Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
NOTES..

All the collars and cuffs on jackets and
wraps fare. They are braided and the
loops are tackled down with buttons.
Buttons are once more beginning to as
Sert themselves on outdoor jackets, and
fortunate is the woman who has treasured
up old and rare sets of them.
For visiting and dressy day and evening
wear, pearl gray gloves stitched with black
are worn in glace or suede kid of the four
four or eight button lengths.
The favorite dresses in Paris for summer
are the swallow-tail styles in nappy wool
material or in reps silk. The swallow-ta tail
with broad tails and revers is worn by old
and young.
Checks and plads are used for tennis
gowns. Dull red and fawn color goes well.
with blouse of plain fawn, vest and revers
of the plaided fabric, and two fawn bands
about the bottom of the plaided draperies.
The modish, long skirt for walking
dresses has led to the abolition of the foun-
dation to secure lightness, as they must be
held up The skirt is now lined with mus
lin and has stifTened hem to prevent flap
ping.
One of the most charming models of mil
linery art is a fiat bonnet composed en-
tirely of rubber stems, representing rose
vines and the leaves of the same, twisted
with wreath effect. The low crown is
outlined by narrow band of gold net, and
the garniture consists Of cluster of Amer
lean beauty roses
Embroideries on dresses are used more
in curves than in straight stripes. The So
called ''love meshes"-large knots of en-
broidery i'll a-jour effect-have become
fashionable. They run around the skirt
border in light curves and are seen on the
sleeves and breast When in a-jour effect
they are on ground of colored silk and
are occasionally also bordered with gold
The revival of lace collars and capes
opens endless possibilities for homemade
confections in the way of muslin kerchiefs.
Medici collars and Swiss belts. that give a
dressy effect to the simplest summer toilet
The old-fashioned Marie Antoinette ichu is
again 20 the fore, with its deeply rufied
cape, long ends crossing over the bust, and
-frilled tabs falling at the back of the
gown.
On the newest gown, chiffon, thickly
gathered or shirred in several rows, is put
about the neck of gowns and down the
front, being used exactly as the feather
trimming has been. The chiffon is exceed
ingly easy material to handle being light,
soft. silky, yet sufficiently firm ir texture
to hold its own when placed in standing
rows of gathers or shirrings. 1t comes in
all colOrS, and its soft, pretty effect is be-
coming TO the face.
The oldest of all the odd styles of bon
nets is this: A piece of tulle is cut square.
On the edge of very slight hem placed
around il a border, consisting of a single.
line of tiny flowers without leaves is placed.
This is put upon the head so that one point
of the tulle droops like what is called kerr
chief cap over the brow; the corresponding
point droops over the back hair, and the
two remaining points fall at the sides be-
meath the wired Spanish shape. which is
called the Toreador, the tulle being in
tended to simulate the bright-colored silk
of which the bull fighters place square
under their hats.