St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-08-29
Gold-spotted tulle is a fixture.

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The newest parasols are made of shot
gauze with Chantilly founcings.
Tulle, though out of fashion for
dresses, is very much used in millinery.
Cheviot and camel's hair are the
favorite materials for travelling dresses.
Some bonnets are merely composed OF
the triple classic band trimmed with
| flowers.
A material much employed is chiffon
or mousselinc de sole or tulle, with GOLD
metal ribbon edge.
White chamois skin gloves, with long,
white gauntlets, are quite the fashionable
thing for young women.
Small flower butterfly bonnets com
posed of flower petals and tiny painted
silk butterflies are pretty novelty.
Extra fine English tweeds and chev-
lots are imported for elegant tailor cos
tunes for travelling and the promenade.
Horse chestnut blossoms are very
prettily worn on belge-tinted round hats
of Neapolitan braid, trimmed with
bronze brown velvet ribbon.
The variety of fans is infinite. The
woman of fashion can have one to match
every costume and dozen or more for
evening wear, with no two exactly alike
in shape.
Beaded lace capes arev very much worn,
and the majority are very stylish and
dressy. The fur cape will be the might
wrap all summer. 1t is most conven'
lent thing.
Bonnets, even black ones, are now tied
with white satin strings, made not of
ribbon, but of satin twill cut on the
cross and measuring just an inch and a
half wide.
Sleeves are smaller for day wear, but
remain as high and full as ever for even
ing. Puffs of lace, gauze or tulle, either
jetted, spangled OF embroidered, being
the most fashionable.
The new bonnets which are made up
and trimmed show a great many novel
ties; the flowers stand erect over the face
in many instances, and bows in nearly
every case are arranged with outstanding
loops.
Skirts have no longer a silk or other
underskirt; they are lined throughout
with silk or fine alpaca, and are set in at
the band quite plain in front and at the
sides, the entire fulness being laid In on
plaits behind.
Upon the large hats are set huge
clumps of rhododendron bloom, while
the latest freak of fashion calls for spiky
thistles with their curious gray, green
and hairy foliage as decorations for bon
nets of rough straw.
The most useful dress for summer
Journeys and for general wear is a plainly
made tailor gown of homespun or
cheviot of light weight in beige or blue
gray shade, or else of the rough surfaced
striped woods in gray and white, with
slight mixture of color-yellow, blue or
brick red.
French camels' hair and Carmelite
fabrics are in high vogue; SO, too, are
all materials with tufted sufaces. A
pretty new camel's hair is fecked with
pink, and could be effectively worn with
belge-colored Neapolitan round hat
faced with velvet and trimmed with
pink azalias.
For the hair the very newest decora-
ton is tiny cap of spangled gauze. A
twist of the same glittering stuff forms
sort of brim, and on the front rises very
full and very high black or white osprey.
The whole arrangement is not bigger
than the soft white fist of small woman.
It is worn saucily on one side.
! Light colors are chosen for tennis
gowns this season-pale blue, lavender
or white-brightened by contrasting
color or varied with stripes or accessories
of some darker shade. The fabrics are
the summer homespuns of sheer quality.
serges and f1annels. Blouses and shirs'
waists are made of washable silks.
The new Suede gloves shown in Lon
don are made sweet and attractive with
orris root. This is pretty enough fash
ion as long as a wholesome fragrance
pervades the glove, but as they will be
certain to reek with patchouli or musk
in little while it is fashion that can
only be commended for summer day.
Rings worn on the little finger are
more or less fad. They are often en-
circled with turquois, or set with lucky
moonstones. There is also fancy for
using the stone corresponding to the
birth month of the wearer in these little
rings, which should be especially small
and dainty and exquisite in design as
possible.
Pretty frocks for small girls and boys
are of washable fabrics-Scotch ging-
hams in fine checks or stripes, Chambrays
of plain color, corded dimity, nainsook
and ribbed pique. They are trimmed
with white cambria ruffles neatly EN-.
broidered, insertions, shocking, tucks
and needle worked scallops done on the
garment.
Young girls wear narrow ribbon or
velvet much in their hair, at present,
passing it generally around the cluster of
rolls or curls and tying it on the top of
the head in pert little bow; or bring it
from the sides high up above the ears
and place rosette attached to one end
at the side. Metal bands are sometimes
to be seen with the fancy silks.
The Fata MOrgana.