Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-07-04
The Fashions.

From the New York Evening POST
A rumor comes from Paris that the
street-sweeping walking skirt must go.
Velvet ribbons are much used for linn
ming summer dresses of cashmere, chal1ie,
uncut velvet, ribbed across, with straight
cord edges.
| Black velvet ribbons are used on light
chambray and lawn gowns, organdies and
muslins, as girdles, bretelles, rosettes,
shoulder knots, around the neck in points,
and hanging from the belt in chatelaine
ends and loops.
| A pretty and inexpensive costume is of
heliotrope wool dotted With white and
made with darker silk sleeves, collar and
cuffs, these overleid With very narrow sill
yer braid. The hem on the plain bel
skirt is turned up on the outside, faced
With the silk, and covered w.th seven rows
'of the braid. Another simple dress is of
white dotted Swiss mar lip, figured all
over With pale violet flowers, end made
With violet silk sleeves, vest, end very
narrow silk irills on the skirt hem. The
dotted muslin was very wide, of excellent
quality, but it cost only siyty-fve cents a
| yard.
Soft gray 1ibbed silk underwear of light
but firm quality, With skirts, corsets,
stockings, and undressed kid shoes of the
among fashic liable travelling outfits.
| In the morning drives through the park
these hot June days nothing has looked
| prettier nor more attractive than the hand
| some cotton dresses in dainty summer col
| ors, Trimmed in the most charming man
ner, with white or tinted Swiss embroi-
| dei.es. These toilets are in many cases as
| rich and delicate in effect and made up
with as much care and at as seat expense
as summer silk. They promise to be in
great vogue all the season at the various
summer resorts, taking even higher rank
than in former years on "dress para ie."
Cream, pink and ecru batisto gowns are
/ very popular this year, the fable being
barred, striped, lowered, dotted and bor-
dered. The bodices are made in many
ways both simple and elaborate, but e..
the skirts are hung or draped over So:
silk petticoats of the same shade as the
outside material, the batiste gown having
no foundation skirt
We repeat to new readers an easy and
| novel method of neck-dressing that we
once before suggested. Tie a soft loose
knot in one end of any pretty handker-
chief of lace-edged china silk, or embroi-
dered or bordered linen; tuck the end of
this knot inside the neck of your blouse
or Vassar shirt waist, arrange the rest of
the kerchief en- jabot with the aid of some
of the pretty little gold or pearl-headed
pins that every lady has now upon her
dressing table. Let a bit of the bordering
or lace disappear beneath the ends of the
rundown collar, and you have a really
pretty and feminine looking morning
necktie-a change by way of variety from
the all-popular four-in-hand, or other
"made" scarfs of the masculine order now
| worn.
The expensive jeweled garnitures are
now used with moderation on expensive
evening toilets of airy texture. Crystal
beads that look like dewdrops, translucent
and brilliant iridescent cut stones that
glitter like diamonds, are wrought upon
foundations of finest net, and these are
arranged to form corsage drapings, bodice
fronts and full transparent sleeves. SINH
lar embroideries in opals and pearls are
used on summer bridal gowns of crepe de
/ Chine, yelled with clinging undressei In
dia silk tulle.
A stylish summer costume of Powered
silk shows Japanese pinks in delicate
shadings on ground of pale reseda-green
shot with gold. The dress is designed for
| gardens party wear, and above the pretty
skirt is Louis coat of rich reseda-green
arnure, open on the front, with a drapery
of lace, folded fchu style, covering the
shoulders and the closely buttoned silk
vest. The sleeves are full at the top, and,
from the wrist to the elboN, are slashed