The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-11
FASHION NOTES.
Steel jcwelry is fashionable.

Steel jcwelry is fashionable.
Gray is the favorite dressy glove.
Velvet sleeves will not be worn this
year.
Loose waists of folded silk may be
worn with any skirts.
Long streamers of black and yellow
ribbon velvet are seen on sun umbrellas
of white net.
Flower bonnets hardly larger than a
good-sized bow are the most expensive
things brought out.
Violet ink, once regarded as pardon
able feminine vanity, has come to be the
favorite of all writing fluids.
Sprinters of orange wood are sold by
cosmetic dealers, together with dental
floss for cleaning the nails and teeth.
Velvet shoulder capes lined with shot
silk and without trimming come to match
some of the most elegant gowns of fine
wool.
Silk and wool combinations are the
favorite costumes, excluding those COM
posed as during the last few seasons, of
India silks.
Many equestriennes now have the
edges of their habit skirts left entirely
without finish, so they will tear in case
of accident.
Though narrow steels are still used at
the back of well-hung skirts, they are so
arranged that no one would suspect
their existence.
Big rosettes of gauze will be used upon
the summer millinery, and their effect is
often enhanced by velvet flower petals in
sci ted in their frills.
A ladies' out6tter of London charges
guinea for silk petticoat--spme pictur-
esque affair, with which a billiard coat is
worn for breakfast toilet.
Black net dresses wrought with pink,
blue or yellow flowers are made up over
black peau de sole, and have ribbon &C
cessories the color of the flowers.
Point d'esprit, crepe de Chine crepe,
lisse and other gauzes, mounted upon
sheer silk boiling cloth, are used for
covering the daintiest summer parasols.
All shades of purple are used upon
black hats. They are also used alone,
with no relief save that of the varying
tones of the several materials employed.
Indian dimity is a cotton fabric much
in, favor. 1t is as soft as null, with thick
cords at intervals, and comes mostly in
small blue or black designs on a white
ground.
The Mary Anderson, a new toque that
an English designer has dedicated to the
bride elect of young Navarro, is merely
fillet of velvet, broached with tiny field
flowers.
Enormous hats with Topping brims
come in rows of fine Milan straw and
Neapolitan hair braid. A perfect flower
garden of blossoms is used for their
adornment.
The fashionable modiste has q piano
stool on which the customer sits, revolv-
ing at will before the mirror. Unless
the body is Il sitting as we'll as a standing
fit, it is only half fit.
Dainty plaid ribbons in such combina-
tions as pink and cream, pale blue and
leghorn, Nile green and old rose, are
used in preference to plain ribbons for
trimming white summer gowns.
The new safety saddle now coming into
use for ladies allows the rider to sit per-
fectly square to her horse, and on level
seat, without the uncomfortable twisting
necessary with the old saddle. Special
fitting Of the habit is, however, more
than ever necessary.
There is special line of cloth known
as jacketing and designed expressly for
short coats. Bits of lace, embroidery
and braiding attached to the bolt sug-
gests the proper trimming. With white
cloth the silver braid is used as tag,
while epaulets of old gold 60 with olive
cloth and white scallops with the gray
material.