St. Landry democrat., 1892-08-20
FASHION NOTES.

| FASHION NOTES.
Hairpin bows are all the rage for the
coiffure.
The box coat is to be the fashionable
garment.
Leather trimmings have revived in
popular favor.
Blue serge skirts with red silk blouses
are made for outing.
The silk petticoat is worn to break
| fast with lace matinees.
Ribbons will be largely employed in
the trimming of hats and bonnets.
The Lady Jane is a new steamer wrap
| without sleeves. 1t has hood of silk.
Yokes and sleeves of twine-colored
lace are now worl with ulack silk dress
bodies.
Dresses of white serge, cashmere or
vailing are trimmed with bands of gold
and iridescent passementerie.
A shade of purplish drab, verging on
heliotropes, makes charming combina-
ton with black and rose pink.
A simple and comfortable cape wrap
is made of plaid, and has a wide, turned
over collar and large hood faced with
silk.
Very long chains are again worn about
the neck, and are attached at the belt to
the chateaine, which bears all manner of
fancy articles.
The small, turned over sun-shadc,
made of alternate puffs of silk in con-
trasting color, IS one Of the leading fca-
lures among the parasol importations.
The very large, umbrella shaped para.
sol will be used during the simmer. 1t
may be covered with plain silk and edged
with lace or with fancy silks of all sorts.
For summer dresses the colored silk
draped fronts with lace jabot will again
enjoy great favor, and will be worn with
a great many jackets, even of very classic
forms.
Small girls dresses of silk have very
close ACCORDION plated backs and fronts,
with plain sides. These plaitings are
set into yoke, which is covered with
lace ruffies.
As soon as the weather will be
thoroughly warm, it will be a current
fashion to wear an open jacket without
a vest to match, but with pale silk
plastron in place.
A cape-wrap of cream-white cloth has
a box. plat in the back, double ruffle
of the material edged with heavy gold
braid and a standing collar with perpen-
dicular lines of braid set very close to-
gether.
The lovely chiffon, now so fashionable,
is made up into every imaginable kind OF
neckwear and neck fnishings, and
answers for folds, crimped ruches, little
frills, and also folds with beads and en-
broidery.
The jackets are much longer than last
winters, and are trimmed on the stems,
corners, revers, etc. with very handsome
embrolderies, in which jet is generally
mixed profusely when the jacket is made
of dark cloth or velvet.
Mothers getting their little girls
wardrobes ready for the summer fitting
are reminded that the dainty, inexpen-
sive ginghams, so-called, levy perpet-
ual tax in the matter of laundering, and
in the end are costly frocks.
Sleeves consist of two distinct parts,
one falling over the elbow and compare
lively loose, the other from the elbow
being tight fitting; or full snort puff
at the shoulder is supplemented by a
long close sleeve falling over the hand in
directoire style.
Clalrette is unsurpassed for summer
morning costumes, The silk warp is
naturally of lighter weight and more
silky in appearance, while the cost is
only trife more, aud this may be made
perfectly plain, in the tailor style, or
trimmed with dull silk vest.
The latest Russian blouse is made OF
lace yard wide and scolloped on one
edge, while it is sleeveless, and, to be
worn over crepon, surah, and bengaline
dresses, is quite full at the neck, and
belted in at the waist with a soft wide
band of the same material as the dress.
Basque are quite out of date, and coats
of the same material as the dress are
little worn, but tall and stately women
are wearing black satin coats with Wat
teau designs over plain black skirts.
The coats have no cross seams, but are
cut in princesse style, and so long as to
reach quite to the knees.
Black satin house shoes are being rele.
gated to favor for home wear. They
correspond dalntily with the fashion
able spun silk and Isle thread black
hosiery. A stylish buttoned boot prom
ised, will have patent leather vamp
with Scotch cloth top. The popular
shadings are tan and gray.