Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-08-08
FASHION NOTES.

Vests OF corduroy are WON with striped
cheviot suits.
The corslet bodice is in favor for
house dresses.
Chevron designs are noted in the latest
imported silks.
A new combination is pale olive green
with dark olive.
The close-ftting bell skirt is uncom,
Portable for tennis.
Silk gloves are bought out with treble
tips for the summer.
A thick royale ribbon has velvet edge:
divided by gilt cords.
The handsomest parasols are supplied
with ribs of solid silver
The eoat-tails of basques are shorter
than those of last season.
The hat of the hour has lace straw
brim and chiffon crown.
Black velvet ribbon having gold
edge and stripes is announced.
White is worn constantly with green
or blue sleeves and deep belts.
Round or slightly oval brooches are
taking the place of the long lace pins.
Chenille spot tulle, in various colors,
comes in dress lengths for evening wear.
Undulating hair lines make new cross
bars in two or three shades on fourth.
The brown shades to be worn in the
fall look remarkably well in silk and vel
vet.
To wear at the sea shore you want G
thin, siiyer-gTay homespun, flecked with
white.
Elastic belts of silver wire have square
buckles in front studded with anne
thysts.
The linen collar is now very wide and
has narrow turned-over edge all
around.
Gray, black and tan suede ties are fire.
quently tipped with silver and finished
with narrow bands of the same.
If you put a collar, girdIe and cuffs oil
black velvet to your light ginghan
gown, have them easily detachable and
not heavy enough to be hot looking.
Cream-grounded, flower brocaded
waistcoats are just now the height OF
fashion, and hats are fiat plates with
heavy wreaths of roses beneath the brm,
Black satin royale-better known a;
satin de Lyons this season called
upon to furnish some of the handsomest
costumes to be seen in the fashionable
world.
The SHRED null hat should be white,
pink or blue. If it is trimmed with
fluffy rosettes of the null, when it willis
in fog or sea turn it and it will do so
with the more uniformity.
Londoners are wearing Oriental shoes
with four straps buckling on the mister
and Grecian slippers in velvet calf and
footgear of Swiss prunella in gray OIL
fawn finely embroidered,
The simple gown of white is almos
thing of the past, Even the dresses
in this pure tone when made of the
richest material are hardly considered
finished unless lavishly decorated.
It is the thing to trim cotton dresses
with black lace, arranged as narrow
hounee across the hem in front and
caught up in fejtoons. The sleeves and
the front of the bodice are covered with
black lace also.
A shy damsel of sweet sixteen il n
picture in gown Of white serge, which
is made as close fitting as a riding habit
the bottom of the skirt, the corsaee aud
the sleeves being edged with three row.
of delicate silver galloon.
Duck 's-foot yellow is the odd name Of
the newest and oldest shade in gloves.
1t is worn with gray gowns. Duck 's-egq
green is another new shade, the London
taste at the moment running to ducks ex
ceedingly. Pale heliotrope, pale pink
and lemon are worn with evening
gowns,
The most exquisite white parasols, and
probably the most costly in New York
City, have landscape aud flower-spray
in white thread lace inserted on one side
OF the white silk foundation. Others
less costly have smaller insertions of real
lace. The summer parasoI is known by
its bow OF silk or lace near the handle,
while the h!u1le Of the white silk and
lace parasol is carved ivory, aud others
have large Dresden balls.