falling sleeves, they
say, but in the mean time the boufiant
sleeve mounts even higher and laughs at
fate. AT present it is in keeping with the
exaggerated collars of tulle and lace and
ruffs of great dimensions which are worn.
Many dresses are being trimmed in the
back of the corsage Ornaments of vari-
Gus kinds commence at the collar and
finish at the waist, growing narrower as
they descend.