The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-04
FASHION NOTES.

Passementeries are worn on parasols.
Tom Thumb rosettes are worn on
small hats.
Pale green is used for trimming white
evening toilets.
Blue or black serges are in demand
for outing dresses.
Oambrics in Pompadour and Louis
Seize patterns are exquisite.
There are girdle belts of seal leather
and kid. studded with steel.
Wide black MORE ribbons are worn as
sashes with black round waists.
Lace girdles are supplanting the velvet
peasant waists for summer wear.
The laced bertha carried over the
sleeves in the form of cape now reigns.
Black lace, striped with bands of
satin, is shown for dresses at $S yard.
Blue serge is now popular for dresses
intended for shopping, walking, travel
ing and general wear.
Changeable red and green surahs
trimmed with ecru embroidery are
among novelties from Paris.
Pale and deep russet MORE skirts are
worn under fawn-colored princess
redingotes and French polonaises.
Cotton Bedford cords are most beau
tiful and popular. They are known as
corduroy and are as heavy as pique.
Chambrays embroidered in robe pat
terms are liked for their durability.
Crinkled crepons are much liked also.
Linen collars and cuffs are to be worn
this season. Turn over collars with turn
over cuffs, and straight with straight.
Ribbons of moire, velvet and brocade
are all worn. The latest have mother
of-pearl effects. Gsuze edges are pre-.
valent.
Shoulder capes of lace will be worn
over cloth capes now, and later in the
season over the waists of dresses on the
promenade.
The new costumes and garnitures sent
from over the sea prove conclusively
that the reign of beaded decorations is
far from being over.
The lovers knot is the leading caprice
in jewelry. Gentlemen wear it as a
scarfpin, and ladies for breaches, watch
guards and what not.
The sheer and beautiful clairette fab
RIGS will again be much used for stylish
summer gowns. Pretty bodices and
sleeves in antique style are often adopted
for these dresses.
Black bonnets, trimmed with a little
palm green ribbon and black feathers,
are new and in good taste, while the
combination of cream color and fern
green is charming.
Bishop sleeves with cuffs or wristbands
of the depth to suit the length of the
wearer's arms will be universally ad-
mired for house gowns and for summer
outdoor costumes.
All black hats, bonnets and toques,
with color introduced in the trimming,
preferably IN lovely French flower
| wreaths ond clusters, still retain their
vogue for dressy wear.
The long princess redingote, or en-
veloping nuns cloak of dove-gray cash.
mere, with embroidered yoke and collar
and real silver clasp, is favorite wrap
for tourists this season.
Mantilla wraps of lace, Lined with silk,
are being made for wear at watering
places and summer resorts. These wraps
vary in length from three-quarter cape
to the full-length circular.
Delaines with cream or white grounds
strewn with nosesays of cbrysanthe.
NUNS, Dmarguerltes, pansies and othel
delicate flowers are as pretty as silk and
more durable and becoming.
A very elegant dress of black moire
has soft fluffy ruchings of black chiffon
on the skirt. A deep frill of chiffon falls
from the edge of the pointed bodice, and
the waist is almost covered with rufHes
of the thin material.
Ladies who do not feel like buying an
entire skirt, use body or founda ton of
French cambria, sateen or batiste, with
ruff1es of silk and lace, or silk alone.
This much less expensive, and makes .
very pretty and durable skirt.
A couple of pretty dresses OF chall1s,
India silk, fine batiste, or the new cotton
cords or embroidered mulls, are always
desirable. These may be made up plainly
or with lace or ribbons, or for young
ladies q velvet bodice or very wide sash.