Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-22

sighted when fashion is eonsenting, This
favorite material is grenadine in FANCY
designs, net and black India. Black
grenadine is made over silk and trim
! med with lace. This is q visiting toilet
that was extremely pretty, the grenadine
being used for the full gathered skirt
back, fichu front to bodice and pointed
back and full sleeves tied round with rib
bon, while rich lace was made in
TO shoulder caps gathered skirt
front and jacket fronts. Black net
is most often made full on the shout
ders, held in the front of the pointed
bodice by a jet buckle. Black velvet
ribbon serves as trimming for cuffs,
collar and side skirt decoration, For
street these dresses are prettier, all OF
black; for the house, colored silks are
allowed for the lining or vest. In this
way, black grenadine is made with a
basque bodice. opening over q vest of
colored satin, the skirt opening simf-
larly. Porcelain blue satin is set under
the straight front breadth of a skirt that
has its side breadths crossed with gold
open-meshed GALLON. The back is all
black, while the foot of skirt is bordered
with narrow ruohe. Grenadine is also
combined with green peau de sole and
pale straw colors.
Parasols grow in Importance as the
summer days go by. We use the plural
Intentionally, for no woman who heed s
fashion 3 dictate is longer coutented with
one parasol. There must be q parasoi
for every costume, and when the last
summer gown is finished the wearer of
these f1eecy dainty creations goes out to
select parasol appropriate for each.
For the ecru batiste she finds buttercup
yellow; for the red ana black India silk
red one; for the grey and white check
heliotrope, and SO on. The woman
who counts her pennies does not indulge
in more than two parasols at the most
One must be black and dressy, the other
a grey check or pongee shade, some color
that will not be out of place with her
different summer draperies.
Among some quaint imported speci-
mems are sticks of natural wood, with
the natural fruit of each variety forming
the handle. A stick of cherry wood has
a bunch of beautifully colored and
modelled cherries; an almond stick has
handle of green almonds, while orange
aud apple are other fantasies. A very
beautiful one had holly berries and
leaves fashioned with wonderful skill.
on, while the stick of English oak has q
big knot for handle.
Many of the perasols are covered with
crepe and mousseline de sole, puffed and
frilled over silk. No bad suggestion for
the economist who would recover her
parasol slightly damaged by a season s
wear.
NOTES.
The mohairs and alpacas will have an
other run of popular favor this summer.
The high front trimming on capotes is
preferred, and it is the most becoming.
The low couture grows in fashionable
and popular favor. The top knots are
coming down.
Little three-cornered hats are among
the latest French styles in children .
head coverings.
Deep, round, pleated white PIerro t
collars are very fashionable for little
girls, and also for young ladies.
In every fashionable audience, congre-
cation or company there is seen a larger
quantity of blue than any other one
color, SO blue is coming up in favor.
A number of the new gowns have on
them that very vivid shade known as
Magenta, and which some of the Partisan
modistes are combining extensively with
black.
This will long be remembered as the
big buckle season. They fasten the sur
plices and sash belts of nearly every
swagger gown that walks along the fash
ionable thoroughfares.
Silver gray gowns in Greek style,
trimmed with gray and gold passemen-
terie laid over white, pale ecru or mauve,
are among the elegant dinner and tea
gowns for next season.
Capotes, composed merely of border,
with bow of ribbon at the back, are the
newest models, and are likely to be very
fashionable for the summer, being very
light and pleasant to wear. They have
strings tied, oravat fashion, under the
chin.
1t is a matter of comment that for the
coming sultry season red should be so ex-
tensIvely used in millinery - brilliant
scarlet, and not alone the more subdued
tint in JacQue red, wine, begonia, gera-
mum and other shades which have for
some time past been so popular; even the
gilt-wire bonnets are embellished with
Iobelia blooms or field peoples, whose
uniform we all know.
The gigot sleeve is at its zenith of pop
ularity-every one wears it, whether it
suits them or not Though there are al
ways exceptions), and it seems to be
growing longer, as it often reaches quite
to the wrist, and oocasionally-but this
is, as yet, the acme OF fashion, and not
generally taken up-lles in point on the
back of the hand. These glgot sleeves
are usually so tight below the elbow that
they require to be buttoned up.
Brides gowns are charmingly simple,
and graceful in their makeup this
spring. The skirts are full, fiat, pleated,
clinging and trained. The bodices
are high, full and surplioed, the sleeves
long and pulled in the armhole, the belt
is of ribbon and the floral garnitures of
orange buds and blossoms mingled with
small white roses and Easter lilies of
small sizes and lilies of the valley for
fringes. The tulle veil and diamond or
naments remain the conventional and
correct usage.
Household.
There is a part of housekeeping that
merits more of the personal attention of
the housekeeper than 1t usually receives
"a part that adds or detracts from the
comfort of the entire household, and not