The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
FASHION NOTES.

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FASHION NOTES.
Open Louis XIV. coats show a lace
chemisette.
Organdies are likely to stand high in
favor during the summer.
The newest thing in preserve dishes
is a pansy shaped plate prettily decor
ated.
Bouquets to be carried in the hand at
weddings have trailing ends of ferns and
blossoms.
The "draughty" bonnets worn during
the season have caused many colds and
much neuralgia.
Cats eyes and tigers eyes are added
to the imitation jewels with which trim
mings are studded. ,
A light. fine cloth used for cloaks is
called ''drab excelsior" It has a soft
finish and Grapes beautifully.
As a snowy ornament, the new sun.
shades are destined to be a success, but
they are too dainty to be sunburnt.
Lace sun screens is q name given to
the new parssols which, ere long, milady
will exhibit from her open carriage.
The beaded veil has come back once
more to add to the brilliancy of women
in the sunlight and to impair their eyes.
Beaded capes are announced to have
another season. They were too pretty
and convenient to be given up at once.
The styles of dress worn by children,
when Gsinesborough and Romney paint
ed, are those most in favor at the present
time.
Piano lamps for country houses are
now made on a bamboo stand, and are
fitted with what is called a Bombay
shade.
Gray is a leading fashionable color in
Paris, and some of the new kid gloves
are of that color, beautifully stitched
with red.
Summer travelling costumes are to be
made ''severely plain" and with the
mems coat sleeve, instead of the pulled
absurdity.
Scotch zephyrs are bound to be among
the most fashionable of summer dress
goods, and the newest importations are
very pretty.
Fashionable matters promise some
thing new in nautical headgear to take
the place of the yachting cap, made so
very common.
Half mantles or military capes are the
most taking outside garments this season;
but the wary will avoid them, for they
are doomed to become as ''common" as
the cape became last year.
Earrings are now employed as orna-
ments for the hair. When young girls
wear necklaces of pearls Or diamonds,
which is very seldom, they are placed on
the neck without any ribbons Of velvet
or lace.
The fashionable cape is draped and
caught up in the most remarkable man
ner in order to get rid of the plain line,
which is not alone ugly, but far from
becoming. Some of these capes are full
enough to catch up on either side.
The skirt basque is something quite
new when made in thin fabrics as this
season. The most conspicuously fash
ionable modes have this stylish corsage.
1t is becoming alike to short and taller
figures, and is always graceful and
pretty.
Four-year-old children are permitted a
variety of things for their heads. There
are hats with huge brims of SHRED silk
and pulled crowns; funny little poked
straws with grandmotherly flowers and
ribbons, and close caps with hardly a
frill or a furbelow.
Cottons retain their well-deserved
popularity, and in texture, color and de-
sign even surpass those of last season.
Zephyrs and ginghams are the first
choice for general wear, although they
have dozens of rivals in the other soft
and artistic cotton fabrics.
The tea gown has a potent rival in the
house dress, which has grown out of it.
This is trained, brighter in color and
richer in material than an ordinary gown
for everyday wear, but closer fitting
than the tea gown and with NO sugges.
tons whatever OF a dressing gown.
White grounds vie with black grounds
in India silks. and it is a question which
is the more elegant and stylish. Young
girls like the white grounds, while
older ones, will, perhaps, choose those
more appropriate to their age, and
equally pretty with the white effects.
Cray promises to be quite as much
favored as it has been during many re-
cent seasons, but it is this year being
manufactured in lovely velvet. like cloths
of light quality, and in tones and semi
tones more delicate and beautiful than
ever. In spriup tailor gowns tan and