The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-05-06
FASHION NOTES.

Pepper -colored cloth is the newest for
street gowns.
Both lizards and toads are reproduced
in gem jewelry.
The panier is being revived in Paris for
some of the new gowns.
The renaissance-scroll design appears
in some of the clock cases.
Folards, grenadines and crepons will
be made with paniera this summer.
Bonbon dishes come now IN enameled
silver, representing leaf or flower.
Cloth is not much used for dress,
serge and ckeviots having taken their
places.
Gray, mastic, navy blue and fame
color are the predominating shades this
season.
Some of the new stuffs for dresses
have shining white crystal beads woven
in them.
Silver blue and leather color are COM
bined in visiting dresses of bengaline and
camel's hair.
silver.gray brocade, trimmed with
silver passementerie, makes very ele-
CANT bridal travelling dress.
Pet cats are often adorned with
bangles; eight or ten of these hoops have
sometimes been seen on one cat.
Loosely dreped basque fronts with
plain backs will be much in vogue for
silks, cottons and lightweight wool
ems.
Wells are worn to cover the chin.
Every girl with or without a good com
plexion wears one at this time of the
year.
Some of the new French handkerchiefs
consist of large colored checks. Others
have colored border and Valenciennes
edge.
Long gloves for evening wear are en-
broidered with running spray of fow-
ers in colored silks the entire length of
the arm.
A gray pellerine, gray gloves, gray
CATERS and gray felt hat with gray boa
fairly equip the bride up to the latest date
in fashions.
The French chaillies rival the Indias
in beauty of texture and artistic design,
being mostly in light colors strewn with
pale-hued blossoms.
Collars and broad bands for the wrist
of open metal work set with garnets of
different shades from black to cherry and
rose ere new and fetching.
A new variety of sateen, called silk
finish Melaneis, has black background
with white fgules IN many designs. The
colors are fadeless and the goods justly
popular.
The most desirable dresses for little
girls summer wear are the crisp French
zephyrs, the percales and the mulls,
which emerge from the laundry almost
as good as new.
An old gown may be speedily trans.
formed into the latest mode by piecing
on to the short old style waist basques OF
tho same contrasting color, either short
or long, according to the height of the
wearer.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
long three. quarter jackets are Ia mode,
it is still question whether they will
prove general success or not. They
cut the figure in halves, and are by no
means as smart-looking as the medium
French coat.
Those who admire skirt ornamentation
will be glad to know that plaitlngs may
again be added to the bottom of skirts
and to drapcries If preferred. Upon
gowns of wool goods the plaitings may
be of the material or of silk in CORE
spouding color.
What is called japanese crepe is a
beautiful cotton fabric. 1t is a crinkly
material which requires no ironing after
it is laundried, and comes in broad and
narrow stripes. China, India and wash
silks are beautiful in colored stripes
polka spots, floral and many unique fig
ures.
The washable silks are nearly as cheap
and more serviceabie than the cotton
goods, making deliciously cool and dainty
gowns. White silk dresses in Gretchen
shape, neatly hemstitched or herring
boned are charming, as are also the flow
cred Indias, strewn with tiny rosebuds,
daisies or corn flowers.