The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-02
FASHION NOTES.

Royale silk finds favorable mention in
several French fashion journals.
Dark brocades, having light figures,
are worn as vests in dark-colored gowns.
Black silk gowns have vests and panels
of black brocaded with yellow or pink.
The tendency Is again for gold Innings
in silver cups, bowls, cream jugs and the
like.
House slippers are now made in sateeu
and undressed kid. They are tied with
ribbon bows and often laced with vari-
colored silken cords.
A handsome Wedgwood bottle
mounted in silver and set in circular
silver tray, elaborately carved, furnishes
q unique inkstand for a library.
There are some dinner tables at which
the guests powder their sauce from
silver nutmeg crater and relieve olives Of
their pits with silver olive corer.
A dinner gown should be made of
nuns yelling or surah. Velvet popoline
foulard or satin is considered too heavy
and ungraceful. Evening gowns should
be made of crepe muslin, silken delaine
or crazaline.
Dress collars are worn either very,
very high or they are not worn at all.
There is really no medium. Of the high
ones, the lowest are two inches. The
highest are nine in the back and as high
in front as woman's chin will permit.
The Spanish mantilla scarf has again
come into favor and brought with it all
its charming grace and delicate appear
ance to we'll gowned women. Some are
in eastern designs and others are dotted
and striped in purely American colors
and fashions.
Scallops are a neat and stylish finish
for the foot of dress skirts finished in
shallow scallops about three inches wide,
and in addition to being bound they are
outlined with soutache. Percale or cam
brle skirts are cut in deep leaf scallops
that are faced.
1t has become the style to trim hats in
front underneath the crown brim. The
pancake sailors are all provided with
little crown piece underneath the brim,
aud this little false crown is used as
vehicle for displaying fruit, flowers and
folds of bright material.
The fancy for feather boas is on the
increase, and as the long ones are ex-
peusive they are not likely to be COM
mon. Medici ruffs with iaring ends are
the latest style of summer lingerie.
Sleeves are trimmed with great deal of
braiding and lace rufling.
Silver jewelry is the favorite wear,
when even the appearance of what IS
worn is Of Importance in keeping cool.
For this reason there is special pertinence
in the introduction of brooches, brace
lets and necklaces of silver filigree which
gives sense of thorough ventilation.
Napoleon blue, a grayish tint of blue,
is one of the colors of the season, like
the tint of the great hero's greatcoat,
though there are people who insist that
the coat was only ordinary pepper-and-
salt that no woman would wear. The
tint is particularly becoming to blondes.
Beautiful seaside costumes are made
for those who are so fortunate as to be
able to enjoy them at the proper time
and place, and no one will begrudge the
woman who is so favored the pleasure
which she experiences when she beholds
herself dressed in seaside gown ready
for walk along the beach.
All the dressy summer bonnets and
toques are more or less transparent. If
OF straw or rushes. the plait is very open,
and so reveals space between. There
are also fine gilt wire bonnets which are
seui.transparent, and countless modes
mace of tulle, net and crepe lisse, which
leaves visible the arrangements of the
hair ben 'ath. Low Crowns are universal,
but no shape is special.