The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-05
FASHION NOTES.

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Vests of corduroy are worn 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 unco m
Portable for tennis.
Silk gloves are bought out with treble
| tips for the summer.
A thick royale ribbon has velvet edges
divided by gilt cords.
The handsomest parasols are supplied
with ribs of solid silver.
The coat. tails of basques are shorter
than those of last season.
The hat of the hour has a lace straw
brim and chiffron crown.
Black velvet ribbon having gold
edge AMI 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 evering wear.
Undulating hair-ines make aew cross
bars in two or three shades on fourth.
The brown shades to be worn in the
fall look remarkably we'll in silk and vel
vet.
To wear at the sea.shore you want a
thin, silver-gray homespuu, fecked 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 collar, girdle and cuffs of
black velvet to your light gingham
gown, have them easily detachable and
not heavy enough to be hot looking.
Cream grounded, flower brocaded
waist-coats are just now the height of
fashion, and hats are fiat plates with
heavy wreaths of roses beneath the brim.
Black satin royale-better known as
satin de Lyons this season called
upon to furnish some of the handsomest
costumes to be seen in the fashionable
world.
The shirred 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 instep
and Grecian slippers in velvet calf and
footgear of Swiss prunella in gray or
fawn finely embroidered.
The simple gown of white is almost
thing of the past. Even the dresses
in this pure tone when made of the
richest material are hardly considered
finished unless lavishly decorated.
1t is the thing to trim cotton dresses
with black lace, arranged as narrow
hounce across the hem in front and
Caught up in feAoons. The sleeves and
the front of the bodice are covered with
black lace also.
A shy damsel of sweet sixteen Is a
picture in gown OF white serge, which
is made as close fitting as riding habit,
the bottom of the skirt, the oorsage and
the sleeves being edged with three rows
of delicate silver galloon.
Duck's-foot yellow is the odd name Of
the newest and oddest shGde in gloves.
1t is worn with gray gowns. Duck's-egg
green is another new shade, the London
taste at the moment running 10 ducks ex-
ceedingly. Pale heliotrope, pale pink
and lemon are worn with evening
gowns.
The most exquisite white parasol, and
probably the most costly in New York
City, have landscape and 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 parasol is known by
its bow of silk or lace near the handle,
while the handle of the white silk and
lace parasol is carved ivory, and others
have large Dresden balls.